Gallup tells us, at 39 percent, President Joe Biden’s year-end approval rating is the “worst of modern day presidents seeking reelection.” This explains the panic in the Democrat Party. Terrified that voters will return former President Donald Trump to the White House and send Biden into retirement. Desperate Democrats have gone nuclear and want to blow up our democracy by barring Trump from running for president. Instead, the effort will blow up in their faces.
That’s because the more Trump gets attacked with baseless charges in politicized prosecutions, the more support he gets. Millions of Americans see the lawfare waged against Trump for what it is. They know Trump’s only crime is not surrendering to an establishment status quo by remaining committed to an America First policy agenda.
It’s likely you’ve heard by now that a narrow 4-3 majority of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Trump is disqualified from holding federal office under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. The court said Trump “engaged in insurrection” when his supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“I’m not an Insurrectionist…Crooked Joe Biden is!!!” Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social. This makes sense, because the move by Biden supporters to bar Trump from serving a second term as president is a grave threat to the survival of our democracy.
I compared the Democratic war on our democracy to going nuclear at the beginning of this column because keeping a candidate off the ballot is a dangerous and disastrous escalation in the Democrats’ efforts to seize power. It must be avoided, just as countries with nuclear weapons avoid using them.
The “mutual assured destruction” principle is a doctrine of deterrence. If one country used nuclear weapons, other countries could follow, and we could see billions of people killed and civilization destroyed. In other words, no one wins, and everyone loses. Similarly, if one party started barring its opponents for running for president in a political war, our democracy would go into a death spiral. And without the ability to elect a president of their choice, there’s no telling what angry disenfranchised voters would do. Just thinking about it is frightening. Yet, it seems to not be frightening the Democrats who never bother with considering the catastrophes that follow their actions.
Even though the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to rule that Trump is unqualified to serve as president under the 14th Amendment when he appeals this dangerous and partisan Colorado ruling, the state court decision opens a Pandora’s Box of nightmarish scenarios.
The Hail Mary desperation play by Trump opponents to deprive voters of their ability to elect the presidential candidate of their choosing isn’t just election interference. It’s blatant and un-American election rigging.
Totalitarian states including Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, and Cuba today — and Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the last century — routinely bar regime opponents for running for office. Venezuela just did so earlier this month. It would be tragic if America joined the ranks of these anti-democratic nations. But now, unbelievably, the threat is very real.
Some have argued that actions to bar Trump from running are helping him because he then portrays himself as a victim. Hardly. The increasing support for Trump comes as the political bureaucracy continues to confirm Trump’s argument that the justice system is used by the bureaucracy to maintain control and punish dissenters. Americans, regardless of their politics, also loathe unfairness, and the effort to remove a choice from the ballot is deeply unfair and makes a mockery of the Constitution.
Case, in point, in March (just days before Trump was hit with the first of four baseless criminal indictments) a Quinnipiac University poll of Republicans on their party’s presidential candidates showed Trump with 46 percent support, compared with 32 percent for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and 5 percent for former South Carolina and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley. No other Republican candidate received even 3 percent.
In its latest average of national polls, the FiveThirtyEight political website reported Thursday that Trump has the support of a whopping 62 percent of Republicans, compared to just 12 percent for DeSantis, 11 percent for Haley, 4 percent for businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and 3 percent for former New Jersey Gov. Christie.
Meanwhile, a story published Tuesday by Slate was headlined: “There is No Precedent for How Bad Biden’s Polls are Right Now.” The story said Biden trails Trump by 3 points in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls of all voters and has a dismal job approval rating of just 40 percent.
To their credit, even Trump’s badly trailing opponents in the race for the Republican presidential nomination say he shouldn’t be barred from the ballot in Colorado or any other state. That’s a view all of us should adopt.
Voting for candidates of our choosing to govern us at the federal, state, and local level is arguably our most important right and responsibility as citizens in a democracy.
Whether you love Trump or hate him, you should support his right to be on the ballot because doing so upholds the right of all of us to govern ourselves. With our votes, we ensure that government is the servant of the people. When government can bar candidates who leaders don’t like from the ballot, government becomes our master.
With each passing day of the Biden administration, the United States more closely resembles the very Marxist regimes that have caused so much needless pain and suffering for mankind over the last 100 plus years. As we continue to allow this transformation of the United States to continue, we will soon end up in the exact same place that the people of Hong Kong, Venezuela, Russia and other so-called “Socialist Utopias” find themselves today. The names of our new national security laws to restrict free speech and any other form of individual rights may be called something different from those employed in China, Russia, North Korea and elsewhere, but their content will be eerily similar in nature.
Hug your grandkids over the holidays and then apologize to them for allowing their future to be destroyed, because all of this was and is still completely preventable. Although now that we have allowed these Marxists to consolidate and expand their power and control to such a degree that the path to saving what is left of our constitutional republic is now significantly more difficult.
The US Democratic Party is the biggest threat to individual freedom that has ever existed.
One of the expressions I have heard primarily directed at leftist college students is:
”Kiddies, you can vote your way into Communism but you will have to shoot your way out”
I wonder why they don’t read the entire Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
If they did, they would see that Biden would not be eligible to run for any political office and should be removed from the one he currently holds. Since Biden gave aid or comfort to the enemies by suppling the Taliban in Afghanistan with Military Equipment.
While I agree with the sentiments voiced in this article and the comments concomitant to it, I think it’s worth mentioning that we do not live in a democracy as this author continually purports we do. The United Sates is a Republic, not a democracy. It occurs to me that if someone is going to write articles covering this area, that person should know the difference and use the terms correctly.
President Trump has not been convicted of any crimes so why would he be barred from anything? I cannot believe the Federal supreme court would bar him from being on any ballot unless he was convicted of being part of an insurrection if there ever was one.
You are on point in this article and I agree with all except one… The U.S. is not a democracy, and we need to stop trying to make it one. The U.S. is a democratic republic. Please don’t say “our democracy”, but rather “our republic”.
Welcome to Communist Colorado! Comply comrade or else. The communist democrats rule this state and want nothing more than to turn it into another radical California. This “ruling” is no surprise but it will be turned back on those whose hate rules their actions. Fortunately this only strengthens President Trumps ratings. If a person actually watches the footage of Jan. 6 and looks into the facts, only the evil democrats caused an insurrection. Of course the communist news networks would have to be convinced of that and we all know the facts there. If Trump is not on the ballot, I write his name in. Plain and simple.
Leave it to a Soros funded all democrat controlled Colorado State Supreme Court to violate the law and U.S. Constitution.
Tammy, I like your common sense articles. It’s hard to believe you were ever a liberal. Yes, we have the right to vote our choice, even if it’s a write-in.
Madam. We do not live in a “democracy”. Our government is a democratic representative republic. Our largest problem is getting those Representatives to actually represent the people. Our national politics has become such that unless J. Q. Public is standing in the public square with his wallet open, his opinion is of no consequence .
Write in votes still work in America
Sadly, the dems have said “our democracy” so long that even AMAC writers believe it. The USA is still a constitutional republic, although those who are destroying our country seem close to winning.
But praise be to God, the sovereign leader of the universe! Truth is being revealed day by day and people around the world are finally waking up and realizing they have been lied to by our corrupt government and the powerful puppetmasters who pull their strings. We are in the midst of an epic spiritual battle. But take heart, because God will win the war.
“A threat to our democacy”??? We are a representitive Republic! The headline reads like a MSM narrative… Further, the Dominion and other “voting machines” are the biggest threat to our Republic by far. I KNOW my vote has not counted since 2000. The machines let approved candidates and issues win by a squeaker to simulate a ‘close’ race…
“You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,”
“Dictator” Trump said that! That’s a threat of violence, lock him up!
No, actually it was Chuck Schumer issuing that blatant threat against SCOTUS justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Nothing happened to him. You try that and I’ll visit you in federal prison.
Let me tell you a story. One of my roommates was a Venezuelan. He told me he was running for political office back home, as was his friend. His friend was murdered before the election, and word was passed to him that he was next. He and his family fled to the U.S.(a legitimate asylum seeker!). We’re one step away from Venezuela.
Get the Progressive-Socialists out of our govt., out of our schools, and Never allow them Any position of authority, Ever!
This reminds me of the rise of the 3rd Reich. I am still in disbelief that Colorado barred a person be it Trump or Howdy Doody biden it can’t be allowed. If they uphold this I PRAY we have a full blown Revolution only to show American leaders you follow the Constitution or we take up arms.
The Supreme Court in Colorado is not only confused about what the law really means, they are also guilty of voter suppression by stating that they will not accept write in votes for Donald J Trump at Primary election time.
Rather than a “government for the people”, we now have a government that has weaponized itself, as well as weaponized the legal/judicial system against the citizens of the United States of America. As a citizen of the United States of America, at 74 yrs of age, I am appalled at what has happened to this country. It is like America is imploding from the inside out, self-destructing via the weaponization of our government against the people! Given the garbage that has surfaced no wonder the democrats and perhaps even a few republicans don’t want President Trump back in office for his 2nd term! Our government leaders are afraid of even more layers being peeled back and exposing even more of the dirt and corruption that exists, more lies, more deception…more of the plan to take America down and to destroy her! Our leaders are not working for the people and what is best for this country? What is happening just at the border is proof enough. They are feeding us more lies, more garbage out of their need to control the narrative and in the meantime enrich themselves! I believe that somewhere along the line Joe Biden and others “sold American out” for what price…what cost? We, the American people, America, as a country have been sold out to the highest “Biden Bidders”! For a long time I could never understand Obama’s choice of VP’s…now I do. What all these government employees have done to Trump and his family is criminal!! I am so sorry that President Trump and his family are having to endure all this. I pray that God, our creator and Lord will continue providing His protection around President Trump and his family against the evil and darkness that has been unleashed against them.
Since when do the courts of this country run this country this is nothing but Biden corruption at its best because he knows he cannot beat Trump and so do the Dems of this country they are afraid of Trump. The Dems want to stay in control of this country and they will stop at nothing to stay in power. They do nothing for this country they cannot control who comes into this country from that southern border they have failed the voters of this country.
Colorado hasn’t had a Republican governor since 2007.
The four judges that handed down this decision were appointed by Democrats. Bias is palpable.
We are a constitutional republic with a democratic style government up to the office of President. This is part of the reason for the electoral college. The democrats have pushed the democracy narrative to the point that even conservatives now refer to our nation as a democracy. Trump is only a threat to the democrats’ democracy. It is our once great Republic that has been destroyed by the liberals. And by preventing any candidate who meets constitutional requirements from being on any ballot is a threat to our Republic but supports their democracy (mob rule). Hence the narrative that the riots of 2020 were peaceful protests while 1/6/21 was an insurrection.
Hey Smelly D,When did you kneel and smell his arse?
What they are doing is what happened to Venezuela when the Socialist took over. They are now a Third World COUNTY and the Democrats( Socialist) are trying to do to this country. We need to stand up for what is rightfully ours according to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I sure did enjoy how peaceful the globe was between 2016-2020. I do miss the 30% reduction in my retirement plan under Bidenomics$. But, maybe the nation is ready for the destruction of socialism after all.
Trump said something like this at a recent rally: ” might pardon all of the people charged for Jan 6 actions…….but something like the Capitol police should be charged for injuries to these protesters”.. Trump claims he supports the police & would grant them indemify rights if elected in 2024. What gibberish is this ?????
I quit reading after your comment “Trump’s baseless prosecutions” as that implies that Trump did not break any laws. Sorry, but Trump himself said a few years back …..that No Man is Above the Law”. One last comment, Trump has spent his entire adult life with lawyers and lawsuits. He is not a good role model for the youth of today to follow IMO.
C’mon man, we’re not a democracy! I do agree that Democrats are the biggest threat to our Constitutional Representative Republic however.
They can’t stop your write in vote.
The United States of America is a Republic. You have bought into the MSM rhetoric of declaring us a democracy. Watch the montages shots of MSM…all claiming the USA a democracy, clearly all have been told to push this agenda. They keep twisting the language to suit their evil purposes.
Sounds like Mob Authority Anarchy (a Republic of sorts) over Representative Democracy (a hybrid Republican Democracy. Great plan!! Working well in Saudi Arabia and various other Theocracies (“Divine Right” of civil/political authorities) like The Russian Confederation, China, N. Korea, with such Strong & Powerful Leaders who RULE their countries with an Iron Fist; CRUSHING ALL opposition, not just your puny, insignificant, mouth sucking the Life Blood from Our country with your “Entitlements” when it could be better spent paying a White House Groom of the Stool.
No pension? No IRA? No inherited family wealth? Is that the standard of Mature American Citizens or the standard of poor planning of folks who really want to be coddled by a Nanny State catering to their infantile desires with no accountability for their own actions. Sound familiar?
But remember to “trust your free and fair election system”! Democruds believe its STOLEN only when despite all their cheating we win any ways! Because the only way to win “must have been” because of cheating! Otherwise, hiw can they explain losing a “sure thing”… it’s “in the bag”!
According to Ann Coulter, the Democrats are doing everything that they can to ensure that Trump is the Republican candidate for president in 2024 because he is the only Republican whom Biden or whoever is the Democratic candidate can beat. Attacking him with baseless charges in politicized prosecutions gives him more support, which is why, according to Coulter, the Democrats are bringing these charges against him.
Other Blue States want to do same
It seems to me that a movement to remove a person from a national election that has never charged with or convicted of insurrection is either an insurrectioness or a secessionist themselves.
Slow Joe pardoned millions of dopers. That makes sense: nobody with a working brain would vote for him!
The powers to be just don’t understand that we the people are not stupid and really can think for ourselves.
Curious: Does this ruling stop a write-in?
I feel confident that a majority of voters will not be satisfied with government over reach.
Tucker Carlson is correct: the split is between people who understand God who created all life is in charge and no person, no matter how powerful, can change the most important elements of life on earth. We should do what is within our ability and responsibility and adjust to conditions over which we have no ability to change.
The Supreme Court has already ruled this as unconstitutional.
I want to know what millions of Americans need to do now to stop this insanity. It can not be allowed to tear us apart. What do we need to do?
Since Colorado doesn’t want to play by the rules of the United States of America, maybe it’s time for us to expel them from the union.
I wish we lived in times when the young members of our society could be counted on to defend our nation from the tyranny under which we now suffer.
There is an Amendment to the Constitution that follows the First Amendment of course known as the Second Amendment. The Founding Fathers included this amendment not to protect hunting rights, in a rational existence such is expected without being codified. No, the amendment was installed so as to protect “we the people” from a tyrannical government such as the one under which we now suffer.
It is sad to say but I truly believe our social order has essentially weakened into something very un American. Too many slavishly follow the narrative provided by our increasingly fascistic government through their complicit propagandists that refer to themselves as “journalists”.
It can only be hoped that at some point the young and healthy in our country stand up and push back by any and all means necessary against what our current power structure has done to essentially enslave us all
We may have to expel Colorado, close all access and require visas for residents. Also there is a matter of duties on goods and taxes on aircraft flying in and out.
Donald J Trump made many mistakes during his presidency and now he wants another chance, yeah right, even DeSantis would be a better choice.
Conservatives are “strict constructionists,” “original intent,” “state’s rights,” and “10th Amendment absolutists,” until a strict and clear provision of the 14th Amendment (an integral portion of the Constitution, BTW) is applied via a state’s 10th Amendment power. Amazing.
Whether you love Trump or hate him, you should support his right to be on the ballot because doing so upholds the right of all of us to govern ourselves
why? He wouldn’t do it for me lol