John Thune and John Cornyn are the establishment politicians Americans are trying to escape. Mitch McConnell set up this coup. Julie Kelly’s X feed is filled with evidence of their inappropriateness for Senate leader. Here is some information from her thread John Cornyn was enthusiastic about J6 rioters and paraders going to prison. He never […] The post The Two Establishment Johns appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Charlamagne tha God said that Democrats only had themselves to blame for their losses in last week’s elections. He made the remarks during a Sunday ABC News interview with Jonathan Karl on “This Week.” Charlamagne expressed shock after learning that one-third of minorities voted for President-elect Donald Trump in the election. “I think some of this is a backlash to race and gender and identity politics,” he said. “But, man, most people, they just care about keeping food on the table and keeping a roof over their head. And I think sometimes people forget about that.” “I think that they forget about, you know, the working class,” he continued. “And I, for whatever reason, Donald Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way. And I keep telling folks, people forget what you did, they’ll forget what you said, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.” ABC News blows Charlamagne tha God’s mind that 33% of voters of color back Donald Trump. ABC: “Trump got 1 out of every 3 voters of color.” Charlamagne: “No.” Jonathan Karl: “Yeah. 33%.” Charlamagne: “Really? When you say color, you mean, like, black, brown, everything?… pic.twitter.com/zSAIJnNrRP — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 10, 2024 He said that the reason that Trump saw gains across the board was because of dinner table issues. “It’s literally that simple,” he said. “Every day people wake up and all they want to do is have more money in their pocket and they want to feel safe. I don’t care if you’re black, white, gay, straight, whatever religion you are, those are the two things that you’re thinking about every day. How can I keep some money in my pocket and how can I stay safe?” “I was having conversations with folks and they was telling me, ‘my God, these gangs are coming into our neighborhood. And I know it’s because of the border. We’ve got to close the border,'” he continued. “They were having these conversations. And I told you, Jon, this was the first time in my life that I heard people in my community, black people, brown people, having those conversations. So that was going to be an issue. They felt like things were safer, they felt like the border was safer under Trump.” Charlamagne tha God: “Trump is saying, ‘Build the wall.’ When [Republicans] were telling you that it was a problem, [Democrats] were saying, ‘No. it’s not a problem. let’s create sanctuary cities and bring the people into our cities.’ And when you started putting illegal… pic.twitter.com/sfQ625lOgV — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 10, 2024

A month before the presidential election, the people running FEMA decided to venture outside the field of disaster relief and into the completely unrelated, if very trendy, business of policing “disinformation.” Of course, policing disinformation isn’t what FEMA is paid to do. It’s not why FEMA receives tens of billions of dollars from taxpayers every year. But in this case, the agency determined that it had no other choice. Disinformation, in the eyes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, had become its own kind of emergency. It was a disaster unto itself. To that end, FEMA’s director — a woman named Deanne Criswell, who incidentally “broke the glass ceiling” to become the first woman to head the agency — announced that FEMA would be conducting a thorough investigation to, “uncover the source of conspiracy theories hampering Hurricane Helene relief efforts.” Among those conspiracy theories were that FEMA was directing funding to illegal immigrants and that FEMA was withholding assistance to certain demographic groups. As Criswell put it, “It’s really unfortunate that we try to create this level of fear that is impeding our ability to do our job at the level we need to do it.” Now, even if these were baseless conspiracy theories, it was never explained how they could be “hampering” hurricane relief efforts. How would kooky internet theories prevent you from helping people whose houses were washed away in a flood? She never bothered to explain that. But more importantly, it turns out that the theories were true. Almost immediately, it became very clear that FEMA was indeed overseeing the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars to house illegal aliens. That was kind of difficult to deny, since there was a paper trail. So that’s one conspiracy theory that was proven true right off the bat. But the media — in this country and all over the world — continued to maintain that, contrary to what Donald Trump and those deranged MAGA Republicans were saying, no disaster relief was being withheld based on demographics or political views. They were very, very clear on this point. Watch: This is the moralizing tone that we’re all very familiar with at this point. The media wags its fingers at Donald Trump for saying something supposedly “without evidence.” They cite the vaunted “fact-checkers” who have already looked into the situation. Then they imply that you’re a moron if you come to the conclusion that FEMA would ever, in its wildest dreams, shortchange American citizens who urgently need emergency assistance. We’re supposed to believe that FEMA would never do such a thing — unless the year is 2005 and a Republican is in the White House, in which case FEMA desperately wants to kill as many black people as possible. Other than that, FEMA is the gold standard. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply misinformation. To give one more example, The Atlantic dismissed the, “rumors alleging that FEMA was abandoning Trump voters after Helene.” These claims, we were told, were “misinformation.” When the media was making these claims about FEMA, it’s true that there wasn’t a written document from FEMA that explicitly stated, “don’t help Trump supporters.” But there was still a lot of evidence to back up what Trump was saying. For one thing, there were many reports from residents in North Carolina and Florida that FEMA wasn’t helping them, as I covered on the show at the time. Then, Congressman Cory Mills reported that the federal government was preventing civilian rescue pilots and aid workers from saving lives in the aftermath of Helene, in order to clear air space for Air Force One. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show Then, a SpaceX engineer who was assisting rescue efforts on the ground in North Carolina stated, “FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away. …  It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.” After these reports came out, the media and the federal government obviously should have begun a full investigation about what exactly FEMA was doing. If they actually cared about the lives of Republicans living in disaster areas, they wouldn’t sit back and lecture us about “misinformation” and claim we’re saying things “without evidence.” They’d acknowledge that there is a lot of very concerning evidence, and look into the details. But they didn’t do that. Instead they scolded us for thinking that FEMA would even consider the possibility of withholding assistance from Trump voters who had just been hit by a hurricane.  So, it fell to The Daily Wire to break the story on Friday that, in fact, FEMA had systematically refused to provide disaster relief to Trump voters in the aftermath of Helene. And not just that — a FEMA official had put the plan in writing, as clearly and as unambiguously as possible. This is behavior that’s so obscene and malicious that — even given everything we know about the Biden-Harris administration — a lot of people still assumed it couldn’t possibly be real. But it is real. And if you or someone you know needs a wake-up call about how far Democrats in the federal government will go in order to punish Americans who don’t agree with them, this is that moment. As The Daily Wire’s Leif Le Mahieu reported: “A FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to ‘avoid homes advertising Trump’ as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid, internal messages viewed by The Daily Wire reveal. The supervisor, Marn’i Washington, relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees told The Daily Wire.” This is a screenshot of one of the written messages: So the instruction to “avoid” homes with Trump signs is just casually thrown in there, along with basic tips for people who are conducting relief operations in a disaster zone. It wasn’t some special, secretive directive. It apparently felt completely natural to a FEMA supervisor to put something like this in writing. And to be clear, this wasn’t an extremely dumb joke, or a prank or something. The Daily Wire’s reporting continues: “The government employees told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. Images shared with The Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers, who wrote in the government system messages such as: ‘Trump sign no contact per leadership.'” Yes, that’s actually what the FEMA employees wrote in the “notes” section when they were documenting what happened. This is what that looked like in the government’s systems: So it says “not able to access property,” implying that the house was physically inaccessible. And then the note clarifies that actually, they were able to access the property, they just didn’t want to. And yes, that’s something a government employee put in writing, in a fully traceable and internally accessible database. It’s like a bank robber passing a note to the teller saying, “Put all your money in the bag. And by the way, here’s my home address, my license plate, and legal name.” Within hours of The Daily Wire’s reporting, this FEMA supervisor was fired. And this time around, FEMA’s director wasn’t wagging her finger at Right-wing disinformation. She didn’t tell us how “unfortunate” it was that we were “spreading fear.” Instead, she claimed that the supervisors’ behavior was extremely unusual and unthinkable at FEMA: Recently, one FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump. … This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation. This was reprehensible. … I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct. … This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel. I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again. What’s not addressed in the FEMA director’s statement is why she thinks this kind of behavior is confined to “one FEMA employee.” She’s trying to play this off as an isolated incident when it clearly isn’t one. Again, this official gave these instructions multiple times, both verbally and in writing. The fact that she would say this, much less put it in writing, tells us quite a bit about the culture at the agency. If “helping people regardless of their political affiliation” really were the core values and principles of FEMA, this supervisor would not have felt comfortable giving those instructions. This is the kind of thing that only happens when the entire agency is corrupted. Think about what happened ahead of Trump’s election in 2016. There were multiple high-ranking FBI officials texting each other on company phones about how they’d try to prevent Trump from becoming president. In August 2016, an FBI lawyer texted the head of the agency’s counterintelligence division, who incidentally was her lover at the time: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” And he replied, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” And then they talked about an “insurance policy” in case Trump was elected. Again, the FBI’s top expert in counterintelligence was using an FBI-issued phone to say stuff like this. That’s the kind of thing that only happens when you’re very confident the FBI wouldn’t care if they found out what you’re saying, because they agree with you. It wasn’t one or two bad eggs at the FBI. The whole agency was compromised. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ There’s every reason to think that the same principle applies to FEMA. At the highest levels, FEMA went on the warpath against “Right-wing disinformation” just a month ago. And just a few weeks later, all of that alleged “disinformation” has turned out to be true. How about we stop insulting everyone’s intelligence and just admit what everyone knows, which is that FEMA — like every other government agency — probably voted for Kamala Harris by a nine-to-one margin. And like every other government agency that’s overrun with Left-wing activists, it’s not simply incompetent. It’s an active danger to the well-being of half the country. This is why Elon Musk’s plan to gut the federal bureaucracy isn’t just about cost savings. It’s about stopping these lunatics before they get more people killed. It’s also about hiring people who aren’t crazy and unstable. The New York Post did some digging on this FEMA supervisor’s social media feeds. Here’s what they found: The former FEMA employee … has a strong fixation with the history of slavery. She posted on her Facebook page in 2019 about supposedly the first slave ship to travel to the Americas in the 1500s as well as an article about how California tried to ban free black individuals in the mid-1800s. ‘I’m steadfast and extremely unpredictable,” she wrote on her social media page, adding a kiss emoji.’ So she’s “steadfast” and “extremely unpredictable,” which seems like a contradiction in terms. She’s also obsessed with slavery, apparently to the point where she wanted some payback against all those MAGA Republicans. Just on this basis alone, there’s no universe in which someone like this should be employed at taxpayer expense. We simply can’t continue hiring barely literate Left-wing activists anymore. It’s time to take background checks and interviews a little more seriously, in order to make sure that we never hire one of these morons again — especially when they’re using kiss emojis on Facebook, which is independently disqualifying.  In the meantime, for starters, FEMA’s director needs to go. And this employee should be prosecuted. You can’t lock up pro-lifers for praying and then look the other way when a government official refuses to assist storm victims because they support Trump. And then we need a full accounting for all the other ways that FEMA — and other government agencies — sabotaged the interests of American citizens under the Biden-Harris administration. If they’re willing to basically write “we won’t help Trump supporters” in a government database, you can just imagine what a thorough investigation would probably uncover. At this point, it wouldn’t be unthinkable to discover that the FBI was writing notes about how they have to arrest as many pro-lifers as possible, or that the Department of Education is telling teachers to make students dumb and illiterate so that, one day, they might seriously consider voting for a candidate like Kamala Harris. Nothing is off the table, given what we’ve seen so far. The federal bureaucracy is at war with the citizens who pay their salaries. A lot of well-intentioned Americans have dutifully paid those salaries over the years, on the assumption that these bureaucrats were “public servants” that they could count on when necessary. But if that was ever true, it’s not true anymore. Overwhelmingly, federal bureaucrats are servants of the Democrat Party, which demands unwavering loyalty and tolerates no dissent. They are willing to call you liars for pointing out what they’re doing. They’re willing to go into storm-ravaged neighborhoods and tell the Trump supporters that they’re on their own. That’s why, when the next administration starts, all of these bureaucrats will be on their own. Americans won’t rush to their defense when the cuts begin. When these bureaucrats go to court to save their jobs, in the inevitable wave of lawsuits, no one will support them. There will be broad support for eliminating civil service protections. Everyone understands that a bureaucracy that doesn’t serve its citizens — and that goes out of its way to harm its own citizens — has no reason to exist.  Actually, there’s at least one exception to that generalization. The corporate press believes that the job of the government is to punish its own citizens for wrong-think, so they’re doing everything they can to resist the destruction of the deep state. That’s now very clear. Last night a reporter for NBC News had a complete meltdown over The Daily Wire’s reporting. This reporter, a woman named Mirna Alsharif,  wrote a story about the Daily Wire’s coverage that failed to name the FEMA employee in question, and also implied that we don’t know when and where this incident occurred. But we do have all of those details. They’re mentioned in The Daily Wire’s story. Of course, the reporter (who has pronouns in bio, of course) doesn’t mention The Daily Wire in her piece, nor does she cite us. But she’s clearly read the reporting because we’re the ones who broke the story in the first place. And then, when the Daily Wire’s editor, Brent Sher, pointed all of these problems out to Mirna, she went on a bizarre tirade, lashing out at everyone who interacted with her.  NBC seems like an upstanding place to work these days. pic.twitter.com/YIJfV5bSmK — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 11, 2024 For example, she wrote, “Sorry Brent Sher, are your feelings hurt because I didn’t link to the Daily Wire’s story? Stay mad.” Then when someone pointed out that she was acting like a hack, Mirna wrote, “The ‘hack’ is your mama.” She went on to call someone the b-word, then declared, “I get my info from official sources.” In other words, she’s not going to look at the screenshots from FEMA’s database because they weren’t included in the FEMA press release. Therefore she won’t even mention them. And then, after a bunch of people pointed out that she was acting completely unhinged, she called Brent Sher a “troll” and deleted her  X account entirely. You can choose to interpret all of this as the late-night psychotic breakdown of a potentially intoxicated NBC News journalist, but the truth is, NBC News — like FEMA — goes out of its way to hire people like this. They want people who are dishonest, unintelligent and unstable. They’re willing to tolerate all of those characteristics as long as these people also hate Republicans with a passion. That is the one quality they screen for at NBC News. And it’s the one quality they screen for in government. Put another way, the federal bureaucracy is a Leviathan that has expanded to the point that it has no shame, no self-awareness, no competence, no integrity. It has only a deep and abiding disdain for tens of millions of Americans — disdain that’s so pervasive that they’re happy to put it in writing. They have become emboldened, in part, because they have the support of the news media. But that’s the only support they have at this point. It’s become too obvious, to far too many people, that they want to destroy us for what we believe. Now it’s time to return the favor.

“Good Morning America” and Fox NFL host Michael Strahan broke his silence after he was accused of being “disrespectful” during the playing of the national anthem at a pre-Veteran’s Day broadcast celebration. On Monday, the former NFL player posted a message and pictures on his Instagram honoring his father Maj. Gene W. Strahan, Sr. — and all those who serve — on Veteran’s Day amid the criticism. “Thank you to all veterans and active service members who courageously risk their lives to protect us every day,” Strahan wrote. “Your selfless service is beyond measure. This is my hero, it is also my father, Maj. Gene W. Strahan, Sr.” “He served for 23 years in the army and was a proud member of the 82nd Airborne Division,” he added. “Just as I honor my father, I keep all of you in my thoughts each and every day as we would not have the safety and freedoms we cherish without you. Thank You.” Michael Strahan facing fierce backlash for how he stood during national anthem https://t.co/VXVS3IbMLz pic.twitter.com/vLmQ1OTkR6 — New York Post (@nypost) November 11, 2024 On Sunday, the “Fox NFL Sunday” show was broadcast from the Naval Base in San Diego, and  Strahan’s co-hosts stood and put their right hands over their hearts while the anthem played. However, viewers noticed that Strahan instead folded his hands in front of him, and that upset many watching, the New York Post reported. “I couldn’t believe what I saw as you stood there with your hands clasped in front of you,” one social media user wrote in the comments. “How disrespectful to all of those men and women who were there and looking at you.” Another person on X wrote, “What’s wrong with Strahan? @NFLonFOX? Blatant disrespect for the men and women he is surrounded by protecting his rights and freedoms.” While a third wrote, “’Why does Michael Strahan not put his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem?” However, “Fox NFL Sunday” cohost Jay Glazer defended Strahan and wrote that the reaction was not warranted and explained why. “I’ve just seen the criticism of @michaelstrahan. Let me tell you this, I don’t know if I have a friend who is more proud of his military roots than Michael, growing up on an army base constantly talking about what he learned from his dad Major Gene Strahan and how his time there shaped him,” Glazer wrote. “I heard it CONSTANTLY, still do!” “But also, with no fanfare I personally saw him donate thousands of dollars of clothes to veterans, including many homeless veterans as well clothes for veterans to go on job interviews,” he added. “I know these days people want to be angry fast but maybe first, how is THIS for a novel idea. ASK him if he’s protesting something. When you protest you want people to know, don’t ya? He was NOT, just got caught up in how beautiful the whole moment was during the anthem and didn’t think about it,” the cohost continued. “Ask the dude before forming an angry mob, but also maybe find out all  he’s done for our veterans over the years.”

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt and Chris Pratt are proud to announce the birth of their third child—and it’s a boy! The couple welcomed their son on Friday, November 8, and shared the news with fans on Monday, November 11. “We are overjoyed to announce the birth of our son, Ford Fitzgerald Schwarzenegger Pratt,” the couple wrote in a shared post on Instagram. “Mama and baby are doing well, and Ford’s siblings are thrilled by his arrival. We feel so blessed and grateful. Love, Katherine, and Chris” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) “Well done, mama! Just in time to get all the baby snuggles and let someone else cook Thanksgiving dinner. kidding, sort of. It’s a season to be truly thankful,” a fan wrote in the comments. “Congratulations!” cheered another. “Have a wonderful time getting to know each other and cuddling! . Catherine and Chris also share daughters, Lyla Maria, 4, and Eloise Christina, 2. Chris also shares a son, Jack, 12, with his ex-wife, Anna Faris. This story’s featured image is by Tinseltown via Shutterstock. The post Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt & Chris Pratt Joyfully Announce Birth Of 3rd Baby! appeared first on InspireMore.

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The following is an excerpt from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ new book, “Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America,” released Nov. 12. Have you ever driven through a blizzard in Wyoming? Your field of vision doesn’t extend more than twenty feet. There are only the storm and the road, except for the occasional butte or buffalo. Silence descends on the glacier-carved valleys as ice and snow pile up and muffle all sound. The grizzlies seek shelter. You want to do the same. The frontier is dangerous. It is majestic yet simple. It is imposing yet liberating. It is, in short, the most American thing there is. And like those ancient glaciers that permanently reshaped the landscape of the West, Americans have been carving civilization into the stone since the Pilgrim fathers’ “errand into the wilderness.” Still, the frontier has changed us much more than we will ever change it. Land shapes behavior. Western blizzards formed a people with distinct habits and customs; westerners couldn’t survive in such a land if they didn’t have a spirit of perseverance, toughness, and adaptability. The very unavoidability of nature gave people a healthy appreciation of mortality and chance. Other American landscapes did the same. The Cajun culture of Opelousas, for example, is indelibly intertwined with the forests and bayous where my ancestors settled. The same is true of the descendants of the brave men and women who followed Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap and settled large swaths of Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee—and of the pioneers who pushed across the Great Plains, past the Rockies, and to the Pacific Coast. Those mountains made them. As much as the natural diversity of her people, the variations of America’s landscape created a need for federalism. As each group of people adapted to each unique landscape, America developed diverse local cultures, economies, and institutions that made federalism both necessary and sensible. At the same time, the experience of settling a wild yet bountiful land was common to them all. The rugged individualism and true grit demanded by the frontier forged the American spirit. That’s a big part of what makes America unique. Our frontier tends to shape explorers, astronauts, cowboys, and innovators. A frontier attitude is one of risk taking, hard work, and optimism. Our elites once understood this spirit. Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, even Barry Goldwater (who was born in the Arizona Territory) all came from the frontier. But this is no longer the case. For those who are stuck in big cities on the coasts, the frontier has become nothing but a setting for movies and video games, and federalism a hollowed-out idea from a dead letter. So what happened? When did we lose sight of the American frontier, and how can we reclaim it? That story begins and ends in California. That’s because California wasn’t always the progressive hellscape it is today. For most of its history, California occupied a particular place in the American and Western imagination: it was the end of the frontier, the edge of the Western world, the place where the sun sets. From priests such as Father Junipero Serra, who rode on muleback as he founded California’s first missions, to pioneers such as Augustus  T. Dowd, who discovered sequoia trees while tracking a wounded grizzly through unfamiliar territory in 1852, that spirit—of adventure, of pushing onward, of spreading the Gospel to every corner of the world—was what California was all about. Even after the American West was settled and civilized, California continued to open new frontiers. In 1912, Charles “Doc” Herrold of San Jose, California, became “the father of broadcasting” with the first regular radio broadcast, part of a ferment of tinkerers that would eventually result in Silicon Valley. In 1923, Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, with a revolutionary animation system that would open new frontiers of the imagination. In the 1930s, scientists in Pasadena doing pioneering work in rocket propulsion founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has since gone on to send spacecraft to every planet in our solar system and land five rovers on Mars. Is it any wonder that Ronald Reagan, a native son of California, was adamant about exploring the “next great frontier” and rebooting America’s space program? Deeper, farther, higher: that’s California, or at least it was. But there was always another nightmare version of the California dream. For every would-be astronaut exploring outer space, there was a psychonaut of “inner space” looking to conquer the frontiers of human consciousness: Eastern yogis, Pentecostal preachers, Esalen seminar leaders, New Age gurus, LSD chemists. It’s no coincidence that Steve Jobs, living on an LSD-soaked orchard commune, chose an apple with a bite out of it as his computer’s symbol. “And ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” After decades of development, Silicon Valley in the 1990s promised to open the next tranche of the California frontier: the internet. What had made the frontier great was that it had enlarged Americans’ imaginations. It had drawn us out of ourselves to the horizon. It had challenged us and made us strong. It had taught us the importance of freedom, but it had also reminded us of the fragility of our human condition and taught us to rely on God and on one another. The internet can provide powerful tools for would-be explorers and pioneers. But mostly, that wasn’t what Big Tech built. Rather than expanding the American frontier, Silicon Valley inverted it, both metaphorically and literally. Once again, the frontier has changed us more than we will ever change it; this time for the worse. It has disembodied us. More and more, our bodies and brains are becoming the frontier being explored and the Big Tech algorithms and Deep State surveillance the explorers The Deep State, whether by intention or accident, aims to put the American spirit on puberty blockers; to domesticate our free people into “a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.” The thing is, the frontier is dangerous. It’s wild. It’s violent and sometimes disorderly. “The meeting point between savagery and civilization,” the historian Frederick Jackson Turner called it. The federal government has always had a role in mediating between the frontier and the republic writ large. But the United States is so vast that there’s always been plenty of room. There’s a myth that the frontier “closed” with the end of U.S. territorial expansion. But anybody who has spent time in the Big Sky Country of Montana, in the great Alaska range, in the vastness of the Great Plains, in the West Texas valleys that go on for days, knows that this isn’t really true. The frontier is alive and well. What changed was the growth of the federal apparatus throughout the twentieth century. The job of the federal marshal in the Wild West was to restore order when the cowboys couldn’t quite manage. Today’s Deep State treats us more like the cattle. The defenders of the Deep State will say that [important] reforms … will make us less safe. They’re right. Being a free person is dangerous. It demands responsibility, resilience, self-reliance, and humility; virtue, in a word. I can picture in my mind’s eye the choice words that the Wyoming ranchers of my acquaintance would have for a nanny-state bureaucrat who warned them that hunting bears or rolling their own barbed wire wasn’t safe. Safety imposed via surveillance breeds fragility and weakness. In the diktats of the Deep State, we should hear the nagging voice of the overbearing helicopter mom: “Why don’t you play inside, where it’s safe?” “Why don’t we wear two masks, just to be safe?” “Feeling anxious about your body changing? We should put you on puberty blockers, just to be safe.” The Constitution is being overthrown by a new form of tyranny based on federal centralized control, surveillance, and weaponized law enforcement. Against the stifling safety of the New Authoritarianism, we need to reclaim within our souls the spirit of endless frontier federalism. Even as we do what we can to fix Washington, we need to sever the apron strings and reacquaint ourselves with self-government at the state and local levels. Doing so will at times be messy and dangerous. But it will be a gymnasium of the frontier spirit. The post Reclaiming the American Frontier Spirit appeared first on The Daily Signal.