For a while — I can’t really pinpoint when I first saw it, but the next thing I knew it became the standard cant of the modern Obama-era ruling-class stooge on Twitter/X and elsewhere — we have been drenched in references to “Our Democracy.”
And over the last couple of days, it’s all we’ve seen:
Rep. Crow: The danger is Donald Trump. Trump has scorned the rule of law, scorned our democracy, and he is now outright saying he wants to be a dictator on day one. We should take Donald Trump for his word. Trump is hell-bent on undermining and destroying our democracy pic.twitter.com/0fUxgrOUlO
The danger to our democracy did not go away in 2020. Given the opportunity, Trump would do it all over again, and much worse. This time he may succeed. pic.twitter.com/BZSiEfNfHc
There are even Republicans now using that phrase, though they really ought to stop.
This guy, whoever he is, mostly gets it:
When you hear the left say "Our Democracy", they mean their New World Order, One World Government. They have changed the meaning of the word to fit their narrative. https://t.co/vDXiYxRvle
Because that insane ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court — which seeks to ban Donald Trump from the ballot in that state on grounds that the 14th Amendment bars “insurrectionists” from federal office — is about as bright-line an example of the difference between “Our Democracy” and what an average American would see as democracy that it’s possible to conjure.
In America it isn’t the majority that rules; it’s the law that rules. And the law is established through a representative democracy. There are things a “democratic” majority cannot do in this country, for very good reasons.
A patriot who recognizes and respects this would not properly refer to “our democracy.” Rather, a patriot would refer to “our republic,” as that’s a far more precise term.
Most of them hate that word because they associate it with “Republican,” and anything close to “Republican” has to be bad and can’t be said. Partisan Republicans will make sure to include a reference to “little-D” democrats when talking about proponents of democracy; the Obama Left won’t extend even that courtesy.
But the less intellectually deprived on the left won’t refer to “our republic” for a different reason: They despise the concept of a republic with as much fervor as our founders despised a democracy.
A constitutional republic is one in which there are rules, and there are limits on power. In a constitutional republic, you have to actually follow the republic’s constitution — or you have to reach a very broad public consensus for changing that document before you’re allowed to depart from it.
In a constitutional republic, courts don’t get to play legislature. In a constitutional republic, neither can the executive branch. And in a constitutional republic, God-given, inalienable rights are recognized and cannot be violated by an ambitious, meddling government.
There was a time not long ago when the Democrat Party was led by and generally populated with people for whom the above statements were neither offensive nor triggering. That was when there were liberals in charge of that party. Liberals held the same basic civic values as conservatives; they simply differed as to how those values and common social goods might be obtained and defended.
And they absolutely, positively do not have the same idea of what “Our Democracy” is that you do. “Our Democracy” isn’t limited by checks and balances; those are racist, sexist, homophobic, obsolete. Just ask ruling class stooge Ed Markey; he’ll tell you:
Originalism is racist. Originalism is sexist. Originalism is homophobic. Originalism is just a fancy word for discrimination.
So when you see the Colorado Supreme Court, made up of a gaggle of Obamunist stooges appointed by hard-left Democrat governors, willy-nilly decide that Donald Trump publicly exhorting his supporters to peacefully protest in front of the U.S. Capitol over an election that half the country believes was either botched or stolen via irregular practices employed by several states constitutes “insurrection,” you see that different idea.
You see Ed Markey’s idea of what “Our Democracy” is.
The America you recognize would see it as impossible for the Colorado Supremes to make such a designation without a conviction in a federal trial or impeachment. In the America you recognize, what happened on Tuesday would be a kangaroo court and a farce.
Jonathan Turley is an example of someone who still believes in and defends the America you recognize. What he said about that Colorado decision was quite cogent:
This country is a powder keg, and this court is just throwing matches at it.… For people that say they are trying to protect democracy, this is hands down the most anti-democratic opinion I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Alan Dershowitz, another famed legal scholar who makes his home in the America, was no friendlier to Colorado’s highest court:
The decision by the all-Democrat Supreme Court of Colorado to remove Donald Trump from the ballot is among the most undemocratic and unconstitutional rulings that I have ever read in my 60 years of teaching and practicing law….
In fact, the 14th Amendment explicitly provides that ‘The Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.’
It’s clear that this measure was never intended to turn the enforcement mechanisms over to individual states and their courts….
Furthermore, the 14th Amendment was not designed to circumvent the impeachment provisions of the U.S. Constitution which also authorize disqualification from the ballot, but require a two-thirds vote of the U.S. Senate and other procedural safeguards.
Under the Colorado court’s power-grab, there are no safeguards. Due process has been thrown out of the courthouse window.
In the opinion of these Colorado judges, a candidate need not even be convicted by a jury of the crimes of insurrection or rebellion before their rights are stripped away….
The 14th Amendment does not empower individual states to make such important decisions regarding the right to vote for presidential candidates. Rather, it is a time-bound provision rooted in post-Civil War fears that confederates would meddle in state reconstruction efforts.
The U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly review the case and delay a decision past Colorado’s March 5th primary….
Make no mistake — the Colorado Supreme Court has damaged American democracy and violated our constitution.
And the American people will pay the price — as the country inevitably become more bitter, distrustful and divided.
I should point out that neither Turley nor Dershowitz are conservatives. They’re liberals. And liberals are on the outs in “Our Democracy.”
Instead, you have people like this:
Let's establish NOW that regarding ANY Trump/GOP lawsuits Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett MUST recuse (because they were seated by the traitor). Thomas & Alito as well, all because of ethical considerations. It should be a choice: Recusal or removal from the Bench.
One wonders if the purveyors of “Our Democracy” realize that the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate in 2020, and likely again in 2024, took to the national airwaves to praise people who were attacking and burning federal courthouses as they engaged in deadly rioting over the fentanyl death of a career criminal while Minneapolis police officers attempted to arrest him. Kamala Harris had a smile on her face when she did so:
Surely she would have to be removed from the ballot as an insurrectionist, no?
What of Joe Biden and the several acts he’s taken as president that might be construed in ways as or more damaging to his eligibility as the Colorado Supremes found Trump? Ron DeSantis, some of whose supporters were actually pleased with the Colorado ruling due to an extremely shallow (and perhaps desperate) view of its import, nevertheless made a quite interesting observation along these lines:
The governor floated using the same logic as the court to take Biden off the ballot. The court said Trump violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; specifically, that he engaged in rebellion or insurrection.
“There was no trial on any of this,” DeSantis said. “They basically just said, what, you can’t be on the ballot? I mean, how does that work?”
The governor said the ruling has no “limiting principle” and that by the same logic, other states could remove Biden for perceived constitutional violations.
“Could we just say that Biden can’t be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country and violated the constitution, which he has?” DeSantis said. “Can we just say, oh, well, they have money coming to Hunter [Biden]?”
He said that the U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the Colorado court’s ruling.
“They’re doing all this stuff to basically solidify support in the primary for [Trump], get him into the general, and the whole general election is going to be all this legal stuff,” DeSantis said. “Look, it’s unfair, they’re abusing power, 100%.”
DeSantis thinks these shenanigans will have the effect of cementing Trump as the nominee but limiting his appeal in the general election. That’s a prospect that is possible, if not altogether likely anymore.
After all, so far the lawfare initiated against Trump has done very little damage to his electoral strength. If anything, it’s been a net benefit.
The public can smell “Our Democracy,” after all. They recognize that smell. It stinks of weaponized government. Of suspect elections. Or forever wars. Of cultural aggression and decadence. Of woke corporate fascism. Of a “Great Reset” and mindless coronavirus lockdowns. Of cancel culture and nonstop destructive identitarian name-calling. Of garish waste and currency debasement.
They know that “Our Democracy” isn’t American democracy at all. They know that it’s a Third World banana republic pantomime of representative democracy, and they can’t stand it.
And that’s why this Colorado gambit, which the Obama class seeks to inflict on us in other states where they control the courts, will backfire.
When it does, though, the real danger begins.
Because to defend “Our Democracy,” these people are busily promoting the concept of Trump as Hitler. As a dictator. An “authoritarian.” As Mussolini. Here’s an example from one of the worst ruling-class stooges on the airwaves:
He was seen as a clown, a joke, and his dictatorial desires weren't taken seriously.
And yet Italy got the original fascist – Benito Mussolini.
Why aren't we taking the fascist threat from Donald 'dictator for a day' Trump seriously?
And why would they do that? It hardly takes much imagination to realize that this is an attempt to keep him out of the White House by any means — any means — necessary. If that means inciting an army of James Hodgkinsons to chase the former president around the country with rifles, the purveyors of “Our Democracy” are quite comfortable doing it.
They aren’t saying that — yet. But it’s surely coming. They’re committed to “Our Democracy,” as awful and corrupt, and as much of a post-republic farce, as it is, and they see him as the chief threat against it.
When it’s the American public who truly, rightfully, constitute that threat. Perhaps we should begin making that fact known more clearly. Future columns in this space will explore ideas on how best to do that regardless of what happens to the names on the 2024 ballot.
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