Liberalism, progressivism, Democratic Party — they represent a normal part of each of us: a normal part, but mostly a dark, enfeebling, and destructive one. They represent the longing in each of us, to varying degrees, to remain a child.

Charles Shultz spoke about it in one of his great Peanuts cartoons. Charlie Brown lay there on the backseat of a car, looking up through the window to the heavens. Up front were his dear mom and dad. He thought about how utterly serene, safe, and peaceful the whole scene felt. But he and each of us know, or should know, that this part of life, beautiful childhood, comes and goes quickly. The longing for that tender feeling and worldview is there in all of us, whether we are 9, 40, or 90. However, if we allow it to capture our adult minds, it's usually a recipe for a troubled life — typically a recipe for much pain, darkness, and destruction.

That's what happened recently in Texas and New York. Some Americans in New York were captured under the rules and perspective of the child — the liberal, the Left, the Democrat Charlie Brown world. Some other Americans, in a Texas church, faced it in the world of the adult American — now called a conservative. It was what I call a perfect example of a true project: the 1602 Project from Texas.

Those still in the boy world of Charlie Brown want to see life as a sweet world, always replete with kind, comforting, embracing, loving moms and dads. They want to see the world as the heavenly field where the lion lies with the lamb. They want to see the world free of any yucky, nasty guns, knives, bombs, tanks, soldiers, drones, or missiles. That's why the boys and girls of the New York Democratic Party make laws of the child, laws essentially disarming the citizen and the adults who love our adult Second Amendment. They make such laws to make the world fit into their imaginations of how the would should be rather that how it really is.

This is where the poison of adults acting as children comes into play. It comes to darken, weaken, and often destroy our adult lives. This is the poison that then leads dozens of unarmed men and women at prayer in a synagogue in Monsey, New York to face evil with the only thing they were permitted to have by their lords of the child Left: a coffee table. The Charlie Brown Party, the boy and girl Democratic Party, daily now creates these fantasies, these visions of Charlie Brown back seat drives and farcical coffee table tools to face our adult American world.

It's 1,602 miles from Monsey, New York to White Settlement, Texas. It's a world of values and maturity away. It's the new standard unit of the distance we now need to travel in America from childhood to adulthood, New York to Texas. There, in a very different place from New York, in that church, were adult, strong, free, brave, self- reliant American men and women who can undoubtedly still sense the memory and beauty of the child spirit in the back seat of the car, but who have given up such childish notions. That is why, at their core, they reject liberalism, progressivism, leftism, and the Democratic Party. They reject it because they embrace Americanism with its corresponding freedom, goodness, responsibilities, and adulthood.

Armed they were with the maturity, wisdom, and knowledge to know we live here in reality, here on Planet Earth, where men are and will always be deeply flawed creatures. They were armed with the maturity and wisdom to understand that for a man to be truly free, he must have ready access to very assaulting weapons. They were armed with the maturity to know they cannot and must not expect government to have sole or primary care for such basic needs as life and limb. They were armed with adulthood and its wisdom because they know that monsters dressed in the garb of human frame will always roam our streets looking to shoot, rape, maim, stab, plow over in a truck, blow up, poison, gas, and now even behead the innocent. They understand that the fantasy of the kind mommy and daddy government may, often does, turn into the nightmare tyranny of dictators, tsars, chairmen, and other thugs and barbarians in various garb. They reject the childish notion that men are born by nature good. They know the utter foolishness of the idea that with just the right new "commonsense gun law," all will be beautiful and peaceful back there in the back seat of Mom's and Dad's car again. They understand the mature truth and reality that when you disarm the good guy, the monsters and tyrants and well meaning lovers of control are the only ones left with the weapons.

Hence, 1,602 miles away, these American men thank Heaven our founders recognized that our land was to be a land of adults and that each of us has a God-given right to own and conceal and carry a very powerful and very assaulting weapon. That's why, in six seconds, these proud, non-toxically masculine adult men pulled out that great American tool of liberty. Then, with great moral basis and good old American efficiency, they vanquished some terrible evil that rose up again in our land.

That, in a nutshell, is my Texan 1602 Project for the New Year: to hope and pray that no progressive, man or woman, of the Left (i.e., Democrat ) with his child world gets more of a hold of America than he or she already unfortunately has.