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Fox News’ The Five has been sounding the alarm about what ordinary Americans already feel: a country on edge after a string of violent, terror-linked incidents that have rattled our public spaces and holiday gatherings. The panel pushed back hard against media narratives that, in their view, downplay the Islamist-inspired plots and violent lone actors until it’s too late for the victims.
The deadliest of these attacks ripped through New Orleans’ Bourbon Street on January 1, 2025, when an ISIS-inspired attacker plowed a vehicle into revelers and then opened fire, leaving more than a dozen dead and many more wounded in one of the most shocking acts of domestic terror in recent memory. The footage and bodycam releases underscore the savagery of that night and the vulnerability of soft-target tourist corridors that Democrats and city officials let remain exposed.
Federal agents didn’t wait for another tragedy to unfold: the FBI publicly disrupted an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve plot in North Carolina and arrested a suspect who had laid out plans to stab civilians at crowded locations, a grim reminder that the terror threat is both international and homegrown. Americans should be grateful for those disruptions, and yet the press often treats prevention as a footnote rather than the story.
The danger has not been limited to civilians; uniformed members of our armed forces were ambushed while performing a security mission in Washington, D.C., with two West Virginia National Guard members shot in a brazen attack last November. That incident and the resulting debates over federal deployments and urban security plans have pushed the White House and Pentagon into difficult choices about where to send troops and how to protect the public.
Yet instead of facing facts and bolstering defenses, too many in the mainstream media and on the left reflexively pivot to comforting rhetoric and political blame games, even while cities reel and families mourn. Democratic leaders offered condolences and called for calm, which is appropriate, but those platitudes should not replace serious conversations about border security, vetting, and the hard work of law enforcement.
Conservative Americans know what must be done: secure the perimeter, give police and the Guard what they need to keep streets and events safe, and stop treating national security as a partisan afterthought. We should demand transparency about intelligence failures and accountability for officials who prioritize optics over public safety.
This is not a time for half-measures or moralizing lectures; it is a time to stand with victims, back the men and women who actually keep us safe, and insist our leaders stop outsourcing our security to wishful thinking. Hard choices preserve liberty; weakness invites chaos.
