(DC Pundit) – In what may be the biggest “oops” moment of the year, former Secretary of State John Kerry finally said the quiet part out loud: Donald Trump was right about the border. Yes, the same border Trump fought tooth and nail to secure, while Democrats spent years pretending it wasn’t a problem.
During an interview on BBC’s “Reflections” podcast, Kerry openly admitted that Democrats failed to protect the U.S. border and acknowledged something every sane American has known for decades: without a secure border, you don’t have a country.
“The first thing any president should say, any president, or anybody in public life, is, without a border protected, you don’t have a nation — I believe that,” Kerry confessed. “If you’re going to define your nation, you have to have a border that means something.”
Well, that’s awkward. After years of mocking Trump’s tough stance on immigration, the Democrats’ former climate czar and one-time presidential nominee is now echoing the very words Trump built his two presidential campaigns on.
Even the BBC’s James Naughtie couldn’t help but point out how much this sounded like a Trump talking point. “He was right,” Kerry admitted without hesitation. “The problem is we all should have been right. Everybody should have been right, doing the same thing, all moving in the same direction.”
Of course, “being right” doesn’t mean much when your party spent years allowing the border to descend into chaos while demonizing anyone who dared suggest enforcement might be a good idea. Kerry even acknowledged that he told President Biden directly that the Democrats had completely missed the mark on immigration.
“They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged, under siege,” he said, offering a surprisingly blunt assessment of an administration that routinely turned a blind eye to illegal immigration, even as record numbers crossed the border and overwhelmed local communities.
Kerry didn’t stop at immigration. He was also asked whether it might have been wiser for Biden to bow out of the 2024 race before being pushed aside by his own party. “I think in retrospect that’s pretty clear, it answers itself,” Kerry noted, subtly acknowledging what the entire country saw coming a mile away: Joe Biden stayed in the race too long and it cost the Democrats dearly.
Trump understood that a nation without borders is no nation at all. The left, blinded by virtue-signaling and open-borders fantasies, mocked him.
Trump was right. Again.
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