In his closing argument to the American people, Donald Trump is returning to his signature issue, mass immigration, with a stronger emphasis on this theme than ever before. He has described the invasion of so many small American towns as an “occupation,” from which he promises speedy deliverance, leveraging one of the first laws Congress passed, the Alien Enemies Act. Trump’s message assumed new urgency during a trip to Aurora, Colorado, where the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang has seized control of local apartment blocks.

“We are now known, all throughout the world, as OCCUPIED AMERICA…But to everyone here in Colorado and all across our nation, I make you this vow: November 5th, 2024 will be LIBERATION DAY in America,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that was also tweeted out at X.

This is powerful stuff. The left, like the boy who cried wolf, loves to call Trump a “fascist” who is fear mongering for votes. It is no longer effective, in large part, because figures in authority and in the media have done the opposite—they have downplayed and ignored the story.

Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, the FBI, local police, and the craven, leftist national media, have all shrugged as narco-terrorists oppress American citizens in their own homes. ABC’s Martha Raddatz, in a now infamous comment, characterized the situation in Aurora as just a “a handful” of apartments operating outside the rule of law. The property manager shared a lengthy post explaining the gravity of the situation, if there are any real journalists remaining who care to look.

Trump does not need to embellish the details of the migrant invasion to indict the federal government for its misrule. The truth is damning enough. The government Americans now have may as well have been installed by a hostile foreign power. It levies taxes but does not provide security—the first obligation of any legitimate state. It treats Americans like a conquered people, dispensing reproaches nd tiresome sermons about “democracy,” Ukraine, white supremacy, and so on, while dumping some of the worst elements of the Third World into  communities without the consent of the residents.

For the left, democracy and “fascism” are weapons—terms of abuse with little substantive meaning. What makes Trump a “fascist,” to their way of thinking, is that he wants to solve the immigration problem, and not just talk about it. Every attempt at immigration “reform” over the last 30 years has ended in the same way: with a poisoned compromise that does nothing to deter the invasion but instead facilitates it. The stillborn border bill that Kamala Harris loves to talk about was no different.

The ruling class does not want to address the immigration problem, because what they have done for the last three and a half years , does not constitute a problem for them. Our rulers want the existing situation to continue until it becomes our permanent new reality.

Trump is therefore correct to anticipate that an effort to repatriate millions of foreigners will be met with a vigorous propaganda backlash. Mass deportations would restore America’s sovereignty, threatening the special interests that now control the government, and remit the scenario of Third World, one-party rule that the left holds out as America’s glorious and inevitable destiny. The people who would comprise a permanent majority in this idealized future had no role in building America, but the left promises them full license to despoil it, “democratically,” of course. 

The left’s core objection to Trump is that he takes the dominant narrative about America and the future it deserves and turns it upside down. He rejects the notion that Americans must wear sackcloth and ashes for building a great civilization. The illegitimate occupation of America did not begin with the arrival of Europeans, as Kamala Harris and other resentful leftists have claimed, but more recently, as we have opened the floodgates to the rest of the world. If Harris somehow wins, it will represent the culmination of an effort to replace America as it existed and to put in its place one that would have been alien to those who went before us.

If Trump is a “fascist,” the left only has itself to blame for his rise. They have made him into a heroic figure, who is seen by many as the only hope against a nation-ending calamity. The left’s weaponization of the state to persecute Trump further heightened the stakes, fusing Trump’s personal destiny with that of a besieged people. Whether his story ends in tragedy, or triumph, remains to be seen.