Irony of the day: We live in highly consequential times – encouraged to accept evil as good, good as evil, told to accept government centralization, public corruption, lawlessness, censorship, and now communism – yet we attach almost no consequences to bad acts, from falsehoods to violence.
At the national level, President Trump – together with his uncompromising administration – represents a refreshing counterpoint, acting daily with fidelity to American history.
Modern Democrats, dominated by their young, neo-communist, power-concentrating wing, continue to push unchecked illegal immigration, allow drug trafficking, press and excuse violence in response to conservative ideas, and ever-rising socialist spending, debt, taxes, and control.
President Trump, reflecting a majority of Americans, has modeled the reverse – respect for history, liberty, The Bill of Rights, and diffusion – not concentration – of power, seeking limited government.
To those who say the President’s resolve to tighten the border, deport illegal aliens, stop terrorists and drug traffickers, deploy the National Guard to stabilize cities spinning out of control, cut taxes, spending, overregulation, and bizarre rewrites of biology, law, and the Bible, I say stop: Study your American history. Every president up to Obama was on that page.
If you say no, I say: Pay closer attention. No president, until Obama, worse still Biden, disrespected American law enforcement, opened US borders, undermined military readiness, immigration laws, including the asylum threshold, or permitted nations like China and Iran to walk over America.
Ten presidents, back to FDR, deployed the National Guard to stabilize criminally overrun or threatened cities, including FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton (Democrats), deploying the Guard to stabilize DC, restoring respect for local, state, and federal law.
To those who say President Trump’s downsizing is too much, understand that our once small federal government has exploded, a quantum leap from Theodore Roosevelt to FDR’s New Deal, then Johnson’s Great Society, roughly a thousand times larger than the early 20th century, with millions of employees, 500 agencies, thousands of contractors, and hundreds of millions of dependents.
So, cutting the government 300,000 out of 4.4 million, ending waste, insider contracts, leftist agendas, stay-at-home employees, and contractors without value, was actually wise and legal.
Likewise, ending Iran’s nuclear program – a terrible, nuclear sword of Damocles over the West, supporting Israel against Iranian-backed terrorists Hamas and Hezbollah, banging heads for Middle East and Ukrainian peace, and hitting terror-affiliated drug boats while taming China is leadership.
In highly “consequential” times, Trump is re-teaching the basic value of consequences for bad acts. But at the state level, in places like one-party Democrat Maine, runaway bad acts continue – unsufferable taxes, spending, illegal alien indulgence, public fraud, drug trafficking, even Marxism.
Personally, a lack of consequences for bad acts – no accountability for overspending, taxing, regulating, and a rupture of the Maine culture – amounts to an unending attack on Maine families, parents, kids, and businesses. It has created the nation’s worst schools, highest property taxes, energy cost jump, poorest infrastructure, high drug trafficking, thousands of overdoses, illegal alien dependence, Medicaid fraud, and thousands of insider contracts to Democrat officials (audit).
In short, where blue states are in control, consequential damage is being done to the culture, to families, parents, kids, and businesses. This devastating turn reflects no consequences for bad acts. While President Trump reverses damage at the federal level, it is time at the state level.
Bottom line: A great irony walks the land. We live in extremely consequential times, deeply affecting our future, yet no consequences for bad acts, weakness, untruth, lies, and violence. The epiphany? No accountability invariably precedes a slide into darkness. We must rise to be the light.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, Maine attorney, ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), and 25-year businessman. He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (North Country Press, 2018), and “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024). He is the National Spokesman for AMAC. Today, he is running to be Maine’s next Governor (please visit BobbyforMaine.com to learn more)!
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