Is Democracy in Danger and By Whom?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns democracy and who is trying to destroy it. Victor Davis Hanson opened his article on the topic with this: “The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.” He offered the following information to support his statement. 

Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.

A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton/Democratic National Committee/FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election. That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.

On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign. That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.

Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.

For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.

The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.

Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump. They all shared some strange similarities.

These indictments would likely not have been filed had Trump not run for office. Nor would any of them have proceeded had Trump not been a controversial conservative Republican seeking reelection.

Almost all the charges had not been filed against any other prior candidate, and rarely a private citizen.

Some of them could just as easily have been lodged against President Joe Biden and his son.

Some indictments and convictions may still achieve their objectives of bankrupting, jailing, or keeping Trump inert during the final weeks of the campaign….

Nonetheless, Trump had survived collusion, disinformation, de-balloting, lawfare, and a subsequent assassination attempt to surge far ahead of Biden in the June presidential polls.

As is well known and as outlined by Hanson, Biden was doing so badly in the polls that he lost the support of “Democratic donors and high-ranking politicos.” They wished to stress test Biden in an unusual presidential debate held prior to either party’s convention to nominate their candidate.

Biden’s inferior performance in the debate proved to Americans and people worldwide that Biden was unfit to run for re-election or to remain in office. He was forced to end his candidacy for a second term to remain in office for the remainder of his first term. After trying to remove Kamala Harris from the ballot to stop her from dragging Biden down, Democrats suddenly decided that she was the best politician who ever lived.

By ending Biden’s candidacy, Democrats nullified the primary votes for nearly 15 million voters. Then they coronated Harris “who had neither won a primary nor a single delegate through an election” as well as “without an open convention contest or vote.”

The same secret combinations that convinced Biden to drop out of the campaign and installed Harris are now keeping Harris in the dark. Sure, she makes speeches where she tells lots of lies without any challenges. However, she is not allowed to hold press conferences or to give live interviews, hold unscripted town halls, and be caught in any situation where she does not have a scripted speech.

So, the party that had proclaimed democracy dies in darkness now favors the shadows as the preferable means to obtain and retain power – whether by ignoring primary voters, open conventions, or transparent venues with the voters.

Add up the last decade’s purchased collusion caper, unprecedented two impeachments, orchestrated disinformation hoax, efforts to de-ballot Trump, warping of the legal system to jail him and destroy his candidacy, forced removal of an unpopular but unwilling Biden from the Democratic ticket, virtual anointing of Harris by fiat in his place, and the current collusion with a compliant media to avoid public scrutiny and cross-examination of Harris.

And the conclusion?

Have those who lectured us about democracy in danger now decided to save it by destroying it?