Lawlessness by Design and the Fight to Restore Order

My friends, lawlessness in America did not happen overnight—and it certainly didn’t happen by accident. It was engineered. It was rewarded. And for far too long, it was protected by people in power who benefited from the chaos while everyday Americans paid the price.

For years, we were told not to ask questions. About elections. About immigration. About how trillions of dollars move through federal programs with little to no accountability. If you dared to raise concerns, you were shouted down, censored, or labeled a threat to “democracy.” Not because you were wrong—but because the truth was inconvenient.

That’s why the reaction to Donald Trump’s comments about “nationalizing” election standards are met with such ferocity. The outrage isn’t about the Constitution. It’s about control. The Constitution is clear: states administer elections, but Congress has the authority to set standards—standards we very much need.

Voter ID. Citizenship verification. Ending mass mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting. These aren’t radical ideas—they’re basic safeguards. And the people who oppose them benefit from a system without rules.

The same deception exists at the border. The Biden administration didn’t “modernize” asylum with their CBPOne app—they ignored the law entirely. They created loopholes and excuses that allowed millions to stay indefinitely, then had the audacity to call it legal. Vice President J.D. Vance said it plainly: if asylum means traveling through eight countries to get to America, then you’re not seeking safety—you’re seeking for ways to come to the greatest nation on earth.

I understand why people want to come here. I would want to come here, too. But to suggest anyone has a right to come here as a foreigner is a far cry from what is true and lawful.

And it doesn’t stop there. Fraud is everywhere once lawlessness is the norm. Nearly 20 percent of all Medicare home health spending concentrated in one county in America (Los Angeles). Dozens of providers billing for services that appear not to exist. This is what happens when accountability disappears.

Here’s the good news: we are closer than ever to fixing this. Not through blind rage. Not through immoral chaos. But through law, order, and the courage to tell the truth. The window is open—but it won’t stay open forever.

Now is the moment.

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

🏛️ Lawlessness thrives when safeguards are weakened by design
🗳️ Congress can set election standards without running elections
📋 Checkbox citizenship invites fraud and erodes trust
✉️ Mass mail-in voting replaces order and sense with chaos
🧱 Asylum was redefined by executive abuse, not law—for political purposes
💸 Federal programs reward exploitation instead of compliance

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My friends, a new national poll shows Americans are siding with law, order, and reality.

A Cygnal survey finds seventy-three percent say coming here illegally is breaking the law. Sixty-one percent support deporting illegal aliens. Fifty-eight percent oppose defunding ICE. And fifty-four percent support ICE enforcing our immigration laws.

Here’s my first question. What do the other twenty-seven percent think “illegal” means? By definition, it means breaking the law.

But what encourages me isn’t just the numbers. It’s the realization that we are a nation of laws again. Laws matter. Enforcement matters. And those tasked with enforcing them need the tools to do their jobs.

We can’t let temper tantrums drown out adult leadership. Staying the course won’t always look pretty, but it’s how a country defeats lawlessness.

One of the most effective tactics in modern politics isn’t persuasion—it’s confusion. Blur two different ideas long enough, and people eventually stop trying to tell them apart. That’s exactly what’s happening with elections, immigration, and federal oversight—and it’s why even the most basic reforms are framed as dangerous or extreme.

Take elections. When critics claim that setting national election standards is the same as federalizing elections, they are not making a constitutional argument. They are making a rhetorical one. Administering elections and setting baseline standards are not the same thing. States can manage polling locations, ballots, and logistics while Congress establishes uniform rules for eligibility and security. Those authorities coexist in the Constitution by design.

But if you convince people that standards equal control, you never have to debate voter ID, citizenship verification, or ballot integrity on the merits. You simply accuse your opponent of bad intentions, shout “authoritarian,” and shut the conversation down.

This same sleight of hand appears at the border. Enforcing asylum law is condemned as cruelty, while ignoring it is marketed as compassion. What was once a narrow, emergency protection was quietly transformed into a mass entry system. The distinction between seeking safety and exploiting loopholes is intentionally erased. Once definitions collapse, enforcement itself becomes morally suspect—even when it is legally required.

This isn’t about misunderstanding the rules. It’s about discarding reason when it stands in the way of political outcomes. Chaos is acceptable if it helps their cause. Destruction is justified if it feeds the narrative that America is fundamentally terrible.

When rules are unclear, power shifts away from law and toward discretion. And discretion is where politics thrives. Ambiguity protects those who want outcomes without justification and results without responsibility.

Federal programs provide perhaps the clearest evidence. When oversight is replaced with vague guidelines and performative enforcement, fraud doesn’t sneak in—it flourishes. Exploitation becomes predictable. Abuse becomes routine. And anyone who dares ask questions is accused of attacking the vulnerable rather than defending an intentionally broken system.

Here’s the hard truth: a society without standards does not become freer. It becomes arbitrary. And arbitrary systems always favor insiders, manipulators, and those closest to power.

Restoring order doesn’t require radical theories or sweeping reinvention. It requires something far more threatening to the status quo: clarity. Clear rules. Clear enforcement. Clear distinctions that ordinary Americans can understand and defend.

That’s why this fight isn’t really about policy. It’s about definitions. And it’s about truth.

And the side that wins that battle shapes everything that comes next.