What happened to America on July 16, 2018? Americans live history in real-time, spending their days at work or play, oblivious to the political tapestries being woven by the power brokers in Washington, D.C. But this day was different. Was it enough to tip our collective self-conscience saying we’ve had enough?

In time, the pundits and talking heads will spin it in both directions giving it a name. It may eventually be revered the same as “A date which will live in Infamy," D-Day, or even 9/11.

It started out the same as any of the other 88,000 plus republic days. The sun rose in the east and set in the west, but something happened along the way. For the first time in our recorded history, the 45th President of the United States acted on behalf of another country. America was cyber-attacked during the 2016 general election. The attack weaponized our social platforms into beds of deep-seated hatred and resentment, spreading rumor and innuendo that pitted one group against another. The president sided with the enemy, throwing our intelligence community and Justice Department under the proverbial bus in favor of the Russian orchestrated agenda.

Where do we turn when the leader of the free world gut kicks the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over dues, backs out of the Paris Accord, North American Free Trade Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Iranian Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty, starts a trade war with European Union trading partners over tariffs, and separates refugee families seeking asylum at the border? At what point does the leader of the free world start to look like a banana republic dictator or a satellite oligarch of the Russian Federation?

It’s time to contact our Republican congressmen and senator and ask them to be conservative, not complicit.

Ron Ernst,



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