The High School Bully works for ICE

Some people never reach a mature mental age. They grow older, but they do not grow up. They remain trapped in a world of macho fantasy, where dominance substitutes for intelligence and force replaces thought. To them, every problem looks like a nail, and the only tool worth respecting is a bigger hammer—or a gun.

Donald Trump is one of these people, and the culture he has empowered reflects his arrested development. His ICE agents are not an accident; they are a product. Who else would willingly harass, intimidate, and brutalize innocent people while claiming they are “just doing their job”? You already know the answer. You know the type.

We see them locally, too. At the recent Democratic protest in Payson, they announced themselves in predictable ways—rolling coal in their trucks, flipping the bird, sneering as they passed. No arguments. No ideas. Just reflexive hostility. This is not political disagreement; it is emotional immaturity on display.

Who are these mental midgets? You guessed it. They are the high-school failures who never learned to read critically and discovered early on that thinking is hard work. They are the bullies—and the bullies’ henchmen—who learned that intimidation feels easier than understanding. When confronted with complexity, history, or empathy, they respond with rage, mockery, or violence.

This is not merely a Trump problem. It is an American failure. It is the failure to educate for citizenship rather than obedience, for reasoning rather than reflex, for empathy rather than dominance. When a society stops valuing thought, it starts celebrating cruelty. When ignorance is rewarded with power, brutality soon follows.

We are now living with the consequences. A nation led by emotional adolescents will behave like one—lashing out, blaming others, and confusing aggression with strength. Until we confront this cultural and educational collapse, the bullies will keep marching, convinced that their immaturity is patriotism and their cruelty is courage.

The rest of us know better. And knowing better means refusing to normalize this behavior, refusing to excuse it, and refusing to surrender our democracy to people who never learned how to grow up.