Government Force Is Only Proper Response To Dems’ War On US

As Democrats and their confederates in the legacy media wail about the Trump administration while escalating violence and unrest in Minnesota, several things are clear: Democrats created the situation America finds itself in, they wanted it, and only a forceful defeat of the leftist anarchy campaign will lead to de-escalation and restore societal stability.

Dems Asked for This

A cursory investigation into any of the major contention points between the right and the left dominating the news cycle in past weeks — enforcement of immigration law, welfare fraud, arguments about trans-identifying males in women’s sports at the Supreme Court — reveals that Democrats started each of these battles, and they love fighting them.

Minnesota Democrats own the welfare fraud scandal — they’re too busy gushily palling around with the nearest Somali supporter to even try to run from it. Joe Biden didn’t just turn America’s southern border into a giant funnel; he actually flew aliens into the U.S. because merely letting them in wasn’t fast enough (Trump’s near elimination of illegal immigration underlines just how intent the Biden administration was on leaving it open.) Democrats decided they needed to become crusaders for the “transgender” cause even before Bruce Jenner and other confused individuals brought the ideology into the public eye. They proudly introduced Tim “Sarah” McBride as the first trans-identifying speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, nearly a decade before he became a U.S. congressman. Yet Democrats’ narrative that Donald Trump’s at fault for the battles they started remains one of their favorite lies.

The Escalation Isn’t Accidental

Further, Democrats didn’t just choose the battles; they’ve salivated over their escalation, especially during Trump’s second term. Even as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and California Gov. Gavin Newsom have accused Trump of fomenting violence, chaos, and unrest by enforcing the law, Democrats spent the entirety of 2025 trying to manufacture some sort of fevered resistance to Trump 2.0. (Recall Rep. Al Green’s cane-waving during the SOTU, Mexican-flag-waving rock-throwers in Los Angeles, the disgusting but ultimately torpid No Kings protests, the government shutdown, and so forth.) The Democrats’ wheels just kept spinning — until Renee Good’s tire treads grabbed on an icy Minneapolis street and she drove her vehicle into an ICE agent, prompting him to open fire on her and end her life. Now Democrats are eagerly pressing the accelerator in hopes of fueling an even larger conflagration.

The escalation isn’t just recent either; it’s longstanding. The welfare fraud up north was painfully obvious as early as 2019, and Democrats didn’t slow the gravy train — they accelerated it. Even as he saw his way out of the gubernatorial race, Tim Walz was feting the launch of a new fraud-spawning program. There’s a long history of Democrats opening their arms to illegal immigrant they see as likely Democrat voters, but the latest grift has two acts: A senile president ushers in millions, as mentioned above, and then Democrats, judges, and the media portray the removal of a single illegal alien as a catastrophe of injustice on par with the bubonic plague and the execution of Joan of Arc.

When it comes to trans ideology, Democrats and their leftist acolytes quickly went from “just be nice to transgender people” to handing out fines and jail time for using the correct pronouns, feting male athletes who bullied women, embarking on a quest to give men every single award created for women, and censoring those who challenged their new orthodoxy. There’s been a half-hearted feint at backing away from the trans mania in the wake of the drubbing Kamala Harris took. But the closest Dems seem to get is Newsom saying, “Yeah, I think, I’m for the grace of God,” which — unintelligible as that sounds — is, ostensibly, supposed to communicate I’m a reasonable, compassionate person, but actually just means Please vote for me in 2028.

Surrender or Fight

The Democrat policy of escalation left conservatives and normies with two choices: surrender or fight. Conservatives and their normie allies have (finally) started to engage in the latter course of action: deportations, investigations into fraud, laws preserving women’s sports for women, and so forth. Cue the Democrat wailing. But to be honest, the wailing isn’t entirely on the left. There are some normies (see Joe Rogan as an example) and even some conservatives who find the muscular response from the right discomfiting. They’re uncomfortable with the masked law enforcement on the streets, the confrontations, the shoving, the physical arrests — and, for that matter, the calling out of trans-identifying individuals, the investigation of daycares, the potential of cutting funds to those who genuinely need it.

What they fail to realize is that the muscular response, or virtuous force, is the only viable response given Democrats’ longstanding policy of escalation. The time for offering a polite no was fifteen years ago or more. There were opportunities for Minnesota to solve its fraud problem; for illegal aliens to simply be turned away at the border; for local dads to sit a 15-year-old boy down and tell him he couldn’t play with the girls. Now circumstances necessitate a different response. When a predator eyes a man’s wife or daughter, he can afford to respond with a stern look, a verbal warning, or threatening body language. But when the predator grabs her hand, what is required is the application of force.

In the current political context, this means the physical force of federal law enforcement, the investigatory and prosecutorial force of the Department of Justice, and the legal force of Congress and state legislatures — deployed vigorously to combat Democrat effort to disrupt and undermine the fabric of American society.

Virtuous Force

Of course, left-wing appeals to “compassion,” “empathy,” “love,” and “niceness” are calculated to derail the use of virtuous force by law enforcement, prosecutors, and lawmakers, even as those same appeals helped stunt the less forceful responses that could have halted in their early stages the fraud, immigration, and gender ideology crises undermining American culture and the American way of life.

These appeals will continue to fuel fierce opposition and feminist fury in particular (along with squeamishness from those on the right who are confused or misled by fallacious narratives). Unsurprisingly, as American women have fewer and fewer children, they’ve grown more and more likely to deploy unemployed mama-bear instincts in favor of the supposedly victimized groups Democrats are championing. For those with children and spouses, this choice is a glaring contradiction; but for the leftist women who have spurned familial ties, the substitution is not an unexpected one. One Swedish sociologist offered an apt description of this phenomenon: “There is a curious contradiction between how vicious and hateful feminists can be towards other women and their own men and how generous and forgiving they can be towards those whom they see as harmed by society — the ‘unfortunate children.’” (See also the brief clip below of Greg Gutfeld discussing just how ironic it is that leftists have hijacked the term “compassion.”)

A continued predominance of these misguided “empathies” will mean nothing less than a nation where there are effectively no immigration laws, America’s workers break their backs to subsidize the laziness of foreign and native fraudsters, and psychotic males bandy about women on our courts and fields — in short, the destruction of American culture. These crises, which are a result of Democrat manipulation — and male apathy — will only be solved by a masculine response, one in which deceptive cries for compassion, the potential for confrontation, and the possibility of imperfect applications of force don’t stifle the application of unrelenting justice. There is no other way.

Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. He was previously an editor at Regnery Publishing and is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.