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250 Years Into The Experiment, Democrats Threaten Catastrophe
What happens if they win the midterms?
Joseph Ford Cotto | June 16, 2026
As America approaches her 250th anniversary, President Donald J. Trump honored a foundational moment that still echoes through every courthouse, classroom, and town hall.
On June 12, 1776, the Old Dominion’s leaders gathered in Williamsburg and issued the Virginia Declaration of Rights. That document did not beg for freedom. It was penned largely by founding father George Mason. The text proclaimed that all men are by nature equally free and independent, endowed by their creator with rights no government can strip away.
It placed power squarely in the hands of the people, demanded separation of powers, protected free speech and a free press, guaranteed trial by jury, and safeguarded the free exercise of religion.
These ideas are rooted in the Anglo-Saxon tradition of ordered liberty. They draw from thinkers like John Locke. They inspired Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence weeks later and James Madison’s Bill of Rights years afterward. They formed the bedrock of a republic where government serves citizens, not the other way around.
Today those same principles stand in sharp contrast to a very different worldview that dominates the Democrat party.
This ideology, often called wokeness, represents a fundamental break from the Enlightenment values that built the country. According to scholar James Lindsay, wokeness means awakening to a specific “critical consciousness” shaped by Critical Social Justice theory. It teaches people to view society not through individual merit, evidence, or shared fairness, but through immutable group identities locked in struggles of power and oppression.
Dominant groups supposedly maintain hidden systems that keep others down. The purported solution demands constant left-wing activism, deconstruction of Western norms, and equity of outcomes rather than equality under law. This framework rejects open debate as complicity and treats traditional American ideals of color-blind justice and individual rights as part of the problem.
In the early-to-mid 2010s, Democrat leaders increasingly embraced this ideology to consolidate power. Activist movements like Black Lives Matter gained traction after the 2014 Ferguson........