Biden and the Left Demonize Trump Supporters

Biden’s talk of Our Democracy™ is a smokescreen. He and the broader left have no faith in the electorate, voting, or majority rule, as well as absolute hatred for at least a plurality of voters.

In business, they say the customer is always right. This was long true in politics too. No one dared to attack voters, even when they supported an opponent. The voters were all Americans who had a right to their own opinions. Those on the margins were always in play.

This was one of the salutary customs of American political life. Such respect for the voters and their collective judgment supported the peaceful transfer of power.

This is why all the recent celebration of Our Democracy™ rings false. Apparently, Our Democracy™ means something different than the literal words. When invoked by President Joe Biden and his supporters, it equates to “good government,” an idea more about their preferred substantive ends like abortion rights and gay marriage than a celebration of the procedures through which leaders are chosen.

While ordinary democracy is mostly about elections, Our Democracy™ includes management of those elections and control of the flow of information to prevent voters from selecting dangerous outsiders like Donald Trump.

When Trump won the presidential election in 2016, there was no celebration of democracy. Indeed, the media, Hillary, and many of the people now singing the praises of Our Democracy™ went into overdrive talking about Russian interference, the supposed scourge of disinformation, and the dark heart of Red State Americans. They concocted this critique to obscure Trump’s democratic mandate.

The left typically calls the results of a democratic election “populism” when it doesn’t go the way they want. Like “isolationism,” this is one of those incantations about a supposed political evil where the nature of that evil is never really established. Populism was bad because it caused a glitch in the system they thought they fully controlled. The political class was surprised because the demographic changes they engineered through immigration were supposed to guarantee the left retained permanent power.

From the beginning, the entire system has been allergic to Trump. Much of it comes down to taste and style. Trump does not talk or think like the managerial political class, and he does not respect what they deem to be sacred. He is an avatar for the allegedly uncouth, hateful, racist, and backward people of the hinterlands. Trump is correct when he says, “They are coming after me, because I am fighting for you.”

Anti-Trump rhetoric has always existed alongside rhetoric demonizing his supporters. Biden’s creepy speech in Philadelphia attacking “MAGA Americans” in 2022 put the demonization of voters on prominent display. But it goes deeper. It also includes the 2016 campaign to harass those who attended Trump rallies and Hillary’s revealing description of Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.”

For opponents, Trump voters were never just wrong, mistaken, confused, bamboozled, possessed of different values, or simply fellow Americans. They were backwards, racist, malevolent, hateful, and unpatriotic. They were collectively guilty and deserved to be collectively punished.

The problem is worse than anonymous rhetoric on Twitter and the content of Biden’s speeches. It includes doubling down on January 6 prosecutions, attempts to keep Trump off the ballot, and stretching the law to pursue narrow partisan purposes, such as the recent prosecution of a whistleblower doctor who exposed illegal transgender procedures in a Houston hospital or using FBI SWAT teams to go after pro-life activists.

In short, Biden’s frequent talk of Our Democracy™ is a smokescreen. He and the broader left have no faith in the electorate, voting, or majority rule, as well as absolute hatred for at least a plurality of voters.

This is the reason for all of the handwringing over disinformation, misinformation and populism. This is the reason they want to reengineer the American people through mass immigration. Biden and the governing class believe that government should be left up to the professionals and that the American people need to be persuaded, managed, cajoled, revised, and, if necessary, forced to ratify the professionals’ desires.

Admittedly, the right has become more contemptuous and hostile to leftist voters as well. But the Republicans in power have not wielded their power against individual opponents to the same extent as Biden and the Democrats. For example, Trump threatened Hilary with jail in 2016, while Biden and his surrogates actually delivered against Trump.

In what may prove to be the start of a “war of all against all,” there is more and more talk by Republicans of retaliation, including partisan prosecutions of Biden and his people if Trump wins in November. We are fast becoming a nation of enemies.

We do know for sure that a second Biden term will be ugly. The Democrats will be out for blood. Up to the present, they have violated numerous norms by going against Trump and his lieutenants, but there is still some fear of accountability in November and thus some restraint. If they can figure out a way to rig this election—in which Biden faces more headwinds than 2020—they will be completely emboldened and unrestrained.

The left-in-power manifests a belief that they can keep a lid on discontent by prosecuting and intimidating their opponents. Perhaps they are right. While I am loathe to admit it, the draconian response to January 6 has done a lot to deter organic, right-wing street activism. There has been no MAGA equivalent of the large street protests seen recently in Brazil and France. There has certainly been no right-wing iteration of the 2020 Summer of Riots.

In other words, the age of revolution may be over. People are too wedded to their lifestyles, safety, and sense of powerlessness to do anything other than vote and then shrug in the face of stolen elections and creeping tyranny.

That said, history is full of surprises. If the left solidifies its grip on power and gives people no peaceful options for change, what other choices have they really left our angry and very well-armed population?

"In other words, the age of revolution may be over. People are too wedded to their lifestyles, safety, and sense of powerlessness to do anything other than vote and then shrug in the face of stolen elections and creeping tyranny.

I'm happy to see the "our democracy"™ caught on. It encapsulates the hypocrisy and tedious repetition as if it were a magic phrase to blind people to what is going on.

As far as the age of revolution being over, some wiser souls (and obviously very insurrectiony to the Left/Deep State) than I said it best:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

You know, if one would take time to read the list of grievances in the Deceleration of Independence we would find that we have MANY of the same problems that drove us to war with England.....check it out.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless
suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless
those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable
to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the
depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with
his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his
invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the
Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their
exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from
without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the
Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations
hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing
Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount
and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our
people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our
legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and
unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should
commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein
an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and
fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the
Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate
for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against
us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our
people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of
death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their
Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their
Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the
inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:
Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is
thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.