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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.
Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.
That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.
A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton/Democratic National Committee/FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.
That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.
On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign.
That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.
Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.
For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.
The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.
Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump.
They all shared some strange similarities.
These indictments would likely not have been filed, had Trump not run for office. Nor would any of them have proceeded had Trump not been a controversial conservative Republican seeking reelection.
Almost all the charges had not been filed against any other prior candidate and rarely a private citizen.
Some of them could just as easily have been lodged against Joe Biden and his son.
Some indictments and convictions may still achieve their objectives of bankrupting, jailing, or keeping Trump inert during the final weeks of the campaign.
One of the Georgia prosecutors had undisclosed meetings with the Biden White House counsel.
President Biden himself, on the eve of the federal prosecutor Jack Smith’s indictment, all but declared his campaign rival Trump guilty.
Biden’s own chief of the White House had also met privately and secretly with Smith.
In an unprecedented fashion, Smith rushed his prosecution to ensure it synchronized with the 2024 campaign.
Similar federal charges could just as easily have led to the indictment of President Joe Biden—if the special counsel in that case had not claimed that he could not convince a jury to convict a culpable but cognitively challenged Biden.
Another Biden prosecutor mysteriously left his top position at the Justice Department to join the Alvin Bragg Manhattan prosecutorial staff.
Nonetheless, Trump had survived collusion, disinformation, de-balloting, lawfare, and a subsequent assassination attempt to surge far ahead of Biden in the June presidential polls.
Biden’s poll collapse prompted Democratic donors and high-ranking politicos to force a stress-test presidential debate before either candidate was even nominated at their respective conventions.
When Biden imploded in the debate, a supposedly once-fit president was suddenly declared impaired. And a previously uninspiring Vice President Kamala Harris was abruptly transmogrified into a superb replacement candidate.
Biden was forced to resign his candidacy to save his last five months in office from a Democrat threatened removal via the 25th Amendment.
The primary votes of nearly 15 million voters were abruptly nullified.
Harris who had neither won a primary nor a single delegate through an election was suddenly coronated as the new Biden-replacement candidate—and without an open convention contest or vote.
The donor-politico class further decided that, like a challenged Biden in 2024, Harris could not be allowed to hold press conferences. She would do few if any live interviews, unscripted town halls or any other venue given fears her visible liabilities might endanger her candidacy.
So, the Party that had proclaimed democracy dies in darkness now favors the shadows as the preferable means to obtain and retain power—whether by ignoring primary voters, open conventions, or transparent venues with the voters.
Add up the last decade’s purchased collusion caper, unprecedented two impeachments, orchestrated disinformation hoax, efforts to de-ballot Trump, warping of the legal system to jail him and destroy his candidacy, forced removal of an unpopular but unwilling President Biden from the Democrat ticket, virtual anointing of Harris by fiat in his place, and the current collusion with a compliant media to avoid public scrutiny and cross-examination of Harris.
And the conclusion?
Have those who lectured us about democracy in danger now decided to save it by destroying it?
Roark says
The Red Witch was maneuvered through a silent back room Marxist palace coup into a position of the DemoNazi nominee.
It’s not unlike Hitler’s deposing of Von Hindenburg. Hitler was not directly elected to power. Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power through Germany’s legal political processes.
It’s not unlike the maneuvering that the DemoNazi Party has orchestrated by undermining a duly elected Biden through the primary process with 14 million votes.
Biden has been replaced by The Red Witch, a radical Marxist, who has been placed in the presidential candidate position without winning one vote, having one press conference, or any contest with potential candidates within her own party.
It is a completed un democratic process which smacks of fascist politics.
Hardball1Alpha says
Hey Roark, funny you use the word “witch”… check out my comment below.
Eli Truax says
It seemed to me that by the time WaPo had adopted that tagline that it was already willfully complicit in turning out the lights knowing that their readers would either wink at the hypocrisy or be entirely oblivious.
When I started critically addressing the Left in 1993 after finally distancing myself, the “intelligentsia” already had a fully developed narcissistic trickster persona lacking any reflection or consideration. Of course the notion of knee-jerk liberalism finally made sense to me so this persona goes back much farther than ’93.
Yet, back then, the ostensible leadership maintained a more credible position, it wasn’t until Obama that credibility was no longer a concern – which is why I’m a bit annoyed by conservative writers who seem to think they’ve made a great discovery by exposing their lack of credibility. They have become virtually 100% propaganda 100% of the time.
Mo de Profit says
If Trump is jailed he now has RFK Jr to campaign on his behalf in addition to taking the bullets that will turn through 180• (credit to the Babylon Bee)
slamdunk says
we’re a republic not a democracy
Jeff Bargholz says
Exactly. No country on Earth is a democracy or ever has been, not even ancient Athens. And the Constitution clearly states that America is a Republic repeatedly.
When conservatives repeat the “democracy” bullshit, they play right into the hands of the Dirtbagocrat party.
Allan Goldstein says
“Who is destroying democracy in darkness”❓
Masturbating Democrats❗~~
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, those jack offs with their little wankers. They just won’t be satisfied until they destroy the country and probably not even then. They’re so much worse than the RINOs it isn’t even funny. They should be pilloried in public.
Hardball1Alpha says
Interesting title alluding to “the darkside” of Que Mala…
Yesterday, I was fiddling around on ChatGPT and asked it to create a Hollywood-type movie script entitled: “Que Mala la Bruja Socialista”…. (“the Socialist witch)
This is a portion ChatGPT’s answer:
Cultural Influence of the Socialist Witch:
The media and arts could become tools for her agenda, where stories and narratives are twisted to serve a greater ideological purpose, pushing a singular worldview while vilifying any form of opposition as heretical or treasonous.
Economic and Political Manifestations:
Economically, she could drive policies that, while initially aimed at equality, lead to the suppression of innovation and personal freedoms, with the state (or her coven) exerting control over resources and wealth distribution in ways that create scarcity and suffering.
Politically, her influence could result in the centralization of power, where a small elite group (her inner circle) dictate the lives of the masses, stifling democratic processes and individual rights under the guise of protecting the greater good.
Social Dynamics:
On a societal level, she could incite divisions and witch hunts of her own, encouraging people to turn on each other, reporting on neighbors or colleagues who don’t conform to the “correct” ideology or beliefs, creating a climate of mistrust and paranoia.
Education and history could be rewritten to align with her narrative, where certain events and figures are either exalted or erased, depending on their alignment with her ideological goals.
Symbolism and Impact
See full response here: https://chatgpt.com/share/c7cb30c4-9462-4917-93ae-efefa7b62c68
Jeff Bargholz says
Good comment but please don’t use terms like “Democratic processes.” There’s no such thing as a “democracy” and never has been
Hardball1Alpha says
That was ChatGPT using that phrase
Aristotle Cam says
Senate, House Republicans=Compliance!
Ron Kelmell says
Men like Hanson and Jordon Peterson bring an insight and evaluation to America’s ‘plight’ that would be enlightening were it not for the arrogant, unteachable mind set of leftists and pig headedness of rightest.
Both make air tight cases for the need of a national ‘repentance’, a monumental change of mind.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, they’re good speakers. I love Hanson’s lectures and Peterson is quite compelling.
Mike says
If Trump wants to win this election he needs to ask Harris these questions at their debate:
1. Do you believe America is systemically racist?
2. Do you believe any American who does not vote for you is a racist?
3. Do you believe the only way any American can prove they are not racist is to vote for you?
Ask her these questions. Get her to answer.
Jeff Bargholz says
Ask her how many dicks she’s sucked to get where she is and then ask her how much of a simp bitch her husband is.
FRONT_TOWARD_ENEMY says
When are enough people going to understand that we are not going to vote our way out of this?
We are acting like the kid that follows the pedophile and climbs into the van because she was promised candy and a puppy.
WTF happened with us?
We are being bullied into collectivist slavery by nothing but pure BS!!
The d卐m☭nrats are nothing less than nazis.
Are we ever going to put an end to the rot?!!
Or are we going to wait until they push us into the boxcars?!!
ROY TREPANIER says
“Are we ever going to put an end to the rot?”!! Nope. But I know Someone who will and it won’t be pretty. He is due to arrive on the scene shortly, just in time to save His Chosen people from total destruction; then He will get busy dealing with the rest of the world. And to repeat, it won’t be pretty.
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus……….
Gail Whitman says
Well, I’’d say that all depends on when enough Republicans GROW A PAIR!! The Dems have run us over enough! When will we learn? The only thing these people will ever understand, apparently, is fighting FIRE with FORE!
I hate to get down in the gutter with them, but I really believe it’s gone too far this time. The only thing that will save our country now is fighting back!
The problem is, and might ALWAYS be……..the Republican Party is loaded with Christians. I’m one myself. We’re so busy trying to “be like Jesus” and “turning the other cheek” that we’ve become a bunch of weak human beings, unable or UNWILLING to fight for our way of life! Well, I, for one, have HAD it. What would Jesus do??? Well, my friends…..even HE had had enough and overturned the moneychangers’ tables in the Temple! Maybe we’d better get busy fighting back or lose our Republic forever. I hope there’s still time😢🇺🇸
rogers says
wow. like all true Trumpsters, name calling is now the favorite form of so called analysis.
And victor David Hanson apparently lacks a capacity for irony — that a Trump supporters would complain about anti-Democratic forces because the Democrats and President Biden chose not to simply genuflect to Trump’s reelection. Sort of like — how dare they fight back?! when we all know the Caligula is god. As a long-time Bill Buckley friend and admirer, it is embarrassing to see what has become of the conservative movement. But given that Mr. Buckley once observed that the purposive thought requires the ability to make distinctions, let me give it a try: Joe Biden chose to step aside because most of the national polls and the vast majority of the Democratic party knew, as he struggled to realize, that his age and feeble health made it impossible for him to effectively campaign. It is a bit strange that the very people on the so called right who have repeatedly said he was no longer fit for office now complain that he is not running. But there was nothing anti-democratic about it. It became an open convention, for all intents and purpose, and Harris received the votes of the delegates and every major leader. Meanwhile, Trump refused to step on the stage with his challengers (a real victory for democracy) and continues to lie about 2020 ad nauseum. I will vote for Harris, not because I share her views on some critical issues but because oddly, it is the Democratic Party convention that sounded more like the party of Reagan and Buckley than today’s Republican Party and because Trump has, again Buckley, succeeded in giving capitalism and Republicanism that bad name which its opponents have long sought to give it.
Hardball1Alpha says
So you disapprove of my new nickname for her… “Que Mala la Bruja Socialista”?…
Just trying to reach out to the Hispanic community for her.
Truth sets free says
You have to be willfully ignorant and blind to criticize a republican for “name calling” which is the Liberal/Progressive response to challenges to their ideology, meaning questions they don’t want to answer, Iike: “What is a woman?” Kneejerk confusing response: “RACIST!” Take away the words racist, white supremicist, homophobe, transphobe, bigot, sexist, misogynist, Islamophobe, etc. and Liberals can’t communicate. Joe Biden didn’t “chose” to step aside, he was pushed by Pelosi et al who,prior to the embarrassing debate, had claimed Joe to be “sharp as a tack”. The fact that you made this comment demonstrates your delusional thinking on this subject, and I strongly suspect that if William Buckley were still with us, he would “correct” your distorted perceptions. You will vote for the empty suit Harris because you are ideologically challenged and would vote for a ham sandwich to beat Trump. Time to take the blinders off and face reality.
Semaphore says
Vote for whomever you please, but don’t insult my intelligence by comparing the Dem convention to Reagan/Buckley. I watched all five nights and never saw anything remotely resembling the visionary leadership Ronald Reagan. In fact, it was consistently nothing more that five nights of Trump bashing. The Dems have done nothing productive for more than 3 years, Harris has offered us more word salad than inspiration, she’s even flipping her views now that she’s the candidate. IMO she’s a political hack. Anyone who votes for her deserves what they get.
dani says
meanwhile, the commie dem party is seeing almost daily defectors – Musk, RFK jr., Tulsi Gabbard, etc. Stay on the dem plantation’s sinking ship – they need tools like you
Debbie says
How does the Bible describe a fool?
Ecclesiastes 10:2 says, “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.”
https://www.gotquestions.org/fool-Bible.html
Jeff Bargholz says
You need to seek professional help for your mental retardation.
Roark says
When they use the word JOY, it is not in the way normal people think of it because these deviants are far from normal.
When they say JOY, they mean it in the way an arsonist gets a perverse joy from watching a forest burn down or a a serial killer from chopping up their victims.
When DemoNazis talk about the perverse JOY they feel, it’s the JOY at the prospect of completely destroying our country. The JOY of eviscerating America.
You can see that evil, marijuana induced gleam in Comrade Kommiela’s eyes.
“The eye altering, alters all.” – William Blake
You have to understand that these abnormal creatures always change the meaning of words. Words are fluid like gender, nothing is fixed in their universe.
Jeff Bargholz says
Well written! I like the Blake quote, too.
Chris Shugart says
We stand on a precipice, a shaky misstep away from falling into a totalitarian system run by plutocrats and government flunkies who have found the Constitution to be an annoying inconvenience to their personal livelihoods and power. And I suspect they won’t tolerate those who try to stand in their way. But hopefully it will end in America’s favor.
In his recent book “The End of Everything,” VDH relies on history to illustrate how nations in the past have been conquered, even annihilated:
“These doomed cities and nations were reduced to rubble or absorbed by the conquerors. Their populations were wiped out or enslaved, and their once-hallowed cultures, customs, and traditions lost to history. The last words of the conquered were usually variations of, ‘It can’t happen here.'”
Jeff Bargholz says
I think it’s already happened here.