The title of this week’s piece comes from that inimitable paragon of morality and propriety, the Reverend Al Sharpton.  Return with me back to 2014.  Sharpton, who even then had a show on MSNBC, was exhorting his tens of viewers to do what the Left does best – Resist.  But in rallying his troops, the Right (or is it Left?) Reverend spoiled his sentiment by tripping over his teleprompter.  Who could forget the depth of his wisdom?  “But resist we much.  We must and we will much about that be committed.”  Amen Brother.

And for that, MSNBC pays the Rev $1.5 million.  And that’s on top of the more than $1 million a year the Rev skims from from his own charity.  You know what they say, charity begins at home.  And $500,000 of the total in the coffers of his charity came from the Kamala Harris campaign, so consider it payment for services rendered.  But Al is still on the air, stirring the pot, and fomenting “resistance.”

The Rev’s ratings may not be very high, but there’s no doubt that segments of the insane asylum commonly known as the Democrat Party have taken the Rev’s wisdom to heart, and have dedicated themselves to the “resist, we much” proposition.

Most of the resistance is aimed at the Trump Administration’s efforts to enforce our immigration laws, and to Trump’s use of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops in so-called Blue cities.

First it was Washington, D.C.  Trump sent in the National Guard and surged federal law enforcement to drastically reduce crime that was out of control.  As with all things liberal, the Leftists running the Capitol District denied that there was a problem, and reflexively opposed Trump’s action because they oppose all things Trump.

As usual, it was the Leftists who created the problem.  Over about ten years, the murder rate in D.C. doubled, to 27.4 per 100,000, even higher than the rate in that other Hellhole, Chicago.  More about that city later.  D.C. also permitted juvenile offenders to run amok by failing to prosecute violent offenders as adults.  Trump came in, kicked ass, took names, and crime in D.C. is under control.

Chicago was next.  ICE conducted operations to remove violent illegal aliens.  The City and State resisted.  The Trump surge of federal agents and National Guard to combat crime came next, because crime in Chicago was rampant.

Every weekend, scores of residents are shot by the violent gangsters who the City permits to prey upon Chicagoans.  Shootings Are so frequent they have become routine, like sports scores.  “This weekend, 22 were shot and 4 were killed.”  Holiday weekends are double-headers.  Over Labor Day weekend, “58 shot and 8 killed.”

President Trump surveyed the carnage, and decided that something had to be done.  Trump announced, “We’re going in.”  “Chicago is the worst most dangerous city in the World, by far.  Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet.  I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC. Chicago will be safe again, and soon.”

The elected officials in the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois resisted.  Much.  Governor Pritzker called Trump’s remarks “unhinged.”  Pritzker said the president’s plan was “unprecedented and unwarranted.  It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is un-American.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, he who sports a 7% approval rating, said he had “grave concerns about the impact of any unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Chicago.”  He called Trump’s approach “uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound.” Johnson also said that deploying the National Guard in Chicago could “inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement.”  Bullshit.  The residents can’t have tensions with a group they rarely see.

Mayor Johnson called the federal actions unconstitutional and politically motivated.  This was stupid in the extreme.  Trump didn’t go into Chicago to win votes there.  It’s just the opposite.  Trump is using his political capital to protect the helpless citizens that State and local officials have abandoned.  He didn’t have to do it, but he places more value on innocent lives than the people elected to protect them.

Then Pritzker doubled down.  He has threatened to prosecute federal law enforcement agents for the crime of doing their jobs.  “Unlike Donald Trump, we keep our promises.”  “We will not stand idly by if he decides to send the National Guard to intimidate Chicagoans.”  “Action will be met with a response.”  Unless that response is to get his fat ass out of the way, the Gov’s going to have a problem.

Pritzker wasn’t kidding.  He sued Trump, and got a leftist federal judge to halt the National Guard deployment.  Temporarily.  Then an appeals court affirmed the injunction – for a short time.  Then the same court reversed itself and removed the injunction.  Perhaps somebody called the court and said, “Hey, remember that Constitution you swore to uphold?  It’s the one that authorizes the Commander in Chief to federalize the National Guard.  Right, that Constitution.”

But “resist they much.”  The real question is, exactly what is it that  they’re resisting?  Mayor Johnson says the federal action is un-American.  Is it?  No.  The idea that the highest duty of government is to protect its citizens in their homes and on the streets is the essence of the American ideal.

And let’s put Americanism aside.  How about common decency and common sense.  More than 4,000 Chicagoans have been murdered under Governor Pritzker’s reign.  He doesn’t care.  He has neither common decency nor common sense.

Okay, if he has no sense, how about self-interest?  The Democrats who run these resistant cities rely on the votes of People of Color.  And it is those people who bear the brunt of Blue City officials’ failure to protect them.  They are the murder, robbery, and rape victims.  Morons like Pritzker and Johnson are destroying part of their base.

Unfortunately for the helpless victims, they’re not the part of the Democrat base that the leftist elected officials pay attention to.  They only listen to leftist billionaires, crazed Socialists, college educated grievance mongers, labor union thugs, and childless cat ladies.  They just don’t have the time to worry about thousands of poor black victims.

The “resist we much” crowd is nothing less than insane.  Their mania to oppose anything and everything that President Trump does has even caused them to abandon the first principle of State and local governing.  That principle is this – If the federal government is willing to do an expensive and dangerous job for you, and is willing to pay for it, you let them do it.  Never mind let them do it.  You get your Senators and Representatives to make sure the Feds do it and pay for it.

In this case they’re willing to give all that up simply to resist Trump.  In so doing they’re resisting lower crime, public protection, lower taxes, a more satisfied electorate, and humanity itself.  In their zeal to resist Trump their helpless constituents are simply collateral damage.  They’re nuts, and the public has noticed.  Republicans have gained 3 million more registered voters, while Democrats have lost 2 million.  If Democrats don’t snap out of it and begin to do their jobs they’re liable to disappear as a political Party.  Anyone remember the Whigs?  The “resist everything” psychosis is sowing the seeds of their own destruction.  Me thinks they resist too much, and all of them ought to be committed.