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Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’

Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2024
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The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.

Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.

That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.

A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton / Democratic National Committee / FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.

That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.

On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign. That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.

Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.

For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.

The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.

Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump.

They all shared some strange similarities.

These indictments would likely not have been filed had Trump not run for office. Nor would any of them have proceeded had Trump not been a controversial conservative Republican seeking reelection.

Almost all the charges had not been filed against any other prior candidate, and rarely a private citizen.

Some of them could just as easily have been lodged against President Joe Biden and his son.

Some indictments and convictions may still achieve their objectives of bankrupting, jailing, or keeping Trump inert during the final weeks of the campaign.

One of the Georgia prosecutors had undisclosed meetings with the Biden White House counsel.

Biden himself, on the eve of the federal prosecutor Jack Smith’s indictment, all but declared his campaign rival, Trump, guilty.

Biden’s own chief of the White House had also met privately and secretly with Smith.

In an unprecedented fashion, Smith rushed his prosecution to ensure it synchronized with the 2024 campaign.

Similar federal charges could just as easily have led to the indictment of Biden—if the special counsel in that case had not claimed that he could not convince a jury to convict a culpable but cognitively challenged Biden.

Another Biden prosecutor mysteriously left his top position at the Justice Department to join the Alvin Bragg Manhattan prosecutorial staff.

Nonetheless, Trump had survived collusion, disinformation, de-balloting, lawfare, and a subsequent assassination attempt to surge far ahead of Biden in the June presidential polls.

Biden’s poll collapse prompted Democratic donors and high-ranking politicos to force a stress-test presidential debate before either candidate was even nominated at their respective conventions.

When Biden imploded in the debate, a supposedly once-fit president was suddenly declared impaired. And a previously uninspiring Vice President Kamala Harris was abruptly transmogrified into a superb replacement candidate.

Biden was forced to resign his candidacy to save his last five months in office from a Democrat-threatened removal via the 25th Amendment.

The primary votes of nearly 15 million voters were abruptly nullified.

Harris, who had neither won a primary nor a single delegate through an election, was suddenly coronated as the new Biden-replacement candidate—and without an open convention contest or vote.

The donor-politico class further decided that, like a challenged Biden in 2024, Harris could not be allowed to hold press conferences. She would do few, if any, live interviews; unscripted town halls; or any other venue, given fears her visible liabilities might endanger her candidacy.

So, the party that had proclaimed democracy dies in darkness now favors the shadows as the preferable means to obtain and retain power—whether by ignoring primary voters, open conventions, or transparent venues with the voters.

Add up the last decade’s purchased collusion caper, unprecedented two impeachments, orchestrated disinformation hoax, efforts to de-ballot Trump, warping of the legal system to jail him and destroy his candidacy, forced removal of an unpopular but unwilling Biden from the Democratic ticket, virtual anointing of Harris by fiat in his place, and the current collusion with a compliant media to avoid public scrutiny and cross-examination of Harris.

And the conclusion?

Have those who lectured us about democracy in danger now decided to save it by destroying it?

(C)2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Victor Davis Hanson.

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.

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MamaBear007
MamaBear007
1 month ago

Why do people — even though who think they’re patriotic — keep calling America a democracy. America was formed as a Constitutional Republic!
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

John A Bird
John A Bird
1 month ago

This nation with our Constitution in tact, is a Constitutional Republic, governed by “we the people”. We have become a “democracy” as “we the people have been de-united and not held our politicians to their oath of office. We are very close to becoming a communist nation unless “we the people” unite and fight like hell for our freedoms.

Thinking
Thinking
1 month ago

The democrats have been busy since 2008 to destroy any political opponent. They started a mean campaign against Trump in 2016 and have been at it ever since. They have weaponized the MSM FBI CIA DOJ. Demanded social media be censored for any disinformation or misinformation. That wasn’t it they wanted to control and mandate everything. Freedom was taken away with the lockups uh lockdowns. Masking. Rainbow people and Trans were put on the forefront. Males were forbidden to be he men and mothers were birthing people or “menstruaters’. Nobody could define what was a woman from a Supreme Court judge on down. We the people knew. Abortion on demand up to and including after birth was the mantra of the day and still is. Planned parenthood kiosk at the DNC was proof they are openly condoning genocide. A free hotdog with every vasectomy. Only in America under the depraved Biden Harris leadership could this happen. Divide families. In the workplace as well, mandates for vaccine, don’t think about it just take the shot. They don’t tell you we have many more deaths from the vaccine than would be normal. Many young men are sterilized by the vaccine. But nothing comes of it. They tried to control everything like the news of today they were forcing Facebook to censor any COVID conventions. Yes people they gaslighted us with the pandemic to scare us all into believing the vaccine works. It did not. They had the vaccine before they had the COVID virus. All the virologist that talked against the vaccines were either paid or killed. The elites who run the WHO saw to it. And ole Joe signed the mandate that the WHO now has the power to call out the next pandemic and they will decide how to proceed. I asked my senators not to sign off on this agreement. One thanked me for contacting him and the other told a lie that America could decide what and how to proceed in a next pandemic. Which is not true. WHO has all the power. Think Monkeypox.Vote these corrupt communist dictators out. VOTE TRUMP/VANCE IN 2024.

Leslie
Leslie
1 month ago

The absolute bald-faced lies of this administration are incredible! Honestly, if they TRULY believe their own lies, we are in big trouble. I know most Americans know that the MSM is corrupt and controlled by the DNC, but they are still watching the channels. And starting to believe the lies because they are pounded over the head with them every single day.

Nick
Nick
1 month ago

The ultimate goal of the Democrats is to burn this nation to the ground so they can rule over the ashes. The Democrat Party is the epitome of evil

Max
Max
1 month ago

That is the strategy — DESTROY FROM THE INSIDE AND WORK TO THE OUTSIDE.

Jeanne
Jeanne
1 month ago

TREASON is the word for the Demoncrats. Too many Marxist/commies in the group. They installed a governor? in Arizona and so far got away with it. Totalitarian tyrants against our constitution and laws as well as the People. The Harris actions and media support look like the same game plan.

Jim Johnson
Jim Johnson
1 month ago

The goal is to end the Constitution and the rule of law, and replace it with a Maoist type government. It’s treason, but since the so-called news media is in collusion, it’s likely to succeed.

Pat R
Pat R
1 month ago

Anyone out there not know now what was involved in Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of the US? He and/or his minions are still in charge in the WH and likely those running the Senate, as they all are in lock-step.
Trump/Vance ticket is our only hope of fighting and hopefully getting rid of (prosecuting for treason) Obama and those of his administration placed in positions of power in Biden administration that are ‘destroying our democracy’.

Horace
Horace
1 month ago

Democrats are known liars and election cheaters. Why would anyone listen to one word they speak? .

Tim Toroian
Tim Toroian
1 month ago

I’d like to refer you to the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. The first sentence is very long but important. The second sentence, which starts, “But when” may be more critical.

Dot whitley
Dot whitley
1 month ago

If you know the difference between a conservative and a liberal , or a republican and a democrat, and you are a conservative, then stop listening to the liberal news, because you are keeping bad company, and you might be too weak to stand for what’s good for you, your children, and the country.. The media,and all liberals make me so sick that I can’t listen to them. I have never been friends with a person who never tells the truth.

Jeanne
Jeanne
1 month ago

The focus of an election should be qualifications for the job and the ability of the candidate to do what is necessary. Instead it has turned into a bunch of lies, hate for each other, name calling, and character assassination as well as physical assassination.

Franklin Werkheiser
Franklin Werkheiser
1 month ago

If we were a Democracy, I’d gladly answer BUT WE ARE NOT A Democracy. We are a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. The writers for AMAC need to read the Constitution and get it right.

David Nelson
David Nelson
1 month ago

This great Country is in sad shape ????

anna hubert
anna hubert
1 month ago

The biggest danger to our country is the establishment and all the hanger ons in DC The fifth column, Trojan horse all morphed into one monstrosity that is destroying the republic from within. Chipping and gnawing away The very same people that are supposed to make sure country is secure and the people within safe Those are the ones running for the reelection .Ain’t that a kick in the head.

Myrna
Myrna
1 month ago

Democrats are “saving democracy” by converting it into something unrecognizable.

Jackie
Jackie
1 month ago

Sad but all true!! And yet the Democrat party voters keep voting for the same idiot platform and expect the free stuff to keep on coming.

Jeri
Jeri
1 month ago

The Oligarchy that is governing America at this point in time is destroying democracy in the darkness. Have guesses on who a few of them might be…

Cassy
Cassy
1 month ago

How can anyone say Trump is guilty of treason when Biden is the one who opened up the border and let sooo many bad people come into our country. If you think it’s not true just go to the border and talk to the border patrol agents.

Dennis
Dennis
1 month ago

World war 3 is coming to America and you need to decide which side you are on.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 month ago

Make that #5 indictments as of today… Apparently, somebody heard about the recent polls showing Miss Joy behind in all swing states so ‘naturally’ Jerk… I mean Jack… Smith decided to file brand new charges in DC after SCOTUS derailed his last farce. These ppl are really trying to either incite Republican violence if not an all out civil war, aren’t they? So the answer to the articles question “who is it?”… IT’S OBVIOUS!

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 month ago

Communism is Democracy. The United States of America is a REPUBLIC not a democracy as democrats have been trying to convince everyone. READ the U.S. Constitution and nowhere democracy is mentioned. Remember the story of the boy who cried wolf. That’s democrats. Democrats will hoot and holler at the moon promising you everything free and will deliver nothing except the destruction of our country and Freedoms all for power and control over you.
WAKE UP AMERICA and PAY ATTENTION.

Richard Farmer
Richard Farmer
1 month ago

It is amazing and it’s all with the blessing and help of the Main stream media and the Washington swamp. Keep up the fight fight fight ! And Join Amac

RJ
RJ
1 month ago

This article could not have said it better. Harris is being flip floppy when she has had almost four years on changing things. Now she says she wants a wall for the border….she says anything just to win. Dems will do anything for power. And it really is scary. Open up eyes and look what our country looks like and where we are going. We were so much safer, powerful, richer, stronger while President Trump was in the Whitehouse. MAGA!!

Linda Eckenrode
Linda Eckenrode
1 month ago

I cannot understand how or why anyone in their right mind could vote for this evil, incompetent, cackling female. She is an insult to womanhood. Her ideology is warped and unamerican. She is forever changing her mind, and switching gears so to speak. You cannot ask her to answer any important issue. She either refuses or goes on a cackling rage. She just repeats some insane sentences. She is trying to destroy my country. That is exactly what will happen if elected.

ref
ref
1 month ago

I am so disgusted with the “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus” Democtrats. The Democrats just lie, about everything, ALL THE TIME! Harris openly lies, all the time, as did Joe Biden. Harris has no idea of how to govern anything, as does Joe Biden. Do you wonder why gang member from Venezuela terrorize and attack law abiding citizens. Is because of the horribly destructive policies of the Biden -Harris administration. If you vote for a Democrat you are complicit in all the destruction they have caused with an open southern border. So please don’t vote the dumb and dumber.

Anne
Anne
1 month ago

It is very scary indeed. The corruptness that seems to be fine with many is horrendous. The newscasters are pathetic in their attempt to feed lies to the public. It all slants one way….against Trump and anyone who supports him. The country will be destroyed if the candidate foe the Dems, Kamala gets in. And if she wins you can be assured it was fixed.

David Block
David Block
1 month ago

Nothing surprises me about the Democrat Party. They will do anything to retain their power.

Byard Grim
Byard Grim
1 month ago

Come on, AMAC, get it right as others have mentioned, we in the U.S. are a Constitutional Republic, NOT a “democracy”! Nowhere in our U.S. Constitution does it refer to our nation as a democracy, a Democratic Party term. So, when the socialists of the DNC say we are losing our democracy–complete majority or mob rule–that’s a good thing. Think of two examples of a democracy: (1) in westerns when the mob on the street breaks into the jailhouse and hangs the prisoner before he gets a fair trial; and (2) when Jesus was declared innocent by Pontius Pilate, the the mob wanted Him crucified. Of course, communism, claims to be a democracy, but is actually the rule of a few claiming to represent the majority.

paul
paul
1 month ago

the deep state is worried about losing control and giving it back to the people where it belongs according to the founders of this country

BEA
BEA
1 month ago

They don’t know the US of America is a Constitutional Republic because the politicians don’t want them to know and our schools do not teach our History properly. History is so important because if you don’t know it; we will repeat it. I think the democrat politicians want a civil war. Scary…

Susan
Susan
1 month ago

Now liberals are moving over to MAGA? But, I recall the Snake poem, and I sense a two-headed snake named Gabbard-Kennedy. Buyer beware.

Mytake
Mytake
1 month ago
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