The Fall of Britain — and the Warning for America

For reasons too dull to disclose, I didn’t become an American citizen till age 26, 20 years after arriving in the U.S. from Cuba. I had to drive from Washington to Baltimore with a good friend, Tom, who would testify that I was worthy of the honor. The two of us sat outside the immigration office waiting for Tom to be called in first. I was already a rock-solid conservative by then, more so than my buddy, and we got into a deep political argument. When the immigration officer popped her head out and called for Tom, he looked at me and said, “I don’t know now.” Of course he endorsed me. But that’s how challenging it was back then to become a U.S. citizen. Today, you probably don’t even have to speak English.

Fortunately for America, Donald Trump is President, so the Democratic open door to unvetted immigrants is now exit only. While the Administration prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our wonderful country, and restore her heroes to the pantheon from which shrieking liberals sought to remove them.

“All of you [Republicans] sit silently, even though you know what that means,” whined California congressman Jared Huffman at a House hearing last month. “You let him hijack the country’s 250th anniversary to sell access, hide his donors, and rewrite history.” Huffman and his fellow party leaders’ screams about white male slaveowners and stolen land are falling on patriotic deaf ears.

The situation is far more dire across the Pond in once great Britain, tragic in fact. For it signals the end of a magnificent 2,000-year history, betrayed from within at Mel Brooks -level “ludicrous speed.” Last week the Bank of England announced it would be removing Winston Churchill from the five-pound note, and replacing him with some form of British wildlife. You read right. The greatest British leader of the 20th century must give way to a fox or a hedgehog.

The man who foresaw the Nazi menace and did his best to prepare England for it: “Germany is arming fast, and no one is going to stop her.”