Over the past year, Gen Z has experienced an unprecedented shift to the right. In particular, Gen Z men shifted to the right by 13 percent from 2020 to 2024. More recently, the assassination of Charlie Kirk has become an inflection point for young conservatives. But where to now? The younger generation is not shifting to the right because of low taxes or deregulation. They are not shifting to the right for any concrete policy point. It is important to understand that the reason behind Gen Z’s right swing is that this generation, more than any other, has a front row seat to the visceral decay of America. (RELATED: The Role Model Generation Z Needed — Charlie Kirk) If Generation Z wants to seriously make a change to put America and her people first, they must have a seat at the table. Gen Z’s conservative bent stems from one event more than any other: COVID. The COVID lockdowns prevented my generation from engaging in social interaction during the most crucial developmental phases in our lives. Worse still, the COVID lockdowns coincided with a period of rampant social media use among my generation. When Gen Z was not forced to interact, they shelled up online. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Exposes a Generation in Crisis) COVID spawned four years of boys in girls’ locker rooms, shameless DEI initiatives, and unprecedented illegal immigration. The culmination of 2020-2024 was an erosion of the societal basis of America, the likes of which we have never seen before. My generation was on the frontlines of America’s cultural baptism in critical theory, DEI, and the products of the Frankfurt School. More than any other, Gen Z was exposed to the most shameless of these ideologies. At the ballot box, these uniquely un-American ideas were rejected. The zeitgeist of a Gen Z conservative is markedly different from older conservatives. We are based on one guiding principle: America is a uniquely amazing country; therefore, in every way, America and her people must be put first. For decades, this simple principle has been violated in every conceivable way. From endless foreign wars to economic policies that benefit elites who treat America as nothing more than a means to help amass their own power. The leaders of our nation have violated the sovereignty of the American people. This has resulted in a new consensus in my generation: what we are doing is simply not working. For many, this is a case for dismay and despair, a reason to write America off. This is fundamentally wrong; America, despite its recent flaws, has given each and every one of us a unique opportunity to succeed. The idea that the “American Experiment” has failed and should be written off should be repulsive to any American. This is because America is not simply an abstract idea or experiment, but a people, a nation, and a home. So we must regain the things that made America special. We must return to a guiding principle that every American is uniquely endowed by our founding principles and therefore should be the unparalleled focus of our government. While conservative energy has welled up online in my generation, the only way to accomplish our goals is to regain the reins of self-government, in modern terms: get involved. My message to my fellow young conservatives is exactly that: email your local GOP office, do the phone calls, meet your state representative, and express your viewpoint. You cannot expect your government to reflect your views if you are not collectively and intentionally involved. Social media can be helpful, but it cannot be a substitute for personal engagement because there is no accountability for bad ideas. There are multiple emerging campus organizations attempting to remedy this. For example, American Destiny is an up-and-coming nonprofit connecting right-wing college and high school students with right-wing campaigns and causes. More of this is needed. If Generation Z wants to seriously make a change to put America and her people first, they must have a seat at the table. Now, if you want that seat, you have to have a large amount of wealth or focused political capital. The only way to amass the second and effect change is to get involved early and often. Voicing your opinion on social media is no longer enough; it’s time to take action. Our founders were perfect examples of this. Our nation was founded because a group of highly engaged and involved young men were ready to sacrifice anything to preserve their right to govern themselves. We must regain our right to govern ourselves. READ MORE: Conservatism Can Help Gen Z Conquer Its Biggest Struggle Young Conservatives Cannot Afford to Be Neutral on Family Liberals Aren’t Pretending Education Is Value-Neutral, and Neither Should We Drew DiMeglio is a Freshman at Hampden-Sydney College, where he studies government. He is the President of the Hampden-Sydney College Republicans and a Fellow at the Wilson Center for Leadership. He has served as a field director on a congressional campaign and an Intern for Color Us United. His work is featured in Carolina Journal and American Habits.

When Russian tanks rolled toward Kyiv in 2022, it wasn’t Brussels or Berlin that held Europe together. It was Poland. Within days, a nation of 38 million absorbed more than a million Ukrainian refugees, not through theatrical gestures or bureaucratic paralysis, but through quiet competence. At train stations, volunteers waited with blankets; at the border, order reigned. While much of Europe performed compassion, Poland practiced it, proving empathy only survives when coupled with control. It was decency at scale: swift, disciplined, unadvertised. And it remains the rare example in free governments of how mercy can coexist with sovereignty. Today, Poland still shelters roughly one million Ukrainian war refugees, all granted legal status, work rights, and healthcare under its 2022 Special Assistance Law. That moral line — strict at the frontier, generous at the heart — is one too many capitals have lost. Tragically, Washington has begun to lose it too. As the war in Ukraine rages into its fourth year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has suspended new applications for the Uniting for Ukraine program while conducting an internal review of its “effectiveness and long-term viability.” According to Visit Ukraine Today and the Ukraine Task Force, the decision leaves thousands of Ukrainians in limbo while USCIS “reviews the program’s implementation and impact.” What began as a humanitarian success — safely admitting more than 170,000 vetted Ukrainians since 2022 — now risks becoming a bureaucratic retreat. A lawful, secure, privately sponsored system has been frozen precisely when it is most needed. A country that demands strong borders should not lose sight of why those borders exist. It can be vigilant at its frontiers and still humane toward the truly displaced. Poland offers the template. When Belarus, acting as Moscow’s proxy, funneled migrants from Iraq and Syria toward the EU in 2021, Warsaw built a 116-kilometer steel barrier, deployed troops, and refused to yield. Brussels denounced it for “pushbacks”; Berlin scolded it for lacking compassion. But Poland’s policy was not anti-human, it was anti-blackmail. It separated war victims from opportunists weaponized by autocrats. The arithmetic vindicates the clarity. Poland’s homicide rate is 0.68 per 100,000, one of Europe’s lowest, according to Eurostat. Foreigners make up under 5 percent of inmates; in Germany, over 30 percent. As for Islamist terrorism, there was none in Poland in 2023 even as there were three attacks in Germany, according to Europol’s 2025 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report. Poland absorbed over a million refugees without crime waves, riots, or moral collapse. Germany, by contrast, stands as the cautionary mirror, the experiment Poland refused to replicate. A decade after former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s famous statement of “Wir schaffen das,” or “We can handle this,” the costs are visible. In 2023, German police logged 5.94 million crimes, a 5.5 percent rise; foreigners accounted for 41 percent of suspects while comprising only 15 percent of the population, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office. Knife attacks in Solingen, a murdered police officer in Mannheim, riots across North Rhine — each has been described as anomalous, but all are symptoms of drift. Germany blurred the line between moral duty and moral vanity; Poland kept it. Poland’s refusal to admit unvetted migrants from the Middle East or Africa was not hostility but foresight. It understood that compassion, to endure, must discriminate between the desperate and the deceitful. By 2025, its terror index remains zero, its public order intact, and its electorate — 70 percent of whom back strict enforcement — overwhelmingly supportive. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, hardly a nationalist, put it plainly: “Poland has already taken more genuine refugees than any EU member; we will not accept those forced upon us.” Brussels may threaten fines under the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, but Warsaw has something richer: moral coherence. America once possessed that same geometry. Under Donald Trump, immigration followed a sequence that seemed severe but worked: legality first, merit second, compassion third. It was mocked as harsh yet functioned as sanity. Enforcement deterred exploitation; deterrence protected space for the truly endangered. The system’s morality lay in its order. Today that order is eroding. Washington’s paralysis over Ukrainian parole and the continuing freeze on Uniting for Ukraine illustrate the inversion perfectly: a nation capable of vetting and welcoming the worthy instead suspends them. Poland proved structure enables mercy; America mistakes hesitation for strength. Poland’s restraint is not fear, it’s foresight. A nation twice erased from the map does not treat borders as abstractions. Its vigilance is the price of its survival. And that vigilance has bought what Western Europe has squandered: the ability to distinguish between the desperate and the deceitful, between refuge and intrusion. That is the clarity America has misplaced. The United States can enforce its laws with the same iron discipline Poland shows at its frontiers — but it must also remember why those laws exist. They are not there to harden the heart; they are there to protect the space in which compassion can still mean something. A border is not a wall against pity; it’s the line that gives pity its purpose. The paradox is simple. Poland guards its sovereignty and, in doing so, preserves its soul. America guards its virtue and risks losing both. To lead again, it must recover the moral geometry Poland has kept intact — mercy framed by order, strength guided by conscience. Because in the end, it isn’t the open door or the closed gate that defines a nation, it’s whether it still knows why either matters.

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Just hours after 20 Israeli hostages were released from captivity, after being held by the terrorist organization Hamas for 738 days, an event made possible by Donald Trump's peace plan, CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip featured Dr. Cornel West justifying the existence of Hamas, claiming that Palestinians in Gaza were under occupation, and comparing them to the Jews of Poland, and those who suffered as slaves in this country, and going after Donald Trump. Phillip began the questioning with Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan, who expressed doubt about the likelihood that  the the rest of Trump's plan would be implemented, but acknowledged that it was a day for celebration: "What we can say it was a good day because today the guns went silent." Next, Phillip turned to West, who in the past, on her very show, has compared the plight of the Palestinians to slavery in the United States, and has falsely claimed that Gaza was occupied by Israel prior to October 7th.  Phillip began with a ridiculous question about Trump, prefaced with her liberal point of view: "And look, everybody knows that Trump loves credit, but is it fair in your mind for more people on the left to actually give him credit for this? To acknowledge that, that perhaps he was the difference maker in this particular deal?" Then West went on his rant.  I give Trump credit for stopping the war and stopping the genocide. But the problem is, you see, is that Matthew 5:9 says blessed are the peacemakers. Peacemakers are justice seekers. I'm not convinced that Trump is a justice seeker. He has stopped the war. He stopped the genocide. That's a positive thing. But you can't seek justice unless you look at the world from the vantage point of those who themselves are under occupation. And as long as there's occupation, there's going to be Hamas or Hamas-like resistance. And with Rogan nodding in agreement, West continued, "Because every history that we know of, people who are under occupation, be they Jews of Poland or be they Palestinians in Gaza, or the indigenous peoples of this country, or black peoples under slavery, there's going to be resistance..." When West finished spewing and Rogan finished bobbing his head up and down, it was Scott Jennings turn, and he brought some sanity to it all. He started by referring to what Rogan had said earlier, "I think Josh is right, we don't know what's going to happen next. He said the guns are silent, I wish that was totally true."  And as Josh Rogan once again nodded in agreement, Jennings continued, " Hamas is going around and executing some Palestinians right now, torturing them in the street...I worry for the Palestinians actually for what Hamas is doing to them inside of Gaza." Jennings then removed the pin was he worn as a symbol to bring the hostages home, and credited Trump. "..It was only through the power and the force of will of the President of the United States that 20 people returned to their families...and so I couldn't be prouder to be an American tonight, because without the United States and without our President, this doesn't happen."   Dr, West then confronted Jennings: " Are you concerned about the Palestinians? Can you take that off of the Palestinians and all of their suffering?" Jennings replied, "I'm concerned about what's happening to them right now, they're being shot in the street by Hamas." West then again claimed that the Palestinians are under occupation, compared the hostages held by Hamas to prisoners held in Israeli jails, and Rogan chimed in that "99% of the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are totally innocent, and they have been suffering for two years too..."  I have no idea how Rogan came up with the 99% figure, and need I tell you that "journalist" Abby Phillip expressed no curiosity whatsoever. She allowed West's claims to go unchallenged, and didn't point out that Gaza was handed over by Israel to the Palestinians in 2005. "This....is CNN."