Carved into the stone of the Black Hills of South Dakota, four faces look down upon this great nation: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt. Four American heroes, revered, respected, and representing the noblest aspirations of the American people.
The gentleman farmer-turned- general who took down the most powerful army in the world, then shepherded the newborn nation through its infancy.
The folksy woodsman who freed a race of people and ensured the United States would move forward as one.
The inventor, political philosopher, genius whose poetry turned a statement of independence into a declaration more powerful than any weapon against tyranny the world has ever known.
The brash adventurer whose swagger and smarts best captures the can-do American spirit.
This is America’s Mount Rushmore.
Sadly, today’s Left and it appears the entire Democratic Party have carved in recent days their own Mount Rushmore: Luigi Mangione, Karmelo Anthony, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Mahmoud Khalil.
A cold-blooded killer who shot a father of two in the back because he didn’t like the American health care system.
A cold-blooded killer who allegedly stabbed a fellow teenager in the chest because he felt challenged and disrespected.
An illegal immigrant, MS-13 gang-member, alleged human trafficker, who happened to be put back on the wrong plane back to his home country. And did we mention he’s an accused wife beater?
An operative of a terrorist organization that promotes the genocide of Jews, who led violent protests against Jewish students … a guest in our country, who allegedly lied on his visa application.
These are the Left’s new heroes. This is the Left’s new Mount Rushmore. (Sorry, George Floyd. You’re yesterday’s news.)
This Mount Rushmore has visitors … and souvenirs!
Approximately three million people a year visit Mount Rushmore. Visitor numbers for the Left’s Mount Rushmore aren’t quite that. Yet. But you did have a U.S. senator travel 2,000 miles to visit Abrego Garcia, with a gaggle of House Democrats soon following.
You did have thousands visiting the courthouse holding pro-Hamas Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, and tens of thousands gathering around the country to protest his arrest.
You did have over 13,400 people visiting the GiveSendGo site of Karmelo Anthony, dropping enough coin to afford Anthony to not only pay his bail, but rent a $900,000 crib for his family and a hot new ride for himself. Over $455,000 raised because he stabbed a white kid in the chest.
And you have countless women gathering at the courthouse to support and swoon over Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, like he was the freshly single member of a boy band.
Like the original Mount Rushmore, you can buy souvenirs for the Left’s Mount Rushmore. Don’t want a T-shirt of Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln or Roosevelt? You can get a St. Luigi T-shirt, mugs, and hats. Etsy’s full of “Free Mahmoud Khalil T-shirts. A website was set up to sell Karmelo Anthony swag.
The phrase “Maryland Dad” is said with the same reverence by the media as “Honest Abe.”
Luigi’s motto “Deny Defend Depose” is the Left’s new “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
A mountain of lunacy
This isn’t even about Mangione, Abrego Garcia, Anthony or Khalil. Killers are going to kill, terrorists are going to terrorize and gangbangers are going to gangbang. They no more earned the adoration than Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt carved their own faces on Mount Rushmore.
This isn’t even about the small fringe drawn to the worst among us. Even serial killers get love letters.
This is about the mindset of the Left that tears down statues of our Founders but lifts up lowlifes. Who throw their lot in with Maryland Dad to spite the Orange Man. Who declare that because America’s a racist nation it’s OK for a black kid to plunge a knife into a white kid.
How is it that despite the carnage MS-13 has done in the state of Maryland, one of its senators, Chris Van Hollen, went to El Salvador on our dime in a failed bid to win Abrego Garcia’s release. And even after the Department of Justice dropped a load of documents from the Prince George’s County Police Department’s gang unit further proving Abrego Garcia’s MS-13 ties, after the Tennessee Star reported how he was pulled over in 2022, suspected of human trafficking, after documents were released where his wife swore he repeatedly beat her, Van Hollen vowed to continue to fight for his release. And, indeed, met with him Thursday for a tropical sit-down as cozy as anything you’d see on “The Bachelor.”
We’re not talking about a lonely woman infatuated with a dreamy bad boy fantasizing about a Hallmark romance. (But enough about Taylor Lorenz.) We’re talking about a United States senator, an elected representative. And not some Squad Member either, but a white-haired patriarchal figure of the mainstream Democratic Party.
A spirit, but not of 1776
A cynical part of me wants to say follow the money. If Al Capone could have politicians in his pocket, why not MS-13? But the pattern of the party’s embrace of illegal immigrants and violent criminals over their victims, terrorists over the terrorized, felons over the Founders, speaks to party lost in darkness. Given over to a foul spirit.
The spirit that shouts “Free Abrego Garcia! Free Luigi Mangione! Free Karmelo Anthony! Free Mahmoud Khalil” we know well. Especially after this weekend.
It’s the same spirit that shouted, “Free Barabbas.”
Yes, we can join Jesus and say, “Forgive them, Father, for the know not what they do.”
But like Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt, we can swear “eternal vigilance” against this spirit that would tear this nation apart.
