By Brandon Smith

There is one ever-pervasive and dangerous downside to the idea of the "big political tent" – The idea that all groups in the tent are equally entitled to dictate the terms within the tent. This is rarely the case.

In its weakest form, the big tent is an all encompassing movement reliant on temporary alliances between largely disconnected groups. It's a gentleman's agreement to stop the backbiting for a time so that a greater threat can be defeated. The problem is, some members of the big tent are more dedicated to the cause than others, and some simply don't have the stomach to do what is necessary.

The reasons for their apprehension vary. Some people worry incessantly about optics, because true national reform is not as elegant and pure as they imagine it will be.  Preserving the heritage of a nation requires everyone to be on the same page to a point, and when a large contingent of people prefer total chaos it's naive to think that a solution can be achieved without force.

For example, when around 25% of the country is rabidly obsessed with the Marxist deconstruction of the west, is a peaceful solution possible? So far, any action we take to reverse the efforts of leftist zealots has been met with widespread lies, instigation, sabotage, mob violence, political corruption and attempted assassination.

We have seen what happens when leftists are in power. We don't have to guess anymore what life would be like under their thumb. We know.  Government sponsored mass censorship, vast indoctrination programs through media and entertainment, tyrannical efforts to force behaviors and socially engineer compliance, the ideological grooming of children, threats against people's jobs, families and freedoms.

The progressive movement is largely single minded – They are a hive that acts solely for the advancement of the group. They have a limited understanding of reality, no moral compass, no guilt, no shame, no sense of principles or honor, no doubts that they are correct in their beliefs and they are completely dedicated to winning no matter the cost. They will blindly follow the demands of their gatekeepers without question.

On the bright side, woke ideology has been crushed when it comes to the battleground of public debate. They can't win in a fair fight, which is why they assassinated Charlie Kirk and then cheered joyously over his corpse. They had an ecstatic experience because deep down they know they are losing the social discourse.

Kirk's murder was the moment they had been craving; leftists threw the chessboard into the dirt and screamed like sociopathic children: "We will win because the rules don't apply to us…"

As I've been saying for years, any group that opposes the woke mob will fail in the end if they can't set aside the delusion that this situation is merely a disagreement between countrymen. It's not. This is a war between utterly disparate enemies with completely different moral positions.

Diplomacy is a pipe dream and playing nice is a death sentence. It's time to stop pretending that our national relationship can be mended. It's over. In fact, it was over many years ago and only now are conservatives actually beginning to fight back. We're done worrying about political optics. Either we change things dramatically right now, or we'll never get another chance.

Some centrists, libertarians and moderate liberals are not as thick-skinned, though. When they joined the "big tent" they must have thought that Donald Trump securing the election was the final prize and that everything else would fall into place naturally. The election is a side note to the greater conflict taking place. It delays the inevitable melee but it doesn't necessarily prevent it.

Trump is a short term stop-gap and if leftists are lucky the worst they will ever see is some ICE agents tackling illegals or the National Guard patrolling the ghetto because Democrat city leaders won't police or prosecute properly. They have no clue what is coming if average conservatives decide to take matters into their own hands. In other words, Trump is being nice and leftists are oblivious.

The deportation of illegal immigrants is one subject that motivated the majority of Americans to stand against the progressive left and their globalist patrons. Democrat's were flooding the US with untold millions of illegal migrants on top of the millions that had already accumulated over the course of the past few decades. And guess what?  Nearly half of  Latino voters support deportations, too.

However, some centrists like Joe Rogan are getting cold feet over the situation. He argues that ICE operations are going too far and that arresting non-criminals and illegals present in the country for 20 years is a "horrific look".