Back in the Vietnam War era, many protesters on college campuses were proud Democrats who chanted slogans about “peace” and “love.” They flashed the peace sign and railed about the war and police brutality while professing support for “free speech.”
Never mind that the Vietnam War was escalated by a Democrat President and ended by a Republican President, these protesters claimed that they were “non-violent” and that the federal government, and especially Republican politicians, were trying to limit their freedoms.
Flash forward to today and the political world has totally changed. Democrats have become the pro-war party. For example, the only part of President Donald Trump’s recent speech to Congress that Democrats applauded was his statement about support for Ukraine. Under President Joe Biden, nothing was done to end the war in Ukraine, only prolong it.
Democrats hate President Trump’s outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his attempts to end the Ukraine war. They continually slander President Trump and claim he is “Putin’s puppet.” Of course, the truth is the antithesis of these ludicrous charges by warmonger Democrats. No President has been tougher toward Russia than Trump. The difference is that Trump wants peace and Democrats do not.
Trump has been a lightning rod for unhinged Democrats since the day he descended the golden escalators and announced his first presidential campaign. The epidemic of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” has never subsided.
In the 2016 campaign, there were multiple instances of violent Democrats attacking Trump supporters at his rallies across the country. In the 2020 campaign, leftists attacked police, burned buildings, and committed detestable violence in the “summer of love,” which was inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
One of those incidents occurred in Washington D.C. after President Trump delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican Party’s 2020 presidential nomination. A mob of leftwing protesters surrounded many Trump supporters, including U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and his wife.
Paul said the angry mob was “shouting threats to us, to kill us, to hurt us.” He claimed the mob represented “the new Democrat Party.” Paul credited Metropolitan Washington D.C. police officers for protecting his wife and him and saving their lives.
Sadly, unprovoked leftwing violence has only gotten worse in recent years and is reaching an apex today. Violent Democrats who hate unpaid Trump adviser and billionaire businessman Elon Musk have started attacking Tesla dealerships and destroying individual vehicles owned by average Americans. This violence has been the subject of jokes by leftwing celebrities, such as late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
It has become so dangerous that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a public service announcement to warn Americans “of nationwide incidents—arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to political grievances.” The warning also urges Americans to display “vigilance and awareness around Tesla locations.”
Fortunately, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced charges against several individuals involved in the Tesla attacks, calling them incidents of “domestic terrorism.”
Musk is flummoxed by the intense hatred. In a Fox News interview, he called his enemies “deranged” and claimed it must be “some kind of mental illness.” In fact, Musk is facing the type of crazed opposition that Trump has dealt with since he launched his presidential campaign in 2015.
The hate directed at Musk is not just from lunatic protesters or lame late-night “comedians,” he is also being assailed by Democrat Party “leaders,” such as former New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who labeled the billionaire a “Nazi” during a recent CNN interview. In response, Musk said, “I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound.”
Bowman is not alone as former Democrat Party Vice Presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, recently threatened violence against Trump supporters. On a podcast with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Walz claimed that “I could kick most of their a…”
Not to be outdone, leftwing commentator Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s The View, said that Democrats are at “an existential crisis right now. We need to meet energy with energy…Let’s fight them the way they fight.”
Well, Sunny, Republicans are not burning down cities or attacking car dealerships. Republicans are not engaging in hateful behavior like the employee of the Chatterbox Jazz club in Indianapolis. On March 14, a club employee threatened a Trump supporter with a baseball bat and threw the patron out of the establishment. Her crime was being “a Trump supporter” who proudly wore “a Trump hat” inside the club.
Another tactic of the left is “swatting,” which targets the homes of conservative media personalities. In these despicable cases, in which at least 12 have occurred in recent weeks, a hoaxer calls the local police department with a phony claim of distress or violence inside the home. The police respond, expecting to find a potential hostage situation or crime of violence. Instead, they wake up an innocent conservative media personality who may be mistakenly injured or killed in the encounter.
This is not occurring to MSNBC hosts or leftwing podcasters, as conservatives are targeted in these types of dangerous incidents. FBI Director Kash Patel said that his agency is investigating these events, which he labels “morally reprehensible” and vows “will not be tolerated.”
There have been few Democrats denouncing the “swatting” episodes or the attacks on Tesla dealerships. Instead, many Democrats are upset at their party leaders for not doing enough to stop the Trump agenda.
One leading Democrat, one of the party’s biggest stars and a potential U.S. Senate or presidential candidate, is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She represents the anger of many Democrats today. In a recent speech, she called for a Democrat Party that will “brawl for the working class” and “fights harder for us.”
At rallies nationwide, Ocasio-Cortez is receiving tremendous support from Democrats who do not want bi-partisan legislation or cooperation with President Trump. They desire confrontation, but, sadly, too many disturbed Democrats have gone beyond political debate and turned to violence.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at [email protected]
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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