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Who is the Real “Existential Threat” to America?

By Roger E. Bissell

July 20, 2024

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Until the evening of Saturday, July 13, I was uncertain about how I would vote for president this November.

Until the evening of Saturday, July 13, I was uncertain about how I would vote for president this November. But one deranged, would-be assassin’s bullet changed all that. Instead of writing in someone like Rand Paul, or abstaining entirely, I instantly knew I was going to vote for the man that the unhinged Left refers to as an “Existential Threat.” But an Existential Threat to what? Oh, to so many things . . .

For nearly eight years now, Trump has spoken menacingly of “draining the swamp.” That, of course, would not be a threat to democracy.

In particular, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly been referred to as “an existential threat to democracy,” but I always took that as being a case (or many cases) of projection, coming from those who have tried to remove him from the ballot and otherwise interfered with the federal election process in order to “get him” in some faux legal fashion. Or perhaps, simply the wrong choice of words: for nearly eight years now, Trump has spoken menacingly of “draining the swamp.” That, of course, would be a threat not to democracy, but to oligarchy, the governmental elite who control our lives and drain our personal resources through taxation and inflation. Such talk continues from Trump and his surrogates, such as Vivek Ramaswamy, suggesting a 75% cut of personnel in the federal bureaucracy (aka Deep State, administrative state, alphabet agencies, etc.), which might be a good first step toward a government small enough to fit in my bathtub. Or perhaps an existential threat to Democrats: obviously, Trump is their worst electoral and executive nightmare—someone they can’t intimidate, can’t impeach and make it stick, and can’t even convict of a genuine felony in a way that doesn’t violate the Constitution and Bill of Rights seven ways to Sunday. But perhaps it’s unnecessarily cruel to be so critical of a political organization that continues to shoot itself in the foot so badly and repeatedly. They are currently in the process of dismantling themselves far more effectively than Trump ever could.

Trump is an Existential Threat to the Global Warming hoaxers and those Neo-Cons and others who never saw a war they didn’t love and a free market they didn’t hate.

Are there any other ways in which Donald Trump is an Existential Threat? Well, low-growth fanatics and environmentalists enamored of the Global Warming hoax were outraged when Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Accords. He is certainly an existential threat to believers in that fraud. Not only that, but Trump also aggressively pursued energy independence for the US—meaning abundant supplies of fossil fuels via fracking and other methods. Drill, baby, drill! Biden changed all that with his executive orders that cut our energy exports to the point that world petroleum prices spiked upward as though we were hobbled by a 1970s-era oil embargo. And in truth, we were, but it was self-imposed. As a result, Iran and Russia, not similarly restricted, were so awash in oil revenues that they were able to pursue various aggressive ends, including financing Hezbollah and Hamas attacks on Israel and a second invasion of Ukrainian territory. And now, since actions have consequences, our country has been sucked into two regional wars, either of which might expand into World War III. So, here is a three-in-one: Trump is an Existential Threat to the Global Warming hoaxers and those Neo-Cons and others who never saw a war they didn’t love and a free market they didn’t hate.

Trump is also an Existential Threat to the race-baiting and woke policies of the politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and media.

Donald Trump is also an Existential Threat to the race-baiting and woke policies of the politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and media who not only promote them, but also use their power to shove them down our throats. And to the chaos and tragedy born of abandonment of the rule of law, whether by decriminalizing theft, instituting cashless or trivial bail for violent crimes, or by refusal to close the border and restrict immigration to those who come in “the front door.” And to the two-tiered system of justice promulgated by rogue state and federal judges and prosecutors who have not the faintest loyalty to the Constitution which they have sworn to uphold and who have carried water for the incumbent president by multiple phony prosecutions (i.e., persecutions) of his now official opponent in this year’s race for the White House.

Last, but certainly not least, Donald Trump is an Existential Threat to infanticide and to the enemies of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Why do I make such a cryptic and controversial claim? Because unlike the fanatics who demand absolute bans on abortion from conception onward, and unlike those who demand unrestricted abortion through birth, I have long supported unrestricted abortion for the first six months of pregnancy, but a ban on late-term (“partial-birth”) abortion after that (except as necessary to save the life of the mother). And now I find, wonder of wonders, that my position is unexpectedly in tune with the current platform of the Republican Party! For 50 years under Roe v. Wade (overturned just two years ago), the federal and state governments have fought continuously over where and when to draw the bright line of individual rights for the unborn, and one simple fact has eluded them for all that time. Premature babies, born about six, seven, or eight months of pregnancy, are recognized as having the same right to life as full-term babies—as they should be. But if the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment means anything, it means that fetuses as well or better developed than premature babies have that same right to life, and no “right to choose” can legitimately override that right. People can then argue about the first six months of pregnancy—and argue, they now will across the 50 states, but a federal ban on late-term abortion is not only eminently reasonable but, I would assert, a matter of urgency. Surely this victimization of viable human beings must stop, and Donald Trump is just the Existential Threat who can lead the GOP in its campaign pledge to put a stop to it.

I could go on, but I’m sure the reader has grasped my formula by now. Just pick a bad policy with harmful consequences—one which violates our liberties and which destroys responsibility, ambition, prosperity, and security from aggression—and that, more often than not, will be a policy to which Donald J. Trump is an Existential Threat. Readers are invited to contribute their own favorite examples, and perhaps some of them will be of the same level of importance and severity as the items on my above list. I recommend the Existential Threat as a template for sorting out one’s own positions, especially to help decide for whom to vote for president. Personally, I find that it points to one and only one choice this November: Donald J. Trump, the Existential Threat to the enemies of peace, prosperity, and freedom.

 

 

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