The recent primary election victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “girl from the block” in the Bronx, reveals the hidden truth and power of what President Donald Trump is fighting for. Either America is a nation with defensible borders, which is able to keep its people separate and protected from the not-American remainder of the world – or we cease to exist.

Either we will remain the “Shining City on a Hill” that Ronald Reagan spoke of in such inspiring fashion, or the light of liberty was only a temporary spark that evil snuffed out through patience and naivete about what the not-American really wanted.

Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Socialist with a capital ‘S,’ shares more with Bernie Sanders than an ideology of death for the Average Joe who yearns to be free. She comes from one of the wealthiest liberal enclaves in America. Just as Bernie Sanders earns more than $1 million per year from various investments, Ocasio-Cortez was born with a silver spoon in her mouth in a community that has benefited from the prosperity of a free and capitalist nation.

Isn’t it amazing that out of all the major socialists who capture the media’s eye that none of them have ever come out of a successful socialist environment? You never seem to bump into those wealthy Cuban socialists, for some reason. They must all be hiding at their villas in France.

The Democrat Party’s sickness is the same sickness shared by America’s elites of both parties. They don’t want to see America prosperous and wealthy in the world by returning to a nation that reveres its actual heroes – the patriots who would sign a Declaration of Independence and strike out on their own.

The elites would rather see a bloody revolution of the proletariat, which, curiously, always seems to leave them alone with their wealth and power. The election of Ocasio-Cortez should be a warning to the open borders elites, however, who are currently pushing to “Abolish ICE,” tear down our last semblance of a border and become a not-nation of disparate groups picking over the scraps of what was once a distinct American nation.

Ocasio-Cortez’ Bronx neighborhood speaks volumes about the battle of the 21st century for America. On June 20th, Americans were horrified to watch the Trinitarios – a Dominican street gang – drag a 15-year-old boy around on the ground and hack him to death on surveillance cameras with machetes and knives.

Oops. They had the wrong guy. The Trinitarios had intended to hack some other poor sap to death with machetes, so it was a case of mistaken identity. At their arraignment, the seven grown Dominicans who killed the 15-year-old boy apologized to his family because they had totally meant to murder someone else.

The Dominican Republic is an entirely foreign country, separated from America by lots of water in the Pacific Ocean. Its Spanish-speaking nation occupies half of the same island as Haiti. For some odd reason, America has almost 20 percent of the entire population of Dominicans in the world living here within our borders. Who voted on this? Who decided that America would take in 20 percent (and counting) of the Dominican Republic?

When they made that decision, did they realize that machete attacks by Dominican street gangs are a wildly popular pastime in the Dominican Republic? A search for “machete fight Dominican Republic” on YouTube returns 1,840 results.

Human beings naturally want to be around those who are like them – those who share the same language, culture, blood. Dominican socialists congregate in the Bronx because they want to be around other Dominicans. They have no more desire to assimilate and become Americans than do the millions of Somalis now occupying Maine and Minnesota. (Who voted for that, by the way? Sheesh!)

What does all this have to do with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? She just upset Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), a seemingly unbeatable 10-term Democrat. As Pat Buchanan points out, Crowley was ensconced in what was once a district heavily under the control of the Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews who had come to America during previous waves of immigration. Therein lies the problem with mass immigration and pretending that borders don’t matter.

Ask yourself this question: How is it possible that the Democrat Party of New England was dominated by the Irish, Italian, Polish and Jewish immigrants? The answer is right in front of you. People naturally want to be around others of their own heritage and to protect their group, they engage in strictly identarian politics. This is not racism. It is simply human nature. Identity politics was Joe Crowley’s undoing.

Just as previous waves of Irish, Italian, Polish and Jewish immigrants pushed the Americans out of the Bronx and took over the Democrat Party, so too are the Dominicans, Venezuelans and other foreigners of this newest wave of immigrants pushing out Crowley’s generation. This is the way of the world and it is what happens to any people who decide, in cultural suicidal fashion, to replace their posterity with people from another nation.

The elites from the Bush family have tried to sell Americans on the idea that Hispanics are “natural” conservatives. They are strong on family values, they don’t particularly like abortion and they are repulsed by homosexual marriage (so is most of the world, for that matter). If we just give it time and bring them in in large enough numbers, the Bushes tell us, eventually it will lead to patriotic Republican electoral landslides. The same foolish argument could be made for Muslim immigrants when you think about it. Yet the opposite is true.

Instead of a burgeoning natural conservatism, all we’re seeing as a result of our open borders policies are Dominican-style violence, Muslim-style honor killings of women and girls, and new wave socialists like Ocasio-Cortez pushing out the previous-wave socialists like the Crowleys in the Democrat Party as they overtake them in sheer numbers.

Joe Crowley has pushed for open borders to allow in as many of Ocasio-Cortez’ relatives as possible. He has fought for open borders as hard as anyone. And look what it bought him.

The Democrats think that they can bring a crocodile to the party so that they can score political points and win elections. Crocodiles always keep eating, though, as Crowley’s defeat has shown us. President Trump recognizes this and seeks to secure our southern border. When he says, “If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a nation,” he’s correct. Just ask Joe Crowley.

However, don’t expect an honest answer from Crowley because he’s still suffering the sting of defeat. Whenever President Trump is criticized for engaging in “identity politics,” he should not be criticized for it. He should be held up as an American champion much like Benjamin Franklin, who also realized that foreign immigrants will always vote to advance their own interests over the interests of their host nation.