Battle Over the Demos
24th July 2026
The most consequential domestic policy development of the 2020s is neither COVID-19 nor Donald Trump’s reelection. It is Joe Biden’s decision to import ten million foreigners into the United States in violation of standing federal law. Many of the defining political fights of this decade stem from that choice: government shutdowns over border enforcement, states unilaterally redefining the meaning of citizenship, the growing willingness of the restrictionist wing of the Republican Party to defy its own business class, major fraud investigations in Minneapolis and New York, and the unraveling of consensus over whether federal law binds the states.
These are battles in a larger fight over who constitutes the American people, one that escalated with President Biden’s decision to actively facilitate the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country by land, air, and sea.
American politics is no longer primarily a contest over how we govern ourselves. It is a contest over who we are and who decides.
It is also a bitter lesson in the fact that any Democrat President, even a sock puppet like Joe Biden, can push the country further into the toilet than a subsequent Republican President can retrieve it.