Yesterday, we were hit in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota.  This is what our weakness has drawn in on us.  While there have been Muslim terrorist episodes in the U.S. before, these three have the flavor of opening an offensive, due in part to their coordination and the claims made for them.

We might guess at one of the mysteries of Islamic expansion after the death of Mohammed.  Certainly there were recognizable factors such as armies winning battles.  But this does not seem to explain the truly enormous amount of territory occupied and ancient cultures displaced.  Perhaps it was done by terrorism, by making the daily lives of the occupants of territory ultimately so uncertain that they became demoralized.  Perhaps the native cultures were not willing to respond to terrorism with equal savagery of their own.  We don’t know, but we can guess.

This possibility answers a question that otherwise is a mystery.  What do ISIS and militant Islam in general expect to gain by attacking the American heartland?  They cannot expect that a few isolated incidents are going to change the correlation of forces.  But perhaps they do.  Islam operates in a timeframe of centuries, if not millennia.  And Muslims may depend on their will, applied over those timeframes, to achieve conquest.  After all, if the entire globe is going to live under sharia, the U.S. must be one of those places that does so.

History shows that because we are a commercial society, from time to time, bad guys think they are tougher than we are – that if there is not a profit in it, we will run away.

And they do have some reason to think that.  The liberals running the country, particularly President Obama, obviously feel shame for America’s past success and dominance.  In fact, it is not too much of a stretch to say Obama ran for president to reverse that, to reduce America to “just another country.”  He appears to have achieved this with the way he was treated on arrival in China.

We have well known athletes bending the knee to America’s opponents, showing that they will not participate in our national ritual of solidarity.  Very likely, in folk memories of the past, Islamic militants saw this start to happen in societies they were targeting – leaders starting to bend the knee to them.  The way this behavior has been embraced by teammates in a leading part of American culture supports the idea of developing cravenness in the society at large, as does schoolboys starting to imitate this behavior.

And so we are attacked.  The authorities, who can take years investigating a criminal case, always seem to know immediately, as they do in this case, who has not done the crime: Muslim jihadis, another term for which is Muslim soldiers.

Obama will make the case for our enemies.  So we do appear to our enemies unable to summon the will, the self-respect to defend ourselves, our families, and our country.  Muslim militants have already seen this in Europe.

But Donald Trump has raised the Deplorables and given them voice.  The Deplorables are not ready to surrender.  Once Trump takes over the White House, the Deplorables are going to take over in Washington.  And our enemies are going to discover that they have no idea whom they have been dealing with.  Very likely, the situation having been allowed to get so out of hand, it will take, in Harry Truman’s words, “a rain of ruin from the sky the like of which has not been seen before on this earth” to set things right.  To ensure that the Constitution is not replaced with the Koran.  And that 2,000 years of Christendom is not wiped from history.

That is the way the situation lies.  That is what is at stake.