Saturday, March 28, 2026

Discrimination Based on Behavior, Not on Race or Skin Color

Discrimination Based on Behavior, Not on Race or Skin Color

Discrimination Based on Behavior, Not on Race or Skin Color
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One of the crowning achievements of the 2nd Trump Administration has been the systematic dismantling of government and academic DEI programs and policies, in favor of merit-based criteria. Government funds to universities are withheld from schools that continue to support discriminatory approaches to operations, DEI chief among them.

By contrast, the Biden Administration wasted no time in championing DEI efforts in any manner that it could. Biden’s puppet masters sought to undermine and vanquish the “1776 Project,” which was designed by the 1st Trump Administration to offer a balanced perspective on American history. Instead, Biden and company supported the misdirected and now discredited “1619 Project,” which was intended to fan the flames of racial dissonance and lend credibility to the notion that DEI programs are crucial because of what occurred 400 years ago.

Racial Dissonance Vs Anthropology

Such wrangling over pseudo-history has got to end. One aspect of interracial understanding and relations, to this day, however, has been perpetually overlooked.

The night before I was scheduled to give a speech, I was watching TV in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. A news item on a local animal shelter indicated the preferences among dog adopters. Light-colored and multi-colored dogs were popular. The darker the dog, the longer it stayed in the shelter. Black dogs were the least popular and had the hardest time attracting an owner.

All of the sociological, anthropological, and human behavior books and articles I had ever encountered leapt forward in my mind. In selecting a pet, if black fur is the least desirable, what is the implication for dark-skinned people in this world? Are they born to a life of inherent bias, even when legions of others resolutely seek to avoid being prejudiced?

Blinded by the Night

Is human nature hardwired to be attracted to light and be repelled by dark? Light, white, and mild colors are traditionally equated with positive attributes, while dark colors frequently are not. Such pairings are primarily subconscious, likely persisting in the human psyche for eons.

If life is ever discovered on distant planets, the variation in human appearances on our planet will more than likely be mirrored by a wide variation in whatever species populate those celestial bodies. Diversity is the fate of species everywhere, not simply on Earth. It's our ongoing challenge to rise above physiological differences and even the resulting psycho-physiological variations in perspective and disposition. Individually and collectively, we have the ability. It is within our grasp.

As we acknowledge our long-term, ingrained bias toward light and away from dark, we need to constantly be aware that discrimination should not arise as a result of race or skin color.

All Behavior Matters

A fundamental issue that is rarely explored in the fakestream media is the impact of one person's behavior on that of another person. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Author Shelby Steele has written such insightful books as The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America; White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era; and A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. He emphasizes that those who claim that they're being discriminated against because of skin color often maintain little or no responsibility for their behavior.

Black or white or any other color, if you attended public schools through grade 12 and learned very little, primarily because you didn't pay attention in class, didn't see the value in conjugating a verb, felt that science was boring, thought it was cool to goof off, or disdained learning in general, why blame others?

As an adult, if you feel left out of the economic mainstream and cannot attain the type of job that you want, at a decent salary, exactly who is to blame? A vanishing cadre of 'discriminatory' employers who won't hire you because of skin color? Or, discerning employers who won't hire you due to your academic underachievement, which renders you as under-qualified?

Humans Discriminate Based on Behavior

Discrimination based on skin color is morally corrupt — a grave offense. Discrimination based on behavior is rational: something that all human beings have done since the beginning of time and which will continue far into the future.

It behooves each of us to do our best each day, to relegate skin color as a non-issue and recognize that behavior, along with aptitude, performance, and on-the-job results are the measures that count most to employers.

As much as anything else, behavior matters.

https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/03/21/discrimination-based-on-behavior-not-on-race-or-skin-color-n2673196?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-vRCyhnNhQ4&utm_term=&_nlid=vRCyhnNhQ4&_nhids=nczGeHZEt4e8ls

The Death Spiral to America Reimagined

The Death Spiral to America Reimagined

The Death Spiral to America Reimagined
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It is extraordinarily easy to call for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Even a large contingent of those on the Left would agree with you on that. The deportation of any and all illegal aliens is probably the most widely held view by voters on the Right. The real test comes when you are asked if you support fundamentally reshaping legal immigration.

Countless politicians, influencers, and talking heads in the conservative space will bend over backwards to regurgitate the “legal immigration is good, but illegal immigration is bad” platitude. It’s almost meaningless when you think about it. Laws and practices can be changed, and they have. What if an open border policy was legalized? Is our current immigration policy truly the ideal, or even preferable? And what if all immigration was made to be illegal, would it still be bad in their eyes?

Anyone pushing that argument has become blind to the obvious: demographics are fundamentally reshaping our country. The “America is just an idea” crowd would argue that it is a good thing, and that anyone can come to the United States and become an American. On paper, that might be true. The reality couldn’t be further from that, however.

The four Islamic terrorists who waged Jihad on innocent civilians all came to the country legally. Some even naturalized. Was that a good thing? Did they actually become an American? Or, can we accept that the American identity runs deeper than citizenship? That a shared history, culture, and heritage bind our people together. That common values must extend beyond the nebulous concepts of "prosperity" and “freedom” because they have fundamentally different definitions to a people unlike our own.

Americans reject false, foreign gods that we see monuments being erected for across the country. Americans reject and condemn those who would cheat our countrymen and the social systems we have created to provide for our poor and infirm.

The third-wordlists that have flooded into our country, whether it be legally or otherwise, do not see it the same way. They have abused the charity we have provided. They turn our streets into favelas and openly practice barbaric customs. Politicians with sympathetic backgrounds empower them, and masses of lethargic and uncaring people support them out of a misplaced love of "cuisine" and "culture."

Thankfully, questioning the status quo on immigration has seen a resurgence since the days of the great Pat Buchanan. Donald Trump was certainly the catalyst for the start of the new conversation. His effort to end birthright citizenship has largely been forgotten due to the on-going Supreme Court case, but would be the most important advancement on the immigration front in decades if he succeeds and if Congress had the boldness to codify it. Those are big ifs. 

Still, a new generation of advocates are battling the front as brave leaders like Rep. Andy Ogles (who I have come to write about quite a bit as of late) are picking up the mantle to discuss meaningful legislation to save our nation.

The hour may be late, but we still have a country that can be saved. Are we willing to empower the leaders with the boldness to do it?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/03/21/we-are-heading-toward-america-reimagined-n2673244?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-9NT2ZN5VMc&utm_term=&_nlid=9NT2ZN5VMc&_nhids=nczGeHZEt4e8ls

Friday, March 27, 2026

Cesar Chavez: Democrats’ OG Jeffrey Epstein

Cesar Chavez: Democrats’ OG Jeffrey Epstein

Cesar Chavez: Democrats’ OG Jeffrey Epstein
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When yet another hero of the “progressive” Left was exposed as a perverted child rapist, it wasn’t a matter of shock as much as it was a resetting of the clock to “zero days since a Democrat was exposed as a monster.” Cesar Chavez, Democrat saint of the labor movement, loved to rape pretty much every woman or girl he was left alone with, and it sure seems like everyone around him knew it and kept quiet about it because the monster was helpful to their cause.

Anyone remember the “Me Too” movement? Matt Lauer’s career is over, as it should be. Charlie Rose might as well not exist, and Harvey Weinstein will likely die in prison. And that’s just a few of them – the progressive perverts who will never work again (not that they need to, most were paid an awful lot in their predatory days, so they’re good).

In fact, the only person I can think of who has come back is Mark Halperin, the reporter and author who reportedly groped and kissed female co-workers, as well as rubbed his erect penis on them in the office. Completely disgusting behavior that was ignored when “Me Too” champion and alleged victim herself, Megyn Kelly, hired him because, well, she’s never really explained why she overlooked behavior significantly worse than what she claimed victimhood over by alleging Fox News creator Roger Ailes engaged in with her. Maybe she’s waiting to figure out a way to blame the Jews for it?

Obviously, Kelly cared about the money more than the principle, and the price of hypocrisy was well worth it for her. It’s largely ignored now, as the people who’d call her out for it are busy sucking up to get access to her audience – you can make a lot of money by appealing to a very small part of the population, standards and decency only get in the way of that.

At least no one associated with Kelly has been accused of rape, either of an adult or a child, so she’s got that going for her…I guess. Not the greatest defense, but when there really isn’t one other than “I wanted the money,” you take what you can get.

But the rest of the progressive Left is reeling over the revelations about Cesar Chavez and multiple allegations of repeated rape. Teenagers, pre-teens, co-workers, pretty much anyone, for years and years.

When the story broke last week, there was a lot of shock from the Left about their labor leader hero. Before then, it was nearly impossible to not know of something – school, community center, park, etc. – named after Cesar, even if you didn’t know who he was.

He died in 1993, and the left-wing industrial complex was already in motion to lionize him. There’s also no way many of them didn’t know he was a monster, but he was their monster. What’s a little rape in the name of the “greater good,” right?

His partner in union activities, Dolores Huerta, claimed she was a victim of his sexual assault, too. The New York Times reported, “His most prominent female ally in the movement, Dolores Huerta, said in an interview that he sexually assaulted her, a disclosure she has never before made publicly.”

Seems weird that she waited till now, doesn’t it? I’m pretty cynical, so I would like to see an investigation into whether or not Huerta’s story checks out. Not that she slept with Chavez, she apparently has a couple of kids with him, but whether or not she was an actual victim. Because I don’t understand the love of a cause to the point that you’d allow yourself to be repeatedly raped to advance it. Especially when you’d have to pretty much be Helen Keller to not notice he was doing the same to multiple other women and little girls.

According to an investigation by The Times, one 13-year-old victim “walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office…she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.” (Emphasis added.) The stories are disturbing and disgusting; you should read the whole story yourself.

One thing you come away with is the reality that a lot of people knew what was happening and let it continue – they simply cared more about their union cause and Democrat politics than the lives of the girls and women being abused. 

And if the Harvey Weinstein and Me Too movement showed us anything, it’s that not only are there a lot of people who cover for monsters, but the stories of those monsters spread widely. Weinstein was “the worst kept secret in Hollywood,” for example, Matt Lauer has a door lock button on his desk, and the genital rubbing allegedly took place in common areas. Stories circulate, rumors pass around…and no one asked or said a word?

Internal documents show lots of people knew, but Cesar was deemed “too important” for consequences – what’s a little child rape compared to the solidarity of union? 

Cesar Chavez was the original Jeffrey Epstein, yet all the people clutching their pearls and embracing the women who helped him recruit more victims (who now claim victimhood themselves, but took the money) aren’t really saying anything about Chavez. Both were Democrats, but one can be tied to Donald Trump 25 years ago. The other has a long string of living victims who’ve never had their stories told till now, only the left-wing industrial complex is doing all they can to bury it – they report it, so they can say they did, then ignore it.

This is a huge scandal, with a lot of people who should be investigated and probably charged as accessories and destroyed as enablers of child rape – there have to be hundreds who knew, and thousands upon thousands who likely suspected (all Democrats), and not a single one of them will face serious questioning, let alone criminal charges. Think about that the next time you hear Adam Schiff or Jamie Raskin demand “answers” about Epstein. These horrible men, both fathers (horrible ones, but fathers nonetheless), will ignore child abuse because it is not only not useful to their political cause, but harmful to it.

Buildings and parks will be renamed (making local news only), statues removed (not torn down like with our Founding Fathers), and victims will be swept under the rug. If you’re useful to Democrats, they will champion the victimhood of escorts who admit to recruiting young women to feed a monster, but if you’re just a Hispanic girl raped by a “community hero,” shut your mouth and take one for the team.

Yes, Democrats are that gross. Actually, they’re much worse.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/03/24/cesar-chavez-democrats-og-jeffrey-epstein-n2673307?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-KKhBceEXxz&utm_term=&_nlid=KKhBceEXxz&_nhids=ncyGZHm8C1kbls

Remembering the Shutdowns

Remembering the Shutdowns

by John Hinderaker in Civil rights, Coronavirus, Great Britain


The international covid shutdowns were among the worst public policy disasters (or crimes) of modern times, and yet there has been no accountability. In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan sums up the effects of the shutdowns on Britain: “Six years on, the Covid lockdowns are still ruining our lives.”

Was there truly a legal argument about whether a Scotch egg counted as a meal? Were we actually offered guidance on the correct way to have sex (avoid kissing and, if possible, keep your mask on)? And that weird ritual whereby, when restaurants reopened, we would put our masks on to walk to our table and then remove them. Did we really do that?

Yes, we did, on pain of criminal sanction. Six years ago this Monday, we were confined to house arrest – something which, in law, normally requires a high burden of proof. Faced with Britain’s only genuine mass suspension of human rights, our human rights lawyers, so loud in their defence of foreigners and scoundrels, were silent.

It was similar in the U.S. In my state, Governor Tim Walz issued an executive order barring all residents from leaving their homes except as authorized by him. To my recollection, not a single voice from the “civil rights community” was raised in protest.

[T]he lockdown remains the central fact of our lives, explaining not just our catastrophic levels of taxation, inflation and debt, but also the surge in welfare claims, the rise in shoplifting and littering, the decline in school standards, even the surge in immigration. It lies behind our low productivity, our contempt for the law and our slide in world rankings. It is a brooding, malevolent presence, always there, never acknowledged.
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In precisely the same way [as the aftermath of World War II], the lockdown increased voters’ demand for government assistance even as it exhausted the government’s resources. A poll published on Friday suggested that most British adults thought the state could afford to subsidise energy bills and end homelessness while also introducing a universal basic income. Any sense of basic economics we once had has been lost.

It is worth going through the ways in which Long Lockdown continues to debase our public life. Consider, first, the basic price tag. The National Audit Office reckons we spent £376bn, the International Monetary Fund says £407bn. Either way, these are only the direct costs of the furlough, the business grants and so on. The secondary costs – lost productivity, disrupted education, prolonged absenteeism – are much harder to quantify.
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[N]o one now believes that the supposed emergency-spending levels of [2020] will ever be fully reversed. The Government is borrowing £150bn a year, two thirds of which must go on servicing the interest on past debts. In February 2020, we were on the point of making our final mortgage payment; now, we are visiting payday lenders simply to fend off past creditors.

Having spent the better part of two years consuming without producing, and printing money to cover the difference, we created a surge in prices. Inflation peaked at 11.1 per cent in 2022, and still has not fallen back to pre-pandemic levels. This should not surprise anyone, but human nature being what it is, we would rather blame the politicians than the 93 per cent of the population who wanted the lockdown.

Lockdown introduced many working people who had never before claimed benefits to the process of getting money from state departments. Some found that they liked living that way. Around 3,000 adults are now being signed off as too sick to work every day and, as Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell revealed this week, the amount of money going on benefits to working-age adults (£333bn) is now higher than the amount raised by income tax (£331bn).

More at the link, including how the lockdown of 2020 contributed greatly to Britain’s immigration crisis. Our experience in the U.S., if not identical, was similar. Hannan says that the U.K. shutdown was supported by 93% of the British people. I don’t know what the figure would be here, but certainly a majority. It was shocking at the time, and it remains shocking, to realize with what ease a large majority of Americans were happy to give up their freedom.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/remembering-the-shutdowns.php

The Shadow War Against President Trump

The Shadow War Against President Trump

The Shadow War Against President Trump
AP Photo/Alex Brandon

The joint American-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime is now three weeks old, but there is another war — a more silent one — raging here on the home front. President Donald Trump's second administration is facing a highly coordinated shadow war — one waged both by some influential outside voices on the Right and, more dangerously, by their subversive allies within Trump's very own government.

If this campaign is not confronted and decisively defeated, the result will be calamitous: a second Trump term that drifts into lame-duck status not due to a voter backlash but because of an insurrection from within. What this column has previously referred to as "Operation Divide MAGA" has reached a fever pitch. And Trump, to his great credit, has begun to settle all the MAGA family business. But an even more concerted effort is needed to clean out the Augean Stables once and for all.

First, let's take a step back.

In any healthy political coalition or movement, debate is inevitable and often desirable. But what we have seen from certain high-profile podcasters, such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, is nothing less than a full-scale assault on Trump and his agenda. These provocateurs first outed themselves last summer, when they all but accused Trump of covering up a global (Mossad-tied?) pedophile ring over his Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. But above all, the podcasters' subversion has focused on foreign policy — most recently, on Iran and Operation Epic Fury.

Trump is a conservative nationalist. His foreign policy is rooted in confidence and "peace through strength"-style deterrence. Yet Carlson, Kelly and their fellow travelers have blasted the Iran conflict as everything from "evil" (Carlson) to "clearly Israel's war" (Kelly). The not-so-dynamic duo is thus accusing the man they quite literally campaigned for in 2024 of engaging in heinous acts and of being the unwitting dupe of a foreign government.

True, Carlson and Kelly do not actually speak for the MAGA base: A brand-new poll from J.L. Partners shows that 83 percent of Republican voters support Epic Fury. Moreover, Republicans agree with Trump over Carlson and Kelly on foreign policy by a whopping 84 percent  to 6 percent margin. But still: Their platforms are enormous. When Carlson, Kelly and their allies consistently excoriate the leading priorities of the administration they purport to support, the effect is Republican voter confusion, resentment and depression as we head toward November in a midterm election year.

Even worse, the shadow war subversives are not merely shouting into their microphones from the rafters. They have allies inside the administration, with whom they are all but assuredly coordinating, engaging in outright sabotage against the one man — the president of the United States — who was actually elected to wield the "executive Power" of the federal government and serve as commander in chief.

The most alarming developments are emerging from within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. A former Democratic congresswoman with a pro-Moscow slant once seen as a heterodox ally, Gabbard now oversees an environment that increasingly bears the markings of an anti-MAGA coup.

Take Gabbard's recent rehiring of Dan Caldwell. Dismissed last year by his (former longtime friend) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth amid allegations of leaking, Caldwell is now back in a highly sensitive role. Leaks of this nature are not bureaucratic slip-ups; they are direct assaults on national security and the integrity of the constitutional chain of command. It is difficult to interpret the isolationist-leaning Gabbard's move as anything other than a direct shot across the bow at Hegseth — and, by extension, the boss Hegseth has so passionately defended since Epic Fury began, Trump.

Consider also Joe Kent, who until recently served under Gabbard as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Kent resigned this week in flamboyant fashion, rationalizing his stunt with hyper-conspiratorial, antisemitic rhetoric better suited for a Code Pink rally than government letterhead. Within hours after tendering his resignation, Kent announced he would be joining — who else? — Carlson to tell his story. An alleged serial leaker, Kent is now under FBI investigation for spilling national security secrets. Unsurprisingly, Iranian regime propaganda television gobbled up the interview and regurgitated it for an impressionable English-speaking audience.

That Kent came to Carlson's platform to try to get ahead of the FBI investigation revelation is no coincidence. It is all orchestrated. After being fired by Hegseth last year, Caldwell similarly ran to Carlson to tell his side of the story. Moreover, one of Caldwell's higher-ranking colleagues at ODNI, Will Ruger, shares Caldwell's professional background in the isolationist Koch network. Surprise!

The White House Presidential Personnel Office, formerly directed by ex-Rand Paul staffer Sergio Gor (since shipped halfway around the world to India), has allowed in individuals across the defense, intelligence and national security spaces that are functionally anti-MAGA. Perhaps this was done for self-serving reasons. Perhaps Gor and PPO were under the understanding that MAGA is something other than what the boss says it is. Frankly, it does not really matter.

Because the boss has now spoken. He's cast Carlson and Kelly out of MAGA in emphatic fashion. And after Kent's obnoxious resignation stunt, Trump said of those (like Kent) who do not believe Iran is a threat to the United States: "We don't want those people." Translation: Get out. The message could not possibly be clearer.

But is Trump's PPO listening? Is Gabbard's ODNI fully in line? Gabbard, in Senate testimony this week, couldn't bring herself to agree with her boss's assessment that Iran posed an "imminent threat" prior to the launch of Epic Fury.

It's time for the president to team up with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and other arch-loyalists, such as Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and clean house. The internal anti-MAGA sabotage must be ended, and the external anti-MAGA sabotage must be combated. The success of the remainder of Trump's second term hangs in the balance.

https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2026/03/20/the-shadow-war-against-president-trump-n2673144

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Chicago Mayor Pulls Unbelievably Cruel Anti-ICE Stunt Mocking the Murder of Sheridan Gorman

Chicago Mayor Pulls Unbelievably Cruel Anti-ICE Stunt Mocking the Murder of Sheridan Gorman

AP Photo/Paul Beaty

It has been a few days since an Illinois Democrat has pulled a cheap political stunt that essentially mocks the murder last week of 18-year-old college student Sheridan Gorman, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, so Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decided to step up and fill the void. 

In an unbelievably cruel and tone-deaf maneuver, Johnson on Wednesday held a big press conference to gleefully unveil a new city snowplow that will be clearing city streets while bearing a sign reading, "Abolish ICE," which is apparently the winning entry of a plow-naming contest. 

"This name derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity, and the rights of all people, no matter where they come from,” Johnson said while stand in front a large salt dome. "I want to take this moment to reiterate that Chicago does not want ICE on our streets, in our airports, nor in our city. Chicago believes in abolishing ICE."

When a man in the crowd shouted that Mayor Johnson was celebrating the harm caused by violent illegals, the truth-speaker was instantly escorted out of the event by security. It's a valid point the man was making, especially when you consider Johnson has had plenty to say about the deployment of ICE agents to local airports – he's "closely monitoring" the situation – but has quite cowardly avoided commenting on the sanctuary-city policies that led to the cold-blooded murder of Sheridan Gorman.

As RedState previously reported, Sheridan was shot and killed last Thursday morning while walking with friends along the Chicago waterfront; they were apparently looking for a good spot from which to view the Northern Lights. Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old illegal from Venezuela, was later arrested for the crime and charged with one felony count of first-degree murder, one felony count of attempted first-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated assault/discharge of a firearm, and one felony count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.

Medina-Medina entered the U.S. illegally in 2023, was released unsupervised into the country by the Biden administration, and was arrested for shoplifting later that year. Lax Democrat policies put him back on the street, where he was free to harm others.


SEE ALSO: The Callous, Cheap Political Stunt JB Pritzker Pulled That Could Come Back to Haunt Him

Speaker Johnson: Dems Prove Time and Again They Stand With Criminals—‘Just Like This Murderer Here’


Putting aside the absurdity that Spring began the day after Sheridan was gunned down and snow plows likely won't be needed for a while, what Johnson did in this public display was an unspeakably cruel and overtly partisan act that likely adds to the heavy burden of the Gorman family, who is still reeling from their heartbreaking, and entirely preventable, loss. Who does that kind of thing?

Democrats, that's who. There's a pattern forming here.

A Democrat Chicago alderwoman was on the receiving end of some well-earned wrath from the Gormans after she made a video saying Sheridan was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and may have "startled" Medina-Medina. In other words, it's Sheridan's fault that she was gunned down by a mask-wearing illegal who was breaking all kinds of laws by being in the U.S. and possessing a gun. 

And corpulent Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker decided he'd heap on even more scorn by posting a video of him walking along the Chicago waterfront, sweatily boasting how "absolutely gorgeous" his morning stroll was; he, of course, failed to show the well-armed security detail keeping him safe and making sure his stroll was gorgeous. Sheridan Gorman didn't have that luxury.

In any decent political culture, a stunt like this would be unthinkable so soon after such a senseless murder. But Johnson isn’t interested in decency; he’s interested in proving his ideological credentials and pandering to his base, even if that means publicly gloating over an "Abolish ICE" sign while a grieving family is still living through the nightmare he and his party created.

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/03/25/chicago-mayors-amazingly-cruel-and-tone-deaf-anti-ice-stunt-n2200627?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl