Tom Homan Tells One Truth and One Lie
- john raymond
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Tom Homan, "border czar" and current mouthpiece for Trump 2.0’s immigration crackdown, managed to speak both truth and falsehood in the same breath. In a recent interview, he complained that the protests erupting across Los Angeles were “making it more difficult” and “more dangerous” for federal agents to carry out their duties. Let’s be clear: the first half of that statement is true. The second half is a calculated lie.
Yes, it is true that protesters—meaning the actual people of this nation, exercising the freedoms guaranteed to them by the Constitution—are making the job of authoritarian bureaucrats like Homan harder. That is the point. That is what protest is for. That is what the First Amendment protects. Public dissent is meant to slow the gears of machinery that acts without consent. When the people rise, they should become an obstacle to policies carried out in their name but without their mandate.
But no, it is not the protesters who make this moment dangerous. The danger flows from those who unleash militarized agencies on peaceful cities. It comes from the cold hands of men like Homan and the Russian asset he calls a boss—a man who wields executive power not as a servant of the Constitution, but as an enemy of its principles. The real threat to safety, to civil order, and to the republic itself, comes not from those raising their voices in defense of human dignity, but from those who have spent years trying to silence them.
And so it’s time for an impromptu civics lesson—one Homan and his ilk seem desperate to avoid.
The people’s business was never meant to be easy. That’s not a bug of our system—it’s a foundational feature. The Byzantine architecture of the Constitution, with its co-equal branches, its checks, its balances, its layered jurisdictions and veto points, was deliberately designed to constrain the raw will of any one man or party. The Founders, wary of kings and strongmen, built a system meant to frustrate impulsive power, to slow down the gears of action until consensus could be formed, until justice—not merely efficiency—could prevail.
This was always meant to be hard work. Democracy is slow. It is noisy. It requires negotiation, persuasion, and compromise. Only a craven soul—a coward looking for shortcuts to dominion—would suggest otherwise. The American system was built to resist tyranny, and it does so by making hasty governance difficult.
So yes, Tom Homan, the protesters are making your job harder. That’s democracy doing its job. If you want obedience, you’re in the wrong country.
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