By: Mike Ginsberg, former 11CD District Chairman
Tonight is the first Trump-Harris debate, and I expect we’ll hear a lot from Kamala Harris about how she is “defending democracy”. It’s a distraction, and if I had the record the Biden-Harris Administration has, I’d try to distract from it too. From inflation, to the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, to the wave of illegal immigration that has produced crime waves of the worst kind, everything Biden and Harris have touched has gotten more expensive, more dangerous, and more depressing.
But there is something deeper and more sinister about the Democrats’ positioning themselves as the “defenders of democracy”. It has given them license to engage in the most antidemocratic, authoritarian behavior. It has freed progressives to unleash their inner authoritarian. It has allowed the progressive activists who comprise our modern press corps to justify their overt bias. Because “defending democracy” is so important, anything goes.
Over the last four years, Democrats have justified all manner of antidemocratic and authoritarian behavior in the name of “defending democracy”. The Biden-Harris Administration leaned on Twitter (now X) to censor accurate information about the pandemic and Hunter Biden’s laptop. A progressive Democrat prosecutor in New York ran on a platform of “I will get Trump” and proceeded to weaponize the New York justice system against President Trump, concocting a cockamamie legal case that he brought before a deeply conflicted judge. And Biden and Harris unilaterally and unconstitutionally forgave student loans as a brazen bribe to a core Democratic constituency.
Overseas, Biden and Harris cozied up to leftist authoritarian regimes in Brazil, which is now trying to ban X, and Venezuela, where tyrant Nicolas Maduro rewarded Team Biden/Harris’s loosening of sanctions by stealing a presidential election. And Biden and Harris have relentlessly undermined the elected democratic government of Israel while trying to reach agreements with the bloodthirsty totalitarian mullahs in Iran.
And, of course, there is the Democrats’ greatest affront to the Constitution and democracy of all: their cover-up of President Biden’s incapacity. Right up to this summer’s debate, Democrats insisted Biden was “sharp as a tack” despite a lighter-than-air public schedule and obvious breakdowns when he did appear in public. After this summer’s debate, it became clear that Democrats had covered up Biden’s senescence to protect his administration and campaign. We still don’t know who’s running the country.
So when your Democratic friends tell you after the debate that “you must vote for Harris to defend democracy”, they don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s just another talking point. They’ll use any weapon at hand to win an election; styling themselves the “defenders of democracy” is just the latest. Remind them of the above litany of offenses against the Constitution that Democrats have committed in just the last four years. Do not let them get the high ground on “defending democracy” because they don’t have it.
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