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The Election Shouldn't Be So Crucial, But It Is
By Robert Knight
The upcoming midterms are as serious a heart attack, for two reasons.
First, the federal government has grown so huge that it matters greatly who is steering Leviathan.
Second, Democrats have inexplicably embraced the most destructive ideologies in the world—Islamism and socialism.
Both would end America as we know it, shredding the Constitution and turning Christians, Jews, and women into second-class citizens, or worse.
This would happen under a politburo or a Shariah regime, or perhaps an unholy pairing of the two, like the red/green alliance in New York City under communist/Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Putting Congress back under Democrats would guarantee a scorched-earth second half of President Donald Trump’s term. It would come with impeachments, investigations, and a thousand ways to impede his successful policies lowering taxes, securing the border, deporting criminal aliens, and uncovering hundreds of billions in fraud.
Senate Democrats had a chance on Sept. 30 to show they favored curbing insider trading in Congress and ensuring that only U.S. citizens with valid IDs could vote in national elections.
Instead, they killed the Stop Insider Trading Act, which the House had passed in July. Republicans needed 60 Senate votes to defeat a filibuster. They got all 53 Republicans, while all 47 Democrats—even Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman—voted against the motion.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, called the voter ID portion a “poison pill.”
Bear in mind that a Harvard-CAPS/Harris poll earlier this year showed that 81 percent of the public support voter IDs and 75 percent want proof of citizenship.
The Senate adjourned to go home and campaign for the midterms, which are already underway in 47 states in some form thanks to the Democrats’ turning Election Day into Election Month.
This greatly increases the cost and makes it harder to guarantee election integrity, according to the bipartisan Commission on Election Reform chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.
The panel’s final report in 2005 has these main recommendations: requiring a photo ID to vote and proof of U.S. citizenship to register, keeping voter rolls up to date, having a paper audit trail for voting machines, and tightening absentee voting requirements.
You know, vial after vial of poison.
The report also recommended an end to ballot harvesting and better ballot tracking.
Democrats have opposed all these measures as “voter suppression.”
They want national elections to be as sketchy as those in Chicago’s cemetery-fortified precincts.
In any case, Republicans face an uphill challenge: History favors the party out of the White House during midterms. They also have a president who keeps giving Democrats ammunition, such as picking a fight with Canada (the “51at state”).
All it did was undermine Canadian conservatives and empower the Liberal Party government of Prime Minister Mark Carney.
That does not help in border states like Maine, where incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins is running against a DSA-endorsed Democrat, Troy Jackson, who replaced the disgraced Graham Platner.
She should still win, given the “normal versus crazy” dynamic.
In Michigan, Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has a good chance to win the Senate seat against Islamist leftist Abdul El-Sayed. The Democrat’s campaign buddy Hasan Piker has blamed America for 911 and extolled raping white American women, among other things.
In Texas, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s fake Christianity is being exposed daily, along with his lesbian pastor who rejects Jesus’s divinity.
Republicans need to open their massive war chest and fund ads exposing the Democrats’ growing affinity for communism, Islamism, transgenderism, and anti-Semitism.
They also need to present a compelling litany of GOP accomplishments ignored by the media, such as the massive tax relief in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
A lot can happen in the next four weeks.
The Sept. 30 hijacking of the Israel-bound Flydubai jet by an Omani co-pilot underscored that Islamists are waging a war against the West and even moderate Muslims.
The French think tank Fondapol reports nearly 65,000 Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide between 2001 and April 2024, killing more than 243,000 people.
The hijacking incident also shows that miracles happen.
The unnamed assailant was foiled thanks to Indian pilot Smit Machchhar and Israeli passenger Yaniv Hayoun. Knifed by the terrorist, Capt. Machchhar still got the door open, allowing Mr. Hayoun and other passengers to subdue the would-be mass murderer.
Mr. Hayoun grabbed the controls and stabilized the plummeting aircraft. He said he had watched air disaster shows on TV.
By the grace of God, two other pilots were aboard. They landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia. Experts said the sudden plunge of 17,000 feet should have doomed the jet, but it somehow held together. Another miracle.
On Sept. 11, 2001, brave passengers led by Todd Beamer who said, “Let’s roll,” fought back, sacrificing their lives to take down Flight 93 over Pennsylvania so the Muslim terrorists couldn’t crash it into the White House or the Capitol.
This time around, everyone survived.
The media, however, took a big hit this week by initially reporting only an “altercation” between the pilots, not what everyone immediately recognized as terrorism.
Some analysts say it will take a miracle for the GOP to hold onto Congress, but others say it is quite doable.
It may depend on whether enough citizens pray for divine help while working as if it’s all up to them.
Illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.