When faced with the possible return of former 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 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 state 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 President 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.
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.
Yet all the indictments are increasingly clouded in controversy, if not outright scandal.
Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis campaigned on promises to get Trump. She now faces allegations that she outsourced the prosecution to an unqualified personal injury lawyer—her current stealth boyfriend, who was paid handsomely by Willis’ office and traveled on pricey junkets with her.
New York partisan Attorney General Letitia James likewise sought office on promises to destroy Trump.
She preposterously claims Trump overvalued his real estate collateral to a bank. Yet it eagerly made the loan, profited from it, and had no complaints, given that Trump paid off the principle and interest as required.
Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg is even more desperate. He is now prosecuting Trump for campaign finance violations from nearly a decade ago, claiming a nondisclosure agreement with a purported sexual liaison somehow counts as a campaign violation.
Federal special prosecutor Jack Smith claims Trump should be convicted of improperly removing classified documents after leaving office. In the past, such disagreements over presidential papers were resolved bureaucratically.
Biden, for example, improperly took out classified files after leaving the Senate and vice presidency and stored them in unsecure locations for more than a decade.
All of these prosecutors are unapologetic anti-Trump progressives.
Some have communicated with the White House legal eagles, even though Biden is likely to face Trump in the November election.
Some prosecutors are themselves facing controversies, if not scandals. Some wish to synchronize their drawn-out investigations and indictments to hinder the Trump reelection effort.
At other times, the effort to neuter Trump is waged by his rival, Biden himself.
He has hammered Trump as an “insurrectionist” and guilty of a number of egregious crimes against democracy—even as Biden’s own attorney general has appointed a special counsel to try Trump on just those federal charges concerning the Jan. 6 demonstrations, a dead horse that Biden periodically still beats to death to scare voters.
Biden periodically smears half of America who supported or voted for Trump as “ultra-MAGA” extremists and “semi-fascists” who would destroy democracy.
Yet the more Biden and the Left weaponize the judicial system to prevent Trump from running, and the more Biden screams and yells that Trump supporters are anti-American and anti-democratic, the more Trump soars in the polls while Biden sinks.
The Left privately knows that its historically unprecedented strangulation of democracy is increasing Trump’s popularity. But like an addict, it cannot quit its Trump fix.
In sum, the Left is creating historic, anti-democratic precedents that will someday boomerang on Democrats should Republicans win the November election and follow the new Democrat model of extralegal politics.
Democrats are tearing apart the country in a manner not seen since the Civil War era—apparently convinced democracy cannot be trusted and so itself must be sacrificed as the price of destroying Trump.
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Let’s review what this government has actually done for Americans since January 2021. We already know they hate President Trump and know he will not stop until truth is know by every American.1. This government has been attempting to take away parental authority from parents over their children. Most parents want their children to get an education based on truth and science, not a false diatribe of governmental indoctrination.2. This government is indoctrinating children and punishing them if they want to excel, and be the best they can be, and not accept mediocrity.3. Under this government, children are being forced to accept someone elses ideas of sexuality and punishing them when they claim their own.4. This government has and is investigating parents who speak out at school board meetings as national terrorists.5. Under this government, American education has turned into indoctrination. “Believe what we tell you and not the truth.”6. Under this government, educators, at all levels, insist that white people, males, religious people, privileged people, healthy people, and conseritive people are racist and morally corrupt.7. Under this government, higher education, coledges, and universities insist Genoside is viable for certain peoples and nations, they don’t accept.8. This government is insisting that it is not murder to abort a child up to the time of birth.9. Under this government, male athletes are allowed to participate in female sports if they think they should have been born a different gender.10. This government claims that there are more genders in the human race than male and female (2).11. This government is supporting open borders importing criminals, terrorist, murders, pedophiles, pimps, prositutes and drug dealers, without proper ID or vetting, into America everyday, and thru every port, since January 2021.12. This government has allowed the smuggling of Fentenal, a known killing drug, every day and thru every American border, killing 10’s of thousands of Americans since January 2021.13. This government has allowed disease and pestilence, no longer a concern in America, to pour across American borders every day, from every port, infecting and killing Americans, since January 2021.14. This government has allowed 10s of thousands of militant middle-easterns, unvetted, so potential terriosts, cross our borderns every day and thur every port since January 2021.Think about this, these same mindless murdering terriosts who killed 1,200 unarmed peoples in Israel could do the same in America. After all, who is protesting in America for Palistine?15. This government has forced inflation in america by overspending and massive unapproved dollar allocations designed to force every American into spending their savings. This practice was adopted to force every Americans to join the government dole and has been on going since January 2021.16. This government has attempted to halt American democracy at its roots by dening open elections by defrauding Americans at every opportunity. Residency isn’t nationality. Voters have to vote inperson or by vetted write-in ballots. Any other vote is invalid. “Remember, it’s not how many people vote. It’s how and who counts the votes!”17. This government is spreading false information about the state of the economy. New jobs increased by counting new government jobs, which may or may not be valid or needed positions. As well as, the government counting part-time jobs obtained by already full-time job holders as two jobs, two people, not one person with two jobs, falsify upgrading US economy staticts.18. This governments destruction of Americans’ oil independance and the dependence now of foreign oil, including the middle-east, IS CRIMINAL. This insain move breaks the American militaries’ ability to secure America and rob Americans of their savings by forcing them to spend more money, moving them closer to a government dole.19. Government overreach in every aspect of American life, home construction, gas heating, stoves, fireplaces, generators, and the automobile and trucking industries.20. Government employees inciting protesters to riot. Generating false identities to encourage unlawful actions, like the Capitol riot on January 6th, and the Floyd riots backed by Antifa and BLM funded through swamp dollars.This appears to be the doctrine of the now Democratic party, which has nothing to do with Democracy, nor the American Republic based on a constitutional government. This is a push for power by Billionaires, eletise groups and foreign governments that are pushing for power in America. The only way these power mongers can acheive their goal is to move Americans toward a government dole, socialism, communism, and/or a one world environment that ends up making the American landscape look like China and India with billions, not millions, of people newly placed on American soil. We won’t own it anymore. In fact, we won’t own anything anymore! Please, take the time to look at who is running for any government office in your city, county, state or state supported federal office and know who is backing them and vote this government out of office, removing the obsession by power hungry people wanting control of America. Vote to save your country, family, friends, and our American way of life from the looming potential of obscurity.
HOW NICE TO HAVE POLITICIANS TELL US WHO WE CAN VOTE FOR. WELCOME TO THE BANANA REPUBLIC,
What a disgrace, the Marxist Democrats crave power just like the Communists in China and Russia. It’s all about power!!!!!!!
Dare I ask why these people are not charged with election interference? I know because Democrats can do whatever they want
Why are we not aiming to destroy the stinking democrats? They just do what ever they want and walk away with no accountability.
After Trump is reelected we should televise the Treason Trials on a Pay Per View of every Democrat and Deep State beauracrat done under a Military Tribunal and pay off our National Debt. There has to be a price for Treason and destroying Democracy in this country.
This has been evident to the general public since soon after he and Melania came down the escalator. The Left’s noise has drowned out the message forevermore. Patriotic citizens better awaken to the reality that the land is succumbing to the easy influence of socialism, communism, liberalism, progressivism, reparations, free tuition to useless universities, free lunches unavailable in stores. free cell phones, free….stuff
I can’t believe what has happened to my (our) America, it’s not just one thing, it’s open borders, it’s not using our own naturel resources, it’s forcing Americans to buy a product they don’t want or need, and can’t afford, it’s the destruction of America’s standing in the world, it’s the destruction of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the taking away the people’s right to choose the Presidential Candidate of choice, by the attempt to removing him from the Ballot, the things they have used to remove him for, he has never been charge , tried or convicted of.
The Supreme Court needs to act swiftly, and decisively, and stop the stupidity, and rule that those who made the false charges make restitution to the Government and the accused out of their own pockets.
Those who have violated the Constitution should be tried for Treason!
I’m more afraid there won’t be a fair election than I am about who folks will vote for. Let’s be sure it won’t be sloppy like in 2020, Require photo I.D. at the polls. Limit mail in for military only. Can’t make it to the polls? Tough. You don’t vote.
There is a company called ipostal1 that is offering a real street address anywhere in the US for $10 a month, chump change for Soros. Can you please investigate this cheating scam
They will even shoot him if necessary. Those of us who lived thru the 60’s saw it with our very eyes. They even shot at Ford and shot Reagan.
The democrat party needs to change their name to represent who they are “The Socialist Party of America.”
WHAT A MESS. THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN DISCOURSE AND ANNAMOSTY BETWEEN A DEM> AND PUB. BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS. IS ASSAnation IN THE AIR?? THESE PEOPLE SEEM TO BE AT THE POINT OF KILLING ONE ANOTHER. Kyle L.
For sure democracy has been eliminated by the democrats with the leadership of ole Joe and O. The last three years nothing was accomplished by the dems and if things went wrong Trump was blamed. All they have worked on is destroy America and make half of the population terrorists. The only good American is one that voted for ole Joe. If you vote for him you just sold your soul to the devil. Ole Joe doesn’t care about democrats with a different opinion from his. You stand with him totally. Anything else you are an enemy. He says democracy is being taken away if the reps should win the election. Ole Joe did that all by himself. We are hated and laughed at all over the world with his leadership. But what can you do when the moneyed elites run the country. And ole Joe is bribed by China Russia and the Ukraine.
Cornered beasts fighting for their lives They know it’s now or never
They are not radical Democrats. They are “progressives,” socialists, or communists. An American Democrat would not use any foul means possible.
We all better find a way to be prepared if (when?) the legitimate vote does not work. Their intent is not even being hidden anymore; check their own proclamations at Davos right now, as we speak. “Stop at Nothing”….is LITERAL!
Just remember the marxist democrat party will do anything to keep President Trump from being re- elected and making America Great Again!
The democrats are corrupt, cheaters,immoral,anti American traitors.
WAKE UP AMERICA – these LOSERS hate legal Citizens, Faith, Family’s and Freedom.
THROW THEM OUT, CRUSH THEM OVERWHELMINGLY and Save OUR COUNTRY!
The Progressive socio Fascist Democrats fear Trump like no other. He is not part of the DC swamp (including RINO) who “scratch each others backs” looking the other way as they fleece the American public. He stands for Truth, Justice and the American way and they hate all of that.
I agree with all of this but what can one individually do to combat these gross atrocities against Trump and our Country and our Freedom?
The left will do anything to keep President Trump from returning to office down to and including assassination.
And what will the great American citizenry do following such an event? They will roll over on their backs and urinate on their bellies like the cowed dogs they have allowed themselves to become.
There was a time not long ago when these political hacks trying to remove candidates from a place on the ballot would be at BEST dragged to the edge of town, tarred and feathered and left to leave forever humiliated. That if it wasn’t a high level position such as……….well the US Presidency. In that event, well it used to be called “Southern Justice”.
The inhabitants of this country, one can’t call them citizens any longer, deserve the complete collapse and hysteria that is about to slam home nationwide.
God bless America?
Unfortunately democrats are not the only one’s intent on their “one world order”….rinos…including George Bush Sr. whose presidential acceptance speech included this; “We must usher in the New World Order.” I listened to that speech. At the time I didn’t really have a concept of what he meant….that has radically changed! No borders, an ex “president” who made it plain in his first two (gag) books his “dislike” for this nation…but the sheep cheered at every utterance…a medical system once the jewel of the medical world, attacks on our cops…and so many can’t understand why so many “retired” early. Have a long time friend who was in law enforcement almost out of high school, swat team commander, awesome record, but also a great human being…retired at 50. Remember the war on our cops when BLM thugs roamed the country seeking what and whom they could destroy…and they found ’em. The aim is to destroy this Constitutional Republic at any cost…including human life. Population reduction: IE; over 60 million unborn citizens since the early 70’s destroyed in the name of “choice”. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights is an anathema to those who “will rule”.
Anything with the word “Global” attached to it, in Constitutional terms, is treason. Our Founders would be sickened at what’s been allowed to happen to the country they pledged “Their lives, honors and fortunes” to bring into being. Trump is in the leftist’s way…don’t ever put it past them to attempt at all costs, to remove him. Ben Franklin when asked what was the best form of government replied: “A Republic, IF you can keep it.” Patrick Henry: “When a nation forgets it’s God, tyrants soon forge it’s chains.’ They knew whereof they spoke.
The hate for Trump by the Dems in Washington is so bad they will stop at nothing to get him and his family, they are afraid of him because he brings out the truth about the swamp and all those involved. There are many in Washington that are getting rich off being dishonest so they want Biden and his so called VP to stay in power even if it does not help this country. President Trump is for the people in this country and we need him to shut the border down and finish the wall and add more border agents to stop the drugs from coming into this country which the Dems care nothing about and the flow of drugs is killing more people the in previous years.
If Trump isn’t on my ballot I will write him in. The demon-rats have tried everything in the book to get him arrested, etc and nothing holds because they know he didn’t do anything. Unlike Butthead Biden that did NOT actually win the last election. Biden won? by FRAUD. The demon-rats are good at that.
We are a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. There really is a difference. The two most important differences are:
In a democracy, there are no constraints on the government. In a republic there are constraints on the government.
In a democracy, the main focus is the general will of the people. In a republic, the main focus is on the constitution.
(I would say under our present administration, the main focus is NOT the general will of the people. And the Constitution is ignored and tossed out – to the point of our government hierarchy have been & still are breaking laws with no consequence.)
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When are these treasonous Democrats be held accountable for their criminal acts? It seems our so called Republicans are a bunch of go along to get alongs. We all have to wake up to what is going on or this will not end well!
It makes me want to puke every time I hear some democrat, who don’t give a damn about our country, rear back on his hind legs and talk about OUR DEMOCRACY. The founding fathers knew history and also human nature and they knew democracies don’t last. The last thing they wanted was for the USA to be a democracy. They gave us a constitutional republic. If I am not badly mistaken, you can look through the constitution and declaration of independence from cover to cover and not find the word democracy mentioned. It is beginning to look doubtful if we will be able to keep our republic much longer.
just reading my Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Citizen grand juries. We have the power and need to start pulling it back.
Biden’s the one that said in front of a group of people, they would do what ever they needed to do to keep Trump, not from running but to keep him from being “elected” in the next election. They should be playing that clip non stop.
Let’s face it : DIMMs and RINOs are the spawn of Satan. They push death by abortion, drugs, and crime. They think castration of kids is fine and robbing stores is “economic justice.” That’s not to say that Republicans are simon-pure but at least they are nominally sane!
it’s all so silly that shows that biden and his dumo crew are afraid of Trump – and rightfully so! Trump is on a mission to clean up corruption in the election and many other areas, i don’t know how any one can say that what genocide joe is doing to this country is good! please explain good? the economy isn’t good, (it was great under Trump, the border sucks, (Trump had it to a good point) there is a surge in diseases, drugs, sex trafficking and crime. biden could care less – as long as he gets people here who he thinks should be allowed to vote! that’s a damn lie – you need to be an American citizen – illegals are here unlawfully, the left is so corrupt it puts satan to shame! this is not a made up story – what i’m saying is the truth! all you haters disgust me and you will pay bc all haters get their just due! Trump will be the president in 2024 so get use to it. don’t try to lie and cheat bc you are being watched very closing! a bu nch of uneducated, ignorant pigs
Those same Progressive Democrats want to destroy the U.S. as a Constitutional Republic as well.
Ditto what TY said! Democrats talk about “saving democracy” but continue to violate free speech, the right to assemble peacefully, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and illegal search and seizure by targeting “key words” through our financial transactions without a warrant! Democracy? More like IDIOCRACY!
Take up arms and fight back the invasion of our country by all the demoncrats, leftist liberals including the ones in Congress.
If we don’t all is lost including the country!!!
they are not radical. they are corrupt criminal democrat nation committee directed scum.
The democrat party needs to be outlawed and all their assets confiscated as well as the asset of their top 10 donors.
The Democrat party is no longer the Democrat party. It is now the Marxist communist party. They are the enemy of the United States of America and they need to be outlawed and banned from holding office of any kind in this nation. Everyone of them needs to go. It is the responsibility of the Republicans in D to make this happen. What are they waiting for?
People will do what their puny minds dictate, thinking they are right. All foolhardy and useless. It pisses too many off with the cheap and ignorant comments, Like Joy whatshername on the show with other women. What kind of morons are they?
Seems the outcome is given unless they resort to illegal means. Many have been convicted and will go to jail. Goodbye, enjoy the games that will occur.
Get to the Radical Democrats first!
Why is no one Talking about all the money the Biden (Obama) Administration has spent on Anti Nuke Medication. I’m very sure it is not for the common people????:
You mean nothing has changed in the last twelve years?
I have been a Trump supporter, but personally, my hope is that he decides not to run and throws his support to either Haley or Desantis. Trump is simply too old and divisive for the good of the Nation.
AMAC’s stories (and concomitant reader comments) like this are a clear window into Waz up Brah? Only can be described as a cult. SMH…
I’ve head that if you whisper MAGA real slow it sounds like Gullible.