Sorry if this op-ed turns your attention a little early to July 4th and Independence Day, but today is a good day to think about our constitutional republic, how it started, and how long it will last.
When this year’s Independence Day arrives, it will be the 250th anniversary of the United States going back to July 4, 1776. That is the day the delegates representing the 13 colonies cast votes to adopt a document, named the Declaration of Independence, which was written to a very unhappy King George III.
The famous signing of the Declaration came weeks later, when 56 delegates put their names on an official copy, but the document approved July 4 informed King George the colonies had voted to dissolve their “political bands” with what was the most powerful naval and economic empire on the Earth at the time.
That approaching anniversary seems even more relevant after the misnamed “No Kings” rallies that took place last weekend. According to a self-congratulatory email from Indivisible, the group that organized the protests, more than 8 million Americans gathered at more than 3,000 events. That mass protest, the email claims, represents a “historic rejection of this regime and its fascist projects at home and abroad.”
That reference to a “regime” is referring to President Donald Trump and his administration. The reference to “fascist projects” refers to virtually everything he has done, which is a really long list of accomplishments, since taking office Jan. 20, 2025.
This is the part of the article where you need to start thinking. This supposed “regime” in the White House was put there in a historical election. Have you forgotten? It was a jaw-dropping election night in which Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the Electoral College, 312 vs. 226. He won 29 of 50 U.S. states, including every single battleground state.
Donald Trump was able to do that because our country’s Founding Fathers, after they sent the Red Coats fleeing back to England, set up a unique form of representative government. That wise plan helps protect the minority from the majority, meaning voters in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles alone cannot elect the president. That is how you get that red-soaked map of the United States with big-city splotches of blue.
That form of representative government, along with the 2nd Amendment, represents a huge roadblock to a communist utopia. It’s why the socialists and the communists are having a difficult time hurting the “fascists” around them, like the Trump-hating history teacher in Gainesville, Florida. After learning one of her students is politically conservative, she said he deserves the title “Most Likely to Become a Dictator” and ordered the class to vote for it.
According to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, communists have killed at least 100 million people worldwide. Many of those victims died on a battlefield, but many were killed because of wrongthink. They were labeled a counter-revolutionary and killed by a mob, much like an angry group of protesters or a Florida high school history class.
One example from that 100 million body count is Bian Zhongyun, a murdered school principal in China. She was beaten to death by her own fanatical Red Guard students in 1966 after she was accused of being a counter-revolutionary. So that lonely Trump supporter, hiding out in a Gainesville history class, might be pretty lucky he survived that struggle session.
Speaking of communists, a well-documented Fox News Digital story followed the money trail by “No Kings” and Indivisible back to literal communist groups around the country. Those organizations have names like Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and 500 of them helped coordinate what was supposedly a grassroots protest to stop that “fascist” in the White House.
According to one of those groups, Democratic Socialists of America, the popular vote for a U.S. president matters more than the Electoral College. That’s because the individual vote better represents real “democracy” and the true will of the people.
Strange, isn’t it, how that suddenly didn’t matter when Donald Trump won the popular vote with 77 million votes? Funny how that argument died over night.
The same argument goes for the U.S. Supreme Court. The nine-member Court was designed to balance the power of our federal government, but when a majority of justices lean right, the court now needs four or five or six new justices to save “democracy.”
The next 50 years are important
This is the part of the article where you need to think about the future. If you’re shocked at the current price of ground beef and coffee, worried the price of gas and diesel will double, this article was written with you in mind. Those are legitimate concerns, which I share, but the mobs that turned out last weekend didn’t protest over tariffs and the cost of living.
They want to end capitalism. They want absolute power and control, like a king. If they are honest, anyone who stands in their way deserves Charlie Kirk’s bullet, Bian Zhongyun’s caning, and that high school’s majority-rule classroom vote.
We were given a republic 250 years ago, if we can keep it, but the next 50 years will determine if the communists want it more than we do.
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