Commentary

On occasion, I read what Sarah Hoyt is thinking in her blog, According to Hoyt, and each time I read it with interest.  In March, I told you about her seeing herself as a politics addict, which she follows “more than is good for my brain and blood pressure.”

She claims not to fully understand politics, is not fond of it, and doesn’t trust those who engage in it.  Haven’t we all felt that way at times?

Her recent piece is a play on the Barbarians at the Gate.  Not the television movie about the millionaire CEO who decided to take the tobacco and food conglomerate company private.

Hers is a look at the United States today, ironically based on the attacks on the Roman empire, often used contemporarily to describe a threat of a rival group, which she entitled “Barbarians at the Gate: It is us at the Gate.”

We are reminded of the fall of the Roman empire, its fear of attacks by warriors who formed with the mass migration of Northern Europe, its economic troubles and corruption, the loss of traditional Roman values with the rise of Christianity, but also the rise of the Eastern empire and the decline in its once envied military.

She brings her readers back to today.

“They lied to you.  They lied to all of us, these “progressives,” whose greatest goal was always to take us back to the mass-everything of the late industrial age, in the early twenty-first century,” she begins.

She refers to progressives as “the enemy … which always trades in lies,” who when they are “proven wrong” they “invent new complicated theories and double down.”

“Setting (their) course for the future,” she writes of their ruling by “experts,” believing “the common man was unable to rule himself, and needed the educated elites to build the future while standing on the people’s necks.”  One can easily recognize Build Back Better and the Green New Deal in her writing.

“Every single institution, every single person has been corrupted by this idea that government should be by experts, and top down, center out.  But it has never had any business here … and we’re part of this mess, which the last two years, and the maladministration of the Biden Junta have exposed as not only stupid and erratic, but realistically dangerous and potentially civilization ending,” Hoyt writes.

“So it’s come to this,” she notes, “the Supreme Court, in three landmark rulings, has started to lay an ax to the foundation rule by so-called experts.

Of the Court’s decision on requiring regulatory rules to be established by legislation, she refers to the “bureaucrats who suckled at the tit of the Marxism-enabling maleducation of the last century.”

She concedes that it won’t be easy as we challenge “the gate,” but she has “great faith in the American people and the tattered remains of constitutional law.

“It is time to make sure what’s to come is us, Americans.  We were always the barbarians at the gate of the establishment left.  And now the ax has created some breaches in the door, and we’re pouring in.  We must be about making sure the right things are erected in the aftermath,” says Hoyt.

Citing the “body blows” the establishment has suffered, she believes its collapse is evident, and looking ahead to the midterms, Hoyt says, “we must be ready to take the weight.”

A barbarian in his own right, former President Trump led the attack on “The Swamp,” and his success in naming three conservatives to the Supreme Court has paved the way for us to further challenge the establishment come November.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.