And in her latest act, Kamala Harris poses as a defender of democracy.
“It’s time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and the division,” the vice president declared in her closing argument Tuesday night, while at the site of Donald Trump’s infamous Jan. 6 speech.
Well, fair enough. You won’t get any argument from me that Trump acted admirably.
The former president may not have committed a crime or intentionally incited the January 6 mob, but his reckless theories about a “stolen election” were a dry ignition of the fiery passions that burned around the Capitol that day. Trump has no satisfactory excuse for that.
But now, as America faces a binary election, it is imperative to ask: Is the nation better off with Harris and the Democratic Party?
After all, when it comes to the “stolen election” game, Democrats have been at it for years.
After the 2000 presidential election was decided by a recount in Florida and a Supreme Court decision, Hillary Clinton declared that George W. Bush had “simply been ‘selected’ president, not elected.”
“It’s time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and the division,” the vice president declared in her closing argument Tuesday night, while at the site of Donald Trump’s infamous Jan. 6 speech.
Former President Jimmy Carter agreed: “I don’t believe George W. Bush won the election.”
Four years later, they repeated that lie.
“The last presidential election was stolen,” declared Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe in 2004.
More than a decade after that, Hillary Clinton called Trump an “illegitimate president” in 2016, as Democrats stoked the falsehood that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the election.
Hakeem Jeffries, now the House’s top Democrat, predicted that “history will never accept (Trump) as a legitimate president.” And in 2019, a poll found that two-thirds of Democrats agreed that “Russia manipulated the vote count to get Donald Trump elected president.”
And the Russian collusion hysteria wasn’t just about words. The now infamous ‘Steele Dossier,’ systematically funded and leaked to mainstream media by the Hillary campaign, was the impetus for a 22-month investigation into a trumped-up crime that severely crippled the Trump administration.
Putin couldn’t have done better.
Democrats have been institutionally bad for democracy. And the woman who was anointed leader of her party this summer – despite not winning a single presidential primary – is among the worst of them.
After the 2000 presidential election was decided by a recount in Florida and a Supreme Court decision, Hillary Clinton declared that George W. Bush had “simply been ‘selected’ president, not elected.” (Above) Protest outside the Texas Governor’s Mansion on November 11, 2000 in Austin, Texas
During her 2019 presidential campaign, Harris promised all kinds of extra-constitutional executive dictates, including mass gun confiscations. That proposal was so blatantly illegal that Biden told him on the Democratic primary debate stage that it would be impossible in the United States.
She laughed in his face: “Hey Joe, instead of saying no we can’t, let’s say we can.”
That dictatorial impulse has persisted.
As vice president, Harris has walked the walk, as the White House has routinely disregarded the rule of law.
The Biden administration has attempted to erase half a trillion dollars in student loans, require vaccination as a condition of employment and unilaterally halt evictions across the country.
Presidents do not have these powers. That hasn’t stopped this White House from trying.
Harris has also recently pushed to end the Senate filibuster, a centuries-old tradition that requires a three-fifths vote of senators to end debate and allow a vote. Without the filibuster, the world’s largest deliberative body would become just another tool of majority rule like the House of Representatives.
That’s not what the Founders would have imagined.
More than a decade after that, Hillary Clinton called Trump an “illegitimate president” in 2016, as Democrats stoked the falsehood that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the election. (Above) Protesters outside the Trump campaign rally on June 18, 2019 in Orlando, Florida
But perhaps nothing on Harris’s menu of undemocratic monstrosities is as dangerous as blowing up the independence of the US Supreme Court.
His failed 2019 presidential campaign was filled with promises to destroy the Constitution and the United States system of government.
He promised to pack the nine-person Supreme Court with additional justices, a plot last attempted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. Senators from his party rebelled, saying that the court’s expansion “should be rejected so emphatically that its parallel would never more will be repeated.” presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.’
Harris has refused to rule out packing the Court if she were elected next week.
And if that were not enough, he has done everything possible to undermine the authority of the Court.
When Judge Brett Kavanaugh sat before a committee for his nomination hearing, Harris read from the Congressional record the most outlandish claims (pushed by a lawyer now in prison) that the esteemed judge had been involved in a conspiracy of serial gang rape.
Is it surprising, then, that a record four in ten Americans approve of the Supreme Court? It is undeniable that Democrats have time and again eroded the rule of law, respect for elections, and faith in the institutions of government.
If we truly hope to save American democracy and the Constitution, Kamala Harris and the Democrats are the last people we should elect.