Upcoming "Election" Is Not Between Trump And Biden, It Is Between American Fascism And The Constitution.
Modern Democrat Party no longer pretends to believe in the Constitution.
Another week, and more proof that the modern Democrat Party no longer bothers to pretend it believes in the Constitution. It could not be clearer that Democrats believe in some form of “government” whereby “elected” leaders more or less can do whatever they want if they are declared to be the winners after something the state deems an “election.” As a result, November’s Presidential Election no longer is a choice between Trump and Biden, but a referendum on the Constitution, the Constitution being something far different than a mere “democracy,” which Winston Churchill once described as “two lambs and a sheep voting on what’s for lunch.”
The point of this article is not to advocate for Trump. Not only was it never about Trump for me, it became increasingly clear that it ceased being about him (to the extent it ever was even for his voters) long ago.
Pinpointing precisely when Democrats abandoned the Constitution completely is difficult and largely irreverent—at this point in time, they have. Americans now must decide whether they want to be governed by a set of rules established by the Constitutional or to be subject to the policy whims of politicians such as Joe Biden. Sadly, while the polls suggest that the Constitution would win if the election were today, it is close.
The descension of the Democrat Party to a complete disregard for the Constitution likely started under the Obama Administration. He staffed his Administration with a great many bureaucrat who lacked compunction and believed that persons provided governmental power were bound by no limits. Examples are abundant, but some of the easiest examples were Obama’s election year declaration that he would no longer enforce immigration laws and his repeated refusal to implement various portions of the Affordable Care Act that he signed.
Democrats’ disregard for the Constitution thereafter accelerated during the Trump Administration. Examples are endless. For instance, recall acting Attorney General Sally Yates refusing to implement Trump’s travel ban.
One may disagree with the President’s policy determination, but suggesting that a cabinet member possesses the power to decline a direct order from the President is idiocy, if one believes in the Constitution. Yet, Ms. Yates not only was supported, she was applauded for her unconstitutional action by Democrats. Similarly, Geoffrey S. Berman, the sitting United States attorney for the Southern District of New York when Trump took office, refused to leave office when he was told he had been replaced by the President. He too was applauded by Democrats for his blatant disregard of Constitutional norms. Indeed, the New York Times even went so far as to claim that the President firing a United States attorney was a “complicated” constitutional question; a suggestion that would be humorous if the Times did not actually write an article suggesting something so absurd.
By the time Biden took office after the controversial 2020 Election, Democrats had completely abandoned any semblance of fealty to the Constitution, or even its principles. The Biden Administration’s governing philosophy has more or less been the “tyranny of the majority” that those of us in our fifties were taught in grade school. On a daily basis, Democrats now advocate for Biden to take unilateral action on a range of policies that boggle the mind. Indeed, just a few decades ago, suggestions by Democrats that today are routine would have been uniformly considered horrific by Americans.
So, for example, early in Biden’s term, Senator Elizabeth Warren urged Biden to use his “executive authority” to “cancel” student loan debt, explicitly claiming that he should not wait on Congress to act. This notion that a President could act uniformly in this regard is absurd. Just as importantly, only a few years ago such a notion had been rejected by Democrats such Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. Nonetheless, Biden eventually acted on these suggestions and attempted to “cancel” student debt. The Supreme Court rightly declared Biden’s action unconstitutional in June of 2023.
Alarmingly, but further proof of the point that Democrats no longer believe the Constitutional is controlling, 3 justices appointed by Democrats dissented, accepting the absurd proposition that Biden possessed the authority to “cancel” student debt. To be clear, they did not rule that Biden had the authority based on his office, but interpreted some wholly irrelevant prior law had granted Biden the authority. This too was Biden’s rational, but this distinction is pointless. There is no difference between asserting that a politician has a power by virtue of his or her office or that he or she must go through the nonexistent motions of citing some inapplicable law or code.
Leaving no doubt that the Constitution is irrelevant in their minds, Biden only earlier this year issued more direction to the Executive Branch that student loans be forgiven. So that there is no confusion, he even bragged that he was ignoring both the Constitution and the Supreme Court. You can watch his press conference doing so here. Again, he was not only supported for this lawless action, he was celebrated.
Examples of this precise conduct by the Biden Administration on just about every executive function are endless. Thus, Biden is claiming he has right to extort social media companies into censoring Americans in direct violation of the First Administration. His Administration lost his absurd claim that his actions to prohibit the speech of Americans was permitted at the trial court and appellate court levels in scathing rulings. Not deterred, Biden appealed and the Supreme Court will be the ultimate arbiter by June of this year and will affirm the lower courts. However, the fact that Biden, with near uniform support from fellow Democrats continues to claim that the Federal government may suppress the speech of Americans if it does so through surrogates is further and conclusive proof that Democrats do not believe that they are restrained by the Constitution.
Indeed, Biden continues to push the boundaries of how far from the Constitution Democrats are permitted to stray. So, recently, Biden’s Department of “Justice” arrested one of the FBI’s former paid informants, one whom Democrats had cited prior as a “reliable” source, on charges that he fabricated claims about having evidence of a bribery scheme involving President Biden’s family. That he would arrest a whistleblower against him is not the shocking disregard of principles of the rule of law, however. As one is taught in law school, “reasonable minds can differ” over whether this man, in fact, is manufacturing claims against the President in violation of the law. Moreover, it is theoretically possible that Biden’s DOJ might possess the ethical authority to advance such charges and not need to appoint a special counsel. What happened in this instance, however, removes any doubt that Biden has any intention of being bound by our founding document.
The FBI informant originally was arrested in Las Vegas and taken before a Federal magistrate to learn of his charges. At the hearing, Biden’s DOJ requested that he be jailed pending trial. The magistrate denied the request, instead requiring that he wear an ankle tracer bracelet to prevent him from fleeing from trial. Under the rule of law, the DOJ could have appealed that ruling. Instead, in a stunning departure from the rule of law, Biden’s Administration simply ignored the Federal magistrate’s ruling and re-arrested Mr. Smirnov at his attorneys’ office in Las Vegas and transported him to Los Angeles, where a cherry picked judge determined that he be jailed pending trial. It is nearly impossible to imagine a further departure from the rule of law. As has become routine, Biden not only was not criticized for his lawless actions, the story barely received a mention in the MainStreamMedia.
Ironically, Biden’s pitch for re-election is that Trump, if elected, would govern essentially the way that he has. We know that could not be the case because the only thing that re-connects Democrats with the Constitution is when it can be used to constrain the power of Republican Presidents. Biden’s conduct while in office means that Americans will have to decide if they want “democracy,” where Democrat politicians do as they please, or a Constitutional Republic.
The latest New York Times poll has Trump winning in November by 4%. If that holds, it would be Electoral College landslide for Trump. To the extent that Americans are paying attention, it looks as if the Constitution may well prevail in November. The fact that it is only winning by 4% in the face of Biden’s relentless and continued lawless action during his time in office, however, should be a warning sign to those that wish to live free.