The Consequences of Putting America First

While Ann Coulter and maybe even President Trump could probably write a whole piece on the consequences of not putting America first, I will instead choose to write about the consequences the Trump Administration has faced for putting America first, or in some cases, simply trying to.

For many years, politicians in both parties have effectively worked to put America last; whether it’s by propping up China on the world stage, which only accelerated the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs overseas, supporting an immigration policy that does not take the country’s national interest into consideration but pleases big business, or signing onto international agreements that undermine our national sovereignty.  Hoping to set a different course for the nation, President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, which required the United States to start implementing “greener” energy sources in the very near future while letting the world’s biggest polluters like China off the hook until 2030.  

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made a bold move earlier this week by withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.  This organization frequently complains about the United States and Israel as human rights violators while ignoring the blatant examples of human rights violations taking place in other countries on the council, such as Cuba, a communist country that imprisons political dissidents.  Like liberals, the UN Human Rights Council has adopted “Blame America First” as its motto.

Putting America first also means securing the border. Earlier this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented a “zero-tolerance” policy for migrant families, unaccompanied minors and/or asylum seekers crossing the border at any place besides one of the ports of entry.  The “zero-tolerance” policy meant that the Trump Administration would prosecute every adult who crosses the border illegally, including those with children.  Because of a Court decision in ultra-liberal California, which only became ultra-liberal because of our “America last” immigration policy, ruling that illegal immigrant children cannot be held in detention centers for more than twenty days. Therefore, the Trump Administration has two options.  Either separate the children from their parents or release them all together, asking them nicely to show up in front of an immigration judge at a hearing that they will most likely not even show up for; leading to the status quo of “Catch & Release.”  The “Catch & Release” phenomenon, in addition to chain migration, has led to an explosion in the immigrant population.   

So the Trump Administration decided to house all illegal immigrant children detained at the border in a series of detention centers across the border as government officials either searched for their relatives in the United States, prosecuted their parents, or tried to confirm the validity of the relationships between the children and the adults who accompanied them.  The media had previously tried to stir public outrage by releasing photos of children in cages from 2014, neglecting to conveniently leave out the photo date, which would implicate the left’s beloved President Obama.  Liberals quickly started whining about “ripping children from their mothers’ arms.”  Forgive me for not wanting lectures about “ripping children from their mothers’ arms” from a party that sees no problem with ripping children from their mothers’ wombs as late as nine months into a pregnancy. 

So President Trump signed an executive order, hoping that would shut up the left, who, as Ann Coulter pointed out, is “like a girlfriend who cries if she doesn’t get her way.  So she always gets her way.”  But not surprisingly, the left continued to complain even after he signed the executive order, which they said would make them happy.  For example, Senator Kamala Harris tweeted out “This executive order doesn’t fix the crisis.  Indefinitely detaining children with their families in camps is inhumane and will not make us safe.”  By “us”, she means the Democratic Party.  She continued, “Our immigrant detention system is massive & rampant with abuse.  The White House wants to pour more money into it to imprison families.  I urge my colleagues to support the DONE Act to prohibit the expansion or construction of new detention facilities & increase oversight funding.”  Perhaps Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Maxine Waters can open up their multi-million dollar mansions and use them to house the migrants.   In another tweet, Harris complained “This Executive Order in no way deals with reuniting the *two thousand three hundred* children who have been torn away from their parents and remain separated.  When will they see their parents again? They must be reunited.” 

Senator Marco Rubio expressed his frustration on the moving goal posts on his Twitter account: “The ink isn’t even dry on the new executive order ending separation policy & some Democrats already arguing that keeping families together isn’t enough.  Now they want them & their parents released after unlawful entry knowing full well that high % will never appear for hearing.”  Exactly. They want them to disappear into the interior of the United States, preferably to a state with lax voter ID laws.     

 As President Trump pointed out, “Democrats are the problem.  They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13.  They can’t win on their policies, so they view them as potential voters!” 

The Democrats can run the tired “we are running candidates that match their districts” line all they want to.  But should the Democrats win back control of one or both Houses of Congress this fall, they will not govern using “third way politics” or “triangulation” that defined at least part of the Clinton Administration.  They will govern from the far left, represented by the people who poured urine on Lauren Southern, set fires on the UC Berkeley campus and throughout the cities of Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland, and pepper sprayed Gavin McInnes.    

Putting America First means that the Trump inner circle will have to endure hate-filled tweets like two fired off by has-been actor Peter Fonda, brother of the Hollywood crown jewel forever known as “Hanoi Jane,” earlier this week.  In the first tweet, Fonda uttered some blatantly misogynistic comments about Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who has become the bogeywoman of the left: “Kirstjen Nielsen is a lying g**h that should be put in a cage and poked at by passerby.  The g**h should be pilloried in Lafayette Square naked and whipped by passerby while being filmed for posterity.”  And I thought I knew every swear word.

In the second tweet, Fonda suggested, in all caps, “We should Rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if mother will stand up against the giant a**hole she is married to.  90 million people on the streets on the same weekend in the country.”  Fonda, who apparently hasn’t cut back on the LSD after all,  has deleted these tweets, but has not faced the same amount of backlash as Roseanne Barr, whose show got cancelled because of an offensive tweet she directed at former Obama Administration official Valerie Jarrett, a left winger. Sony Pictures released a movie featuring Fonda as scheduled this morning; he ultimately faced no consequences for saying equally if not more offensive statements about right wingers.

Putting America first, or speaking on behalf of those who seek to, also means harassment in the public square. On the same day that she became a target of Peter Fonda, Nielsen also became a target of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists, who harassed her as she dined at a Mexican Restaurant near the White House.  One of the protesters made the mission of the far, far left perfectly clear by asking the DHS Secretary to “to end family separation and abolish ICE.”  Nielsen ended up leaving the restaurant; she may have to don a disguise the next time she goes out to eat.  One of the people who harassed Nielsen, Alison Hrabar, works for the Department of Justice as a paralegal assistant.   

The harassment of Nielsen comes just one month after Fox News Contributor and former host on “The Blaze” Tomi Lahren had water spilled on her by an angry left-wing activist while dining with her parents at a restaurant in the City of Minneapolis, the only reason Minnesota ended up voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016.  So much for “live and let live.”

While the website Splinter leaked the personal phone number of White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller, a champion of the “America first” agenda, NYU Professor Stephen Lavigne leaked the personal information of ICE agents, whom the far left has gone out of its way to demonize.  A far-left group called INDECLINE vandalized a billboard in Northern California advertising for the company 1-800-GOT-JUNK that features a shocked child and the phrase “We Make Junk Disappear.”  INDECLINE replaced the word “junk” with KIDS and spray-painted “I.C.E.” over the 1-800-GOT-JUNK logo.  INDECLINE had previously placed nude statues of Donald Trump all across the country. 

 Ted Cruz said that if he became President, he would “abolish the IRS” and “take all 125,000 IRS agents and put them on our Southern border.”  It looks like should the far left take power, they would abolish ICE and put every single agent into their “thought police” force, which will surely take shape in the Orwellian America that would develop in the event of a blue wave.  Matt Haggman, a Democrat running for the open House seat in Florida’s 27^th Congressional District, has actually admitted that he wants to abolish ICE, making that clear in a campaign ad.  New York Gubernatorial Candidate Cynthia Nixon went even further, describing ICE as a terrorist organization while also advocating for its abolition.     

The Democrats hope that obsessing over the situation at the border will help animate their base and carry them over the finish line in the 2018 midterm elections.  Sean Hannity warned what would happen should Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives: “Democrats will push to impeach President Trump, Democrats will push for open borders, Democrats will keep Obamacare, Democrats will roll back tax cuts.”  Should the Democrats retake power, the idea of America First and the idea of America will vanish, perhaps forever.