President Donald J. Trump could not have made it easier for congressional Democrats.
During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Trump’s simple offer to them, and their Republican counterparts, was like a college professor telling his students: “Anyone who wants 10 points of extra credit, please stand up if you believe the Earth is round.”
Trump’s challenge to senators and House members was equally simple. As he put it:
“I’m inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”
At once, Republicans bolted upright and heartily applauded an anodyne declaration with which at least 90% of Americans surely concur. Some, perhaps most, illegal aliens grudgingly would approve.
And yet Democrats sat there, flat in their chairs, neither standing nor cheering a tenet as basic as asserting that parents’ primary responsibility is to feed their children rather than nourish people who break into their homes.
Democrats silently scowled as Americans watched in astonishment:
“Wow!” viewers must have thought. “These people really do hate America. They root for illegal aliens, at the expense of U.S. citizens. Republicans have suggested that. And they are right!”
This continued for one minute and 50 seconds. Each moment was more damning than the last—like watching a Polaroid photo of a crime scene grow clearer and more incriminating as the clock ticked away.
“Isn’t that a shame?” the President asked Democrats, after the Republican ovation finally tapered off. Trump must have been stunned at how serenely his tormentors marched into his trap and made themselves right at home. “You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up,” Trump added. “You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Ashamed, indeed.
And now citizens have seen proof of what they previously might have suspected: The Democrats no longer are the party of the American people, the middle class, workers, or even the poor. The modern Democrat Party seats illegal aliens up front, while American citizens ride in the back of the bus, ideally with their big mouths shut.
Under President Joe Biden’s four-year reign of error, Democrats imposed this new policy with a vengeance, even as they relentlessly lied that “the border is closed.”
Democrats treat illegal aliens better than American citizens:
• Some 7.4 million illegal aliens invaded America under Biden, Pew Research calculates. Democrats rolled out the red carpet. They let illegals enter without COVID-19 tests or vaccines. Meanwhile, Democrats furiously inflicted COVID-19 test-and-inoculation mandates on citizens.
• Democrats handed illegal aliens complimentary jet transit to speed them into the nation’s interior. Democrats offered citizens no such free airfare.
• Democrats let illegal aliens board commercial jets with as little as their Border Patrol arrest documents for identification. Democrats never exempted citizens from presenting proper ID at TSA checkpoints.
• Millions of illegal aliens reached metropolises including New York City. Democrats ushered them into the Roosevelt Hotel, Times Square’s Row Hotel, and other tourist-class establishments—all for free. Meanwhile, American citizens who visit Gotham pay top dollar for lodging.
• While Democrats in Stoughton, Massachusetts, supplied buses for illegal-alien children living in shelters, 150 American-citizen kids lost their rides to school.
•Back in Manhattan, Democrats handed illegal-alien children Public School 141 (opened in 1961). To accommodate them, Democrats displaced some 170 predominantly black and Hispanic students with autism and other special needs. Democrats condemned these young American citizens to the poorly equipped former Ascension School (built in 1911).
Congressional Democrats lacked the political savvy to stand up beside Republicans and at least pretend that they prefer American citizens to illegal aliens. The fact that Democrats could not even fake this sincerity demonstrates the intensity of their affection for illegal aliens and the severity of their contempt for U.S. citizens.
Come November, hundreds of millions of American voters should return the favor.
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