Donald Trump Was Right, Again And the Western World Ignored the Warning

Nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump said something the political class and media elites pretended not to hear. Or worse, heard perfectly and chose to lie about.

“Islam hates us,” Trump said in 2016. He warned of “a tremendous hatred,” of an ideology so radicalized that it is often “hard to separate” extremists from those who quietly tolerate them. He called for vigilance, caution, and the basic right of a nation to decide who enters its borders.

For saying this out loud, Trump was smeared, mocked, and labeled everything from reckless to bigoted. The media insisted he was exaggerating. Democrats accused him of fear-mongering. The foreign policy establishment assured Americans they had everything under control.

They did not.

From Europe to the Middle East and now increasingly within Western nations themselves, the threat Trump described has become impossible to ignore. Radical Islamist terror attacks, antisemitic violence, and open celebrations of America’s decline are no longer fringe phenomena. They are visible, loud, and growing. The only thing more alarming than the hatred itself is how long Western leaders pretended it didn’t exist.

Trump never claimed every Muslim was a threat. What he said, plainly and correctly, is that radical Islam is uniquely hostile to Western values: freedom of speech, religious liberty, women’s rights, and the very idea of a pluralistic society. He warned that when governments refuse to name that ideology, they lose the ability to fight it. History has proven him right.

In Nevada, this matters more than many would like to admit. As a gateway state with a booming tourism economy, international travel, and major public events year-round, Nevada relies on strong national security and clear-eyed immigration enforcement. What happens when vigilance is replaced by political correctness? What happens when leaders are more afraid of offending activists than protecting citizens?

We are seeing the answer unfold across the Western world.

Under Democrat leadership, borders were thrown open, vetting standards weakened, and common-sense safeguards dismantled in the name of “compassion.” The result was not unity. It was chaos. It was importing conflicts from abroad and pretending they would magically dissolve once they crossed an American border.

Trump’s position was never radical. It was traditional. Nations have the right to defend themselves. Governments have a duty to protect their people. And no society survives long if it refuses to confront ideologies that openly seek its destruction.

“Wake up, Western world,” Trump urged.

That warning was not rhetoric. It was a plea rooted in realism.

Fighting back does not mean abandoning our values. It means defending them. It means enforcing the law, securing the border, demanding assimilation, and refusing to apologize for believing that America should put Americans first. It means acknowledging that tolerance does not require surrender.

The tragedy is not that Trump said these things. The tragedy is that so many leaders chose to ignore him.

Nevadans, like Americans everywhere, deserve leaders who tell the truth even when it is uncomfortable. Donald Trump did. Once again, he was right.

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