Democrats are the Ones Destroying "Our Democracy" Part II
Democrats Destroy Democracy in 4 More Ways
Yesterday I explored six ways Democrats are the ones destroying democracy, not Republicans, Donald Trump, or the MAGA movement. Despite Biden’s shrill pronouncements on the evils of Trump and his supporters, despite his Democrat minions reflexively mimicking the President’s words, and despite the left, the media, and academia amplifying Biden’s divisive rhetoric, the truth is becoming clear about the real danger to our democracy. It is Joe Biden, his puppeteer, Democrat leaders, unelected bureaucrats, the media, and ignorant leftist activists. In Part II, I’ll highlight four more ways Democrats have put our Republic and Constitution in peril.
7. Targeting Conservatives and Traditionalists:
In a previous post I’ve written about the abuses of the FBI and Justice Department toward anyone on the right. You can read that here. We all know about the Justice Department and Merrick Garland targeting parents on the right who questioned explicit, homosexual and trans books in their children’s classrooms and libraries. And, no one can forget the singling out of the Catholic, pro-life father who was praying with his son in front of an abortion clinic only to have an aggressive pro-choice man get in his son’s face and shout expletives at him. Mark Houck was that father, and as any good father would do, he tried to separate the man from his son. The two got into a shoving match. Soon after, the FBI–paramilitary style–raided Houck’s home and arrested him under the FACE act which makes it a crime to harass or intimidate anyone attempting to enter an abortion clinic. Houck was found not guilty, thankfully. However, that hasn’t stopped the FBI from targeting “radical traditionalist” Catholics who attend the Latin mass as extremist threats.
Additionally, just last week we discovered that the FBI has been working with banks and credit card companies to flag purchases with the terms MAGA and Trump as well as purchases made at Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shop, and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Oh, and if you purchased a Bible, you were also targeted by the feds. Rather than going after real criminals, you know, the ones shooting up Chicago nightly or the ones raiding all manner of stores stealing millions of dollars of merchandise or those who commit violent crimes in our cities, the federal government has decided to go after you. This is nothing but intimidation tactics to get people on the right to shut up. The left is not just destroying our institutions; it is destroying democracy.
8. Election Interference:
The dirty left will stop at nothing to derail a Trump candidacy and subsequent presidency, but keeping him off the ballot on the baseless charge of insurrection has to take the cake. Although other states had tried it, Colorado became the first state to officially remove former President Trump from the Republican primary ballot. The court’s decision was split 4-3, and the justices agreed to pause the ruling to allow Trump to appeal. Next came the feckless Secretary of State in Maine, Shenna Bellows–sans a law degree–who solely decided to kick the former president off the ballot for…wait for it…insurrection. Thankfully, a Maine superior court judge has paused Bellows’ decision until the Supreme Court can weigh in on Trump’s appeal of the Colorado decision.
Think this tactic is only being used on Trump? Think again. Fearing Robert Kennedy Jr. could siphon off voters from Biden and throw the election to Trump, blue state governors are making plans to keep him off the primary ballots in their states. Likewise, Representative Dean Phillips is facing similar tactics as he runs in the presidential Democrat primary. Phillips complained, “How can Democrats say we’re fighting for democracy, we’re fighting to make voting easier, and then yet removing [sic] me from the ballot in Florida and North Carolina?” Then, invoking the January 6th riot, he went on to say:
“I was in the House chamber on January 6. I know what an insurrection is like. I know who inspired it and who promoted it. And now, frankly, Democrats are doing something to democracy that I think is just as dangerous as the insurrection because, at the end of the day, one was to prevent the counting of ballots —and right now, the Democratic Party is literally trying to prevent names from being added to ballots and people from even voting on those ballots. So that’s the truth, and they don’t want to hear it. They don’t want me to say it, but guys, man, someone’s got to listen.”
Although I disagree with Phillips’ premise that January 6th was an insurrection, I have to tip my hat to his honesty regarding his own party. Interestingly, this same tactic has been used consistently in undemocratic countries trying to dissuade opposition to the favored government candidate. Take, for example, what just happened this week in Senegal where two opposition leaders names’ for the presidency have been removed from the ballot. Karim Wade, one of the opposition leaders, lamented, “The recent decision of the Constitutional Council is scandalous, it is a blatant attack on democracy [and] violates my fundamental right to participate in the presidential election."
So now America is no better than Senegal. But let's remember, it’s not Republicans keeping anyone from voting; it’s the Democrats. They fear losing; therefore, if democracy must be thrown in the trash heap, so be it. Today’s Democrats live by Hillary Clinton’s adage that “there’s only the fight” and embrace the Machiavellian ideal of “by any means necessary.”
9. The Media, Censorship, & Propaganda:
With social media giants working hand-in-glove with Democrats, censorship of anything Trumpian or anything that did not and does not fit the media narrative has become an art form. Recall that COVID vaccines and masking wariness were deemed to be on a footing with Holocaust denying, and thus worthy of censoring. Similarly, remember the social and legacy media erupting with the clichéd chant “Russian collusion!” when news of Hunter Biden’s laptop became public. Thereafter, both the news media–of which only 3.4% are Republicans according to a recent survey by Syracuse University School of Public Communications–as well as social media companies censored any negative information about Hunter and Joe Biden, so voters were unaware of possible Biden corruption and his extreme agenda. However, i
n a 2020 poll, the Media Research Center found that 17% of voters would have changed their minds about supporting Biden had they known the Hunter Biden laptop–with incriminating evidence of debauchery, corruption, and bribery–was real. Election interference via censorship was used as a cudgel to beat down Trump and his MAGA base.
Three years later the media hasn’t let up on its censorship campaign against the former President and his supporters. Just last week after Donald Trump blew out the Iowa caucuses with a 30 point margin of victory over second place Ron DeSantis, both CNN and MSNBC refused to carry Trump’s victory speech calling it “a danger to democracy” and “anti-immigrant rhetoric.” This led Marco Rubio to tweet:
“U.S. media refusing to carry Trump speech live last night after a historic Iowa victory is exactly how undemocratic regimes abroad use state run media to try to delegitimize, dismiss & discredit their political opposition.”
You know what else undemocratic regimes do? They use propaganda to invalidate, repudiate, and malign their political opposition. Last week the Media Research Center discovered through public records requests that the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security paid Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP), a left wing activist group, $700,000 to “pay activists to write blog posts that criticized Donald Trump and other conservatives under the guise of ‘media literacy.’” This according to an article in the Daily Wire by Luke Rosiak. The article is a long one, but definitely worth reading.
Left wing media control, censorship of opponents, and government propaganda: Joseph Goebbels would have been proud. Remind me. Which party is the danger to democracy?
10. A Military Coup to Stop Trump:
Democrats are scared, real scared. If they weren’t you wouldn’t see some of the extreme measures they are willing to seize upon to stop their nemesis, Donald J. Trump. They used to do this clandestinely, but after Trump was elected President, all secret political maneuvers became “in your face, what are you going to do about it?” ploys to strike fear into Trump’s base. Let’s not forget Molly Ball’s Time magazine exposé explaining that “there was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” prior to the 2020 election. The conspiracy to stop Trump’s re-election (ostensibly to ensure a fair election) included a partnership between left-wing activist groups and business giants as well as a well-orchestrated effort to get millions of Americans to vote by mail. In addition, the effort also included censoring conservative views on social media and the news media.
Unfortunately, these communist machinations worked, which has emboldened the left. Just a week ago NBC reported about a military coup being assembled to thwart President Trump if he is elected once again. Part of this plan includes the military refusing to follow orders from the commander-in-chief. Isn’t this called mutiny? Here’s an excerpt from this not-so-secret leftist plan to once again undermine a duly elected President of the United States, according to a January 14th article by Peter Nicholas, Katherine Doyle, Megan Lebowitz, and Courtney Kube:
…[B]racing for Trump’s potential return, a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans to try to foil any efforts to expand presidential power, which could include pressuring the military to cater to his political needs.
Those taking part in the effort told NBC News they are studying Trump’s past actions and 2024 policy positions so that they will be ready if he wins in November. That involves preparing to take legal action and send letters to Trump appointees spelling out consequences they’d face if they undermine constitutional norms.
“We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to,” said Mary McCord, executive director of the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law.
It’s not Trump nor his MAGA supporters who are undermining constitutional norms; it’s the left, and they will never change. They are all about obtaining and maintaining power regardless of the destruction they cause to our our country, our Republic, and our way of life.
Final Thoughts:
We are living in dangerous times. The left is scared they’re losing their control over information, over the electorate, and over the government. Scared people lash out. Conservatives need to be mindful of this but not afraid. The Bible reminds us, “But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled…” After all, we are on the right side of history. History shines a resplendent light on brave men and women who fought tyranny, not on those who used propaganda, censorship, lawfare, imprisonment, and political or military coups against their own people. The next time a Democrat tries to tell you that Trump is a threat to democracy, school them on these 10 issues and remind them of history.