By Erick-Woods Erickson
Progressives inside and outside the media have embraced the post-modern tactic of changing words and definitions as a way to reshape reality.
Homelessness is now “unhoused.” A pregnant woman is now a “pregnant person.” Breastfeeding is “chestfeeding.” An unarmed mob in the Capitol for a few hours is now an insurrection, not a riot. Illegal aliens are now “undocumented migrants.”
If what happened on January 6, 2021, was an insurrection, what is happening at the southern border is absolutely an invasion. In fact, outside of the Peace of Westphalia, a mass wave of foreigners entering another country would, even without arms, be considered an invasion.
What is happening is an invasion of illegal aliens, some engaged in human trafficking and drug running. They are overwhelming border towns in Texas and taxing the resources of numerous states. The problem exists for only one reason — the President of the United States is derelict in his duties.
President Biden could, in fact, order the military to secure the border through non-violent means. Instead, he has chosen to leave it open. This has placed a massive burden on the State of Texas — a formerly sovereign nation that would have undoubtedly never entered into union with the United States had it known the American President would not protect Texas’s border.
Yesterday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided enough was enough, and he would exercise the powers of the State of Texas under the federal constitution to stop the invasion.
Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution states, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
As the federal government has failed to secure Texas’s border, Texas has the power itself with its Guard until such time as the President of the United States commandeers the Texas National Guard. If, in this case, the President takes charge of the Guard and uses it against Texas, it would breach the foundational underpinnings of our constitutional system — using a state’s own militia against it as it tries to protect itself.
The national media is prone to obsess over Donald Trump provoking constitutional crises, but, in this case, Joe Biden is provoking one by failing the basic constitutional duty of the Commander-in-Chief to protect the borders of the several states.
The national media that so quickly will call January 6 an “insurrection” and rapidly go from “homeless” to “unhoused” as the left commands will undoubtedly not fairly cover the issue. But coverage is not important. Reality is.
The reality is Joe Biden’s policies have provoked a mass wave of people to flood into the State of Texas, and he refuses to do his basic obligation of securing the border. Either Texas can respond, or the terms of its entry into union with the United States were a fiction.
The reality is also this — across Europe and North America, a rising right-wing populism is growing and much of it stems from the progressive elite’s refusal to stop waves of illegal immigrants from entering various countries. The same progressive elite in the academy, Democrat Party leadership, and the editorial positions and anchor desks at most of the media outlets are not just turning hostile towards Israel because of their embrace of and indoctrination within critical theory frameworks, they are also embracing the idea of borders as oppressive structures of white post-Westphalian Peace regimes.
So long as the progressive elite ignore the problem of porous borders breaking down state and national sovereignty, the problem they see — the rise of right-wing populism — will fester for them as the equal and opposite response.
You members of the left-leaning and progressive elite want to stop the Trump Train? You gotta stop the illegal aliens first.