Without doubt, of all the legislative items currently up for debate, the Save America Act tops the list, bar none.
The Save America Act, which imposes requirements for voter ID, proof of citizenship, and in-person voting (with qualified exceptions for military and the disabled), would represent the ultimate prophylactic to American democracy.
Its passage would guarantee the decade of reforms ushered in by President Trump and his MAGA coalition cannot be undone by a hostile bureaucracy or illegitimate government brought in by another future rigged election.
Of course, for years it has been the Democratic playbook to saturate voter rolls with illegal voters, be they duplicate voters across multiple states, illegal aliens, deceased citizens, or foreign influences.
The logic of this principle is that because their policies are so unpopular (for example, the trans sports issue is an archetypical 90-10 issue, where 90% of the country disfavors biological men competing against women in sports leagues), they must resort to anti-democratic, anti-constitutional means to impart their agenda, by force, upon the rest of the electorate.
The effect of this disenfranchises real voters, American citizens, whose votes are then “drowned out” by illegal aliens, and other non-eligible classes.
By muddying the waters so much of what it means to be an American citizen, the Democrats are intentionally rigging a system to their favor to ensure they have a permanent reign of power.
Since no clear-eyed citizen would recognize this scheme as anything but unlawful, the Democrats resort to personal insults (often with the assistance of their media friends) – smearing their opponents as dangerous racists who oppose democracy – in order to guilt them (and their leaders) from enacting meaningful policy changes that in reality preserve the constitutional rights all elected lawmakers are obligated, by duty, to preserve and protect.
The core policies driving this relatively modest legislative ask by President Trump are steeped in commonsense principles that would have been recognizable to nearly every past generation, especially the Founding Fathers themselves.
The framers of the Constitution designed a republic, which in certain ways, severely mitigated against the majoritarian influences of the electorate. They feared mobocracy – rule by the mob – in some ways as much as they did tyranny washing upon these shores.
For this reason, the Founding Fathers limited the franchise to responsible citizens, which were predominantly property owners who were sufficiently enlightened to partake in public affairs.
Though their standard for voting may be considered antidemocratic by today’s point of view, our standard of letting anyone, including in some cases illegal aliens to vote, would have been deemed – correctly – suicidal by theirs.
They would be aghast at how the modern liberal conception of citizenship does not allow for borders or to responsibly vet for responsible citizens to participate in the franchise.
Indeed, the Democrats now snide at “citizenship” as a dirty word, incompatible with the tenets of radical egalitarianism and globalism which they prioritize about everything else.
As with ancient Rome, which let in the barbarians, a subject that the Founding Fathers studied deeply (to a degree more than most educated Americans today), they would say that the current model is unsustainable for a republic based putatively on the rule of law.
If anyone can vote, it cheapens the franchise wholesale – and the true meaning of citizenship – and thus relegates the Constitution, which spells out both the rights and duties of citizens, as an afterthought, a parenthetical footnote that with time ultimately degrades it of any meaning.
The feeble Republicans in the Senate, who have so far brushed off the Save America Act’s core aims as a non-priority have not given credence to what is in the best interests of their constituents.
They would do well to take heed of the Founding Fathers warnings. Many of these same Republicans are simply opposed to the bill because, through the admission of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, they simply hate the President so much.
This is a terribly ugly look. For what it reveals is that they cannot put aside their emotional fixation on one man for the betterment of the country.
This is hardly a conservative or Republican approach to policymaking, and puts in disrepute not only the Republican Senate, which is only in power because Donald Trump was at the top of the ticket in 2024, but represents a giant middle finger to the hundreds of millions of American citizens who voted for the President’s re-election, in large part because they never wanted to see what happened in 2020 ever happen again.
A huge swath of this electorate believes, and has reason to believe based on formidable evidence and truth, that 2020 represented an affront to American democracy.
That the procedures surrounding that election’s outcome were irremediably degraded as to render the final result illegitimate.
These Americans had strong reasons to believe in that then, and even stronger, indeed dispositive, reasons now – in light of the many revelations which have surfaced in the six years since that ignominious event.
In addition, the Democratic Party, unlike the Republicans, plays for keeps. As woefully unpopular as their agenda is, an unpopularity which increases more and more by the day, the Democrats never shy away from power.
For them, whenever they get marginalized by the electorate, rather than take a humble look at themselves in the mirror, they instead double and triple down on the levers of power.
The only reason they have not yet expanded the seats on the Supreme Court, or given statehood to Washington, DC, and other places to expand their reach in the Senate, or pursued indictments against the President and his allies in power, is because they lack a political majority. That is it.
No moral principle or commitment to the Constitution or principles of fairness holds them back. And once they do get that majority, they will make no qualms about abolishing the filibuster and re-weaponizing the intelligence agencies, so as to cudgel and censure their political opponents, this time hopefully for good.
And make no mistake: the growing unpopularity of the Democratic Party, and their policies of woke communism which drive their core aims, provide an incentive, not a deterrent, to double down on their megalomania.
One may see the moribund polls as a wakeup call to retreat to moderation, but for the modern Democrat, that ship has long ago sailed.
Agitated by a younger, more radical base, the Democratic Party must tend in the direction of madness, lest they abandon the core voters that increasingly make up the Democratic Party base.
These are the same progressives that goaded Merrick Garland to pursue an FBI raid on President Trump’s private home, or have abetted district attorneys nationwide to pursue charges, based on groundless and ridiculous theories of liability, to go after the President and his many supporters, as part of a broader conspiracy to quash dissent once and for all.
These are the hallmarks of not a good faith political party which still believes in the rule of law and fairness, by a party fully in the throes of tyranny and wanting to maximize pain on their opponents, at all costs.
If the reaction followed by the first Trump term was bad enough, one shakes in horror to think what they might be capable of doing whenever the Republican President next leaves office – whether in two years, six years, or twelve years.
Upon that day’s inevitable arrival, Democratic policymakers want a rapture and will have their vengeance, lest the Republicans prepare in advance, and put in place the safeguards, via legislation like the Save America Act, to protect the franchise from the meddling of a party that would otherwise let everyone in the world vote at the expense of American citizens.
It is astounding that Republican politicians, regardless of how they feel about the current President, do not sense those stakes at all, nevermind as acutely as the grassroots.
But they had better do so, for they, too, in the eyes of the Democrats, no matter their position on Trump, will be seen as accomplices to what has taken place these past two years.
And for an increasingly secular Democratic Party – where God’s moral virtues, such as forgiveness, humility, and mercy, hold less and less sway – the prospect of their reemerge must be considered frightening.
History offers countless example of the regnant political class, playing footsy with the radicalizing enemy, never ending well. The fate of the French aristocracy was the guillotine.
One must be dispelled of the illusion that politics will ever again revert back to a time of equanimity, where conservatives, seen as the losers with honor, will simply be left alone to go about their lives, spared of the woke catechism that forces them, against their wills, into all sorts of undesirable situations.
The risk cannot be overstated either because the track record of the last five years is a disheartening one for the believers in the Constitution, and American democracy generally, which bore witness to the justice system being used to target law-abiding Americans while hundreds of thousands of their peers were given a free pass for causing real and lasting destruction simply based on their political alignment.
That is an unsustainable arrangement. But it is an arrangement that speaks to the core governing philosophy of the modern Left which anchors an increasingly radicalized Democratic Party. For this reason, their power must be mitigated. And legislative action is the only way to guarantee such mitigation.
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