And for her past act, Kamala Harris is posing arsenic a champion of democracy.
'It is clip to move nan page connected nan play and nan conflict, nan fearfulness and division,' nan Vice President declared successful her closing statement connected Tuesday night, while opinionated astatine nan tract of Donald Trump's infamous January 6 speech.
Well, adjacent enough. You'll get nary statement from maine that Trump has acted admirably.
The erstwhile president whitethorn not person committed a crime aliases intentionally incited nan Jan 6 mob, but his reckless 'stolen election' theories were barren kindling to nan flaming passions that burned astir nan Capitol that day. Trump has nary satisfactory excuse for that.
But now, arsenic America is faced pinch a binary choice, it is imperative to ask: Is nan federation immoderate amended disconnected pinch Harris and the Democratic Party?
After all, erstwhile it comes to nan 'stolen election' game, Democrats person been astatine it for years.
After nan 2000 statesmanlike predetermination 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 clip to move nan page connected nan play and nan conflict, nan fearfulness and division,' nan Vice President declared successful her closing statement connected Tuesday night, while opinionated astatine nan tract of Donald Trump 's infamous January 6 speech.
Former President Jimmy Carter agreed: 'I don't deliberation that George W. Bush won nan election.'
Four years later, they were repeating that lie.
'They stole nan past statesmanlike election,' Democratic Party president Terry McAuliffe declared successful 2004.
More than a decade aft that, Hillary Clinton branded Trump 'an illegitimate president' successful 2016, arsenic Democrats stoked nan falsehood that Trump colluded pinch Russia to rig nan election.
Hakeem Jeffries, now nan apical Democrat successful nan House, predicted that 'history will ne'er judge [Trump] arsenic a morganatic President.' And by 2019, a canvass recovered that two-thirds of Democrats agreed that 'Russia tampered pinch ballot tallies successful bid to get Donald Trump elected President.'
And nan Russian collusion hysteria wasn't conscionable astir words. The now-infamous 'Steele Dossier', financed and systematically leaked to nan mainstream media by Hillary's campaign, was nan impetus for a 22-month investigation of a made-up crime that severely hamstrung Trump's administration.
Putin couldn't person done it amended himself.
Democrats person been institutionally bad for democracy. And nan female they anointed leader of their statement this summertime – contempt her not winning a azygous statesmanlike superior ballot – is among nan worst of them.
After nan 2000 statesmanlike predetermination 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 extracurricular nan Texas governor's mansion connected November 11, 2000 successful Austin, Texas
During her 2019 run for president, Harris promised each mode of extra-constitutional executive dictates, including wide confiscation of guns. That connection was truthful blatantly forbidden that Biden told her connected nan Democratic superior statement shape that it would beryllium an impossibility successful America.
She laughed successful his face: 'Hey Joe, alternatively of saying nary we can't, let's opportunity yes we can.'
That dictatorial impulse has persisted.
As VP, Harris has gone on for nan ride, arsenic nan White House has routinely flouted nan norm of law.
The Biden management has attempted to erase half-a-trillion dollars successful student loans, instruction vaccination arsenic a information of employment,and unilaterally halt evictions nationwide.
Presidents don't person these powers. That hasn't stopped this White House from trying.
Harris has besides precocious pushed to extremity nan Senate's filibuster – a century-old contented that requires a three-fifths ballot of senators to extremity statement and let a vote. Without nan filibuster, nan world's top deliberative assemblage would go yet different instrumentality of mostly norm for illustration nan House of Representatives.
That's hardly what nan Founders would person envisioned.
More than a decade aft that, Hillary Clinton branded Trump 'an illegitimate president' successful 2016, arsenic Democrats stoked nan falsehood that Trump colluded pinch Russia to rig nan election. (Above) Protesters extracurricular Trump run rally connected June 18, 2019 successful Orlando, Florida
But possibly thing connected Harris's paper of anti-democratic monstrosities is arsenic vulnerable arsenic blowing up nan independency of nan U.S. Supreme Court.
Her grounded 2019 statesmanlike run was stuffed pinch pledges to trash nan Constitution and America's strategy of government.
She vowed to battalion nan nine-person Supreme Court pinch further justices – a crippled past tried by Franklin D. Roosevelt successful 1937. Senators from his statement rebelled, saying that court-packing 'should beryllium truthful emphatically rejected that its parallel will ne'er again beryllium presented to nan free representatives of nan free group of America.'
Harris has refused to norm retired packing nan Court if she were elected adjacent week.
And if that weren't bad enough, she has done each that she tin to undermine nan Court's authority.
When Justice Brett Kavanaugh sat earlier a committee for his information hearing, Harris publication into nan Congressional grounds nan astir outlandish claims (pushed by a lawyer who's now successful jail) that nan esteemed judge had been progressive successful a serial pack rape conspiracy.
Is it immoderate surprise, then, that a grounds debased four-in-ten Americans o.k. of nan Supreme Court? It's undeniable that nan Democrats person again and again eroded nan norm of law, respect for elections and religion successful governing institutions.
If we genuinely dream to prevention American populist and nan Constitution, Kamala Harris and nan Democrats are nan past group we should elect.