Weak Men And Hard Times: The SAVE Act As A Tipping Point
Unless the President and Republican leaders become strong men on immigration and the SAVE Act, we are in for some very bad times.
Vince Coyner | March 5, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Like most red-blooded American men, I think about sex and the Roman Empire numerous times every day. In recent years, I’ve added the above quote to that set.
As I think back, the different elements of it were probably floating around in some amorphous, uncoordinated morass in the back of my mind for years, never bothering to coalesce. No doubt the reason they didn’t is that for most of my life, America was enjoying the “Good times.”
Good doesn’t mean perfect, of course. For the first three quarters of my life, times were far from it. From Vietnam to issues of race to the rusting of the manufacturing belt to economic tumult to the crime wave of the 80s and 90s, much of that period felt like Americans were living on a roller coaster. But overall, life was forward-looking and optimistic.
Slowly but surely, things usually seemed to be moving in the right direction in the long run. Japanese imports may have turned the Big Four into the Big Three, but they helped improve quality and innovation in the industry. Computers came along and started making everything from writing term papers to shipping logistics easier and more efficient. Among other things, transportation deregulation, the collapse of Ma Bell, and the growth of franchising brought about an increase in economic standards and a spectrum of lifestyle offerings that no humans had ever imagined, never mind enjoyed.
But then we got Barack Obama. He had a goal of transforming America...and he succeeded.
This was the beginning of the time when Americans stopped being able to debate ideas openly. Once Obama emerged on the stage, everything became about race and victimization. On virtually every issue, if someone disagreed with the administration on anything, it was racist.
I’m not suggesting it was all Obama’s fault. While he is most certainly a race grifter, the reality is that the silencing of debate by calling someone a racist was also enabled by Nancy Pelosi and every other Democrat in America.
But sadly, it didn’t stop there. Beginning in 2008, the Democrats—always the party of professional victimization, including their offspring, the KKK—perfected a tool for suppressing debate: wall-to-wall victimization.
From that point forward, Republicans were racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, antisemites, Islamophobes, and probably more, all at once. And suddenly, the spectrum of issues for which debate was verboten because Republicans were characterized as the living, breathing incarnations of Nazis, covered pretty much everything. From education to social net programs to airline safety to community policing, to the butchering of children, literally every single issue on the table was infected with the victimization cancer, where debating on the merits was no longer tolerated.
And that brings me back to the hard times. We are very much living in those hard times now. Not in the sense that Americans are destitute and the economy is a broken husk as it was during the Depression. The economy is actually doing fairly well, but make no mistake, we are careening into an abyss.
What do I mean by that? We have become a nation where logic and rationality no longer exist and where no one seems capable of or willing to do anything about it. Across the country, we have states that not only pretend boys can be girls and vice versa but are enabling schools and hospitals to butcher children without their parents’ consent and against their wishes.
We have federal judges deciding they can exercise executive authority with impunity.
We’ve seen the exposure of trillions of dollars of waste and fraud in federal programs, yet a GOP Congress keeps funding them.
We have criminals with rap sheets a mile long, but they’re relentlessly released to continue to terrorize communities.
We had an election that was stolen, a president who was targeted, and hundreds of citizens persecuted for J6. And not a single person has been held accountable.
Over the quarter-century following 9/11, we imported millions of Muslims who practice a religion that is diametrically opposed to our First Amendment, yet we’re told we must be tolerant.
Perhaps nowhere is all this dysfunction crystallized more than in the embarrassing spectacle of a Republican government unable (or unwilling) to pass the SAVE Act, something that 95% of their constituents support, as do 70% of their opponents. Ensuring honest elections—at 85% support—is possibly the most unified issue in American history, and yet the issue hits a brick wall because a handful of GOP Senators don’t like President Trump’s bombastic style, and Democrats don’t care about honesty.
America seems to have become impotent in addressing real, concrete problems in citizens’ lives. This is what happens when weak men refuse to do what’s right for fear of being called names.
Donald Trump is brash and full of bravado, but he’s in charge of the Justice Department, and this is happening on his watch. What’s more, just last week, the “Deportation” president let a communist come into his office and convince him to release an illegal alien who’d been arrested by ICE.
It may sound strange to call Trump weak, particularly when he flexes muscles internationally, but here at home, he has let himself be corralled on the issues that will define our future. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, John Thune talks a lot but lets himself be manhandled by a semi catatonic octogenarian in a wheelchair. And, if we’re being honest, the reality is, he’s simply too much of a coward and or a fool to act in America’s best interests...or more likely, he’s owned.
A rational, normal person looking at this can’t help but wonder if there is any hope... Can the system be fixed within the current framework? If not, what then?
I think we may just see this summer. The tipping point upon which all the above rests is election integrity. If the SAVE Act fails and patriotic Americans realize that the GOP has basically sold out the country to elite grifters who manipulate elections from the school board to the White House, I wonder if we may not see large-scale protests and more by strong men across the country who have decided enough is enough.
It would be a lot easier if Congress just passed the SAVE Act. It would be nice to get back to just thinking about sex and the Roman Empire like a normal American man for a change.
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