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The Big Lie that Republicans threaten democracy
American Thinker.com ^ | December 15, 2021 | David Zuckerman

Posted on 12/15/2021 3:04:46 AM PST by Kaslin

The January/February issue of The Atlantic warns that Donald Trump, in 2024, may bring about a "democratic collapse." Hillary Clinton, the other day, predicted the end democracy in 2024 with the re-election of Mr. Trump. And David Leonhardt, in the Pravda-aping New York Times, offers a preview of "America's Anti-Democratic Movement"

Clearly, the rleft has started to fire opening salvos of propaganda to mislead the American people into believing that the Republicans -- not the Democrats -- present the clear and present threat to what Madison, in Federalist No. 57, called the spirit of American freedom.

Writes Leonhardt, quite falsely, "An antidemocratic movement, inspired by former President Donald j. Trump, but much larger than him, is making significant progress." (Consider this baseless allegation as an expansion of the lie that Mr. Trump inspired racism, or Islamophobia, or misogyny. Simply stated, leftists who are unable to respond with convincing arguments against Trumpian common sense, shriek out in terms of irrational, hysterical, polemics.)

Leonhardt quickly presents the matter of Liz Cheney as his first example of this "antidemocratic movement." "In the House, Republicans ousted Liz Cheney from a leadership position because she called out Mr. Trump's lies." This, of course, is the lie. Cheney was removed, by vote of the House GOP conference (a democratic procedure, mind you), because she voted to impeach a former president whom she denounced as a threat to the Republic -- that is to say,

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: demonrats

1 posted on 12/15/2021 3:04:46 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Us: “We The People would like to have a say in how our government operates.”
Them: “This threat to democracy is intolerable.”


2 posted on 12/15/2021 3:10:45 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah, pretty much.

Shame our Republic is consistently called a Democracy. People my age (Milennials) don’t know the difference, usually.


3 posted on 12/15/2021 3:22:02 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Kaslin
We have to understand what "democracy" means to the left. It is not rule by the people but for the people by a self-anointed leftist leadership: the Communist's "vanguard of the workers."
4 posted on 12/15/2021 3:31:47 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: Kaslin

I expect to see arrests of more high profile republicans. We know back in January (nearly a year ago) they wanted Trump arrested. Just wait, it is coming.

We are already seeing some of this political persecutions happening by the democrat committee. And obviously the MSM is ginning up for anyone who is a Republican or Conservative.

The propaganda is creating it for them to act immorally towards those that disagree with them.


5 posted on 12/15/2021 3:44:32 AM PST by EBH (Never trust the government or a politician . 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: Kaslin

Hey Mr. Author, how come McConnellIdiot and others habitually continue to bail out the Leftist commie DEMs in their pursuit of the destruction of this country, and in essence, democracy?!?


6 posted on 12/15/2021 3:56:03 AM PST by cranked
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To: Kaslin

It’s just another socialist word game. To socialism, true Democracy can only exist after the communist utopia is generated by the revolution against everything that is. When they say “our democracy”, which they almost always do, that is what they mean, it’s doublespeak for “communism”.

And they are right, we are trying to prevent it to preserve liberty which is extinguished by communism, and they know this too.

Check out James Lindsay’s New Discourses website and youtube channel. He traces all of the insanity we are seeing back to Hegel and Kant, people of the counter enlightenment, who opposed the age of reason. So, when it looks to you like they are trying to destroy reason, and replace it with belief in them, it’s because they are.


7 posted on 12/15/2021 4:52:52 AM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Kaslin

Lets go Brandon.
Lets go BLM.
Lets go DNC.

Let us go you crazy Bas-turds.


8 posted on 12/15/2021 7:56:35 AM PST by Jumper
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Actually, the bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts ARE a threat to our republic...

Remove every one of them from office


9 posted on 12/15/2021 8:28:50 AM PST by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: Kaslin

Marking.


10 posted on 12/16/2021 2:31:30 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Kaslin

Democrats tell us: It’s only a democracy if you vote the way we want you to.


11 posted on 12/16/2021 2:46:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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What does Leonhardt regard as threats to democracy? Measures to ensure that voting will be on the up and up, not tainted by ballot-stuffing, ballot-harvesting, multiple-voting by individuals. What does Leonhardt consider anti-democracy? Voter ID laws, would you believe? Are voter ID laws more intrusive than the new requirement in New York City that to sit down in a restaurant, the patron must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination? (I was barred from sitting down in Ben's Kosher Restaurant in Manhattan, December 14 because I left my vaccination card at home.).
12 posted on 12/16/2021 3:07:00 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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