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A major theme of the Republican National Convention was illegal immigration or the invasion of migrants across our nation’s southern border.

Speaker after speaker elaborated on the migrant invasion while The New York Times midway into the convention ran an article stating these claims were exaggerated. RNC speakers were also careful to state that they supported legal immigration yet these statements were ignored as critics from the left accused the convention of being anti-immigration. Examples of the anti-immigration charge were common on the PBS show, ‘Democracy Now’ despite host Amy Goodman’s superficial affability.

In one DN segment, for instance, where Goodman converses with Politico writer Ian Ward, Goodman wonders how Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, deals with the fact that the RNC is “anti-immigrant.’

Once again we have a case of the left refusing to distinguish the difference between legal and illegal immigration. This Orwellian word game began years ago when the left canceled out the word illegal altogether and then intoned the magical concept that “nobody is illegal.” Meaning that crossing the border as part of an invading army is basically the same thing as entering the country legally.

In another back-and-forth with Ward, Goodman asks about JD Vance in 2016 when Vance compared Trump to Hitler. Both Ward and Goodman called Vance’s change of mind “weird,” while other leftist commentators like Robert Kuttner, a Brandeis University professor and founder of the leftist journal, American Prospect, inferred that the change in Vance was phony when he called Trump’s running mate a “dangerous fake.”

This is no surprise coming from a professor in one of the most woke universities in the country. A few years ago, Newsweek reported:

“The Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center (PARC) website at Brandeis University reads like a parody.

“PARC compiled a list of words it deemed too offensive to utter, which includes ‘rule of thumb,’ ‘killing it,’ ‘freshman’ and, somewhat ironically, ‘trigger warning.’ The list is making the rounds on social media, eliciting general mockery from the political Right. And these social justice warriors deserve to be mocked: Their list is ridiculous.”

Journalist Tom Nichols (no relation) over at the (woke) Atlantic made jokes about Vance’s one time Hitler comment, suggesting that Vance did a 180 in the name of self promotion—a conniving career move–, especially after he met billionaire Peter Thiel who became his mentor and sponsor when he ran for the Senate. It was Thiel who brought Vance to Mar-a-Logo for a meeting with Trump that imitated the relationship between the two men and that eventually led to Vance’s pick as the Republican VP nominee.

Goodman, Ward, Nichols, et al all expressed amazement and consternation that one could change one’s conviction from hating Trump to endorsing him as something ‘not quite believable,’ when the reality is that political conversions are happening quite frequently as the Biden-Harris administration crashes. Nichols himself was once a Republican who voted for Reagan and Mitt Romney.

Yet journalists and commentators like Goodman have a special problem with Vance. Their cynical world view will not allow them to imagine a philosophical 180 change from left to right without a Machiavellian back story. In Vance’s case, they say he saw an opportunity with the Republican Party, and he made his move.

This of course doesn’t take in anything sustentative like a religious conversion, which is what Vance experienced while studying the works of Catholic philosopher Rene Girard. Like Saul of Tarsus on the road to continue his persecution of Christians, Vance “woke up” a changed man.

This kind of change is lost on people like Goodman, Nichols and Ward who find the change that Vance experienced so hard to grasp their only recourse is to resort to cynicism and say that Vance is a poser.

This is what Nichols had to say:

“Vance himself has now become a kind of cheap high, a transient buzz designed to narcotize the people he is betraying.

“Vance is a hollow man, an opportunist driven by a strange melding of self-admiration and insecurity, who has risen to great heights in the Republican Party by saying things he does not believe, especially when it comes to his new running mate, Donald Trump. But in his acceptance speech Wednesday night, he attained new depths of cynical emptiness.”

Vance describes his religious conversion in a 2022  interview with Eric Mataxas, an evangelical Christian. The Hitler comment was made when he was struggling with his beliefs and still wore the patina of atheism, the result of his Yale Law School experience when his social goal was to hang out with the elites (who were primarily atheist). Vance was baptized Catholic in 2019 by the Dominicans. Pre-conversion– like many young, arrogant intellectuals– he believed that the most intelligent people in the world were atheists, while the dumbest were believers (or Christians.) Then the hillbilly child of a single mother grew up.

Still, there’s nothing that irks woke secular progressives more than a religious conversion.

“The opposition [he told Mataxas]–meaning the American left– is weaker than they have been in a long time. They are most dangerous when they are wounded. But I don’t think this opposition that we face is an all-powerful force…” The two men then got into a conversation about despair and giving up, and how it is the Christian’s duty to never despair and never give up.

‘Never giving up’ also means that it’s not an option to not vote on Election Day; not voting is an act of despair.

The day after the RNC, NPR ran a review of the convention. NPR commentators all speak as if they had spent 2 years undergoing electro-shock treatments in some leftwing think tank. The cadence and rhythm of their sentences, the way they tend to end sentences on up notes so that everything sounds like a question, the way they dive into commentary in that cynical pithy way that is exclusively NPR. This manner of speaking has become associated with left progressive views.

The NPR male commentator droned on about the unwieldy length of Donald Trump’s 90-minute speech, the longest of any presidential candidate in history. Other critics castigated the former president for deviating from his promised calls for unity.

“After those calls for unity and expressions of gratitude,” NPR complained, “Trump eventually shifted to attacking Democrats for, in his words, “weaponizing” the justice system through the multiple criminal indictments he has faced….”

What NPR wanted was a milquetoast acceptance speech that did not attack Democrat policies at all but one in fact that came close to endorsing Biden-Harris.

While Trump’s speech did at times meander like the Nile River, no matter what kind of speech he delivered it would not have escaped criticism. Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well, as evidenced by a recent NYT editorial—published before the assassination attempt– declaring that Trump is unfit to be president. Of course, the final round of TDS will be the DNC when obsessive Trump hatred hits an all time high.

I can see it now: The RNC was too white; RNC speakers made fun of pronoun usage; speakers counting the so called lies in Trump’s acceptance speech—including the Dem partisan accusation that the 2020 election was pristine and pure as Vermont maple syrup.

DNC speakers will scream for more equity, equality and inclusion; transgender speakers (with tattoos and Iroquois haircuts) will call for more hate speech laws; abortion crazed feminists—with Joan of Arc helmet-style hair—will thunder that Trump and Vance really do love Project 2025, and that both of them—despite evidence to the contrary—really do want to implement a federal ban on abortion. Other speakers will call Trump a liar regarding his pledge to not to touch Social Security or Medicare.

An overabundance of speeches on immigration will also predominate with zero references to illegal immigration—another Democrat attempt to conflate the two concepts in the public mind.

Finally, there will be a presidential nomination acceptance speech by Kamala Harris—between cackles, of course– as she confirms Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.

Barbara Streisand will appear in yoga pants accompanied by George Clooney in a leather thong in a tribute to young Democrat non-binary voters.

The upshot of all this is simple: We need to work hard– and pray—to make sure that President Trump is elected in November.