A lot of people have weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court decision to boot former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in the state for allegedly being involved in "insurrection."

Now Tucker Carlson has weighed in, breaking down the decision and hitting some of the biggest problems with the decision. Number one? He went right to the heart of the facts and, like George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley, explained that it wasn't an insurrection.

The actual end of democracy. pic.twitter.com/OXA4SHnNug

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 20, 2023

The crowd had no guns, they had no plan to overthrow the government. Nothing like that has ever emerged. And above all, Trump was not leading it. He was miles away in the White House at the time, where he issued a public statement calling for calm and nonviolence. 

Indeed, Trump said he expected people to behave "peacefully and patriotically" -- not exactly the call to a "coup." 

Yet, as Carlson notes, the media pushed the talking point, regardless of the facts not supporting the claim. The left and many in the media take it as an unchallenged article of faith. 

So why is the left pursuing this talking point? "Words crafted for a specific purpose" to get to where we are with the Colorado case. They had failed in their prior 14th Amendment cases, with courts rejecting their arguments, until they finally got the win they wanted in Colorado. 

Tucker skewered the Court for the decision even though Trump hadn't been convicted of anything, and hadn't even been charged with insurrection.  Not to mention the argument that the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to the president, which is what the Colorado district court decided.

Carlson puts this in greater perspective, pointing to the reaction of President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.  "The United States has lost its ability to lecture any other country about 'democracy,'" he wrote. How low have we fallen when the President of El Salvador is calling out what a banana republic we are becoming with this? 

Tucker pointed out how the left seemed to be rejoicing in the decision. He pointed out how The Atlantic was celebrating that the country was rescued from the "desires of voters." As he outlined the reaction of the Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold, Carlson explained that an accusation made on television seemed to be enough.

No more trials or evidence or juries. An accusation made on television is now enough to remove a frontrunner from the presidential race. If Nancy Pelosi and Joe Scarborough call you bad, Americans are not allowed to vote for you. 

Griswold leaves out how the district court wouldn't apply the 14th Amendment because the court couldn't say the provision applied to the president. So there isn't clarity against Trump on the issue that she would claim. What an irony that she spoke about the law, as justices appointed by Democratic governors are deciding to bar the leading Republican from the ballot. Trump is being attacked over the 2020 election, yet the right to vote for him is being suppressed in real time. 

"None of this seems very American. All of it looks like the actual end of democracy," Carlson concluded.