Megan Romer sat across from a Fox News camera and, without blinking, confirmed it. The Democratic Socialists of America want to abolish the Senate. Abolish ICE. Abolish the borders. Abolish the prisons. Replace the presidency and the Supreme Court as we know them. Grant amnesty to everyone living here illegally. This was not a "gotcha" moment. This was not an edited clip. This was the co-chair of the DSA, on camera, defending her organization's platform point by point without hesitation.

Sixty countries just got hit with new American tariffs, and the usual suspects are already screeching about "protectionism." What they will not tell you is why these tariffs exist in the first place: forced labor. Slavery, by another name, baked into the supply chains that stock our shelves.

Remember when America's southern border was a national embarrassment? When cartel coyotes ran the show and Border Patrol agents were reduced to processing clerks for a catch and release circus that stretched from Eagle Pass to Washington, D.C.? That nightmare is dead and buried.

James Smithson never set foot in America. He was a British scientist who died in 1829 and left his fortune to a country he'd never visited, with one condition: found "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Congress spent a decade arguing about what to do with the money before finally chartering the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. For generations it earned its nickname, "the nation's attic," a place where Americans went to see the Wright Flyer, the Star-Spangled Banner, and Lincoln's top hat. Today they can also see a sadomasochistic "crotch harness." Something has gone badly wrong.