Remember that Kamala Harris is the candidate of the Good People. The Best People, actually: the credentialed and compassionate, the upscale and sophisticated, those with sufficient noblesse oblige to care about the “most vulnerable among us.”

You’ll need to repeat that to yourself a hundred times a day — or let our captive media hammer it into your head — because all the actual evidence points the other way. Namely, that Harris is the dull-witted, inarticulate puppet of corrupt, self-serving elites — a DEI hire who just manages to pronounce the words flashed on a teleprompter or whispered in her ear, then boogies around acting “brat” to drum up turnout in our chaotic, crumbling blue cities. And that she has been fully complicit in hundreds of catastrophic policies for which Joe Biden was happy to be the yammering carnival barker.

Harris has just been endorsed by the most dangerous people in America. No, not violent criminals in supermax prisons. They’re patriotic, Norman Rockwell 1940s Boy Scouts compared to the criminal network that just came out for Kamala: The highest-ranking members of the American Deep State, who are the main culprits in almost one million pointless deaths in Ukraine. That war was almost avoided, until the U.S. intelligence community torpedoed a reasonable deal, in order to create a bloody quagmire weakening Russia, as General Mark Milley admitted was the real U.S. objective.

I’ve raised the question before: Since we know that Joe Biden isn’t running the country, and neither is Kamala Harris, who actually is? Like right now, at this moment. Seriously: who?

Who decides whether we send troops to Lebanon, guide Ukrainian missiles to Moscow, or otherwise slide even closer to World War III?

Now we have our answer. Our wizards behind the curtain have come out into the light and identified themselves.

741 former high-ranking national security officials (233 general and flag officers) signed letter endorsing Kamala Harris for president. 15 four-star generals, 10 former cabinet secretaries, 10 service secretaries, and Repub leaders who served under Trump. https://t.co/I0clmLZOAL

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) September 22, 2024

Like Russia under Putin, we are governed by our secret police. And they won’t give up power easily.

“Chicago Will Go Up in Flames”

Perhaps the worst of these policies for Americans has been the embrace of totally open borders by our former “border czar.” Importing some 10 million unvetted, mostly uneducated foreigners pell-mell into America sounds so insane that no Democrat before 2008 would have gone near the idea. But Biden and Harris didn’t just let it happen. They aggressively recruited and imported these surplus unskilled workers, then dumped them on mostly Trump-voting counties. But plenty made their way to blue states and cities, where the natives are getting restless:

🚨🇺🇸 ACTIVIST WARNS OF MIGRANT GANG WAR ON SOUTH SIDE : “CHICAGO WILL GO UP IN FLAMES”

Tyrone Muhammad, former gang member turned activist, sounds the alarm on rising tensions between Venezuelan gangs and local Chicago crews.

As migrants flood the South Side, residents fear… pic.twitter.com/cBSmrRuV5T

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 23, 2024

Is it really our duty as Christians to incite a civil war? To punish our poorest neighbors and blow up our own country, instead of inspiring and aiding less fortunate nations?

If that were Christianity, I would persecute it myself. I’d briefly consider feeding such “Christians” to the lions, but in the end, I wouldn’t. It’d make the poor lions sick.

But Immigration Is Too Hard to Fix

Some people who reluctantly admit that it was disastrous for the Democrats to wave in 10 million illegals insist that the problem is too far gone to fix. If large numbers of people want to get into your country, it’s like a bad weather front: You just have to accept it and deal with it. The government of Italy disagrees, as Gateway Pundit reports:

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni … is one of the most popular leaders in Europe, and to achieve good results, she has sometimes had to clash with some of her more liberal counterparts. … It arises now that under Meloni, Italy’s level of illegal immigration has plunged an astonishing 64%.

Her government has cracked down hard on smugglers and worked with Italy’s neighboring countries to diminish the flow.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Sunday that their success shows once and for all that enforcing tough border policies is possible — it just takes hard work.

It also takes leaders who actually love their countries and their fellow citizens. One such candidate is running for president this year.

Speaker Mike Johnson Surrenders Again

But his fellow Republicans aren’t exactly helping Donald Trump face a fair election, which he would win. Gateway Pundit reports on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest cave-in, which could well swing the election illegally to Kamala Harris: his surrender on the SAVE Act:

This legislation mandates proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections and has become a rallying cry for many Americans who believe it is crucial to safeguarding the sanctity of the ballot box.

President Trump has been unyielding in his support for the SAVE Act, even suggesting that the government should shut down if the bill is not included in the Continuing Resolution (CR). …

Johnson is reportedly throwing in the towel and is now seeking to fund the U.S. government without addressing election security.

Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman spoke with Capitol Hill sources this morning and revealed that Johnson’s plan is to pass a congressional resolution this week that will fund the government through December 20, just five days before Christmas.

In other words, he wants to continue funding record levels of out-of-control spending without getting anything in return. Then, the House will likely pass another CR and race out of DC in time to celebrate the holidays.

With patriots like Mike Johnson, who needs traitors?

A Trump Win Would Mean “Breeding Camps” and Cannibalism

Those self-selected “elites” who condescend to the rest of us ain’t what they used to be. I remember when liberal Democrats had all at least read Shakespeare and the Bible; they just didn’t understand them. Now the standards of our “betters” have slipped into the toilet, and they’re increasingly satisfied with disjointed, self-righteous rants. Like this one, reported on by Campus Reform and the College Fix:

An Arizona State University professor recently took center stage at a school workshop called “A Speculative Future for Reproductive Rights.”

During the course of the workshop, ASU Associate Professor of English Jennifer Irish expressed worries that the country’s current abortion policies could lead to “forced breeding camps” and “cannibalism” … . “So much of our reality points toward those futures,” Hatch said. The event featured Irish’s poetry collection Hatch.

“Dismantle capitalism” and “elect a female president,” Irish said when prompted with a question about how to protect abortion.

But Prof. Irish isn’t the craziest leftist academic to step forward this election season. To say that would demean the achievement of New York University’s Artist-in-Residence Shellyne Rodriguez:

She’s baaaaack pic.twitter.com/SJNUpGORNZ

— Paul Rossi (@pauldrossi) September 22, 2024

Such faculty aren’t outliers. They are the richly rewarded, cossetted, highly prized cultural leaders who will set the tone for politics and culture, should Kamala Harris win. Stockpile your ammo, both spiritual and literal.

Along The Stream

Don’t miss Joseph Mattera’s challenging look at secular, humanistic attitudes that have come to infect Christian discourse, especially via “self-help” literature.

Michael Brown unpacks the much-hyped, widely misunderstood action via exploding pagers that Israel took in self-defense against the genocidal militia Hezbollah.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 10 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.