As you doubtless know by now, two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot in an ambush-style attack in Washington, D.C. before Thanksgiving. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died; the other victim,
Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition. The shooter is Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national.

He shouldn’t have been here. Simple as that.

It is mordantly entertaining to see the despicable Axis news media spin like dervishes to try to somehow blame the President and Republicans for what is 100% the result of progressive madness. The presence of the National Guard in D.C. can’t reasonably be blamed for violent attacks on them, but Democratic rhetoric irresponsibly describing their deployment as the equivalent of a hostile occupation or an autocratic fascist take-over can be held responsible, and should be.

We have seen two attempted assassination attempts on Trump, one of a conservative SCOTUS Justice, the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an assassination of an insurance executive (with resulting applause from prominent progressives), and now this. One side of the political spectrum is advocating violence, and it is the same side that has traditionally advocated violence. It is obvious and it’s not deniable. There has to be accountability, and it must start with an acknowledgement of reality, which the Left is having even more trouble with now than usual.

The Washington Post, currently trying to find a profitable moderate voice after decades of being unethically partisan, issued a weenie editorial rife with both-sidism where it doesn’t belong. “The National Guard ambush: The tragedy is testing America’s broken political culture” is the heading.

There’s no “broken political culture.” There is a corrupted, hate-polluted and dangerous leftist culture that rational citizens are trying to contain. Republicans and conservatives aren’t killing anyone, trying to prevent law enforcement or cheering the murders of their adversaries.

“The Guard has helped reduce and deter violent crime and is far from menacing,” sayeth the Editors. That’s an understatement. Then they criticize Trump’s televised address to the nation blaming Joe Biden for the shooting, slyly noting that it was President Bush II who started the war with Afghanistan. Give us a break. It was Biden’s reckless and inept withdrawal from that hopeless mess of a nation and his slack treatment of immigrants legal and illegal that led to Beckstrom’s death. “It’s been obvious for years that vetting was insufficiently thorough,” the Editorial board correctly states. But the Washington Post hasn’t been admitting that for years.

Then the piece swings back the other way: “Yet threatening the status of all 77,000 Afghan refugees who have made America their home is morally bankrupt. Many are people who put their lives and their family’s lives at risk to help the United States, working as interpreters and fighting alongside U.S. troops during the two-decade war” and “It was also disingenuous for the president to use a moment of national trauma to draw parallels between new Afghan arrivals and the fraud scheme being perpetrated by Somali immigrants in Minnesota. The nearly 80 people charged with pocketing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars intended to feed needy children took advantage of this country’s most vulnerable cohort.”

Fact: people are coming to this country from toxic, violent, dangerous and uncivilized culture, and those people cannot be trusted. It’s too bad so many are abusing the opportunity to become Americans, and, yes, they are spoiling the opportunity for others more worthy of it. Nonetheless, it is the President’s duty to say, “OK, this is obviously not working. The whole concept of allowing migrants from culturally toxic nations into the U.S. is on probation.”

And yes, any nation that is primarily Islamic is culturally toxic.

Sentimentalists hate the idea, but the truth is that the message of Emma Lazarus’s inspiring poem is no longer reasonable nor responsible. In the 21st Century the United States of America should only be welcoming those who, as Trump said, love the United States of American, as well share its values, and who are committed and able to make it stronger, more prosperous and better.

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As well they should….