Let’s be honestly introspective for a moment.<\/p>\n
If you’ve ever been more concerned with Donald Trump’s destructive brand of politics than radical Islamism, America doesn’t have time for you anymore.\u00a0 If you believe that criticizing Islamic terrorism only increases the terrorists’ recruitment efforts, your legitimacy as a talking head is coming to an end.<\/p>\n
The sun is setting on the era of political correctness.\u00a0 No, Donald Trump’s bullying version is not the requisite norm, but getting into a tizzy because a public figure speaks frankly is definitely pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n
For too long, the progressives’ army of social justice warriors have been criticizing every aspect of America while simultaneously protecting and promoting the global Muslim ummah<\/em>.\u00a0 In their worldview, Americans are somehow responsible for all that is bad in this world \u2013 both globally and at home.<\/p>\n Pandering to bullies has always been counterproductive \u2013 and Islamic extremism is the global bully.\u00a0 We do not avoid punishing a violent offender \u2013 not because the rate of recidivism is too high, not because we are afraid of reinforcing a deviant stereotype, and not because we fear creating disgruntled familial relations and future criminals.\u00a0 We incarcerate them because we know that the only way to ensure that they will not prey on innocence is to remove them from society.<\/p>\n How, then, do some intellectual types adhere to a belief system completely divorced from these realities?<\/p>\n When dealing with bullies and criminals, there is an expectation that justice will be meted out.\u00a0 When confronted with radical Islamists, suddenly this formula of identifying dangerous individuals and publicly ostracizing them is abruptly abandoned for a softer more intellectual approach.<\/p>\n For the liberal gate guards of Islam, any correlation between the peaceful religion and terror atrocities is a nonstarter.\u00a0 Despite the fact that this approach screams of intellectual dishonesty, liberal power brokers \u2013 of particular note: our current president and presumptive Democratic nominee \u2013 have determined that this is the path toward progress.<\/p>\n Not anymore.<\/p>\n Ignoring facts, data, and common sense was yesterday’s progressivism.\u00a0 Donald Trump, for all of his many shortcomings, is ushering in a new era of realism.\u00a0 In this new era, Americans are permitted to call a spade a spade.\u00a0 Americans will no longer feel ashamed of putting their needs above the needs of every disadvantaged person in every corner of the world.<\/p>\n American families know that before you can be successful in the workplace, you have to be successful in the home.\u00a0 If you neglect the home life, productivity in the workplace inevitably falls.\u00a0 Trump’s “America First” proposition is precisely that \u2013 it’s time to take care of the American homeland.<\/p>\n As a strong and prosperous nation, America has always assisted globally \u2013 WWI, WWII, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, and financing the U.N.’s peacekeeping mission. \u00a0(The U.S. currently accounts for more than one-fifth<\/a> \u2013 22 percent \u2013 of the regular U.N. budget.)\u00a0 As a weak, divided, and economically depressed nation, we flounder and exert ineffective domestic and foreign policy \u2013 the Civil War, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.<\/p>\n Americans are long overdue for a policy that puts the spotlight back on its citizens.\u00a0 Americans are desperate for a president who assures us that our success, safety, and future are prioritized above our global colleagues.<\/p>\n America has a plot of land that is strategically isolated from the epicenter of the world’s current problems.\u00a0 We should never use this strategic depth as an excuse to enact isolationist policy, but failing to recognize that our geographic location allows us the opportunity to rebuild our nation while remaining insulated from the societal shift that the Middle East and Europe is currently undergoing is foolish.<\/p>\n Let’s make America great again first.\u00a0 It is only from a position of strength that we can enact lasting and positive change on the global stage.<\/p>\n Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"