The TSA Showdown Reveals a BRUTAL Truth About Our Politics | 3/26/26

America's newest political battlefield runs through one of the most miserable places in

the country, the airport.

Democrats have held up funding for the Department of Homeland Security amid their ongoing war

over ICE, and after a month without pay, TSA employees are starting to refuse to come to

work.

The result has been crippling delays at major airports, with weights stretching four hours

or more and turning an already degraded flying experience into something closer to a public

humiliation ritual.

The brutal truth is that one political party is willing to disrupt travel across the entire

country to protect illegal immigrants and preserve a future voter pipeline.

Even after assassination attempts, law fair against political opponents, and an open

border's push for demographic replacement, conservatives still hesitate to admit that

our political battles have become existential.

In theory, the United States remains the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.

In practice, basic air travel now is a dysfunctional disaster.

Seeds are cramped, services miserable, fellow passengers are often feral, and airlines

charge extra for every scrap of convenience in the hope of squeezing one last dollar from

the exhausted travelers.

For a while, the indignity at least purchased to speed, flying still got you from one place

to another faster than anything else, but incompetence, cost-cutting, and crumbling infrastructure

have made significant delays routine.

Travelers now regularly build an extra day into both ends of a trip because same-day arrival

has become an increasingly reckless assumption.

Adding four-hour TSA lines to that ordeal is more than just another inconvenience.

It's simply insulting.

Two is credit President Trump has moved ICE officers into airports to assist with screening.

It's less satisfying than watching those officers execute deportation raids, but early

science suggests the move is working.

Atlanta reportedly went from a five-hour delay on screening to roughly five minutes.

ICE officers appear to be in good spirits and the agency itself seems to be recovering

some badly-needed public goodwill.

Tom Homan has even said that ICE agents will continue deportation operations while helping

with TSA duties.

It's not an ideal arrangement, but Trump has once again found a way to turn executive

action into a political win.

Still, the TSA mess raises a larger strategic question, one that extends well beyond the airports.

According to COVID lockdowns, public schools across the country shut their doors.

Conservatives have spent years correctly describing government education as a progressive propaganda

machine and a patronage network for democratic clients.

Yet, when the system buckled, the right didn't use that opening to challenge the legitimacy

of the whole structure.

Republicans instead begged for schools to reopen as quickly as possible.

This with the rare chance to dismantle an atrocious institution, conservatives instead

demanded a return to normal.

But normal was already a disaster, and the same pattern now applies to the TSA.

The agency didn't even exist before 2001, and it's performed badly at almost everything

it does.

Most contraband still gets through the screening.

The TSA hasn't really stopped a single terror attack.

Despite the public school system, it functions largely as a jobs program for democrat clients

while draining billions from taxpayers and making ordinary life demonstrably worse.

Rather than using this crisis to argue for dismantling the TSA, Republicans have rushed

to prove that it's indispensable.

Look, the short term political benefit is obvious enough, no administration wants to own

airport chaos, but every such rescue reinforces a deeper assumption shared by both parties.

Any government program once created becomes permanent.

At this point, it's just clear that no one is ever going to vote himself into a smaller

state.

The incentive simply don't allow it.

America is far more likely to watch the regime collapse than to see it willingly scale

itself back.

That failure of imagination points to a larger problem.

Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the presidency while holding a friendly

Supreme Court, yet they still appear terrified to govern.

Only Trump in his early burst of executive orders showed any appetite for using the moment.

Even that momentum slowed once the administration ran into the courts and Congress refused to

codify any serious part of the Magga agenda.

The GOP theoretically holds the levers of power, but in practice, it remains terrified

of disturbing the status quo.

Democrats behave very differently.

Even from a minority position, they're still willing to shut down travel across the entire

country for the explicit purpose of keeping a legal immigrants here.

Members of the Democratic Party understand that their coalition depends on dissolving

the old American nation and distributing its assets to clients in exchange for votes.

That agenda isn't particularly popular with the historic American population, but it's

very attractive to new arrivals who didn't build the country and feel no inherited obligation

towards it.

To remain electorally viable, Democrats need an ever-expanding pool of imported voters

dependent on public wealth transfers to cancel out the votes of the native population.

If they can replace enough of the country, they can govern it indefinitely, progressives

celebrate that possibility whenever they're not dismissing it as a conspiracy theory.

If one party is willing to gride, national air travel to a halt to preserve its electoral

advantage while the other one won't even pass the most basic legislation for fear of

offending someone, the country has a really, really big problem.

Trump has pressed Congress to pass the Save America Act to strengthen electoral integrity

and give Republicans a strategic advantage, yet the GOP continues to drag its feet.

One party behaves as if politics actually matters to them.

The other one behaves as if politics is an embarrassing chore they go through in between

collecting campaign donations.

Democrats are willing to hold the nation hostage in airport security lines to secure victory.

Republicans still act as though enduring a few nasty New York Times editorials is just

too high a price to pay for saving their country.

A movement that fears bad press, more than national dispossession, has surrendered the habits

of self-government, and forgotten what political power is for in the first place.

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