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Democrats are not trying to hide their totalitarian intentions anymore. We are without excuse if we let them win what will be the last free and roughly fair election in any of our lifetimes. The Supreme Court will either swing back to preserving our constitutional republic, led by Justice Thomas and the Courageous ACB, or it will be the implement of our destruction, with at least 6 leftists plus the craven fool Roberts gutting the Constitution and affirming socialist tyranny not by bullets, at first, but by rigging our electoral system. Between imposing voting laws that favor Democrat ballot box stuffing and stuffing the Senate with two to four new permanent Democrat members, from the new states of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, the Democrats said the quiet things out loud. There is not next time, not really. There is no “when Republicans get back in power.” Consider the Democrats’ response to a Republican president actually taking his campaign promises seriously and doing what every Republican since Reagan has promised.
Quite right. Somebody tell that Gary guy.
Is Markey stupid, or just a liar? How does he think gays got the right to marry?
Elections have consequences — including making future elections meaningless.
You are correct. They have repeatedly put us on notice. Will we step up and fight back?
And somehow never-Trumpers think having Trump win is worse this this?
Sheesh . . .
Democratic politicians still face the same election forces that republicans do, namely legislation for anything unpopular will not get the support of Congress needed. AOC can say anything she wants from a district that has as many republicans as actual elephants. Everyone else that rode in on a blue wave in 2018 will have to be more circumspect.
Democrats thought they had the electorate locked up in 2008. They had a sweeping majority in the house and senate, and a very progressive president. They wanted single payer health care, and what they got was essentially a massive insurance regulation bill. It also cost them both houses in the next election, and pushed lots of state governments into firm republican control.
Courtpacking and expanded statehood are both extremely unpopular. They are also not the priority of the average democratic voter or independent. What certain vocal progressives say they want to do, and what they can actually achieve are two very different things.
I voted for Trump, but it won’t be the end of the republic if he doesn’t win.
Tyrants will always tell you what they’re going to. They have this pathological need to prove how much smarter they are than everyone else and they are glad to lay out their plans for all to see. And they succeed primarily because of the same smugness exists on the other side.
For example, one of our friends at The Dispatch had this to say about voting fraud:
She’s guilty of 9/10 thinking. This election, according to her, is no different than any pre-Covid election. We know that is patently false. So the assurances she gives rings hollow. Those 2 presidentials she worked in the past are meaningless.
Like the protocols that advised the crews to hand over the aircraft to the highjackers, past experience is a weakness, not a strength. “I’ve never seen it happen” is not assurance, it’s a lack of imagination.
This is very true. The problem with the thesis that we can just correct things in the next election is correct in traditional American politics. It is what the gutless and clueless Romney/Kasich GOP would like you to believe. Worn and tired pundits like George Will believe if we can just have a President who wears bow ties, speaks civilly, and really knows the Constitution, all will be well. Sorry, folks, but we are in a different world. If the past few months haven’t convinced people of that I don’t know what to say.
The defect of thinking about this in traditional political terms is it ignores everything else going on. In 2020 we learned Progressives control all the major non-political institutions in our society and they are willing to use that power to censor and suppress their opponents and any news that might damage their cause. We’ve learned they are willing to use their power to put your job, your career, your education at risk if you speak up. We’ve learned they are insisting on a stifling conformity of thought – in every moment of your life, even things you consider personal, not political.
At the political level we’ve learned that Democratic politicians will allow their paramilitary wing to dominate the places they rule, to cause property destruction and physical violence without consequence.
The Executive Branch is the only place in our society that has taken significant organizational opposition to the craziness. The President has banned training within the government and at federal contractors and grantees, that is based on racial stereotypes and scapegoating and the Justice Department has sued Yale for discrimination in its admissions process. All of this will disappear immediately in a Biden administration.
Should the Democrats seize the Presidency and the Senate the last remaining bastion left in the federal government is the Supreme Court. The question is will the Democrats take the risk of packing the Court, counting on the other institutions to intimidate, threaten, suppress and censor the opposition, on the belief that if they are successful in eliminating all institutional opposition in American society they can create a Permanent Democratic Majority? I would not bet against it.
Outstanding. Thank you, sir.
It does not matter if you are bold enough:
You make the mistake of assuming past performance will predict future results. That is not how our nation’s history has actually played out. Instead, we have seen punctuated equilibrium with an ever leftward ratcheting away from the true ratified Constitution and towards social democracy, that is socialism attained through the forms of electoral politics.
You paint a dismal picture if we lose this election, COL.
And I agree, too a point.
But I have two words that give me succor:
Cajun. Navy.
And you can add the hillbillies, and the desert rats, and the men of steel that reside in the rust belt.
I think things might suck for a while. And then I think those of a totalitarian bent will realize they overreached, too late.
But, hey, I’m an optimist and a crazy dreamer.
Yes. This assumes sufficient strength at the state level, unlike the Republican controlled Pennsylvania legislature which is refusing Mark Levin’s repeated entreaties to boldly assert their Article II powers to control the selection of Electors, thus giving them power apart from the false rulings of a state supreme court packed by Democrat governors that is trying to throw the election to Biden by days of voting after they know how many Dems need to cheat/win on November 3.
The path back, if we lose this election, is far more likely to be far more violent than the left’s terror campaign can be if we win. The left will have the national police agencies, and will use them. National Guards would have to be prepared to refuse federalization orders.
Concur, wholeheartedly. I just can’t help but assessing that the end state, grisly at reaching it might be, will fall in our favor.
Sorry, couldn’t resist . . .