Over the past week, one of the more disturbing news stories to come out of the wheelhouse involved the apparent takeover of several apartment buildings in Colorado by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. On top of this, we then saw something similar happen in Chicago. American border security and social integrity, already in shambles, are being shown as practically non-existent in real time. Thanks to the massive influx of immigrants, we’re now formally seeing the rise of social and political balkanisation take place in America.
Legitimacy is one of those things that a government either has or it doesn’t. Either the rulers are able to maintain a moral mandate to exercise power that extends beyond reliance upon raw force or they aren’t. Having that moral mandate, however, comes with providing good leadership, safety, and so forth to your people. The Tren de Aragua takeovers are a stark reminder of the Regime’s worsening hold on this legitimacy. Think about what has happened. Portions of American soil – perhaps small right now, but which will grow in time to come – are more or less formally under the sovereignty of a foreign power (and a criminal gang, at that). When a government cannot maintain the ability to secure its own territory and protect its own people, it doesn’t really have a mandate to rule.
This is, however, only the latest chunk of the dam to fall out. The whole reason Tren de Aragua is there in Aurora and Chicago in the first place is because the US government has purposefully abdicated its responsibility to secure its own borders (one of the most basic functions of government). The Regime continues to import millions of “migrants” to replace the native-born American population. Many parts of this country have already been functionally colonised by various foreign peoples, who instead of assimilating like immigrants are “supposed” to do, just create their own enclaves. This is coupled with a worsening competency crisis across the board that means the people’s tax monies are wasted profligately, we can’t keep our military fully staffed, and we can’t even bring back home astronauts we send into space without needing help from private contractors. Every way we look at it, basic roles of government are being left unfulfilled. This means that there is a deep and pervasive legitimacy crisis for the Regime.