Every night for the last two weeks, I have had explosions go off outside my Southern California home. Was it the invaders that MAGA politicians insist have infiltrated our country with the intent of destroying it? Maybe it was MS-13 or Venezuelan gangs. Perhaps it was a cartel or it was an Islamic terror cell. The reality is that it was the nightly Disneyland fireworks show.

Of course, politicians might have told you that Los Angeles and its vast surrounding areas were a war zone that warranted the National Guard, Marines and scores of federal agents who seem to not want to show their badges or their face. And of course, we have seen the arresting of people at immigration hearings, job sites, and off the street which caused Southern California residents to protest in the first place.

The justification for these actions started off as benignly as cracking down on illegal immigrants. Then it turned into criminals. And now everyone from Vice President JD Vance to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is using the term “invader.” This preposterous descent from immigrant to invader shows just how afraid Republicans are of demographic changes in this country, even if those changes help this country thrive.

As a Marine veteran and history major in college, I know a thing or two about invasions. We all know the most famous invasion, the Allied assault on Normandy. We may have learned about Napoleon's failed........

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