The Founding Fathers believed that people should be elected to public office, serve for a few years, and then return to their private professional lives. Today, we have a president who has held public office longer than most Americans have been alive. But he is not alone, many politicians make it a career serving in the House, then the Senate, and moving on to other positions in the government. While professional experience often improves decision-making, it doesn’t appear to help in politics.

The FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago home of President Trump may have poked the conservative bear one too many times.

In 1969, President Nixon popularized the phrase “silent majority,” for Americans that worked and paid taxes, but didn’t demonstrate or often engage in public discourse. Maybe they didn’t even regularly vote. This group of largely middle-class, right-of-center, Americans were often overshadowed by the left-leaning media and the radical students of that time. I believe that the left has poked the silent majority one time too many with the raid on former President Trump’s home.