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(Before David’s passing, he worked on a number of articles with Front Page Magazine’s writers. ‘The Enemy We Face’, originally titled ‘Fifth Column’, was one of those articles. David was never able to finish working on this article, but it carries his voice and his message. As does the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Help us preserve David’s legacy.)

America is being invaded from the outside, but the greatest assault is coming from within.

When the term “fifth column” was coined, it referred to four columns attacking from the outside and one, a fifth column, attacking from the inside. These days the numbers have switched and we have one column coming from the outside, and four columns striking at us from the inside.

The flood of illegal alien migrants did not overwhelm our border security, instead the men who were supposed to be securing the border were retasked by the Biden administration to act as coyotes, escorting illegals through, dismantling security measures put up by states like Texas and Arizona, and then putting the illegal invaders on buses heading around the country.

The ten million illegals who entered the country were a column, but it took a much smaller number of government officials, activists and judges to let them all in. That’s why the fifth column is the ultimate force multiplier. A thousand traitors can bring in ten million invaders.

Islamic terrorists aren’t outsmarting us, they’re taking advantage of national and local government officials that not only let them into the country, but welcome them into the highest levels of power, dismantling law enforcement oversight and leaving them free to attack us.

Even after one of the most decisive elections in recent history, Democrat judges are fighting to keep the border open, the illegals coming and the terrorists already here from being deported.

When Democrats rallied to support Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian from a Columbia University hate group that called for the “destruction of western civilization,” “Death to America” and the murder of Jews, it was because they, like him, were enemies of all three.

That’s what a fifth column is. It’s the enemy within allied with the illegals and terrorists outside.

The four columns attacking us from within consist of the first column of deep state disloyal government officials, insurrectionist judges, and enemy bureaucrats, the second column of extremist academics, toxic teachers and leftist miseducators, the third column of news media manipulators and entertainment industry brainwashers, and the fourth column of professional activists, street protesters and the organizations behind them.

These four columns, the disloyal officials, the miseducators, the liars and the rioters, are waging war on us from within with the aim of empowering all the external enemies at war with us.

To defeat that world of enemies, we first must identify and defeat these four columns.

The Trump administration is correctly identifying and taking on these four enemy columns. And the fight is bringing them out into the open and exposing the alliances between these groups.

The showdowns with Columbia University, the Associated Press, USAID and activists tackle all four columns, and have them on the ropes. Universities, the second column, are starting to sue for peace, the AP, the third column is still protesting futilely that its privileges of access to government events are really rights, while the fourth column of rioters who wrecked universities and took over campuses are facing deportation, and they all depend on the first column.

Federal judges from the first column have chosen to challenge the power of the presidency and the constitutional checks and balances, with an unprecedented campaign of blocking President Trump’s policies and orders not just locally, but on a nationwide basis. This judicial coup is not just a power struggle between federal courts and the White House, it’s the first column of enemies and traitors rallying to the defense of the other beleaguered three columns.

And in the process, these Clinton, Obama and Biden judges who are intervening to protect terrorists, illegal aliens and government bureaucrats are exposing themselves as not only insurrectionists, unconstitutionally seizing power from the rightful president, but as traitors to this country who are colluding with other leftists embedded across our political and cultural institutions whose ultimate aim is not any single policy, but the destruction of America.

The Trump administration has shown that it can take on three of the four columns, the liars, the miseducators and the rioters, but the real test will come from the first column, the government employees and officials covertly hijacking and sabotaging his policies from within, the state and local officials running sanctuary states and cities in defiance of the law, and the judges who directly match their powers against the president’s, seeking to govern in his place.

The challenge of the ‘fifth column’ comes from the reality that the government could defeat the nation’s enemies, if only it could use its power, instead of being subverted and tied in knots. The enemy within paralyzes and corrupts our institutions, and no enemies are more dangerous than those embedded within the centers of power than those who do their dirty work inside.

That’s why the ultimate battle will be against this greatest of our enemies who lurk ‘within’.

No previous administration ever offered a serious challenge to the four columns as they did their work of devastating, corrupting, robbing, maligning, misleading and manipulating our country. Now the four columns are reeling as their funds are being cut off, their activists rounded up and their decisions are being challenged, not just in court, but in the court of public opinion.

The American people recognized that there is a primal struggle between their interests, values and aspirations and the institutions that have taken control of their lives. That’s why they chose Trump. The more the four columns attack Trump, the more Americans recognize that they have a champion that is fighting for them. And that is why the constant attacks on Trump aren’t working. And as long as Trump keeps getting results by taking on the four columns, they won’t.

Generations of politicians have promised change. And by change, they meant empowering these same rotten institutions that brought us to our lowest point in over a century.

When Americans asked for change, they didn’t mean more unaccountable government agencies, more taxes to fund those agencies and the special interests that profit from them, more corruption by those special interests, even as their lives grew worse every year.

Everything from our economy to our military to our schools to the safety of our communities has gone downhill even as government budgets and taxes climbed to unprecedented heights. This was not an accident or incompetence, it was the deliberate policies of these four columns that were waging a systemic war of total infiltration and destruction against the United States of America. Now, the majority of Americans recognize that someone is fighting back for them.

America cannot be great until the four enemy columns are defeated and the nation can mobilize its best resources to resist its outside enemies once it is no longer being hobbled by its traitors.