While millions of Americans gather to celebrate Independence Day, the very sovereignty that this holiday honors is slipping away right before our eyes. Beneath the parades and patriotic displays, the nation is reeling from the consequences of a mass invasion — and the only solution to the problem is being fought by the left and the political ruling class.
On July 4, 1776, 56 men pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to a cause that could cost them everything. These men weren’t simply protesting a tax they didn’t like or quibbling over policy — they rebelled against the most powerful empire on earth. If they failed, death would be certain. But they signed anyway, because to them, the cause was greater than comfort. It was about a people asserting their right to self-governance based on the natural rights of man — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The founders knew something modern elites seem determined to ignore, however: Not every people is capable of sustaining that kind of government. Self-government requires a certain character and cohesion. Alexander Hamilton said as much in 1799: “I hold with Montesquieu, that a government must be fitted to a nation, as much as a coat to the individual; and, consequently, that what may be good at Philadelphia may be bad at Paris, and ridiculous at Petersburg.”
In other words, not every people was capable of political freedom because not every people is grounded in the same moral code, religion, civic understanding, and cultural norms that helped forge this nation. A republic is not held together by geography, but by bonds of belonging and loyalty. It requires a people who speak the same language, revere the same traditions, and share the same worldview and morality.
As George Washington reminded in his farewell address, “The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.”
But 249 years later that national identity is being erased.
Under then-President Joe Biden, the nation allowed more than 10 million illegal aliens to invade the country, overwhelm cities, bankrupt social programs, and devastate American communities. But, notably, it’s not just mass illegal immigration that is a problem, but mass migration, legal and illegal.
Mass migration, as I’ve previously written, is a cultural wrecking ball, because without assimilation there is no America. And assimilation on any meaningful scale is impossible when millions arrive illegally and remain indefinitely.
As Alexander Hamilton warned in 1802, “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
As I previously wrote, mass migration destroys that “common National sentiment” and disrupts the “uniformity of principles.” Mass migration “severs the deep-rooted ties of tradition and shared identity that bind a republic together.”
Which brings us to the greatest, most pressing policy questions for our generation: mass deportations.
Despite insistence from the left that mass deportations are cruel, they’re not. They are what a sovereign nation does to protect its people. We have millions of unassimilated illegal aliens in the country, many of whom have recently taken to the streets of major cities to burn the American flag, demand rights they are not owed, and sow societal discord. They’re not building cohesion; they’re causing a degree of division that makes a well-governed society impossible.
But the left is using the courts to halt or slow President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, fighting tooth and nail to bring back deported alleged wife-beaters and human smugglers. When Trump tried to strip nearly half a million migrants of a made-up status granted to them by the Biden administration, an Obama-appointed judge ruled that each individual case must be adjudicated individually. It’s a paralyzing decision — as noted by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on X: “If every one of them got the trial that you’re asking for, it would take centuries to remove them.”
But that’s the entire purpose. The left is desperate to stall mass deportations for a host of political goals, including congressional and Electoral College apportionment. And, in their effort to turn America into just another globalist spot on the map, they know they must undo the bonds of liberty. What better way to do that than to import a host of foreigners who refuse to assimilate and bring with them values, religions, and moral codes that do not comport with American values?
If we are going to honor 1776, we can’t simply light fireworks and wave our flag. We have to act like the founders did — with courage, clarity, and a commitment to national survival. That means choosing Americans — our communities, our future — over foreign nationals.
The spirit of 1776 was about forging a nation — a nation defined by a common identity, beliefs, and borders. If we ignore the invasion that has occurred, we’re not honoring the founders — we’re betraying them.