Remember when, at the outset of his first four years, Barack Obama said that the "fundamental transformation of America" was underway? Remember the apprehension that those not on board with such an agenda felt, knowing where he was coming from in saying it - his having been mentored by Frank Marshall Davis and Rashid Khalidi, his intimate involvement in the network of Chicago radicals, including Heather Booth, Robert Creamer, Greg Galluzzo, Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers?
That was a mere warmup for what's underway now.
Just so far this week, these developments have occurred.
Your tax dollars are once again going to go for the extermination of fetal Americans:
The Biden administration on Wednesday moved to unwind former President Donald Trump’s anti-abortion restrictions on federal family planning funds.
New rules proposed Wednesday would largely return the Title X program to its pre-Trump formation, allowing more abortion clinics to participate in a program that provides free or subsidized contraception and other health services to about 4 million low-income Americans each year.
The move stems from a pledge President Joe Biden made as a candidate, followed by an executive order he signed shortly after taking office directing HHS to review the Trump administration’s Title X rule. At the time, he pledged to “reverse my predecessor’s attack on women’s health access” and “undo the damage that Trump has done.”
DC statehood is no longer a remote possibility:
The House Oversight and Reform Committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would make Washington, DC, the country's 51st state.
The Washington, DC Admissions Act or H.R. 51, introduced by DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, is expected to pass a full House vote along party lines next week.
Those in favor of statehood argue that DC residents are being denied their most basic democratic right to representation in Congress. The city has one non-voting member of the House and two "shadow senators," who are unelected and can't vote.
A panel in the House of Representatives has passed legislation to create a federal commission to study the issue of reparations.
The historic move marks the first time that the House Judiciary Committee has acted on the decades-long effort.
Despite the historic success, just the creation of a committee to study reparations for the descendants of millions of enslaved Africans led to a lengthy debate in the U.S. House and passed by only 25-17, with all Republicans opposed.
The bill could be on the House floor for a vote by this summer.
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee spearheaded the bill, which would create a commission that would examine slavery and discrimination in America from 1619 to the present. It would decide how Americans are educated on the atrocity, consider a formal national apology and consider compensation to descendants. Currently, the legislation has its most co-sponsors ever in the House: 176.
And this sinister idea is also getting a boost in the House:
Congressional Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to expand the US Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, drawing angry protests from Republicans accusing their rivals of attempting a power grab to enact President Joe Biden's agenda.
The surprise move appears to be an effort by the party's progressive wing to pressure Biden on the explosive issue, less than one week after the president announced he was forming a commission to study reforming the nation's high court including the question of expanding its bench.
Several liberal Democrats have said such expansion is necessary after Donald Trump gave the bench a firm conservative majority by getting three of his picks onto the Supreme Court during his presidency, including one just eight days before the 2020 election.
"Our democracy is under assault, and the Supreme Court has dealt the sharpest blows," congressman Mondaire Jones said in a tweet announcing he and three other Democrats, including House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler, were introducing a bill to add four seats to the bench.
"To restore power to the people, we must #ExpandTheCourt."
Nancy Pelosi went on record saying she doesn't support the bill and has no plans to bring it to the floor for a vote, but do you doubt that that will hamper the relentlessness with which its sponsors will continue to push, seeking a path of least resistance, like floodwater?
The hard left senses its moment.
And what does resistance to this multi-pronged assault on a recognizable United States of America look like?
Outside of a handful of principled actual conservatives inside government (think Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Larry Hogan, Peter Meijer, Ben Sasse) and among the general populace, such resistance looks like a failed personality cult full of sycophants, cowards and nuts.
It is very late in the day.
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