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Who Has Been Busy Destroying Democracy?
American Greatness ^ | 14 Aug, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/14/2025 4:45:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Democrats decry “destroying democracy” while dismantling long-standing institutions, weaponizing agencies, and undermining the very systems they claim to defend.

"Destroying democracy”—the latest theme of the left—can be defined in many different ways.

How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains?

So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court?

Who talks frequently about destroying the 187-year-old Senate filibuster—though only when they hold a Senate majority?

Who wants to bring in an insolvent left-wing Puerto Rico and redefine the 235-year-old District of Columbia—by altering the Constitution—as two new states solely to obtain four additional liberal senators?

Who is trying to destroy the constitutionally mandated 288-year Electoral College by circumventing it with the surrogate “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?”

Does destroying democracy also entail weaponizing federal bureaucracies, turning them into rogue partisan arms of a president?

So who ordered the CIA to concoct bogus charges of “collusion” to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign, the 2016-2017 transition, and the first 22 months of Trump’s first term?

Who prompted a cabal of “51 former intelligence officials” to lie to the American people on the eve of the last debate of the 2020 election that the FBI-authenticated Hunter Biden laptop was instead the work of a “Russian intelligence operation?”

Who ordered the FBI to connive and partner with social media conglomerates to censor accurate news deemed unhelpful to the 2020 Biden campaign?

Who pulled off the greatest presidential coup in history by using surrogates in the shadows to run the cognitively debilitated Biden presidency, then by fiat canceled his reelection effort, and finally anointed as his replacement the new nominee Kamala Harris, who had never won a single primary delegate?

Who ordered FBI SWAT teams to invade the home

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democracy; democrats; domesticenemies; leftism; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 08/14/2025 4:45:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Who ordered two assassination attempts against the Republican presidential candidate?


2 posted on 08/14/2025 4:45:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 08/14/2025 4:45:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks for posting.


4 posted on 08/14/2025 4:47:17 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Who has been absconding to

NOT VOTE

thus

Destroying democracy

Literally


5 posted on 08/14/2025 4:50:49 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: MtnClimber

Jeremiah 9:5
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

They lie continually. The truth is not in them!


6 posted on 08/14/2025 4:56:17 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: texas booster

One of the best things VDH does is provide a list of what the Dims have done lately to provide perspective on their current arguments. The Dims really are about projecting loudly their current mantra in hoping the masses forget the recent past mantras of the Dims.


7 posted on 08/14/2025 4:57:38 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

We’re not a democracy. Democracy should be destroyed as marx referred to it as the road to socialism.


8 posted on 08/14/2025 4:57:43 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: MtnClimber
Who allowed tens of thousands of rioters, arsonists, and violent protestors over four months in 2020 to destroy over $2 billion in property, kill some 35 people, injure 1,500 police officers, and torch a federal courthouse, a police precinct, and a historic church—all with de facto legal impunity?

Who allowed this rioting during a 'pandemic' when everyone else was required to 'Social Distance' and stay home to prevent the spread of the Virus?

9 posted on 08/14/2025 4:59:55 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


10 posted on 08/14/2025 5:01:05 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: cuz1961
Someday, they will erect a monument to the courage of the Texas Democrats. There will be paintings, songs, and movies of the pathos and the heart rending ejection of those brave warriors. The mean old Republicans got themselves all liquored up. They brought out their snarling attack dogs and with whips and thick cigar smoke, they herded all those sweet lambs over the borders to Illinois and New York. Think of the families! It's for the children. Can no one stop this travesty? Can no one set up a collection fund to ease their suffering? OH THE HUMANITY!

(How am I doing so far?)


11 posted on 08/14/2025 5:10:47 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: MtnClimber

The domestic terrorist/communist party’s so-called “democracy” is an outright, dire threat to our Constitutional Republic.


12 posted on 08/14/2025 5:11:05 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: PGalt

I have long thought we must have 2 parties or more. Now I’m thinking maybe the second party(unless we had more) should be something other than the Democrats. In the last few years, they have been nothing but trouble, seeming not at all interested in preserving the American way. There can & should be some differences in the parties, but not to the extent that the Democrats have displayed.


13 posted on 08/14/2025 5:19:26 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: PGalt

I have long thought we must have 2 parties or more. Now I’m thinking maybe the second party(unless we had more) should be something other than the Democrats. In the last few years, they have been nothing but trouble, seeming not at all interested in preserving the American way. There can & should be some differences in the parties, but not to the extent that the Democrats have displayed.


14 posted on 08/14/2025 5:19:59 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: PGalt

I have long thought we must have 2 parties or more. Now I’m thinking maybe the second party(unless we had more) should be something other than the Democrats. In the last few years, they have been nothing but trouble, seeming not at all interested in preserving the American way. There can & should be some differences in the parties, but not to the extent that the Democrats have displayed.


15 posted on 08/14/2025 5:20:30 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

So it is no surprise that the panicked Democrats bark at the shadows—given that they know their revolutionary, neo-socialist agenda is destroying them. And yet, like all addicts, they choose destruction over abandoning their self-destructive fixations.

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16 posted on 08/14/2025 5:36:55 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

Another spot-on piece from VDH!


17 posted on 08/14/2025 5:42:52 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: MtnClimber

That too! If it wasn’t them, it was by one of their nutty sympathizers.


18 posted on 08/14/2025 5:43:33 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: oldtech; All

BUMP


19 posted on 08/14/2025 5:57:31 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats are “projectors”. They were given the book “Rules For Radicals” by Saul Alinsky for it is their Bible.

The press gets paid off by them through Big Pharma.


20 posted on 08/14/2025 6:19:25 AM PDT by Racketeer
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