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LeftyMudersbach's avatar

Excellent take. I think it’s especially important to stress these marxists will not go away quietly or ever. The key is to eliminate their connections to power and render them neutered.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Thanks. Great point. They won’t go away quietly—or ever. You can’t negotiate with them. They must be defeated—politically. Cut their funding. Expose the ringleaders. Bring down the snake by severing its Marxist head.

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Andy's avatar

“Men are not women.” The lefties are clinging to the trans ideology because it is their Orwellian “2+2=5.” It’s the absolute belief in the absurd tenets that support the more self-serving ones.

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Kathy Christian's avatar

When you believe that people are created by God, it renders the ideology to be the lie that it is.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

The essay has been updated to include a small correction for accuracy: To restore normalcy, we must reestablish the obvious. That men are not women. That open borders invite collapse. That diversity without merit is dysfunction. That debt-fueled fake prosperity is not growth. That justice demands fairness, not enforced outcomes. That merit—not quotas—should be the standard. And that truth is not hate speech.

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Coalburned's avatar

Another terrific article. Right out of the gate your subtitle made me think of the Progressive Left's holy trinity. I also appreciated your thoughts about rescue vs reform, and that what Trump is trying to do isn't radical, but restorative.

I recently heard someone say he wasn't a Democrat or Republican...he was a Restorationist. I think the majority of us, maybe a large majority, feel the same way. In our hearts we know we've allowed our core values and principles to be hijacked by forces, agents, cabals...call them what you will...that are purely evil. I hope the hammer of common sense is a 20-lb sledge.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Thanks! The progressive revolution has finally met its match—a counter-revolution led by Trump and the MAGA movement. But this isn’t reactionary—it’s a fight to restore normalcy. The regime is propped up by a cabal of elites and useful idiots with too much money and too little wisdom. At the top are leaders willing to lie and incite violence for political gain. That’s not just corrupt—it’s evil. In this sense, Trump isn’t just a disruptor. He’s a restorationist. He’s here to Make America Great Again.

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