From President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris and most of the Democrat Party, to their left-wing sycophantic media, to the bitter TDS-riddled ladies of ABC's "The View," we have been warned ad nauseam that if now-president-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the imminent death of democracy in America would be upon us and this great country.
Welp, Trump won in a historic landslide, and although he won't become president until January 20, I've so far seen no evidence that democracy is packing its bags and preparing to move out of the country.
What we have seen for four disastrous years is a woefully incompetent administration, along with the rabid left wing of the Democrat Party and their desperate attempts to curtail freedom of speech, freedom of religion -- and freedom from religion -- an ever-increasing number of threats against the Second Amendment and the rights of law-abiding gun owners, and more. Make no mistake:
It's the Democrat Party and its definition of "democracy" that has become a threat.
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As George Washington University Law School Professor and Fox News senior legal analyst Jonathan Turley puts it, "democracy appears to be losing its appeal on the left." Turley warned:
After campaigning on panic politics and predicting the imminent death of democracy, some on the left are now calling to burn the system down in light of Republicans not only taking both houses and the White House but Trump likely winning the popular vote.
Some seem to believe that what happened on November 5th is a license to become a modern version of Guy Fawkes (“Remember, remember, the 5th of November; Gunpowder, treason and plot; I see no reason; Why gunpowder treason; Should ever be forgot”).
Protesters after the election called for tearing down the system as a whole, insisting that “Trump is not an individual. He’s a figurehead of a system that’s rotten.” Even before the election, law professors and law deans called for a break from the Constitution. Those voices will likely be amplified after the massive electoral loss by Democrats.
The irony is beautiful.
We were warned that Trump would dissolve Congress, the U.S. Constitution -- which many on the left already loathe -- ban free speech, put his "enemies" in internment camps, and more, yet here they are, in all of their hypocritical splendor, as their hysterical meltdown continues in the aftermath of Trump's win.
Turley sees other ironies, as well (emphasis, mine).
It is an ironic twist after Democratic politicians and pundits repeated the mantra that, if we did not elect Harris, this might be our last election. After losing that election, democracy appears to be the problem. The majority of Americans voting for Trump have been called “anti-American” by Gov. Hochul. Other politicians and pundits have called them racists, misogynists, or weaklings seeking domination by strongmen and bullies.
The US Supreme Court
Democrats accused Donald Trump of "packing" the Supreme Court by constitutionally nominating three conservative judges -- Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett -- to the high court. All three were confirmed in the Senate, theoretically giving conservatives a 6-3 majority. The Democrat Party's desired "solution?" To actually pack the court by increasing the number of justices on the bench during Biden's presidency.
Turley ended his column with a famous quote, a brilliant observation.
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau once famously insisted that “War is too important to be left to the generals.” The Democrats appear to be working on a new view that democracy is too important to be left to the voters.
No truer words have been spoken about today's radicalized Democrat Party.
The Bottom Line
History is replete with examples of the right person stepping into the right spot at the right time. Whether by divine intervention (as some believe), coincidence, or simple luck, Abraham Lincoln's election win in 1860 comes to mind. The country was ripped apart at the seams, and Lincoln fought the Civil War to preserve the Union.
The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan also comes to mind. The Cold War with the then-Soviet Union was raging. President Jimmy Carter had in July 1979 delivered what came to be referred to as his “Malaise Speech,” in which he warned about America's "crisis of confidence." Reagan's election would bring the "malaise" and "crisis of confidence" to a screeching end.
And on November 5, 2024, the historic election of Donald Trump to a second presidency, just one show week ago as I write, has brought a sense of relief and hope to a country that has been sick and tired of four years of the Biden-Harris administration.
Democracy has been saved -- for four more years. Let us hope it continues to thrive, well into the future.
