Judge Orders Trump to Fly Terrorist Gang Members Back to U.S.; O.K. Corral Moment with Petty Dictators Comes Closer, by John Zmirak

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Classic Westerns thrive on gradually ratcheting tension. Think back to High Noon or Tombstone: A community’s getting terrorized by the ruthless and the lawless, who have either coopted or cowed the official “lawmen,” leaving honest citizens defenseless. The public’s only hope is that some Outsider, a crack shot with a clean heart, will step in to protect them and purge this den of thieves.

But he’s not eager to fight. He has seen too much bloodshed before. The Outsider would rather lay down his gun, find somebody to love, and pursue a peaceful life.

But the violence keeps escalating. The outlaws’ thuggishness gets more brazen the longer they get away with preying upon the populace. The hapless sheriff lets one of the bandits humiliate him in public. He shrugs and slinks back home just to save his skin. The anarchy intensifies as women and children start getting hurt.

And the Outsider watches this all, silently seething, as his sense of justice and decency gradually overwhelm his weariness, to the point that he finally buckles on his gun. (This usually happens around 90 minutes into the film, which screenwriters call the beginning of Act III.) At that point, the Outsider sacrifices his dream of peace and quiet and risks everything he has to protect the innocent and hunt all the predators down. …

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