Chris Salcedo’s commentary on Newsmax is not empty rhetoric — it’s a rallying cry that mirrors a real policy push from the America First movement to rid our government of hostile ideologies and restore principled, patriotic public service. Salcedo and other conservative voices are making the obvious point: you cannot serve America faithfully if you cheer for its enemies or import their ideology into our institutions.
President Trump has repeatedly promised to use the tools of the presidency to keep communists and Marxists out of positions of power, including invoking Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar foreign ideologues from entering the country. This is not a stunt; it’s part of a Day One agenda Trump laid out to protect our nation from those who would actively undermine our faith, family, and freedom.
The broader America First agenda that the White House is implementing aims squarely at what conservatives call “draining the swamp” — freezing frivolous hiring, removing politicized diversity, equity, and inclusion apparatchiks, and demanding accountability from entrenched bureaucrats who have treated the federal government like a soft-power arm of the radical left. These are practical, necessary steps to return the federal workforce to service, not ideology.
That agenda has met resistance inside the administrative state, but conservatives are fighting back not with hysteria but with hard facts. Groups aligned with the movement have published accountability lists and pressured agencies to stop promoting agendas that amount to political activism dressed up as policy, a development Reuters has documented as part of a broader effort to expose and remove subversive influence from government. The choice is simple: loyalty to country or loyalty to ideology.
Critics will cry “witch hunt” but the law already recognizes the danger of totalitarian ideologies; U.S. immigration statutes have long barred membership in Communist organizations from being an acceptable path to citizenship or entry. Conservatives who remember the midcentury fight against genuine threats to our republic know that preventing enemies of liberty from flooding our institutions is common-sense national security, not authoritarianism.
Now is the moment for patriotic Americans to back leaders who will secure the Republic. Tell your elected officials they should support President Trump and the America First coalition in purging hostile ideologies and restoring competence, faith, and fidelity to our government. If we fail to act, the bureaucrats and activists who pushed radical ideas for decades will never surrender, and our children will pay the price.
