Any discussion about the reelection of former President Donald Trump has been locked in hyperbole for so long that it is difficult to state just how high the stakes are in 2024 without seeming to add to that conversation. Every Democratic presidential nominee since Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) ran against Richard Nixon in 1972, over 50 years ago, has been labeled as too far left for the American people. Just consider the rhetoric surrounding Bill Clinton and Barack Obama before remembering the election talking points about the failed presidential candidates from Walter Mondale to John Kerry who were described as being too liberal or too extreme for Americans to embrace.

But then the Democrats had to deal with Donald Trump and they began describing him and his supporters as populist authoritarians – as much an oxymoron as the Canadian experiment with Progressive Conservative – and the man himself as a dictator in the wings. Hillary Clinton, a woman with such a sense of entitlement to be president, described Trump voters as “deplorables” and the label stuck – stuck to Hillary that it is, defining her as a detached, unfeeling, unthinking member of the liberal elite who couldn’t understand, let alone care for the needs of ordinary Americans.

Then came Joe Biden, the perpetual politician who had become the perfect political chameleon by the time he finally took the Democratic nomination in 2020. This was a man who had begun his career as a conservative southern Democrat and had at least evolved into a moderate of some sorts by the Clinton years, when he was the law and order man of his party and the author of the “three strikes” incarceration strategy that sought to define that presidency as being tough on crime. By 2020, Biden had been transformed into a woke liberal who saw white supremacists under every bed and had even flip-flopped on his long-standing opposition to publicly-funded abortions. Of course, it was obvious to anyone with a brain that Biden didn’t really believe any of this, just as he had probably not really believed that sending people to prison for the rest of their lives after committing three offenses was going to eliminate crime in America. He had never really believed in any of it.

He was the consummate unattached politician who was prepared to jettison any political principle or ideal for the immediate need of electoral expediency. You could program Biden to say just about anything or promote almost any policy because he had no rock solid values other than a deep-seated ambition to be president and an overweening love of power.

Biden’s lifelong ambition was to be president – he had looked longingly at the office during all those decades in the Senate and for eight years as Obama’s vice president when he clearly thought he could have done the job better than his boss, whom he had once scorned, in a racially off-handed way, as a black who was “articulate, bright and clean.” But ironically, by the time Biden finally won the office in a manner that is still open to some dispute, he was too far gone, too old and too off his game to perform the job effectively and, as a result of obvious dementia, he became a captive to the younger men and women in his cabinet and host of advisors with an agenda that even Biden – simply because of his age and generation – could not have fully encompassed.

So, on Day One of his presidency, Biden began signing executive orders reflecting the woke ideology of the power brokers around him. But most significantly, he opened the southern border to mass illegal immigration in a way that a younger Biden would never have done, even if he thought it would have bought him some votes to do so. Even a career politician like Biden had had some moral and ideological threshold preventing him from abrogating American sovereignty to this degree. But he had lost control and he was no longer running his own presidency. But ironically, Biden was transformed into that liberal who was too extreme for middle America, that conservatives and Republicans had predicted would come with every election cycle.

Vice President Kamala Harris is a definite improvement on Biden for liberal Democrats because she really believes in the woke ideology. It’s not that she is ready to govern but that she is ready to allow others to govern for her. And she is quite prepared to continue to do nothing about Biden’s greatest legacy: an open border that is like a massive festering wound on the American body politic. We don’t know how many tens of millions of illegals have walked across that border in the last four years but Biden essentially invited them to do precisely that. But we do know that he and his border czar, Harris, made no attempt to stop the invasion at the southern border and even developed an elaborate scheme to transport the illegals to their preferred destinations across America and then to provide them with taxpayer-funded accommodation, education, health care and legal advice – often while the real American citizens around them struggled to survive and couldn’t imagine being the recipients of such largesse from the federal government.

So Harris is the ideological spawn of Biden and the people who have controlled his presidency. She was raised in a Marxist household and was perhaps the most leftist senator ever to hold office. But that isn’t the worst part. She is also a woman so bereft of ideas and so utterly vacuous that if we weren’t living in such polarized times, her presidential candidacy would not have even been considered viable. Harris is incapable of delivering a speech without a teleprompter spewing forth talking points and cannot exercise any degree of improvisation. She doesn’t do interviews unless they are perfectly scripted among a friendly cast of journalists and, even then, they are horrible exhibitions of incompetence and lackluster political conversation. When the vice president has very occasionally wandered from this path, the experience has been disastrous or at least highly embarrassing for a candidate who appears out of her depth even trying to deliver a political bromide of a sound byte.

So that is why she and the Democrats have returned to the deplorable theme. But this time, Trump and his followers don’t just represent that great unwashed set of voters who have no business attempting to govern America, they are Nazis and Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler. This is called desperation. That anyone on the left could possibly conflate Trump’s triumphant rally at Madison Square Garden last Sunday with a meeting of the German-American Bund of 1939 is not just laughable but sinister. Who would even think of such a comparison unless the game here is equating anything Trump does or says to Hitler and Nazism?

Kamala Harris is that radical left-winger that conservatives have been warning us about for so many decades. But even worse, she is just an unthinking portal for a host of malevolent forces that want to enslave America. Why else would the far-left be supporting her at the same time as former Vice President Dick Cheney or his daughter celebrated RINO and former congresswoman LIz Cheney? Why would all of these supposed stalwart Republicans be carrying water for Kamala? Is it because Harris knows she is wildly incapable of being president; that she lacks the basic qualifications; that she is really being elected to pursue other people’s business?

Of course. Harris will keep the foreign wars going and sustain the arms sales for the Military-Industrial Complex that has evolved from a concept developed by President Dwight Eisenhower to a daily fact of life in our current age of forever wars. She will keep the money flowing for the wealthy for the Uniparty.

And Trump has promised to shut it off and to have a second look at that Deep State. Trump is actually talking about eliminating the income tax.

But if the RINOs are unconcerned about Harris’ left-wing credentials and Marxist assumptions, they should know that she is equally unconcerned about the border crisis and the unraveling of American sovereignty. She has no plan to fix it and absolutely no desire to stop illegal immigrants at the border or deport those who are already here. It will continue unabated under a Harris-Walz administration until America has been completely subsumed by it. America will continue to be a land stolen by people who just marched right in. America will be a society defined by the distorted, dystopian experiences of towns like Aurora, CO and Springfield, OH that have defined the gross injustice of unregulated illegal immigration.

Trump has promised to close the border. He says he will deport the illegals. That’s a tall order. He will face enormous opposition not just from millions of Americans who like the status quo but from the Deep State that is intent upon destroying America for the greater globalist good. Will he really remove tens of millions of people when the Left will certainly call it a crime against humanity? Will he have the resolve to do what is necessary? Will he actually stop sending the national treasure to Ukraine and elsewhere and really focus on America First?

He says he will and Kamala says she won’t. Catch her off guard and she’ll admit she wants amnesty for the illegals and no deportations. She likes the foreign wars. She’ll do whatever she’s told.

I hate to say it, but as Nov. 5 approaches, Donald Trump is the last, best hope for America; the only hope at this point of the country not being submerged by the flood of illegal immigration and lawlessness. Yes, he has his faults. You might find him a tad too ego-centric at times, perhaps a bit too willing to render personal insults to his political opponents. Why can’t he be a little more like a give-and-take politician?

Because he’s not really a politician but he is a leader. And if there is going to be an America in 2028 that even passably resembles the one you grew up in, Trump is the only choice you can make. He has brought life-long Democrats like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to his side because they can also see that this is an election about stark choices and permanent decisions. If you’re a principled conservative who believes in free enterprise, legal immigration, a military that defends America and the right to speak your mind – you can choose Donald Trump or you can choose the end of the United States. The choice is really that simple.