Dave Rubin’s recent sit-down with Scott Jennings should be waking up every red-blooded American who cares about the future of Western civilization. Jennings lays out a blunt blueprint: without firm leadership and a return to common-sense national priorities, countries like France and the UK will continue sliding into cultural and political chaos, and the American left will pull our own nation in the same direction if we let it.
The numbers in Europe back up that warning — migration is reshaping nations, not just demographically but politically and socially, and elites who shrug this off are betraying their citizens. Eurostat’s recent migration releases show millions moving into the EU in a single year, and net migration is now the main driver of population change in many countries.
Even where crossings have fallen thanks to tougher enforcement and shifting routes, the problem hasn’t gone away — smugglers adapt, routes realign, and political blowback grows. Frontex and independent reporting documented sharp declines on some routes even as others surged, proving that half-measures and moralizing from elites don’t solve the underlying crisis.
Back here at home, Jennings’ larger point lands: the Democratic Party’s flirtation with fringe gender and climate dogma, open-border romanticism, and reflexive opposition to law-and-order solutions has created an 80/20 problem. Voters care about bread-and-butter security issues like immigration and public safety, and polls show a yawning partisan gap on how big a problem immigration is and how it should be handled — not the woke slogans the left keeps recycling.
On culture questions, Americans are hardly signing up for radical reinventions of sex and identity pushed by activist elites; a steady plurality still rejects extreme gender ideology as morally acceptable, even while the media pretends unanimity. That disconnect matters politically: when parties chase loud special interests instead of persuading the nation, they lose the center and suffer at the ballot box.
Independent voters — the swing men and women who decide elections — are increasingly open to commonsense conservative positions on border security and basic truths about sex and society. Recent national polling finds substantial independent support for policies conservatives have long championed, which is why Democrats can no longer count on their old coalition if they double down on radicalism.
The remedy is obvious and patriotic: Republicans and conservative-minded Americans should keep pressing for secure borders, real enforcement, and a return to policy that honors tradition, common sense, and national cohesion. If Democrats want to be competitive in 2028 they’ll have to jettison their most extreme factions and reconnect with ordinary voters — otherwise the voters Jennings and Rubin describe will hand conservatives another decisive victory.
