A ghastly reality    

"Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told attendees to his July 16 conference on 'Far-Left Terrorism.'

"In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40% in just the last year alone," he continued. "In Greece, more than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors."

A recent YouGov poll revealed 25% of "very liberal" U.S. Democrats believe political violence is justifiable. (Polling also found only a meager percentage of Democrats are even proud to be Americans.)

An online meme presently circulating depicts a grave marker bearing the name Trump. 

Ignoring the accelerated spread of politically inspired brutality -- and that it arrives most frequently from the spectrum's left end -- only emboldens criminals.

A July 16 Gateway Pundit article related that Florida former marine, prosecutor, and write-in congressional candidate William Upham had been arrested for declaring President Trump "must be killed" in an online video.

In the same video, Upham charged "Our country is broken," and encouraged viewers to operate in pairs with AK 15s.

"Our country must overthrow President Trump by the violent use of force and kill him," Upham emailed to a journalist.

Last month, a Rochester, New York man was arrested for making numerous online murderous threats against Donald Trump Jr, and members of his family.

Other fresh illustrations include Democrats and other leftists imitating Charlie Kirk's assassination and threatening to "Kirk" political adversaries; celebrations of the anti-Trump gunman who invaded the White House Correspondents Dinner; and subversive medical personnel posting videos calling for Trump's demise and encouraging witholding care from suspected MAGA patients to speed their deaths.

More: Efforts by politicians and activists to forestall deportations of violently criminal illegals; the torrent of sympathetic messages sent toward Luigi Mangioni, the 'alleged' murderer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; mobs of professional anti-ICE protesters raining bricks and explosives on police phalanxes; and physical assaults and even murders of law enforcement officers and any citizen perceived to support the President of our United States.

Referring to the numbers regarding international left-wing violence he'd cited, Rubio was adamant. "These are not abstract statistics. Americans have seen what those numbers mean: an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes, a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like ‘Where is your God now?'”

At this writing, there have been three known attempts on President Trump's own life. And as evidenced above, additional plottings are contrived. 

And that's only American leftists; an Iranian scheme was recently revealed. 

In response to malevolence issuing from grotty precincts, Trump wrote on X that smears hurled his way had "taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of the Communist Left rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!"

After years of hearing "Trump is Hitler, MAGA are nazis" slander from numerous media mouthpieces, it's logical that uncritical recipients would think violent actions noble and even of historic import.

Of course, leftists sanctioning morbidness has precedent. For decades, the Democrat Party has championed abortions with absolutely no restrictions on time or reasons. 

Clear-visioned critics term the Democrat Party a "party of death." The ghastly sobriquet is accurate.

America wins bigly               

                                                    

"Two major wins define this week," began a new White House briefing document. "First, jobless levels fell to their lowest level since 1969, a 57-year record that puts the full force of the Trump economic agenda on display."

Further gilding that success is the Trump administration's determination to ensure employment opportunities are exclusively available to American citizens. That's how it should be.

Paychecks legitimately earned by American citizens benefit our economy not only through taxes paid, but by healthy consumer spending. It's what made American businesses thrive, and is a major factor in securing this nation's rank above other world powers. 

The president has steadfastly endorsed e-verify. The practice of verifying job applicants' legal rights to be in this nation -- let alone enjoy employment and profit thereby -- is one Trump supports, as well as levying stiff penalties against unscrupulous employers who would flout American laws and encourage illegality by cultivating lower-paid scofflaw workforces.

(Iowa's elected congressional officials -- all Republicans -- also back e-verify.) 

The White House briefing document also noted: "President Trump secured the Ratepayer Protection Pledge -- a landmark agreement guaranteeing that America's AI dominance is built without sticking consumers with the bill."

By that crucial exercise, our president did away with a major kvetch voiced by AI critics: that related costs would burden tax-payers. Trump now guarantees they won't.

As important as protecting jobs for real Americans and ensuring technological advancement are, the two are hardly lonely on the list of positive moves forward realized by the Trump White House. 

Other wins have been pocketed in police and fire departments' hiring; military recruitment; foreign investments now totaling astronomically; and new factories being built here by formerly internationally located corporations that have returned to these shores.

In concluding his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, President Trump noted both the progress our country has so far made as a result of America First policies, and world leaders' awestruck recognition: "The King of Saudi Arabia said it. Everyone said almost the same words. 'We thought you were a dead country. We never thought you had a chance. You were never gonna make it back.'

"'And in a period of a year, a period of one year, you made it the hottest country anywhere in the world!'

"We did that together," Trump proclaimed. "It's not just me. We all did it together. We have made America great again, and it's gonna get a lot greater!"