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Chris Salcedo didn’t mince words on his show when he warned that Democrats have abandoned the rule of law and the limits of the Constitution, and that charge landed like a thunderclap for millions of Americans who watch conservative media. Salcedo’s line captures the raw frustration felt by patriots who see a pattern of political actors treating law as a tool, not a constraint. His comments reflect a broader conservative alarm that Washington’s current elites view laws as optional when politics demands it.
That alarm isn’t coming from nowhere — conservatives have watched agencies that should be neutral get pulled into partisan fights, and former President Trump and other leaders have repeatedly accused the left of weaponizing the DOJ and FBI to silence opposition. This isn’t mere hyperbole to those who’ve followed the last several years; it’s an explanation for why average Americans distrust institutions that used to be trusted. If the legal system becomes a political cudgel, liberty and equal justice die by degrees.
Look at how state-level Democrats act when they get a chance: California’s power players openly skirt procedural limits and flirt with rewriting rules to suit their partisan ends, demonstrating the temptation to treat law as an obstacle rather than a guide. When governors and legislatures push past constitutional lines to engineer outcomes, it confirms the fears Salcedo voiced — that the left prefers power over principle. Patriots who care about federalism and the rule of law should be alarmed when state machinery is used to entrench a political class rather than defend citizens’ rights.
Even on the courts, conservatives sense a fight for the Constitution’s proper role. Legal scholars and commentators on the right argue the judiciary must correct decades of agency overreach and restore the founders’ balance between branches, not bow to bureaucratic expansion. When respected voices on conservative platforms celebrate a reinvigoration of constitutional limits, it’s because they see the courts as one of the last barriers between the citizen and unchecked administrative power.
This is not a call to chaos; it’s a plea for accountability. Salcedo’s enraged plea is the language of a citizen who’s watched allies and opponents play by two different rulebooks and want a single, honest system everyone must follow. The conservative case is simple: enforce the law equally, restore checks and balances, and stop turning justice into a political scoreboard.
To hardworking Americans across red states and blue, this debate is personal. When institutions fail to treat every citizen equally before the law, families suffer, entrepreneurs lose faith, and civic faith decays. Conservatives aren’t calling for vengeance; we’re demanding the same impartiality and fidelity to the Constitution that made America prosperous and free in the first place.
If Democrats truly are “done with the law,” as Salcedo warned, then every patriot has a duty to push back through the ballot box, the courtroom, and the town hall. The remedy is classic and American: elect leaders who respect limits, hold bureaucrats accountable, and rebuild institutions that serve the people, not party hacks. That’s the fight conservatives are ready to lead — not for power alone, but for the liberty our founders entrusted to us.
