"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within."—James Madison

America currently appears to be in the process of destroying itself. The problems are too numerous to list here, but the most recent devolution comes from the Somali financial fraud and the killing of a woman in Minnesota by ICE, which has leftists all over the country rioting, protesting, and calling for a repetition of the George Floyd mayhem of 2020. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the horrors the nation now faces.

As James Madison rightly said, if our nation falls, if it is destroyed, it will at least start from within. America is too big—has too many people, too much geography, too many financial resources, and too large a military to ever be conquered from without until there is nothing left but a dung heap which we created ourselves. Small nations can be overrun by larger ones fairly easily; Stalin walked into Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia in 1940 and said, "Give us your country," and there wasn't much those small nations could do about it. And the West, absorbed in Hitler, didn't help. But that won't happen in America—not until there is nothing left that any other nation would want. Only riff-raff would remain, and they would be more trouble than they are worth.

America is destroying itself by hate. I've never seen, in our country, such vitriol, bile, and venom as exists now and is being spewed forth, mainly from the Left, of course. Those people have not an ounce of love in their hearts, except for themselves; they want what they want, and they aren't willing to compromise with anyone they disagree with. They can only be forced, not persuaded, and they will answer force with force. It's only been escalating in recent years and months.

As an American historian, I cannot recall any president, perhaps any person, in our history who has........

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