Law and order don’t collapse all at once. It is eroded one issue at a time. It usually starts small like not having a regular order of business for funding our government. The last time that was done in this country was 2006. One might call it normalization of deviation. It is laws left unenforced. What we’re watching now in Minnesota and in other areas of the country aren’t random protests. It is a coordinated effort to delegitimize institutions, intimidate Americans, and replace the rule of law with mob rule. This is a repeat of what America saw in the “Summer of Love” in 2020.
Churches disrupted. Witness the recent actions in St. Paul. Courts smeared and threatened. Witness judges and their families being shot and assaulted. Police demoralized. Police knowing that despite doing everything right, they may be sacrificed on the altar of wokeness. Their families may be placed in danger from howling insurrectionists.
Borders ignored. Millions of migrants are allowed into the country who have no intention of living the American Dream. They just want the welfare handout and to live the same life they lived before they arrived. Witness the Somali fraud going on in many areas of the country. This is a steady normalization of disorder. It is hidden behind terms like “justice and compassion,” while it eats away at the foundations that make a free society possible.
It is facilitated by corrupt politicians sticking their fingers in the political wind and catering to whatever gives them the most power. These politicians affirm actions that were once considered grossly unacceptable. Who would have thought that politicians would actively support the mutilation of children? And yet here we are. And it gets progressively worse in both small and large increments.
Let’s be clear: the Communists are pushing the envelope. What they need are people who believe that laws are optional and authority is illegitimate. This allows those people to feel that they are moral warriors on a quest when, in fact, they are brainwashed pawns who will be discarded when the revolution is over.
When law and order disappear, power doesn’t—it just moves to the loudest mob, the most aggressive activist, or the bureaucrat willing to look the other way. Mobs in Minnesota are now attacking people they think look like ICE. If you are wearing camo, you are a target for assault. If you have a sweatshirt with the American flag on it, you are a target. If you are a journalist who is actually reporting the facts, you are a target. The police are doing little or nothing to stop this just as in 2020.
The Constitution was written precisely to prevent this. It assumes disagreement. It protects speech. It allows protest. But it draws firm lines. You don’t disrupt worship. You don’t intimidate or harass citizens. You don’t occupy public spaces indefinitely. You don’t weaponize institutions to punish your opponents. And you don’t get to overthrow lawful order under the banner of compassion or grievance.
Some extremists are claiming that being forced to comply with established laws is authoritarian. It isn’t. It’s moral. It protects all of us. It provides a framework for people to live within. It’s what allows liberty to survive without collapsing into a free for all. The law is the referee—not the crowd, not the media, not the mob.
How do we move forward? We’ve tried restraint. We have ignored clear violations of the law hoping to keep the temperature down. It hasn’t. In fact, just the opposite has happened. Every time the law isn’t enforced, the next violation comes sooner and the fire grows.
Now is the time to lower the hammer. Not in anger. Not in vengeance. But firmly, lawfully, and without apology. Enforce the laws on the books. It seems clear that this is what is starting to happen in Minnesota. Let there be somewhere that the crimes committed by these people who want to overthrow the government will be published. This includes the government elites and media hacks who have facilitated this.
A free society cannot survive without order. And order does not sustain itself. It must be defended by leaders willing to lead, citizens willing to stand up, and a justice system willing to do its job.
That moment is has arrived.