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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden ‘Saves’ Democracy by Destroying it
American Greatness ^ | 11 Jan, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/11/2024 5:25:02 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Left is creating historic, anti-democratic precedents that will someday boomerang should Republicans win the November election and follow the new Democrat model of extra-legal politics.

When faced with the possible return of President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had to destroy democracy to save it.”

The effort shares a common theme: any means necessary are justified to prevent the people from choosing their own president, given the fear that a majority might vote to elect Donald Trump.

Sometimes the anti-democratic paranoia has been outsourced to state and local officials and prosecutors to erase Trump from the primary and likely general election ballots as well.

One unelected official in Maine, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, is a Democrat, an official never elected by the people, and a non-lawyer rendering a legal edict. Yet she has judged Trump guilty of “insurrection.”

And presto, she erased his name from the state’s ballot.

Yet Trump was never charged, much less convicted, of “insurrection.”

The statute Bellows cites is a post-Civil War clause of the 14th Amendment. It was passed over a century and a half ago. It was never intended to be used in an election year by an opposition party to disbar a rival presidential candidate.

In the earlier case of Colorado, the all-Democrat Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote, took Trump off the ballot.

In sum, just five officials in two states have taken away the rights of some 7 million Americans to vote for the president of their choice.

Note that Trump continues to lead incumbent Joe Biden in the polls.

Sometimes, indictments are preferred to prevent Americans from voting for or against Trump.

Currently, four leftist prosecutors—three state and one federal—have indicted Trump.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 01/11/2024 5:25:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

These leftists are “bad actors” in several ways. First, they have ill intent and don’t care about telling lies to get their way. Second, they are such terrible actors that they would never make it in hollywood. It is obvious that they are making things up as they go.


2 posted on 01/11/2024 5:25:11 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 01/11/2024 5:26:03 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
In sum, just five officials in two states have taken away the rights of some 7 million Americans to vote for the president of their choice.

These people are playing with fire.

4 posted on 01/11/2024 5:44:19 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: MtnClimber

Actually, bidAn is helping destroy democracy, to pave the way to restoring the Republic. All the bad stuff happening under bidAn’s watch, the burning embers will pave a path for Trump to restore the organic United States Republic *for* America.


5 posted on 01/11/2024 5:52:48 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: MtnClimber

“that will someday boomerang should Republicans win the November election and follow the new Democrat model of extra-legal politics”

Don’t worry, that would require a spine and testicles, and Republicans can’t find either of those between them.


6 posted on 01/11/2024 5:54:22 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Currently, four leftist prosecutors—three state and one federal—have indicted Trump.

They are petitioning courts to accelerate the usually lethargic legal process to ensure Trump is tied up in Atlanta, Miami, New York, and Washington, D.C., courtrooms nonstop during the 2024 election cycle.

Their aim is to keep Trump from campaigning, as he faces four left-wing prosecutors, four liberal judges, and four or five overwhelmingly Democratic jury pools.

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7 posted on 01/11/2024 5:59:37 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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I get so damned tired of that phrase ‘Saving our democracy’ when I know damn well that is the last thing they are doing..........


8 posted on 01/11/2024 6:01:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MtnClimber

The psychology of this Left lunacy is so base and sophomoric. They have relentlessly and unapologetically demonized and used legal warfare against Trump for almost ten years now. Now, with feigned indignation, they claim Trump has to be stopped at all costs from becoming president because he is a ‘danger to democracy’ should he be re-elected president. They see nothing inhumane in any of this to keep poking the bull with spears and then hysterically wonder why the bull has a right to lash out at them when he regains power.


9 posted on 01/11/2024 6:34:35 AM PST by iontheball
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To: iontheball

They are all playing a game. Everyone knows that even if Trump wins, the RINOs and dems will keep him from killing off the leftist swing of this country. Witness what happened when Paul RINO was speaker. I support DJT and will till the end of time but the reality is he will be a speed bump as we race to the bottom. I firmly believe that. Anyone want to argue after seeing what happens when scumbags like Hunter appear at a committee hearing and figuratively moon them and then walk out. Even the worse Mafia scum bags of the past would never have gotten away with that one. I can in my mind hear Estes Kefauver saying, whoa now, shoot the son of a bitch.


10 posted on 01/11/2024 6:58:19 AM PST by Mouton (150MTs in the right location will not solve are problems now.)
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To: Red Badger

The ChiComjoe kakistocracy and the several Demonicrat state kakistocracies are traitors to the United States of America.


11 posted on 01/11/2024 6:59:25 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: MtnClimber

In a nutshell, when the party in power seeks to remain in power by persecuting, prosecuting and eventually removing the political opposition from the ballot, This is what democrats call “saving democracy.”

Exactly what Hitler said he was doing after the Reichstag fire: saving democracy from the communists by making himself essentially a dictator.


12 posted on 01/11/2024 7:27:47 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MtnClimber

Biden is a prime example why animals eat their young they know it’s bad from birth.


13 posted on 01/11/2024 7:29:42 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Mouton

I support DJT and will till the end of time but the reality is he will be a speed bump as we race to the bottom. I firmly believe that.
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Well said. With the extent of decay already having taken place, it is unrealistic to think that Trump or any other humanely compassionate leader could right this ship in four years. Indeed, there are so many demonic forces all working against civilization, that it is hard to see how most of humanity can survive the onslaught. The Devil’s minions are out there in force and they are in our faces proclaiming that most of the world’s population must die to save the planet. That can only add up to more attacks coming our way.

https://reason.com/2006/04/03/to-save-the-planet-kill-90-per/


14 posted on 01/11/2024 7:37:28 AM PST by iontheball
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


15 posted on 01/11/2024 7:47:46 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Taxman

ping


16 posted on 01/11/2024 2:05:59 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt


17 posted on 01/12/2024 5:01:50 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt


18 posted on 01/28/2024 10:53:18 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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