Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ruffled a lot of feathers when he declared in a March Twitter post, “The most powerful country in the world is falling so fast, that it makes you rethink what are the real reasons. … Something so big and powerful can’t be destroyed so quickly, unless the enemy comes from within.”
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson played a clip from a forthcoming interview with Bukele on Tuesday night in which he expands on his tweet. “The demise of the U.S. has to come from within. The enemies have to be inside,” he begins. “No external enemies can cause so much damage as internal operations.”
Sadly, he is right.
“Cities that were pristinely beautiful 30 years ago are wastelands,” Bukele tells Carlson. He cites Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Baltimore and says he would not live in them.
He continues, “When you look at how the cities are eroding so fast, this has to be by design. Who would make so many stupid decisions? … They’re literally giving people drugs in some U.S. cities. Or they say we’re going to give you money if you don’t work.”
“They make all of these laws that make no sense. If you have high crime, [they say] ‘Okay, I have a solution. Let’s defund the police.’”
He makes the obvious point that those who make these laws know very well what the consequences will be.
“They can’t be so dumb,” he concludes. “Of course, they’re not. They’re smart. They’re very smart people. So, why are they doing these things? Because it’s by design. It has to be by design.”
Bukele nails it. The cumulative effect of nearly two years of Democratic control has fundamentally changed the United States, just as the Biden administration hoped it would. Living through the transformation day in and day out, we may be less aware of the changes than a foreigner, who looks at America through a series of snapshots and, thus, sees the difference more plainly.
Starting with the most obvious, when President Joe Biden took office, the inflation rate was 1.4%. His administration’s excessive spending has sent inflation to a 40-year high. Likewise, the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. was $2.38. On Wednesday, it stood at $3.77 — a 60% increase. This administration declared war on the fossil fuel industry and squandered our energy independence purposefully.
Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan will go down as the biggest military blunder in U.S. history. It reduced our stature in the world community and emboldened our enemies. Does anyone think Russian dictator Vladimir Putin would have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were still president?
Roughly 4.5 million immigrants have poured into the U.S. illegally over our open southern border. In fiscal year 2022 alone, there were nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters at the border, plus an estimated 600,000 “gotaways.” Moreover, the increasing quantities of fentanyl smuggled into the country have made drug overdoses the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.
Conspiring with Big Tech, this administration has trampled our First Amendment right to free speech. And Biden has made it clear they’re gunning for the Second Amendment too.
The Justice Department’s asymmetric application of the law has become glaring. Among many other offenses, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland sicced the FBI on parents who objected to the teaching of critical race theory and gender ideology to elementary school students in public schools while refusing to investigate acts of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Democrats’ misguided effort to defund the police and their focus on criminal justice reform have led to a spike in crime. Organized retail theft and laws that made shoplifting under $950 worth of goods a misdemeanor have left retailers at the mercy of criminals and forced many stores to close their doors.
Our military leaders have become more concerned with identifying white supremacists among their ranks than protecting Americans. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s embrace of wokeness has led to the military’s worst recruiting crisis since 1973, when the draft ended.
These are just a few of the many examples in which America’s strength, status, and freedom have been degraded. We aren’t the same country we were two years ago — and the rest of the world knows it.
Bukele is right to point out that much of this degradation is by design. The Biden administration’s policies were no accident. They are part of a coordinated effort by the Left to undermine America’s energy sector, make the public more financially dependent on the government, and strip away the rights of those who dare to speak up. Democrats have worked hard to pursue their ultimate goal of one-party rule in the U.S. And they have done so with astonishing speed.
Unfortunately for them, the people have noticed, and they’re about to deliver a spectacular rebuke during next week’s midterm elections. Democrats better fasten their seatbelts. The red wave is coming.
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Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Her articles have appeared at MSN, RedState, Newsmax, the Federalist, and RealClearPolitics. Follow her on Twitter or LinkedIn.
