And for her last act, Kamala Harris is posing as a champion of democracy.
‘It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division,’ the Vice President declared in her closing argument on Tuesday night, while standing at the site of Donald Trump‘s infamous January 6 speech.
Well, fair enough. You’ll get no argument from me that Trump has acted admirably.
The former president may not have committed a crime or intentionally incited the Jan 6 mob, but his reckless ‘stolen election’ theories were dry kindling to the flaming passions that burned around the Capitol that day. Trump has no satisfactory excuse for that.
But now, as America is faced with a binary choice, it is imperative to ask: Is the nation any 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 Florida recount and a Supreme Court decision, Hillary Clinton declared that George W. Bush ‘merely had been “selected” president, not elected.’
‘It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division,’ the Vice President declared in her closing argument on Tuesday night, while standing at the site of Donald Trump ‘s infamous January 6 speech.
Former President Jimmy Carter agreed: ‘I don’t think that George W. Bush won the election.’
Four years later, they were repeating that lie.
‘They stole the last presidential election,’ Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe declared in 2004.
More than a decade after that, Hillary Clinton branded Trump ‘an illegitimate president’ in 2016, as Democrats stoked the falsehood that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the election.
Hakeem Jeffries, now the top Democrat in the House, predicted that ‘history will never accept [Trump] as a legitimate President.’ And by 2019, a poll found that two-thirds of Democrats agreed that ‘Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President.’
And the Russian collusion hysteria wasn’t just about words. The now-infamous ‘Steele Dossier’, financed and systematically leaked to the mainstream media by Hillary’s campaign, was the impetus for a 22-month investigation of a made-up crime that severely hamstrung Trump’s administration.
Putin couldn’t have done it better himself.
Democrats have been institutionally bad for democracy. And the woman they anointed leader of their party this summer – despite her not winning a single presidential primary vote – is among the worst of them.
After the 2000 presidential election was decided by a Florida recount and a Supreme Court decision, Hillary Clinton declared that George W. Bush ‘merely had been “selected” president, not elected.’ (Above) Protest outside the Texas governor’s mansion on November 11, 2000 in Austin, Texas
During her 2019 campaign for president, Harris promised all manner of extra-constitutional executive dictates, including mass confiscation of guns. That proposal was so blatantly illegal that Biden told her on the Democratic primary debate stage that it would be an impossibility in America.
She laughed in his face: ‘Hey Joe, instead of saying no we can’t, let’s say yes we can.’
That dictatorial impulse has persisted.
As VP, Harris has gone along for the ride, as the White House has routinely flouted the rule of law.
The Biden administration has attempted to erase half-a-trillion dollars in student loans, mandate vaccination as a condition of employment,and unilaterally halt evictions nationwide.
Presidents don’t have these powers. That hasn’t stopped this White House from trying.
Harris has also recently pushed to end the Senate’s filibuster – a century-old tradition that requires a three-fifths vote of senators to end debate and allow a vote. Without the filibuster, the world’s greatest deliberative body would become yet another tool of majority rule like the House of Representatives.
That’s hardly what the Founders would have envisioned.
More than a decade after that, Hillary Clinton branded Trump ‘an illegitimate president’ in 2016, as Democrats stoked the falsehood that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the election. (Above) Protesters outside Trump campaign rally on June 18, 2019 in Orlando, Florida
But perhaps nothing on Harris’s menu of anti-democratic monstrosities is as dangerous as blowing up the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her failed 2019 presidential campaign was stuffed with pledges to trash the Constitution and America’s system of government.
She vowed to pack the nine-person Supreme Court with additional justices – a plot last tried by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. Senators from his party rebelled, saying that court-packing ‘should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be 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 weren’t bad enough, she has done all that she can to undermine the Court’s authority.
When Justice Brett Kavanaugh sat before a committee for his nomination hearing, Harris read into the Congressional record the most outlandish claims (pushed by a lawyer who’s now in jail) that the esteemed judge had been involved in a serial gang rape conspiracy.
Is it any surprise, then, that a record low four-in-ten Americans approve of the Supreme Court? It’s undeniable that the Democrats have again and again eroded the rule of law, respect for elections and faith in governing institutions.
If we truly hope to save American democracy and the Constitution, Kamala Harris and the Democrats are the last people we should elect.