Chicago: Leviathan’s Favorite Crisis

Chicago is once again in the headlines. Trump has threatened to send in the National Guard, and the usual chorus of bureaucrats, academics, and blue-check pundits are shrieking about “authoritarianism.”

But let’s be honest: Chicago is the poster child of Leviathan’s failure—and it’s by design.

For decades, the ruling class has run that city into the ground. They’ve hollowed out its neighborhoods with crime, suffocated its businesses with regulation, and kept citizens trapped in dependency through failing schools and bloated social programs. And when the inevitable crime waves hit, they shrug and call it “tragic,” as though it were an act of God.

It’s not tragic. It’s intentional. It’s the business model: come up with bureucracies and process that are meant to entrench and empower the ruling class but never meant to actually solve problems.

Leviathan thrives on chaos. The more crime, the more justifications for new programs, new funding, new bureaucrats. Every shooting and every homicide becomes another excuse for the permanent class to expand its power while stripping the people of theirs. Chicago isn’t an accident and we should stop acting like it is.

So when Trump threatens to send the Guard into Chicago, what he’s really doing is breaking the script and threatening the business model. He’s daring to say that sovereignty and safety belong to the people, not to bureaucrats, NGOs, or the academic class feeding on taxpayer dollars. He’s reminding America that order is not racist, that safety is not oppression, and that the first duty of government is to protect its citizens.

The shrieks of the Left prove the point. They know that if Trump succeeds in restoring order in Chicago—or even forces the conversation—they lose one of their most powerful weapons: the illusion that only Leviathan’s bureaucracy and process can manage the mess.

Here’s the lesson: the ruling class does not fix problems. It manufactures them. It uses chaos and perpetual problems that are never solved to justify its existence. Chicago is not a warning of what happens when Leviathan fails—it’s proof of what happens when Leviathan wins.

And the only way out is what we’ve said all along: real political power, held long enough and wielded ruthlessly enough, to dismantle the machine and restore sovereignty to the people.