The Democrats’ Escalating War on Democracy

Alaska, Hawaii, Nebraska, Nevada, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Oregon, Kansas, Texas, Alabama, Colorado, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia passed similar measures over the years.

Roughly 30 states approved such measures.

The voice of the people did not matter, however. Leftists took the issue to the Supreme Court and in Obergefell v. Hodges, erased these democratic votes with one ruling.

In 2016, when President Trump won his first presidential election, calls for his impeachment began almost immediately. The same thing happened in 2024, even though Trump had secured the thing Leftists claim matters most: the popular vote.

Prior to his reelection, Leftists tried to throw Trump in prison, tried to remove him from state ballots, and tried to bend the democratic process to their desired outcome. Failing to do that, they’ve tried to thwart the administration and the will of the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump by taking the administration to court repeatedly.

All the while, they keep screaming that Trump and Republicans are an existential threat to our democracy.

But are they? Because from where I sit, it’s the Democratic Party that’s escalating its war on democracy. I’m not surprised, of course. Obergefell made it clear to me a decade ago that if voters didn’t do what Democrats wanted, they’d find a way to thwart the will of the voters.

Tell me more about ‘No Kings.’

For the second time in two years, the Democratic Party has decided to oust a candidate selected by the voters to very undemocratically nominate a different candidate. It happened in 2024 after the June 27 debate. Democrats realized America saw, beyond all doubt, what I knew since 2020: Biden was cognitively unwell. Was it Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia? Side effects from the treatment of his prostate cancer? Don’t know. But something was wrong.

When I and countless others pointed it out, we were dismissed, mocked, and attacked. The media said videos of Biden’s struggles were ‘cheap fakes;’ a slew of Democrats promised us Joe Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ in their closed-door meetings. When Robert Hur said Biden was too befuddled to be prosecuted for keeping classified materials in his garage., the Left screamed that Hur wasn’t a doctor and had no business discussing Biden’s cognitive health.

What changed, of course, was their feeling about the 2024 election. After the June debate, they rightly feared Biden would lose. And that’s why they gave him the boot. Absent that debate, they would have tried to drag Biden’s failing carcass across the finish line, perfectly content to let Joe drool in a cup while his progressive staffers ran the country.

The same thing happened in Maine.

Graham Platner was not kicked out of the race because of the Nazi tattoo, the outrageous Reddit posts, his perversion for Porta Potties, or even his domestic abuse and alleged rape. He was pushed out because he was going to lose.

Let me repeat that: Democrats did not care about the Nazi imagery, they did not care that Platner told a teenager to commit suicide, they did not care that Platner abused former girlfriends. If polls had shown him beating Susan Collins, they would have crawled over broken glass to vote for him.

Platner won the Maine Democratic Primary handily. Governor Janet Mills, who had ended her campaign before the vote, only managed 20 percent on primary day. More than 170,000 Mainers said Platner was their guy.

Now Maine Democrats are planning a convention where a few hundred delegates will tell Maine voters who their candidate will be, much in the same way Joe Biden coronated Kamala Harris — a candidate primary voters soundly rejected in 2020. Democrats simply assented to the entire scheme.

Were I a Maine Democrat, I would pull the lever for Susan Collins out of spite for what my party did to the nominee voters chose.

It was bad enough when Democrats used the courts to overturn the will of the voters on social issues like gay marriage, but now Democrats have escalated their war on democracy to ousting their own candidates if they don’t like who the voters chose.

As they showed us, they have no problem trying to block Republicans from ballots. I’ve been around the political block a few times to know what’s coming next, and I don’t have to make assumptions: the Democrats have told us. They want to pack the Supreme Court, add Puerto Rico and D.C. as blue states, and open our borders to import millions more of their voters. They will make sure that Republican candidates and Republican voters never win another election again.

They never really liked democracy, after all. As 2024 shows us, democracy means they sometimes lose elections. So they’re escalating a war on democracy to make sure that doesn’t happen again.