There has been a lot of hand-wringing and hyperventilating about “threats to democracy” coming from the left side of the aisle in our country, ever since Trump supporters got upset on January 6, 2021. I still think they were egged on by Fed plants in the crowd and it might never have happened without them.
But as I’ve often said, Democrats are not self-aware and don’t know the meaning of the word “irony,” because ever since January 6, they have been doing everything in their power to threaten democracy. It was the most inept insurrection in history; no one even brought guns.
There have been multiple “lawfare” attempts to disqualify Donald Trump even to the point of charging his with offenses which would put him in prison. Dispassionate observers regard most of these efforts as bound to fail, except, they usually say, Georgia. But the prosecutors in that case are so morally and ethically compromised (maybe even guilty of some things Trump is accused of) that they may be removed and then who knows what will happen?
This week, the U. S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous verdict negating the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump’s name from that state’s ballots. The reason Colorado’s “Supremes” gave was “insurrection,” never mind that Trump has not been charged, tried or convicted of insurrection; it’s just a cable news media meme.
Since the unanimous verdict, fuming left-leaning commentators have called for the “dissolution” of the US Supreme Court. How’s that for a threat to democracy?
The 4-to-3 split in the Colorado Supreme Court was obviously along party lines and was in itself a betrayal of what the courts are supposed to be: impartial arbiters concerned with upholding the constitutions of both state and Federal levels. Their ruling was instead a naked attempt to disenfranchise the voters of their state and tamper with an election.
This “threat to democracy” was so obvious and egregious that even the liberals on the US Supreme Court had no choice but to vote to overturn it.
Maine, which had removed Trump from the ballot on the whim of an attorney general, read the room correctly and immediately restored him.
Then there’s Illinois. The Chicago-area former traffic-court Judge Tracie Porter gave away the game when she removed Trump from the primary ballot, saying any votes for the former president would be “suppressed.”
Voter suppression is cool now? I thought Democrats were against it. Seems like that’s a pretty direct “threat to democracy.”
Democrats have even publicly discussed challenging the ratification of the vote ON JANUARY 6 ( ! ) if Trump wins the November election. So I guess INSURRECTION is cool now, too; as long as it’s Democrats doing it.
It seems the only threats to democracy Democrats recognize is when Democrats lose elections, but to win those elections, they are perfectly happy to hamstring democracy and gum up the electoral works any way they can.
