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Goldberg’s Chilling Hypothetical: A Look at the Left’s Authoritarian Impulses
In a jaw-dropping moment that has rocked the political world, CNN panelist and longtime anti-Trump voice Jonah Goldberg dropped a seriously unsettling hypothetical. During a panel chat, Goldberg—editor-in-chief of The Dispatch—openly mused about a future Democratic administration possibly using the military against American citizens. This chilling idea, masked as a rhetorical question, highlights the real authoritarian tendencies that conservatives have long warned about in the progressive left.
Goldberg’s comments came up during a discussion on violent crime in major cities run by Democrats. He tried to draw a false comparison between President Donald Trump’s careful use of federal resources to restore order and a potential Democratic president’s aim to confiscate constitutionally protected private property. The panel was specifically discussing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s recent executive order, a desperate attempt to block federal help amid his city’s rampant crime crisis.
In this context, Goldberg laid bare a progressive fantasy. He didn’t frame his alarming suggestion as a warning against government overreach, but rather as a logical precedent he seemed to endorse. He asked, “What is to stop—given the precedent that Donald Trump is setting—what is to stop a Democrat, a Governor Pritzker, a Governor Newsom, from saying, ‘We have a gun crisis in America, just as legitimate on the facts and arguments as a crime crisis, and we’re going to send the National Guard into states to go get their guns’?”
This statement showcases the liberal media’s relentless and dishonest narrative. Instead of engaging in a genuine debate about using federal tools to save lives in violence-ridden cities, the CNN panel quickly shifts to a dystopian scenario. Their primary concern isn’t about federal power in general; it’s about who wields that power and for what purpose. A strong federal response to protect citizens is “tyranny” when proposed by President Trump, yet it becomes an enticing option for their side to violate the Second Amendment.
President Trump’s actions are squarely focused on upholding law and order, a core responsibility of the executive branch. His administration’s consideration of deploying resources to Chicago is a direct response to the cries for help from citizens abandoned by their local leaders. It’s about supporting communities and assisting overwhelmed local authorities—not infringing on the sacred rights of law-abiding Americans. The President aims to confront criminal elements, not disarm peaceful citizens.
CNN is now floating the idea that the next Democratic President will order the military to go door-to-door to confiscate firearms from law-abiding Americans.
I sincerely hope they never get that stupid.
That's what you would call the start of our second Civil War. pic.twitter.com/PdFVwzErqg
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 2, 2025
The liberal media’s eagerness to entertain the idea of door-to-door gun confiscation is a deliberate smear tactic aimed at tainting President Trump’s lawful and necessary crime-fighting proposals. It’s classic projection, where the left accuses their opponents of the very authoritarianism they themselves dream of implementing. This kind of rhetoric is dangerously irresponsible and only serves to further divide the nation and stoke unnecessary fear.
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