When faced with the possible return of President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had to destroy democracy to save it.”
The effort shares a common theme: any means necessary are justified to prevent the people from choosing their own president, given the fear that a majority might vote to elect Donald Trump.
Sometimes the anti-democratic paranoia has been outsourced to state and local officials and prosecutors to erase Trump from the primary and likely general election ballots as well.
One unelected official in Maine, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, is a Democrat, an official never elected by the people, and a non-lawyer rendering a legal edict. Yet she has judged Trump guilty of “insurrection.”
And presto, she erased his name from the state’s ballot.
Yet Trump was never charged, much less convicted, of “insurrection.”
The statute Bellows cites is a post-Civil War clause of the 14th Amendment. It was passed over a century and a half ago. It was never intended to be used in an election year by an opposition party to disbar a rival presidential candidate.
In the earlier case of Colorado, the all-Democrat Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote, took Trump off the ballot.
In sum, just five officials in two states have taken away the rights of some 7 million Americans to vote for the president of their choice.
Note that Trump continues to lead incumbent Joe Biden in the polls.
Sometimes, indictments are preferred to prevent Americans from voting for or against Trump.
Currently, four leftist prosecutors—three state and one federal—have indicted Trump.
They are petitioning courts to accelerate the usually lethargic legal process to ensure Trump is tied up in Atlanta, Miami, New York, and Washington, D.C., courtrooms nonstop during the 2024 election cycle.
Their aim is to keep Trump from campaigning, as he faces four left-wing prosecutors, four liberal judges, and four or five overwhelmingly Democratic jury pools.
Yet all the indictments are increasingly clouded in controversy, if not outright scandal.
Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis campaigned on promises to get Trump. She now faces allegations that she outsourced the prosecution to an unqualified personal injury lawyer—her current stealth boyfriend who was paid handsomely by Willis’s office and traveled on pricey junkets with her.
New York partisan attorney general Letitia James likewise sought office on promises to destroy Trump.
She preposterously claims Trump overvalued his real estate collateral to a bank. Yet it eagerly made the loan, profited from it, and had no complaints given that Trump paid off the principle and interest as required.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg is even more desperate. He is now prosecuting Trump for campaign finance violations from nearly a decade ago, claiming a nondisclosure agreement with a purported sexual liaison somehow counts as a campaign violation.
Federal special prosecutor Jack Smith claims Trump should be convicted of improperly removing classified documents after leaving office. In the past, such disagreements over presidential papers were resolved bureaucratically.
Joe Biden, for example, improperly took out classified files after leaving the Senate and vice presidency and stored them in unsecure locations for over a decade.
All of these prosecutors are unapologetic anti-Trump progressives.
Some have communicated with the White House legal eagles, even though Joe Biden is likely to face Trump in the November election.
Some prosecutors are themselves facing controversies, if not scandals. Some wish to synchronize their drawn-out investigations and indictments to hinder the Trump reelection effort.
At other times, the effort to neuter Trump is waged by his rival Biden himself.
He has hammered Trump as an insurrectionist and guilty of a number of egregious crimes against democracy—even as Biden’s own Attorney General has appointed a special counsel to try Trump on just those federal charges concerning the January 6 demonstrations, a dead horse that Biden periodically still beats to death to scare voters.
Biden periodically smears half of America who supported or voted for Trump as “ultra-Maga” extremists and “semi-fascists” who would destroy democracy.
Yet the more Biden and the Left weaponize the judicial system to prevent Trump from running, and the more Biden screams and yells that Trump supporters are anti-American and anti-democratic, the more Trump soars in the polls while Biden sinks.
The left privately knows that its historically unprecedented strangulation of democracy is increasing Trump’s popularity. But like an addict, it cannot quit its Trump fix.
In sum, the Left is creating historic, anti-democratic precedents that will someday boomerang on Democrats should Republicans win the November election and follow the new Democrat model of extra-legal politics.
Democrats are tearing apart the country in a manner not seen since the Civil War era—apparently convinced democracy cannot be trusted and so itself must be sacrificed as the price of destroying Donald Trump.
America lacks a Constitutional Department of Justice. Had it not been coopted by the very people who stole the 2020 election America would still represent a democracy. A democratic republic does not always get things right. And when they get it wrong oftentimes the people they voted for prevent an additional opportunity to fix their mistake. The Courts could have prevented this but most of the DC District Court judges are as radical and anti-justice as anything we have seen and criticize in other fake democracies.
Thank you Mr. Hanson for your strong defense of the noble experiment that is America.
2024 will indeed be a watershed year: Israel engaged in a war for her survival. Europe staring into an abyss, China and Russia looking to set a new and frightening world order, Western civilization on a path of islamization and self destruction.
To add to this tragic confluence of circumstances and events, a virulently deadly fifth column is causing havoc while relentlessly sapping the vitality and strength of America and the West.
With all the storm clouds on the horizon the 2024 election will be unprecedented. Will the centre hold?
So far the genius of the Foundiing Fathers has allowed America to endure what, in my opinion, no other nation on earth would have been able to cope with in such a period of turbulent upheavel.
Is there an American institution that the Left has not sullied or destroyed? In its rapacious pursuit of power, the Left has layed waste to so much that is essential to the functioning of a healthy society.
So where to from here? A break up of the United States into tribalism? a continued and irreversible decline? Civil war? the end of the Pax Americana and a frightening global future?
I believe Americans are made of sterner stuff. I cannot help but admire the way Americans fight so hard for what is good and noble, and that is what gives me continued hope.
One can only hope Trump wins in November–which I seriously doubt. Moreover, it is highly doubtful, bordering on fantasy, that a Republican administration–any Republican administration–would use the kind of bare-knuckled, no-holds-barred, by-any-means-necessary legal and administrative tactics to undo Democrat party policies and regulations, and punish leftist politicians and bureaucrats.
Our side just–at least our “elected representatives”–don’t know how to fight back, how to use power when they gain it, or to inflict real retribution on their political enemies.
I have come to the grievous conclusion that any truly forceful and meaningful pushback from our side will only come when the abuse and pain inflicted on us by the left has become so unbearable that We the People will choose the only remedy remaining.
Of course by that time, it will be way too late.
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” ~ Winston Churchill