Born Between Generals, LLC
The conservative case on the 34 issues that matter.
The conservative case. With receipts.No vibes, no outrage bait. Every claim cites a checkable federal source — and we show the other side's best argument, then beat it with data.
Hard floors — never spun, never partisan-scored
Harm to children, corruption, and denial of due process are named as hard floors. Framing here is conservative; the numbers are accurate and sourced. That honesty is the product.
The 34 Issues
Cost of Living, Housing & Economy
Cost-of-Living Squeeze
Washington spent, families paid. Prices never came back down after the 2021–23 spike, and the purchasing power is gone for good.
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Federal Debt & Deficits
$38T and counting, with interest now rivaling the defense budget. Every dollar of interest is a dollar that can't defend, build, or stay in your pocket.
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Rising Homelessness
Record spending, record homelessness. Housing First without treatment first failed; accountability and treatment work.
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Housing Affordability
Government made housing scarce. Zoning, permitting, and fees built this crisis — and supply, not subsidies, fixes it.
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Interest & Borrowing Costs
The bill for the spending spree. Rate hikes were the cleanup crew for fiscal recklessness — and families got priced out of mortgages.
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Small-Business Pressure
Compliance is a tax on the little guy. Rules that big business absorbs with a legal department crush Main Street.
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Student-Loan Whiplash
Forgiveness by decree shifts debt to the taxpayers who never went — and teaches that contracts are optional.
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Tax & Fee Burdens
People vote with U-Hauls. The exodus from high-tax states is measurable in IRS migration data.
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Crime, Drugs & Public Order
Bail Reform
The revolving door is real. Repeat offenders released to reoffend, with victims paying the price of the experiment.
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Crime & the Perception Gap
Your eyes aren't lying. 'Reported crime' misses unreported theft, open-air disorder, and cases prosecutors decline.
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Fentanyl Crisis
A poisoning, not just an epidemic. Cartel manufacture, Chinese precursors, and an interdiction fight we have to win.
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Open-Air Drug Markets
Compassion isn't surrender. The cities that tried tolerance are re-learning enforcement, because the dying didn't stop.
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Organized Retail Crime
Smash-and-grab is organized crime. Treat it like it: conspiracy charges, fencing networks, real sentences.
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Overdose Deaths
The decline is real — and naloxone access plus supply pressure drove it, not permissiveness.
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Prosecution & Accountability
Consequences work. The progressive-DA experiment ran, the data came in, and voters in the bluest cities reversed it.
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Retail Theft
Raise the threshold, raise the theft. Decriminalizing shoplifting emptied shelves and closed stores in the neighborhoods that needed them most.
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Tranq (Xylazine)
The supply got worse than the law imagined. An animal tranquilizer naloxone can't reverse, cut into the street supply.
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Border, Migration & City Strain
Asylum Backlogs
A years-long wait is an open invitation. 3.7M+ pending cases turned asylum into a de facto entry program.
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The Border & Immigration
Record encounters had a cause. Enforcement works when you use it; signals matter, and the surge proved it.
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Border Policy Whiplash
Flip-flopping rules are themselves a magnet. Consistent enforcement is the humane policy.
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City Strain
Sanctuary promises met sanctuary bills. Shelters, budgets, and services buckled — and residents paid.
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Family Homelessness & Migration
Shelter systems built over decades were overwhelmed by policy choices made in one.
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ID & Benefits Integrity
Integrity isn't cruelty. E-Verify and honest documents protect workers, taxpayers, and legal immigrants most of all.
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Education, Kids & Culture
Curriculum & Fundamentals
Teach reading, writing, and math. Parents across the spectrum didn't sign up for ideology in the classroom.
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Discipline & Classroom Safety
Order is a precondition for learning. Restorative-only discipline left teachers unprotected and classrooms unteachable.
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Kids' Online Safety
Protect kids first. Age verification and predator accountability — genuine bipartisan ground, and a hard floor, not a both-sides issue.
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Post-COVID Learning Loss
Closed schools, lost years. The largest score drops in decades trace to staying closed long after the evidence said open.
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Lowest Performers Left Behind
Equity rhetoric, inequity results. The kids who struggled most are recovering slowest under the same systems.
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Parent–School Trust
Parents are not the enemy. Transparency in curriculum, library content, and records rebuilds what was broken.
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Energy, Environment & Infrastructure
Energy Policy Volatility
Mandates before math. Reliability and ratepayers pay for ideology when targets outrun the grid.
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Grid Reliability
Electrify everything, generate nothing. The demand curve is climbing while baseload retires — the math has to balance.
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Permitting Delays
You can't build America in triplicate. NEPA reviews measured in years strangle the same projects everyone claims to want.
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