At least until President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 and the Women’s March that followed the next day, Democrats and left-wing activists have consistently complained about the impending crisis that threatens “our democracy.” rice field. Time and time again, Democrats have taken virtually any action they don’t approve of, from Trump’s disrespectful tweets to state-level Republican-led campaigns for electoral integrity to the standard, inventive Supreme Court justice elections. has been portrayed as leading to proto-authoritarianism and the “recession of democracy.” Use the art jargon favored by the corporate media.
Taken at their word, Democrats and left-wing activists’ palpable concern about “our democracy” has surged, especially after the Jan. 6, 2021 capitol jamboree, and the public sovereignty and the growing concern over ethnic self-determination. , and violent opposition to the power of consolidated governments and corporations. But Democrats and left-wing activists shouldn’t take their word for it. Their actions tell an entirely different story. Despite the sanctity of the modern Republican Party as a threat to “our democracy,” prominent Democrats and left-wing activists have made themselves a tremendous threat to American democracy. He led the attack himself. (Related: David Bothey: Anti-censorship ruling cuts Biden administration size)
Consider the United States Supreme Court as intended by the constitutional authors. anchor “Our Democracy” should be protected in so far as it protects certain structural safeguards and individual rights from the runaway of excessive majority rule. In September 2018, Senate Democrats overthrew millennia of civilized norms of “no guilt until proven guilty” in a vicious, freewheeling, and unprecedented character attack on then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Discarded. A Democratic disinformation campaign over the past few weeks aimed to permanently mark the soon-to-be Supreme Court justice with the scarlet letter as a “rapist,” with Kavanaugh taking his final oath of office indoors. The process culminated in a literal banging on the door by grassroots progressives. How do you enforce “democracy”?
In March 2020, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (New York) took to the steps of the Supreme Court to warn President Trump’s first two courts if he doesn’t do the right thing in his upcoming abortion ruling. openly threatened the nomination. Schumer said: “I want to tell Gorsuch (Judge Neil). I don’t know.” The rant provoked an unusual public rebuke from the normally mild-mannered Chief Justice John Roberts. “This kind of threatening speech from the highest levels of government is not only inappropriate, it is dangerous.” Later that year, President Trump’s nomination of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the High Court led to the dissension of “The Handmaid’s Tale” that would ensue if Barrett’s nomination was successful. A constant stream of hysterical comparisons to Topia provoked vile public demonstrations about it.
On May 2, 2022, a draft decision on future abortions in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked to Politico in an unfathomable and unprecedented violation of democratic norms. Curiously, the leakers have never been “discovered,” or at least not publicly identified, but the evidence and underlying incentive structure overwhelmingly belonged to the scribes of liberal judges, or even the liberal judges themselves. It shows that you are alone. After the leak, a move reasonably expected and perhaps desired by the leaker, a deranged left-wing pro-abortion activist in California named Nicholas Rothke flew to the capital with a plan to assassinate Judge Kavanaugh. . Rosuke thankfully canceled the plan at the last minute.
Rosk was the only confirmed assassination attempt during the stressful period after the Dobbs leak/pre-Dobbs sentencing, while countless other leftists protested outside the private residences of right-wing judges in Virginia and Maryland. and tried to blackmail them into changing their vote at Dobbs. To no one’s surprise, Attorney General Merrick Garland never filed charges.
More recently, in the aftermath of a Supreme Court justice’s freshly completed term, many prominent Democratic lawmakers were temporarily lulled by the ambiguous conclusions and recommendations of President Joe Biden’s “Supreme Court Presidential Committee.” revived the threat of a full courtroom. (It’s strange that the Democrats chose this now, even though this term had less of a 6-3 “ideological” split than the previous term, and there were two judges.) Two of the most consistent conservatives were Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. )
Few violent anti-“democratic” threats to crowd the Supreme Court. Even the Democratic-majority Senate Judiciary Committee concluded in a bone-chilling 1937 report issued in response to the court-stuffing proposal of the Democratic presidential icon FDR himself: . We declare that we prefer an independent court, a fearless court, a court that dares to speak out what it believes to be the defense of civil liberties, rather than one that judges out of fear and reason. Any action we enact is authorized by our duty to the appointees or by the passion of the Faction. We are not judges among judges. We are not above the Constitution. ”
Also consider the unusual preliminary injunction granted by Judge Terry Doughty in Missouri v. Biden earlier this week. This interim injunction is related to the Biden administration’s “deliberate ‘collapse’ of ‘public’ and ‘people’,” which was previously referred to in this column. ‘ difference. ” In a dizzying 155-page ruling, Judge Doty urged social media companies to censor certain users, accounts and posts to curb COVID-19 “disinformation” and “misinformation.” The order justified plaintiffs’ claims that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In Doughty’s own words, it should frighten anyone with even the slightest concern. actual Current State of American Democracy: “The U.S. government appears to have assumed a role similar to Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Truth.'” (Related: Senator Eric Schmidt: Freedom of Speech Spreads After Biden Censorship Complex Defeats Cruelly)
But the Biden administration disagrees with this. In fact, the administration has already appealed the grant of the preliminary injunction to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Words should not be truncated here. The Biden Department of Justice is suing the Fifth Circuit for the “right” to censor allegedly “private” companies and to censor adverse online speech on certain sensitive subjects related to administration priorities. there is It’s just amazing. So much for “our democracy”. The Left wants the ‘public’ and ‘private’ to converge to crush all those who dare to oppose the orthodoxy of the regime. In the Political Science 101 class, most freshmen learn that this is a trademark of “fascism”, not “democracy”.
In fact, what makes the Left cry alligator tears about the fate of “our democracy” is the fact that when Democrats and left-wing activists talk about “democracy” they actually mean “progressives”. can be easily explained by That’s a pretty clever trick. Unfortunately, and ironically, the victim of that sleight of hand is the actual American democracy itself.
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