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How Democrats’ Attacks On The 2020 Election’s Legitimacy Set The Stage For Revolution
The Federalist ^ | September 9, 2020 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 09/09/2020 7:29:16 AM PDT by Kaslin

Nothing will more effectively halt Democrats’ efforts at pushing our country into full-scale civil conflict than shining a bright light on their objectives for all to see.


Democrats have been masters at messaging for decades. They focus on a single idea, they and their corrupt allies in the media magnify and propagate the idea, and then they all repeat it endlessly until it is accepted as fact. The idea Democrats are pushing today is that before voting has even begun, the 2020 presidential election is illegitimate.

Why are Democrats working to undermine the election, rather than working to win it? On the chance that President Donald Trump is re-elected, they are attempting to veto the vote and bring about revolution in America.

This is why Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer pretend Trump won’t leave office if defeated. It’s why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to insist the president is Vladimir Putin’s “accomplice.” It’s why the mayor of San Francisco so casually calls the president a “terrorist” and “dictator.” It’s why Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is already blaming Joe Biden’s loss on “Russian interference.”

It’s why Hillary Clinton insists Biden should not concede the election until Democrats have a chance to throw state vote counts into chaos, why Bill Clinton is selling the idea that Trump will “stack sandbags” to stay in the White House, and why certain “Washington insiders” have a plan to undertake “unprecedented” measures to overthrow Trump after he wins re-election. The Democratic Party is actively working to create the conditions necessary to trigger a political revolution.

What the left has accomplished so far is just the beginning. They have unleashed violence and mayhem across America with Antifa and Black Lives Matter paramilitary shock troops destroying cities. Republicans with a distaste for Trump, such as Mitt Romney, continue to willfully ignore what the Democrats are orchestrating by outrageously pretending it is the president, not the marauding mobs on the streets, who is trying to incite a race war.

Democratic mayors and governors are working overtime to maximize their constituents’ pain and suffering by keeping small businesses shut down, churches closed, and sports leagues canceled. All of these cascading events are a means to an end.

Democrats Are Prepping for Revolution

This past weekend, Michael McFaul, Obama’s former ambassador to Russia and a Stanford University professor, tweeted: “Trump has lost the Intelligence Community. He has lost the State Department. He has lost the military. How can he continue to serve as our Commander in Chief?” His argument was immediately and rightly mocked online for presuming that generals, diplomats, and spies should decide who sits in the Oval Office, while ignoring Article II of the Constitution and the American people’s say in the matter.

McFaul’s no dummy, though. He’s an expert on political revolution, has studied extensively the Color Revolutions that took place in former Soviet republics and during the Arab Spring, and was the chief architect of Obama’s Russian reset policy.

Stacey Lennox at PJ Media highlighted the subtext of McFaul’s message, that Democrats have achieved a key variable for political revolution: divisions among the U.S. military. The preposterous Atlantic story last week that painted Trump as insensitive to our fallen military heroes seemed less about splintering his vote from active and retired service members and more about weakening our military leadership’s constitutional loyalty to the commander in chief.

Lennox warned what McFaul and the Democratic Party were up to back in June, when John Kerry threatened revolution this November should Trump win. At the time, she highlighted a 2005 academic article McFaul wrote that listed seven “common factors” that made revolution in post-communist countries possible: “1) a semi-autocratic rather than fully autocratic regime; 2) an unpopular incumbent; 3) a united and organized opposition; 4) an ability quickly to drive home the point that voting results were falsified, 5) enough independent media to inform citizens about the falsified vote, 6) a political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest electoral fraud, and 7) divisions among the regime’s coercive forces.”

McFaul Signals Revolution Is Now Achievable

When Lennox first noted McFaul’s seven conditions for revolution in June, she argued — incorrectly, in part, because America is not a semi-autocratic regime — that the only variable left for the Democratic Party to set into place was number four, an “invigorating event” that would delegitimize the election process. Now, continuously hammered by the Democratic Party, its accomplices in the media, and its brigade of NeverTrumpers, is that Trump will steal the election and refuse to leave office.

Democrats are actively sabotaging the 2020 election by pushing “cheat-by-mail” voter fraud. They are intentionally creating a narrative that Trump’s re-election should be viewed as illegitimate. They aren’t, however, necessarily setting the stage for a Biden presidency. Their campaign of disinformation could result in the fall of the American system of government once and for all.

A conscious signal or not, McFaul’s tweet this weekend about a divided military was essentially a “go code” that revolution is now achievable. Whether he is right is irrelevant. What is important is that Americans quickly understand the dangerous game Democrats are setting into motion. Nothing will more effectively halt Democrats’ efforts at pushing our country into full-scale civil conflict than shining a bright light on their objectives for all to see.

Republicans Must Play Offense

For 50 years, Democrats have tormented civil society by dividing Americans, never letting old wounds heal, and always slapping away outstretched hands seeking peace. Glancing through Saul Alinsky’s 13 “Rules for Radicals” reveals what evil nonsense Democrats had been using to destroy American society since the 1960s. Once a person reads that list of rules for turning American culture inside out, it is impossible to look at astroturfed mobs of “peaceful protesters” as anything other than prefabricated armies paid by George Soros types to sow division in America and cause her permanent harm.

The same is true for McFaul’s “seven common factors” necessary for political revolution. As soon as you read through his list, it becomes impossible not to see what the Democrats are trying to accomplish. Step by step, they are creating the preconditions that will make America vulnerable to civil war and then to a reimagined post-constitutional order more amenable to global governance.

The “1619 Project” is about destroying our national identity. The statue-topplers are about destroying our history. But it’s McFaul’s list of conditions for revolution that illuminates Democrats’s efforts to delegitimize the coming election, fracture military leadership, and transform Antifa and Black Lives Matter insurrection in the cities into wide-scale rebellion across the nation.

The better Americans understand what Democrats are doing to undermine our self-government, the more quickly we can go from playing defense against these attacks to playing effective offense.


J.B. Shurk is a proud American from Daniel Boone country.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1619project; 202006; 2020election; demonratparty; donaldtrump; elections; insurgency; joebiden; mailinvoting; mcfaul; michaelmcfaul; resistance; revolution
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1 posted on 09/09/2020 7:29:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They are organized,wear uniforms, and are armed trying to overthrow the govt. that is an insurgent army. It’s called treason. Treat it accordingly


2 posted on 09/09/2020 7:37:33 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

They will be cut to ribbons and slaughtered like pigs!


3 posted on 09/09/2020 7:39:46 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Kaslin

Why are Democrats working to undermine the election, rather than working to win it?
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They know they can’t win with Senile Joe and the Ho.


4 posted on 09/09/2020 7:42:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin
The gutless, pansified Repukelicans must play offense... that's where it all falls apart. Actually, it's the patriots that will rise up and create the offensive, the Pukes will sit back, like they always do, and wait for the outcome before tacitly accepting the obvious.
5 posted on 09/09/2020 7:43:16 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: Kaslin

The Bolsheviks are back.


6 posted on 09/09/2020 7:44:36 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

I am resigned to our country being torn apart regardless of whether Trump or Biden wins in November. A Trump win will unleash the leftists who will attempt to overthrow Trump through violence in a Bolshevik style revolution with the support of the Democrats and mainstream media. A Biden win will begin a rapid transformation of the country into a socialist state, gutting the Bill of Rights and establishing a social credit system like in China where those who tow the party line are rewarded and those who don’t are denied even basic rights. There will be a back lash to this authoritarian regime leading to an armed revolution. Either way it will be civil war.


7 posted on 09/09/2020 7:45:10 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Common Sense 101

Agree with you. After Trump wins, the leftist street vermin will be taken down withe extreme prejudice.


8 posted on 09/09/2020 7:45:51 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Kaslin

Great summary that demonstrates what the libtard Democrats know: “they are losing, Biggly”

Otherwise, why almost this rancor and postulating stupid and contrived scenarios?


9 posted on 09/09/2020 7:54:16 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Kaslin

That’s why they keep running with all these skewed polls showing Basementman with a big lead. When he loses they’ll say “see, he was way ahead and Trump cheated to win”.

The media/dems should be declared a terrorist organization.


10 posted on 09/09/2020 7:58:03 AM PDT by euram
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To: Vendome
I am retired real estate agent, all my adult children were encouraged to buy houses during my career. All three bought over the last 10 years and now all three of them have sold this year, for various reasons. They all have huge chunks of money they socked away from the equity and all of them are waiting till after the election to buy again, on my advice.

The most recent sale was my single daughter in Portland, OR. She sold it in a week for $50,000 over asking price, she put $80,000 in the bank and left Portland last week and is staying and working online in Montana for the next month. She might stay there. She said she was sick of feeling like she was living in a war zone, she could hear bombs and yelling and screaming every night from across the river!

11 posted on 09/09/2020 8:01:45 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: Vendome
I am retired real estate agent, all my adult children were encouraged to buy houses during my career. All three bought over the last 10 years and now all three of them have sold this year, for various reasons. They all have huge chunks of money they socked away from the equity and all of them are waiting till after the election to buy again, on my advice.

The most recent sale was my single daughter in Portland, OR. She sold it in a week for $50,000 over asking price, she put $80,000 in the bank and left Portland last week and is staying and working online in Montana for the next month. She might stay there. She said she was sick of feeling like she was living in a war zone, she could hear bombs and yelling and screaming every night from across the river!

12 posted on 09/09/2020 8:01:45 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: euram

“The media/dems should be declared a terrorist organization.”

And revoke their citizenship, and insist they be exiled (but, who would want them?).


13 posted on 09/09/2020 8:17:35 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: Nifster

“They are organized,wear uniforms, and are armed trying to overthrow the govt. that is an insurgent army. It’s called treason. Treat it accordingly”

Conservatives on the other hand are armies of one’s. Individually armed to the teeth, with no organization, or plan on how to get together and defend their common interests. Guess who wins in that situation?


14 posted on 09/09/2020 8:20:54 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

I probably meant “deport” instead of “exile.” I’m watching Casablanca, so am easily distracted.


15 posted on 09/09/2020 8:23:11 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: aquila48

And if armed conservatives DO try to organize, the DoJ goes after them....


16 posted on 09/09/2020 8:46:51 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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the two stacey lennox articles on mcfaul and the seven mcfaul conditions for revolution

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stacey-lennox/2020/06/22/john-kerry-warns-of-revolution-in-november-if-trump-wins-while-he-lays-the-foundation-for-it-n560198

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/transitions-from-postcommunism/


17 posted on 09/09/2020 8:48:26 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Kaslin

staceylennox


18 posted on 09/09/2020 8:49:13 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Little Ray

“And if armed conservatives DO try to organize, the DoJ goes after them....”

True. The state apparatus and the cops are not going to be the friends of conservatives if the SHTF. Still, conservatives have to find a way to organize - the other side has.


19 posted on 09/09/2020 9:09:37 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: DarthVader

It will be way quicker than the recent unpleasantness


20 posted on 09/09/2020 9:51:06 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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