There are periods in American history where the weight of time bears down on our shoulders and our People feels as if the entire American Project is balancing over a cavernous gap. The Boston Massacre. The signing of the Great Declaration of Independence. The first shots fired at Fort Sumter. Lincoln’s assassination. 9/11. The moment President Donald J. Trump survived a shot to the head in Butler, Pennsylvania. One such moment was the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah. When the New York Young Republican Club gathered in Madison Square Park to honor his memory on Friday night, we felt the significance of the event and the uncertainty of America’s future.
We are now one week after Charlie’s assassination, and our hearts and minds remain broken. It is Constitution Day, September 17, and we resort to the wisdom of the Founding Fathers to guide America forward. What would Washington, Jefferson, or Adams do next? The answer is obvious: they would restore law and order to the United States and crush the leftist extremist terror groups that threaten our Constitutional Republic. The Constitution states that, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them… against domestic Violence” (Article IV, Section 4). The foundation of a free society is the rule of law, and leftist terror cannot be permitted to destroy it.
After President Trump survived by the narrowest of margins last July, the Democratic Party had a moral obligation to root out and destroy the violent extremists in their ranks. They failed to act, and now Charlie Kirk is dead, and they bear the moral responsibility for his murder. Even after Charlie’s death, the overwhelming celebration and glorification of his assassination by leftist extremists shows that there is a real violence problem within the Democratic Party. Only seven Congressional Democrats attended a vigil for Charlie in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Monday evening, and we will name each of them because they deserve recognition: Don Davis (NC), Debbie Dingell (MI), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), John Larson (CT), Jimmy Panetta (CA), Chris Pappas (NH), and Tom Suozzi (NY). None of them were leadership; Hakeem Jeffries said he “had a meeting.”
Today, extremists hold the microphone in the Democratic Party, and they marginalize the few remaining moderates who condemn political violence. The Democrats are incapable of self-governance, afraid of their own rank-and-file, and so the Trump Administration must step in to restore law and order. Common sense demands that extremist terror groups be dismantled; Democrat organizations that meet the legal standard for inciting violence must be destroyed. At each crisis in American history, leaders emerged to pave the road forward, for better or worse. The Founding Fathers won the American Revolution and drafted our Constitution. Lincoln united the fractious states. Andrew Johnson failed and was impeached. Bush started a war that lasted a generation.
This is President Donald J. Trump’s moment to leave his mark on history. Posterity will honor him for restoring order to the United States with minimum necessary force. We must be louder, not quieter, in the wake of Charlie’s death, and America must not shy away from the job before her. As we celebrate Constitution Day, let us remember the words of John Adams that, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Now, 250 years from the start of the American Revolution, we must restore a proper Constitutional Republic wherein champions of freedom can live safely and securely.
May we be worthy of the legacy of the Founding Fathers.