Guest Essay
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Columnist.
Many of us know someone who is constantly in the midst of one "existential crisis" or another.
Some readers of this article will immediately ascribe hyperbole and gross over-exaggeration to its title. Many of these readers will do so due to an emotional reaction rather than having a willingness to read, much less understand, the reasons for the accusatory title.
The Democrats chose "We the people" as the theme for the opening day of the 2020 Democratic National Convention — but just which "people" are they talking about? To clear thinking Americans, they've made the answer to that question very plain.
The mob is pulling down statues. The Left has been verbally pulling down the founders of our country for 50 years. Today it is using ropes on bronze and stone.
President Trump's executive action to provide emergency economic stimulus is exactly what hard-working Americans and their families need.
Should Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win election in November, the radical elements dominating and controlling today's Democrat Party have a very sinister plan (which they will not hesitate using) to use the 25th Amendment to make Kamala Harris president of the United States.
Now that the major professional sports are starting up again, we need to answer the question: Should players kneel, or should they stand?
I wish I could say that positive changes will come out of these protests and riots. But they are no longer about George Floyd and the police but about bringing down the United States as we know it.
It's time for black Americans to seriously reconsider their support for the Democrat Party — it's now unquestionably evident that the left is completely out of touch with our community and our values.
Black lives do matter, which is precisely why we can't give in to the dangerous "defund the police" movement.
If all this commotion was really about black lives being important, then I think many people are worrying about the wrong things. More blacks are killed in a few weeks in Chicago than in an entire year at the hands of police in the entire country. And many of those police officers who take the lives of black men are black themselves.
I am called a deplorable. I'm too old to care about the foolish name-calling. I'm labeled this because I am one of the rare Jews, particularly here in very "woke" Bethesda, Maryland, who is voting for President Trump again this fall.
Being an empty suit is one thing. Being an empty vessel for others to fill is quite another.
If there ever was a time for America's approximately 20 million military veterans to "stand in the gap," it is now. Veterans are an important part of America's warrior class and as such are urgently needed to combat and overcome the many forces currently arrayed against the nation.
Have you noticed how often Joe Biden refers to his Catholic faith? He does it a lot. And yet, his policy positions are at odds with this faith at nearly every turn.
President Trump should stick with his instincts and ignore the advice of the pearl-clutching establishment politicians and pundits who continue to get the core sentiments of the electorate dead wrong.
I'll vote for America under siege by leftism.
It is rich irony that many of those who wish to remove these historic icons also plan to vote for Democrats in the fall. Here's a quick primer on what I'm referring to.
Black America survived all of the deprivations of the pre-Civil War period. They survived Jim Crow. They survived the KKK. Now, they are engaged in self-destruction.