How can anyone escape the irony that in this year, as we celebrate 250 years since the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, the principles of that declaration are being widely challenged?

When Americans should be basking in the light of our hard-fought-for freedoms, standing guard on our God-given rights noted in that declaration, there are Americans ready to turn their back on them.

Candidates advocating socialism, the antithesis of "all Men... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," are winning elections.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed invokes "Inshallah" — "God-willing" in Arabic — that he will have success overturning our God-given rights.

The Manhattan Institute's Jesse Arm convincingly criticizes Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost by one point to El-Sayed, for then stepping up and endorsing him.

Business as usual in party politics says this is the thing to do — to support, in the end, the party.

But the differences between El-Sayed and Stevens were not policy technicalities. El-Sayed and his socialist comrades hate our great, free country and want to........

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