00:01:38.080For a while, the indignity at least purchased to speed.
00:01:41.780Flying still got you from one place to another faster than anything else, but incompetence, cost-cutting, and crumbling infrastructure have made significant delays routine.
00:01:52.560Travelers now regularly build an extra day into both ends of a trip because same-day arrival has become an increasingly reckless assumption.
00:02:01.520Adding four-hour TSA lines to that ordeal is more than just another inconvenience. It's simply insulting.
00:02:09.020To his credit, President Trump has moved ICE officers into airports to assist with screening.
00:02:15.180It's less satisfying than watching those officers execute deportation raids, but early signs suggest the move is working.
00:02:22.140Atlanta reportedly went from a five-hour delay on screening to roughly five minutes.
00:02:28.120ICE officers appear to be in good spirits, and the agency itself seems to be recovering some badly needed public goodwill.
00:02:35.540Tom Homan has even said that ICE agents will continue deportation operations while helping with TSA duties.
00:02:42.620It's not an ideal arrangement, but Trump has once again found a way to turn executive action into a political win.
00:02:49.640Still, the TSA mess raises a larger strategic question, one that extends well beyond the airports.
00:02:56.820During the COVID lockdowns, public schools across the country shut their doors.
00:03:01.580Conservatives have spent years correctly describing government education
00:03:05.200as a progressive propaganda machine and a patronage network for Democratic clients.
00:03:10.420Yet, when the system buckled, the right didn't use that opening
00:03:13.680to challenge the legitimacy of the whole structure.
00:03:16.980Republicans instead begged for schools to reopen as quickly as possible.
00:03:21.840Faced with the rare chance to dismantle an atrocious institution,
00:03:25.880conservatives instead demanded a return to normal.
00:03:29.020But normal was already a disaster, and the same pattern now applies to the TSA.
00:03:34.680The agency didn't even exist before 2001, and it's performed badly at almost everything it does.
00:03:41.160Most contraband still gets through the screening.
00:03:43.660The TSA hasn't really stopped a single terror attack.
00:03:47.000Like the public school system, it functions largely as a jobs program for Democrat clients
00:03:52.060while draining billions from taxpayers and making ordinary life demonstrably worse.
00:03:57.960Rather than using this crisis to argue for dismantling the TSA, Republicans have rushed to prove that it's indispensable.
00:04:06.780Look, the short-term political benefit is obvious enough.
00:04:10.280No administration wants to own airport chaos.
00:04:13.420But every such rescue reinforces a deeper assumption shared by both parties.
00:04:18.920Any government program once created becomes permanent.
00:04:22.080At this point, it's just clear that no one is ever going to vote himself into a smaller state.
00:05:15.380Even from a minority position, they're still willing to shut down travel across the entire country for the explicit purpose of keeping illegal immigrants here.
00:05:26.100Members of the Democratic Party understand that their coalition depends on dissolving the old American nation and distributing its assets to clients in exchange for votes.
00:05:35.500That agenda isn't particularly popular with the historic American population, but it's very attractive to new arrivals who didn't build the country and feel no inherited obligation towards it.
00:05:47.760To remain electorally viable, Democrats need an ever-expanding pool of imported voters dependent on public wealth transfers to cancel out the votes of the native population.
00:05:59.300If they can replace enough of the country, they can govern it indefinitely.
00:06:04.000Progressives celebrate that possibility whenever they're not dismissing it as a conspiracy theory.
00:06:09.720If one party is willing to grind national air travel to a halt to preserve its electoral advantage,
00:06:17.140while the other one won't even pass the most basic legislation for fear of offending someone,
00:06:23.500the country has a really, really big problem.
00:06:28.180Trump has pressed Congress to pass the Save America Act to strengthen electoral integrity and give Republicans a strategic advantage.
00:06:36.940Yet the GOP continues to drag its feet.
00:06:40.040One party behaves as if politics actually matters to them.
00:06:43.280The other one behaves as if politics is an embarrassing chore they go through in between collecting campaign donations.
00:06:50.660Democrats are willing to hold the nation hostage in airport security lines to secure victory.
00:06:56.880Republicans still act as though enduring a few nasty New York Times editorials is just too high a price to pay for saving their country.
00:07:06.640A movement that fears bad press more than national dispossession has surrendered the habits of self-government and forgotten what political power is for in the first place.
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