Rush Limbaugh was fond of saying he understood liberals better than they understood themselves.
Most, if not all, of us who have paid attention to the Democrat Party and how it operates, over the years, not only understood what Rush meant; we understand it even more so, now.
In a nutshell, when Democrats can't win — be it in elections, in Congress, or before the Supreme Court — their first inclination is to cheat. And when cheating doesn't get it done, Democrats desperately try to change the rules.
The above truism was demonstrated in 2016 by Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after she bested President Donald Trump by roughly three million votes, yet lost the election to Trump in the Electoral College.
So what did Hillary and the Democrat Party do? They promptly sought to abolish the Electoral College and require all future presidents and vice presidents to be elected by popular vote.
Incidentally, if the 2016 results had been flipped — with Trump winning the popular vote and Hillary prevailing in the Electoral College — would the Democrats have pitched a fit about the EC? Of course not; the question is rhetorical and simply intended to point to the blatant hypocrisy of the Democrats and others on the radical left.
This brings us to a Thursday opinion piece in the once-vaunted New York Times.
Let's first set the stage:
With Trump continuing to beat the daylights out of the Democrats by racking up win after win — from stopping the illegal alien invasion in its tracks to all but ending the insanity of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) to making trade deals around the globe — the Democrat Party is more desperate today than I've ever seen it.
Even worse — for the left, that is — Democrat lawmakers and their lapdogs in the left-wing media continue in full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome mode, while offering zero substantive proposals designed to make the lives of the American people better — or "great again," as Trump might say.
The aforementioned article is yet another indication of just how desperate the left has become.
Checking in on the New York Times. https://t.co/rAq2AwBgcb pic.twitter.com/HSbIiAsL4Y
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 15, 2025
The op-ed stems from an hour-long podcast interview by author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat with radical leftist and New Republic writer Osita Nwanevu.
Written under the subhead, "Why the left can't win without a new Constitution," Nwanevu is convinced that only by abolishing the Senate, ending the Electoral College, and packing the U.S. Supreme Court can the Democrat Party have a chance of winning again:
I don't think that's merely an academic point. You hear in school that [the Senate] is balanced out by the House. It's not really, in a substantive way. The Senate shapes the judiciary, it shapes the executive branch, and obviously, it's a veto point for the passage of even ordinary legislation.
Right away — and I think the Senate is the crux of a lot of this — we have a fundamental piece of our system that flouts basic democratic principles and basic democratic intuitions, again, more so, by international comparison, than some of our peers. No country gets it perfect. There's no ideal democracy out there in the world.
As most of us are aware, the Democrat Party remains confused (lies) that the United States is a democracy. (Even if it were, it would be a representative democracy, but I digress.)
Nwanevu tried to push the point (emphasis, mine):
So when you raise some of the objections that I've raised about the nature of our system, conservatives will often say: well, we're a republic, not a democracy.
I think liberals, by habit, say: No, no, no, that's not true — the founders actually intended democracy, but they messed up in 50 million different ways.
I think the conservatives have the better side of the argument when you actually look at the historical record. People should understand that the Constitution is forged in a particular political and economic context.
Yeah, no. Via the National Archives Foundation:
The Founding Fathers were not champions of democracy. It’s true that they were eager to shed a monarchical system that dated back hundreds of years, but they weren’t so comfortable with democracy – or what they saw as “mob rule”–either. So a republic it was.
The United States is a republic, as stated by article 4, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Thank God — and the foresight of the Founders, of course.
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Yet here we have The New York Times and its no-longer-true motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print" — publishing leftist propaganda that all but calls for the overthrow of the United States and the U.S. Constitution.
The hypocrisy, of course, is if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 presidential election — shudder the thought — nary of word of this insanity would have been spewed from any left-wing corner. All would be copacetic, as President Cackles — er, Harris — and her loony sidekick, Vice President Tim Walz, worked feverishly to continue the goal of the Biden administration: destroying America as we know it.
