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America's newest political battlefield runs through one of the most miserable places in
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the country, the airport.
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Democrats have held up funding for the Department of Homeland Security amid their ongoing war
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over ICE, and after a month without pay, TSA employees are starting to refuse to come to
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The result has been crippling delays at major airports, with weights stretching four hours
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or more and turning an already degraded flying experience into something closer to a public
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The brutal truth is that one political party is willing to disrupt travel across the entire
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country to protect illegal immigrants and preserve a future voter pipeline.
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Even after assassination attempts, law fair against political opponents, and an open
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border's push for demographic replacement, conservatives still hesitate to admit that
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our political battles have become existential.
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In theory, the United States remains the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.
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In practice, basic air travel now is a dysfunctional disaster.
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Seeds are cramped, services miserable, fellow passengers are often feral, and airlines
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charge extra for every scrap of convenience in the hope of squeezing one last dollar from
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the exhausted travelers.
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For a while, the indignity at least purchased to speed, flying still got you from one place
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to another faster than anything else, but incompetence, cost-cutting, and crumbling infrastructure
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have made significant delays routine.
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Travelers now regularly build an extra day into both ends of a trip because same-day arrival
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has become an increasingly reckless assumption.
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Adding four-hour TSA lines to that ordeal is more than just another inconvenience.
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It's simply insulting.
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Two is credit President Trump has moved ICE officers into airports to assist with screening.
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It's less satisfying than watching those officers execute deportation raids, but early
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science suggests the move is working.
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Atlanta reportedly went from a five-hour delay on screening to roughly five minutes.
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ICE officers appear to be in good spirits and the agency itself seems to be recovering
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some badly-needed public goodwill.
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Tom Homan has even said that ICE agents will continue deportation operations while helping
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It's not an ideal arrangement, but Trump has once again found a way to turn executive
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action into a political win.
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Still, the TSA mess raises a larger strategic question, one that extends well beyond the airports.
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According to COVID lockdowns, public schools across the country shut their doors.
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Conservatives have spent years correctly describing government education as a progressive propaganda
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machine and a patronage network for democratic clients.
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Yet, when the system buckled, the right didn't use that opening to challenge the legitimacy
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of the whole structure.
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Republicans instead begged for schools to reopen as quickly as possible.
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This with the rare chance to dismantle an atrocious institution, conservatives instead
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demanded a return to normal.
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But normal was already a disaster, and the same pattern now applies to the TSA.
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The agency didn't even exist before 2001, and it's performed badly at almost everything
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Most contraband still gets through the screening.
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The TSA hasn't really stopped a single terror attack.
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Despite the public school system, it functions largely as a jobs program for democrat clients
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while draining billions from taxpayers and making ordinary life demonstrably worse.
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Rather than using this crisis to argue for dismantling the TSA, Republicans have rushed
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to prove that it's indispensable.
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Look, the short term political benefit is obvious enough, no administration wants to own
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airport chaos, but every such rescue reinforces a deeper assumption shared by both parties.
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Any government program once created becomes permanent.
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At this point, it's just clear that no one is ever going to vote himself into a smaller
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The incentive simply don't allow it.
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America is far more likely to watch the regime collapse than to see it willingly scale
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That failure of imagination points to a larger problem.
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Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the presidency while holding a friendly
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Supreme Court, yet they still appear terrified to govern.
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Only Trump in his early burst of executive orders showed any appetite for using the moment.
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Even that momentum slowed once the administration ran into the courts and Congress refused to
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codify any serious part of the Magga agenda.
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The GOP theoretically holds the levers of power, but in practice, it remains terrified
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of disturbing the status quo.
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Democrats behave very differently.
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Even from a minority position, they're still willing to shut down travel across the entire
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country for the explicit purpose of keeping a legal immigrants here.
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Members of the Democratic Party understand that their coalition depends on dissolving
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the old American nation and distributing its assets to clients in exchange for votes.
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That agenda isn't particularly popular with the historic American population, but it's
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very attractive to new arrivals who didn't build the country and feel no inherited obligation
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To remain electorally viable, Democrats need an ever-expanding pool of imported voters
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dependent on public wealth transfers to cancel out the votes of the native population.
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If they can replace enough of the country, they can govern it indefinitely, progressives
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celebrate that possibility whenever they're not dismissing it as a conspiracy theory.
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If one party is willing to gride, national air travel to a halt to preserve its electoral
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advantage while the other one won't even pass the most basic legislation for fear of
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offending someone, the country has a really, really big problem.
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Trump has pressed Congress to pass the Save America Act to strengthen electoral integrity
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and give Republicans a strategic advantage, yet the GOP continues to drag its feet.
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One party behaves as if politics actually matters to them.
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The other one behaves as if politics is an embarrassing chore they go through in between
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collecting campaign donations.
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Democrats are willing to hold the nation hostage in airport security lines to secure victory.
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Republicans still act as though enduring a few nasty New York Times editorials is just
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too high a price to pay for saving their country.
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A movement that fears bad press, more than national dispossession, has surrendered the habits
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of self-government, and forgotten what political power is for in the first place.
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