The ever-entertaining Sebastian Gorka was invited to speechify at CPAC this year, and thought he knew which American enemies he was going to talk about. But after he started with Russians and collusion and all that stuff, he changed his mind mid-stream and decided to talk about our real enemy: socialism at home.
The topic we eventually settled on was the threat Russia poses to America, a subject I am always happy to address given my family history. With parents who suffered under a Stalinist dictatorship and a father who escaped from a Communist political prison, providing a reality-check on the menace posed by a Russia still run by a KGB colonel comes easy.
However, on the day, eight minutes into my speech I decided I needed to change tack. Russia is a threat, but it is not the Soviet Union. Instead I felt compelled to talk about the real threat we face as the free-est nation on God’s Earth: the rise of socialism within our borders.
The threat of socialism is here, now, and surprisingly it didn’t sneak in through some third-party challenger like Bernie Sanders but instead came right through the front door of the Democrat party, at their invitation.
The fact is, the Democratic Party is in big trouble. Its old white leadership thought they could allow the fringe types into the club and control them, dilute their extremism. They are failing. This burgeoning internal civil war is clearest not when it comes to new disagreements but rather, in confronting old skeletons.
Now they are in trouble.
America’s Founders deliberately built our federal system in a way so as to keep it permanently hobbled in some respects. The checks and balances and the separation of powers were designed to effect gridlock, not obviate it, and were meant to prevent a domestic “King George scenario.” But did they ever envisage a day when one of our two parties would embrace the principles of a totalitarian policy? Note every declared frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination has endorsed AOC’s green socialist plan. With a worldview informed in its totality by the tenets of Judeo-Christian civilization, could they have ever imagined institutionalized hatred of half our heritage being normalized?
We shall see how this plays out. I surmised yesterday that AOC might be being used as a battering ram to get through the door, allowing cooler and much more intelligent heads to stream though after her.
And they have ambitions of completely and permanently destroying the American Experiment, not “in their lifetimes”, but a few days after tomorrow. This war isn’t going to remain a family spat.