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Media May Once Again Be Leading Dems Toward Disaster with Radical Election Law Push

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AMAC Exclusive – By Shane Harris

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As Congress returns at the beginning of a new year, the media and Senate Democrats are kicking off 2022 with a clear plan: squeezing every bit of political juice they can out of the anniversary of January 6—and in particular, doing so to advance their extreme agenda for a federal takeover of state election laws.

Yet by pursuing this cynical exploitation of January 6—and on behalf of a cause as explosive as that of fundamentally transforming American elections—Schumer and Congressional Democrats face a genuine danger: Are they once again letting the media guide them down a radical path toward electoral disaster?

The left-wing media is clearly in full-blown propaganda mode, trying mightily to link the issue of the Democrats’ own desired election “reforms” with January 6 in Americans’ minds. A prior generation of reporters and editors would not have gone along with calling legislation, that of a power grab by one party and an attempt to control elections by a “voting rights” bill. But like the label “healthcare reform” for the blatantly false promises of Obamacare or the news brand “infrastructure bill” for partisan spending handouts or, for that matter, headlines about “evidence of Russian collusion” for the Steele Dossier, the media is showing in the election integrity controversy why its credibility with the public keeps plunging.

But if Republicans have been slow to make the point about the media running interference for the Democrats under the false flag of “voting rights,” the GOP may actually find the media push, and their own ineptitude ultimately works to their advantage, particularly in the battle for 2022 Senate seats. Just as the Critical Race Theory controversy caught Democrats by surprise and has positioned them as anti-parents’ rights as well as anti-American, the election integrity issue is also building a narrative about the Democratic Party that could badly hurt Democratic incumbents this fall.

That narrative is simply that Democrats have underway a “rule or ruin” assault on the essential institutions of American democracy – the ones that guarantee Democratic consensus, legislative compromise, personal liberty, and civil rights through separation of powers. Democrats in Congress and the progressive activists have for years now, made such “scorched earth” threats – if things don’t go their way, they will abolish the Electoral College, pack the Supreme Court, alter the U.S. Senate, destroy citizenship rights with open borders, and now, undermine the sacredness of the secret ballot through a voting bill that assaults honest and fair elections by sanctioning such practices as ballot harvesting and massive mail-in voting.

The problems here for Democrats are twofold. First, D.C. insularity prevents them from understanding the depth of the public’s concern – as shown by polling – about election integrity and the need for proper Voter ID. The second is that because media approbation easily becomes a substitute in their minds for the approval of their constituents, few Democrats can visualize their opponents next October running TV spots that show them as allies of those who seek to impose one-party rule, crush dissent, and eliminate honest elections.

Thus, with their tendency to take their lead from the media at full throttle, Democrats mindlessly echo their arguments. As the Federalist’s John Davidson noted, the New York Times editorial page breathlessly warned over the weekend that state Republican lawmakers passing election integrity laws “have been trying to advance the goals of the Jan. 6 rioters — not by breaking laws but by making them.”

According to this narrative, Democrats must seize on the anniversary of January 6 to pass their own gigantic leftist takeover of state election laws—because otherwise, somehow, the rioters win.

So far, Congressional Democrats seem to be picking up the narrative exactly on cue. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has signaled this week that his top priority is the so-called “Freedom to Vote Act.” The Freedom to Vote Act repackages many of the same policies contained in the radical H.R. 1—last year’s federal election takeover bill that became a lightning rod for provisions such as banning Voter ID nationwide and mandating that every state allow ballot harvesting, which many Republicans say is tantamount to legalizing large-scale fraud.

After a high-profile hearing where witnesses testified that H.R. 1 would undermine election integrity and place undue burdens on state and local election officials, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin pulled his support last year, effectively dooming the bill.

Now, however, Manchin and fellow moderate Kyrsten Sinema appear to be on board with the slightly revised “voting rights” version—and Schumer is using January 6 as an excuse to eliminate the filibuster to pave the way for its passage.

In a letter to Senate colleagues, Schumer justified the election power grab by essentially charging that Republicans are a threat to democracy. “The fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic,” he wrote. The Senate, he continued, will “debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Day, to protect the foundation of our Democracy: free and fair elections.”

Schumer had also planned on using the January 6th anniversary to schedule a vote on the bill, but was forced to postpone his plans when Democrat New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez took longer than expected to recover from surgery.

The obvious truth is that neither January 6 nor the Republican legislatures’ election integrity efforts justify in any way the extreme election law changes Schumer and his fellow Democrats are pushing at the media’s behest.

The laws passed last year by many Republican state legislatures, which Schumer labels a threat to Democracy, largely attempt to undo the illegal, unconstitutional, or merely unwise changes to election laws that many Democrat-run cities and states made because COVID supposedly required it. It is the Democrats’ “voting rights” agenda, not the Republicans’ “election integrity” push, that represents a truly drastic departure from historical norms by any rational standard.

This is where the media frenzy may be leading Democrats dangerously astray. For vulnerable Democrats staring down tough reelection cycles this fall, embracing this bizarre media narrative along with the likes of Chuck Schumer could quickly become politically toxic. There is little reason to think that House and Senate Democrats were elected with a mandate for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to unilaterally rewrite state election laws across the country, and to do so in a fashion transparently calculated to give Democrats an unfair electoral advantage, even while they ostentatiously moralize about saving democracy. The entire effort reeks of insincerity, cynicism, and extremism.

Moreover, the independent voter is not very happy these days with President Biden and the Democrat Party. Skyrocketing inflation, rising gas prices, soaring murder rates, humiliating foreign policy failures, and utter incompetence in managing our pandemic response has flatlined Biden’s job approval. In this political environment, Republicans are going to be able to make a very effective case that Democrats are undertaking a brazen and desperate attempt to radically change voting rules nationally because otherwise, Democrats would have little chance of keeping their majorities this November. So at a time when large majorities of voters are going to want to kick Democrats out of office, Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, are going to be telling voters that in the name of democracy, Democrats won’t allow it. “We have to destroy American democracy in order to save it” does not make for a very popular rallying cry.

The challenge for Democrats becomes even clearer when you think about how a federal takeover of elections would play not just among the constituents of moderate Democrats like Manchin and Sinema, who don’t face reelection this cycle, but also vulnerable incumbents who will face tough challenges this fall, including Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, and Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia. If these Senators follow the media narrative down the path of revolutionary and unpopular changes to election law, they may soon find themselves the targets of a fierce voter backlash.

Nor is it clear that voters will back the drastic step of abolishing the filibuster just because Chuck Schumer trots out talking points about January 6. Critics were quick to point out that Schumer himself has said previously that eliminating the filibuster would be a “doomsday for democracy.” Now eliminating the filibuster is suddenly the only way to save democracy?

If indeed Democrats steer themselves into political danger with their radical election law agenda, it would not be the first time in recent years the Democrats’ media allies have led them badly astray. A similar phenomenon occurred last year as Democrats bought hook, line, and sinker into pushing Critical Race Theory, social justice, and “equity” provisions at every opportunity—only to provoke massive grassroots blowback from the most unexpected of people and places: parents at school board meetings. As Terry McAuliffe learned in Virginia, most Americans didn’t buy the prevailing media narrative that had fooled Democrats into thinking their extreme agenda was much more popular than it is.

Democrats made similar mistakes in 2020, when an embrace of “Defund the Police” and socialist economic policies—both done at the behest of the media—nearly erased their majority in the House. The trend has not stopped in the 117th Congress, as Democrats have pursued a radical agenda on granting mass amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, passing massive social spending packages, and a host of other far-left policies. In the same way, the media goaded much of the Democrat Party into a destructive and years-long obsession with Russian Collusion. Not to mention how the media’s propagandistic efforts on behalf of Obamacare delivered Obama a pyrrhic legislative victory—followed by Republicans riding the issue to three historic landslides in 2010, 2014, and 2016, recapturing the House, the Senate, and the White House.

In each of these cases, Democrat politicians made the mistake of believing the Democrat Party’s propaganda arm, the left-wing media—which led them to calamity. By all indications, they may be doing so again as they whip their party into a moral frenzy over “voting rights”—a federal election takeover which they insist, somehow, is justified by January 6.

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PaulE
PaulE
2 years ago

The author clearly doesn’t understand the ramifications of the proposed Democrat election reform law. This is what happens when an author just sits behind his desk and taps out an article on a subject he doesn’t fully underdstand. If enacted into law, the bill would essentially enshrine the means by which the Democrats not only “won” the Presidency, but also “won” control of both houses of Congress. Elections will become a moot exercise with a pre-determined outcome in the United States. Just as they are in countries like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, etc.. Simply a meaningless exercise for show, as the people will no longer have any actual say in the outcome.

R.Thomas Guth
R.Thomas Guth
2 years ago

In North Carolina, election ID was supported by the population in recent elections. Voter ID laws were passed by both the state house and senate. The laws made it to the governors office only to be vetoed by the democratic governor.

Tom
Tom
2 years ago

Demonrats-the dumbest, most out of touch political party in existence. Pathetic!

Robert Aughenbaugh
Robert Aughenbaugh
2 years ago

I might normally suggest to the democrats that this might not be the year to push their insane left wing agenda. But not this time. I don’t know who they’re following as they jump like lemmings off a cliff. I just want them to stay the course.

WillieBDare
WillieBDare
2 years ago

Democrats are making falsified statements in regards to election laws, i.e. state law. The laws the Texas and Florida passed were not to infringe on voters rights but rather to control voter fraud. I don’t know of any individual in the inner city they can’t afford an ID card unless they don’t possess the proper documents enacted by Congress. Throwing all this back plus trying to eliminate the electoral college would give the Democrats all they need to monopolize the executive and legislative bodies and eventually the Judicial branch.

Tim Thompson
Tim Thompson
2 years ago

The Democrats were so successful in stealing the 2020 election because of the Covid-19 excuse for voters to stay home and send a ballot in. Same thing is being applied with their push on January 6th 2020 to make that one incident of Trump’s rally that the Democrats choreographed to insure their operatives made it look like conservatives did this and subsequently give them another approach to keeping power.

Myrna Wade
Myrna Wade
2 years ago

I think the revealing of massive ballot harvesting in Georgia reported by a whistle blower and made public by the state will make it clear that states other than Arizona will however slowly improve election quality. No. We do not nationalize elections.

Carma
Carma
2 years ago

No one ever answers this question I have asked repeatedly. Can these “laws” the Democrats are forcing on us be reversed once saner people come to power? Do we live with these disaster in perpetuity or can they be fixed?

Tea Tephi
Tea Tephi
2 years ago

I thought something like this required ratification by each state?

Jim Jolly
Jim Jolly
2 years ago

Pelosi and Schumer would screw over their own mothers. I just pray that Manchin doesn’t fold. It is rediculus what the Democrats are trying to pull off. They would try to sell you a bag of cow manure and label it candy all the while telling you that it is good for you.

D.P.
D.P.
2 years ago

As far as I am concerned, there is as much fault to be found with the republicans in all this. They play the games, dance the dances, do the bait and switch and fail, fail, fail. I have so little respect for the whole congress, I choose not to listen to them on most any issue. No one is exempt from blame in all this, including the electorate who keep on doing the same thing cycle after cycle. The republicans and all who claim to care about this Republic need to get their heads out of their arses and look around. Do they not see the coming consequences?

Larkenson
Larkenson
2 years ago

ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!

Anti-Whites say there must be no White Countries.

Anti-Whites say there must be no White Towns.

Anti-Whites say there must be no White Neighborhoods.

Anti-Whites say there must be no White Anything.

Anti-Whites say there must be no White People.

Immigration = Colonization – “Diversity” = Fewer White Children

“Multiculturalism” = WHITE GENOCIDE

Anti-racist is just a code word for anti-White.

mrkbo
mrkbo
2 years ago

I think that after the proposed electoral reforms, the Democrats will not have to worry about “electoral backlash” any more, at least the “righteous” ones. This is why they clearly do not care if they are truly popular (although they crave phony and propagandistic fawning). Nor do they care about rule of law. Yes, they will be making a “mistake,” but not the kind the author hopes for. It will be a large-scale and long-term “mistake” for everybody. The same kind of “mistake” that was made many times in the 20th century. Many Republicans will also see the advantage in unchaining themselves from the awkwardness of being responsible to the common people and their stubborn opinions. It is not about Democrats, Republicans, or the media; it is about the end of legitimate political opposition. I started with “I think”, so now let’s see if I will be right. I hope I am wrong.

Mimi
Mimi
2 years ago

Most of my life I voted in person and showed my ID before I was given a ballot to go into a private booth to vote and exercise my privilege as an American. People who use State assistance, ie food stamps and welfare must show ID to sign up for those benefits. So to state that the poor won’t be able to vote because they don’t have ID is ludicrous!! They have ID when they need one. The Dems are just grasping at anything they think people don’t know about to say that election laws prevent poor folks from voting. The only thing preventing them from voting is the willingness to do so. Not because they don’t have identification.

Henker
Henker
2 years ago

The choice is always the same; multifaceted, law based, freedom oriented Euroamerican Civilization, or the false promises and tyrannical impulses of Centralized Ghetto Ideology called Marxism, that favors the weakest and most foreign elements over the proven blessings of Liberty and Prosperity.

We are going to crush the Communist Revolution, or they will destroy us.

John Brown
John Brown
2 years ago

The Democrats truly are in a tizzy to seize total power by seizing control of elections so they can commit endless massive fraud and keep themselves in power. They know the GOP has made it easier to vote in states like GA but harder to cheat and commit voter fraud. Many days of early voting along with ID requirement, both supported by 80% of all voters including a majority of Democrats are the changes they’ve made to keep elections fair and honest.
Democrat know if elections are fair and honest next Nov and they can’t commit massive fraud that the voters intend to kick them to the gutter for the total and complete incompetence with disasters everywhere we look. Voter are also picking up on the lies the Democrats and the corrupt FAKE NEWS MEDIA are spewing. NOBODY believe last Jan 6th was an insurrection. Even the lying corrupt Democrats and Fake News media have almost given up using the word insurrection for the word riots because in a year of harsh repression by the FBI of those folks that trespassed into the Capitol they haven’t found a single person that had a gun or that was engaged in insurrection. NOT one person has been charged with insurrection because there was NO insurrection. Its looking more and more like their was a protest that Democrats and the FBI used to set up those protestors. it looks like there were a lot of FBI operatives actually inciting people to go into the building.
Democrats know if they don’t seize control of elections the voters intend to kick them to the gutter next Nov. They are desperate. That’s what you will be watching. Their attempt aided by their lying corrupt FAKE NEW MEIDA to seize total power.

James Thompson
James Thompson
2 years ago

All of the people crossing the border are leaving Socialist and Communist countries so they can be free. How stupid is the Democratic left to think that everyone will vote Democrat to make this country what they ran away from?

jocko
jocko
2 years ago

libs = CANCER AND ARE THE ENEMY OF OUR NATION

Felix
Felix
2 years ago

Newsmax is airing a special tonight, at 9PM “Day of Outrage” to give the “Rest of the Story” concerning January 6th.

Cole
Cole
2 years ago

Dems hate voting unless they can control the voter. Voters are a nuisance to them – they get in the way. They hate democracy. They dont respect american citizens which is why they insult them at every turn. We are all just useful idiots to be manipulated. People who are bright and see through the subterfuge of the Democrat party loathe these scum and will eventually rise up.

Phyl
Phyl
2 years ago

Let the media guide the demoncrats to destruction and follow them into the fire. The corporate media is worthless anyway.

Joanne 4 justice.
Joanne 4 justice.
2 years ago

What else is New??? The dirty, Socialist financed complicit media is EVIL!

Tim Toroian
Tim Toroian
2 years ago

I wish I could communicate to those SOBs, press, and party, what I think of proposed election laws and not be banned on the internet. I wonder if they know what could happen if they make those changes?
J6, no guns no insurrection dummies, just a riot.

PIDL
PIDL
2 years ago

I see the whole idea of being civil a problem with the Republican party. All lawyers learn in law school to go to court and be civil and follow the rules . The Republicans feel that Congressmen and Senators should be civil in order to debate issues and compromise on laws. The problem is the Democrats are exactly the opposite. They do not care about being civil. They do not want to compromise on anything and make up lies about the Steele Dossier , Russian collusion. and the Jan 6th incursion into the Capital building. They do not think lying, cheating, and stealing are uncivil actions. But the Republicans better not question their methods. That is why they hated Trump. He did not act like a civil Congressman or Senator. He was uncivil, unlike any President in American history. He was not afraid to rattle some cages. That is what the Conservatives have to do, take the gloves off and really start fighting for the American people. Civility has failed to fix anything it seems. they need to get angry and go after these scumbags! Does anyone know the definition of insanity?

papayec
papayec
2 years ago

The minute fraction of rally attenders stupid enough to be suckered into the “riot” instigated and led by the “Democratic” Party Deep State FBI in collusion with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi with her Capitol Police force. Those fools who followed them are now being tortured, blackmailed, and otherwise unconstitutionally coerced into false confessions and plea deals.

Steven H
Steven H
2 years ago

So tired of the lies of the Left and Media. Tell me how requiring a government issued ID will prevent anyone from voting. You are supposed to have an ID to purchase alcohol and tobacco and that hasn’t doesn’t bother anyone. Or perhaps people are getting those products without an ID so they and the business are breaking the law. Of course, the Left and Media seem to care little for laws.

Linda
Linda
2 years ago

I don’t think the Democrats are being led by the Leftist Media; I think the Democrats are being
backed by the Leftist Media! I also think the author of this article is writing as one straddling a fence,
Happy New Year Everyone!

Sean Richman
Sean Richman
2 years ago

The democRATS dwell on this January 6th thing like it was as they call it an insurrection,which it wasn’t,most of the people were staging a peaceful protest.This didn’t fit the liberal’s agenda like their blm and antifa so they are criminalizing this protest.The things that the democRATS do best is cheat,lie,make rules and laws that benefit only them and blame conservatives when things don’t go their way.Evil begets evil,begets pure evil.

masswhole
masswhole
2 years ago

“Pelosi backs Wisconsin protesters who stormed Capitol – POLITICO”
politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2011/02/pelosi-backs-wisconsin-protesters-033512

“Pelosi told reporters Friday that the protests are “an extraordinary show of democracy in action”
politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2011/02/pelosi-backs-wisconsin-protesters-033512

ops
ops
2 years ago

A vote for a Democrat is a vote against America.
One proud veteran

Hal
Hal
2 years ago

Looks like it is a struggle between the lib Commie Media (IMO about 80+ percent of the total news media) and the Commie China Democrap Party as to which one can be the biggest factor in the overthrow of the culture and governance of the USA????

Hal
Hal
2 years ago

I don’t get it, unless the title of this article infers that the Media is ineptly trying to boost the Democraps and doesn’t realize it is creating the opposite outcome. The Majority of the News Media (with a few exceptions, e.g. AM AC , Fox News, etc.) is effectively a propaganda outlet for the Democrat Party.and thier Commie leaning agenda.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
2 years ago

Hooray then theyre turn to storm Capitol Hill??

Jerry
Jerry
2 years ago

The DemonRats are forever trying to find new ways to cheat.

Mario Capparuccini
Mario Capparuccini
2 years ago

May Almighty God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit blind the Democrats to their own stupidity and lead them down the path to severe electoral defeat. After all, they hate Him and defy Him at every turn.

Fran
Fran
2 years ago

Its WAY PAST TIME to hold the so called MEDIA’S feet to the fire. Clean out the CAREER SPREADING PROPAGANDISTS. They are the driving FORCE behind the NEW DEMONIC PROGESSIVE Democrat party.

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