When it comes to explanations, a picture is worth a thousand words because of its dramatic clarity. Sometimes they are worth far more, as is the case with this photo of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

It’s important that we all understand exactly what we’re actually looking at. This is a picture of Secretary Noem at El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Center. As the name implies, that’s where the worst of the worst are locked up and kept away from society.

It’s also the same prison where President Trump sent hundreds of illegal alien gang members that Joe Biden allowed to walk into our country without vetting. That’s how bad these thugs are.

But what we’re really looking at is the juxtaposition of civilization and barbarism. Noem represents Western Civilization, the rule of law, and American greatness, all of which are hanging by a thread.

Behind her are the barbaric enemies of Western Civilization. They’re not only murderers and rapists, they enjoy the violence. They luxuriate in the pain and suffering of others. The transnational gang Tren de Aragua likes to kill and literally dice up its victims.

Noem also represents all the innocent people who were assaulted, raped, and murdered by the monsters behind her. Americans like these below:

The Enemies Within

Whether it’s ancient Rome or El Paso, barbarians have always been and are still at the gates of civilization. Everything you will depend on today — your relative personal safety, your assumption that your children will be safe, your ability to go to work, and your freedom to worship — all depends on successfully defending this civilization.

And that means keeping people like those behind Kristi Noem behind bars. That’s why we need secure borders, a strong military, and tough leaders like Donald Trump.

But there are also enemies within the gates.

It is alarming and unnerving that powerful interests in the United States — in the halls of Congress, in major media outlets, on university campuses, in prominent law firms, and in our courts — have very little interest in the civilization Noem represents and defends.

Instead of protecting innocent Americans, these radical leftists are all in on ensuring that the criminal thugs behind those bars have every possible protection the Constitution of the United States affords American citizens, protections that hundreds of thousands of Americans have died for.

They have no interest whatsoever in the thousands of Americans who have been deprived of those rights by barbarians like those in that prison.

It is sobering to know that if your neighbor works at an elite big city law firm, is an Ivy League college professor, or is a “woke” activist, they may very well be more interested in protecting the barbarians still roaming our country than they are in protecting you and your family.

America’s elites were mortified that Kristi Noem once shared the story about putting down a dog that kept biting family members. That was unthinkable. But they are all in on frustrating the process of getting barbarians, who put down our citizens, in prison and/or out of the country.

Far too many callous “elites” are more concerned about guaranteeing that illegal aliens who rape, murder, torture, push drugs on our kids, and cooperate with the enemies of America have a lawyer and are informed of their rights than they are in defending the civilization that keeps us all safe.

How else can you explain the left’s insane open border policies? Or Judge Boasberg’s bizarre order to turn the planes around and bring vicious gang members back to America?