Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado took to CNN this week to share a rather revealing family anecdote: his kids and grandkids simply cannot fathom the idea that Donald Trump ever occupied the Oval Office as a normal, legitimate president. The subtext was crystal clear. For Bennet and his fellow travelers in the ruling class, Trump remains an existential aberration, a glitch in the system that polite society, especially their own offspring, must be conditioned to view as illegitimate. This isn’t just political rhetoric; it’s generational programming designed to cement the idea that any challenge to the permanent Washington establishment is inherently abnormal and dangerous.
For the Second Amendment community, this attitude should set off every alarm. When political elites openly declare that millions of Americans who supported a constitutionally elected president are outside the bounds of normality, it becomes far easier to justify stripping those same Americans of their rights. We’ve seen this movie before. The same voices that clutch pearls over Trump’s rhetoric have spent years labeling gun owners as “deplorables,” “bitter clingers,” and latent domestic terrorists. Bennet’s comments reinforce the growing divide between coastal political royalty and the millions of law-abiding citizens who view the Second Amendment as the ultimate bulwark against exactly this kind of arrogant, top-down rewriting of American reality.
The implications are straightforward: if your children and grandchildren are being taught that supporting constitutionalists and Second Amendment defenders is somehow abnormal, then the cultural ground is being prepared for ever more aggressive assaults on the right to keep and bear arms. Whether through red flag laws, assault weapon bans, or the slow erosion of shall-issue permitting, the goal remains the same, disarm the “abnormal” segment of the population that refuses to bend the knee to elite consensus. Bennet’s casual family confession is a reminder that the fight for the Second Amendment isn’t just about hardware and policy, it’s about rejecting the notion that loving liberty and self-reliance makes you some kind of national outlier. Our kids and grandkids deserve better than to inherit that lie.
