Letter to the Editor, Sheboygan Press
Published April 12, 2025

When Democrats vote to “save democracy,” consider its basic definition: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”

Fortunately, our founders, probably Ben Franklin, continued, “Liberty is a well-armed lamb, contesting the vote.”

That insight resulted in a new constitutional republic that uses the law as the well-armed lamb who contests the vote, limiting the savagery of wolves and safeguarding the peacefulness of lambs. In so doing, they created the freest, most dynamic and yet the safest society the world has ever known.

Lambs and wolves alike rushed into this new country seeking both liberty and law — laws so necessary for everybody’s self-interest that they can pass the scrutiny of two contentious houses of congress and the veto of an elected president — constitutional laws with the power to protect the weakest of the flock while freeing the energy of the pack.

Wolves now torching their beloved Teslas to punish Musk’s DOGE for exposing the appalling graft in Democrat federal agencies tell us what the wolves are having for lunch. It’s past time for the lambs on the menu to act.

Lions in Congress and on the Supreme Court must join the lions in the Trump administration and delete entire lawless agencies and exterminate any black-robed wolf who strays from its jurisdictions to prey on the flock.

American lions — lambs well-armed with constitutional law — have made America great before and must do so again.

Art DeJong

Sheboygan