As part of touting Trump’s huge success in blocking fentanyl from crossing America’s southern border, Pam Bondi stated both (1) that the administration has seized fentanyl in quantities that are enough to kill almost 80% of Americans and (2) that all sorts of less toxic street drugs are laced with fentanyl, making them deadly. Leftists instantly seized upon how it sounded as if she said that Trump had saved 249 million people in 100 days.

That was to be expected. But the same attack came from Jonah Goldberg, a one-time conservative. Goldberg’s response illustrates the danger Trump faces from the “faux” right, which claims to be conservative but long ago abandoned those principles in favor of its overwhelming hatred for Donald Trump. For these NeverTrumpers, immured in their high-end D.C. and Manhattan neighborhoods, getting Trump is significantly more important than saving Americans from the joint depredations of China and Mexico.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine. It has legitimate medical uses, but even minute quantities can be deadly. In 2022, the last year for which there is full data, almost 74,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses. By contrast, in that same year, around 21,000 died from gun crime. The difference in risk to Americans is striking.