Mr. Paramount

There is something especially obscene about being persecuted for trying to serve your own country. Of all the betrayals a nation can commit, turning public service into a punishable offense is among the ugliest. I suspect that wound cuts even deeper for immigrants who fully assimilate. They come here, live the dream, swear themselves into the American story, then step forward to help scrape the rot out of the beams, only to discover the rot has friends in high office. Their reward isn’t gratitude. It is the gavel. Death threats. Slander. Hate. That’s the message now from the regime class: get out of our way or we will destroy you. Serve the wrong administration, challenge the wrong orthodoxy, or help the wrong reform effort, and they will use the machinery of government like a cudgel. But they’re making a fatal mistake. When you swing the gavel like a weapon, it cuts both ways. When you turn the law into a torch, don’t act surprised when the whole country finally notices who set the fire. That is why this won’t work forever. The decades long grift is showing. The world is waking up. And the more openly they persecute decent people for serving their country, the clearer it becomes that the threat was never “extremism” from below. It was tyranny from above. The only way to win is to fight back. We’re done living in fear.