Democrats and liberals like to talk about “protecting democracy.” But if the response to last Thursday’s calamitous debate performance by Joe Biden reveals anything, it’s that all their talk about “protecting democracy” is nothing more than talk – and lying talk, at that. The fact is, the Democratic Party’s elites have been lying to us for years. Thursday night just happened to be the night when those who hadn’t seen it, or who hadn’t allowed themselves to believe it, could no longer avert their gaze and deny the truth: Democrats have been lying all along.
The Democrats were – and are – so determined to hold on to political power that when it came time to prepare for the 2024 presidential election, they prevented any meaningful primary contest from occurring. An exercise in practical democracy – that is, requiring wannabe presidents to compete for support from actual voters – was nixed by Democrat elites. When a lone, brave Democrat Congressman was so determined to make Democrat elites confront the issue of President Biden’s age and mental acuity that he launched a primary challenge against Biden, he was denied the courtesy of a single debate with the incumbent.
Now, in the wake of Thursday’s debate debacle, we’ve gone at 100 miles per hour from, “There’s nothing to see here, these are not the ‘droids you seek,” to “We need a new nominee, and fast!” And that discussion is taking place among an elite handful of people, rather than among the much, much larger group of Democratic primary voters and caucus-goers. Had the Democrats allowed a meaningful challenge to Biden – and had they truly believed he could withstand such a challenge – the issue of his mental acuity would have been litigated among their base voters, where it should have been, especially for a party that claims to be concerned with “democracy.”
Senior White House staffers knew how bad Biden was, and shielded him from the public. Instead of ensuring the country was being run by the person who put his hand on the Bible and took the oath as president, these staffers acted as if they had been selected to run the country, despite the fact that none of them had been elected and none of them were accountable to the people.
That is not democracy.
While The Washington Post loves the tagline, “Democracy dies in darkness,” that newspaper and the rest of the mainstream media have not worked to protect democracy, either. True journalists would have asked tough questions of Biden and his team, and would not have taken the White House press secretary’s word at face value. Instead, the media have been the Democrats’ willing lapdogs, regurgitating any talking point the White House has given them, without meaningful questions or oversight – for example, the “cheap fake” line they recently pushed about videos of Biden being selectively edited, even as every video showed handlers guiding Biden to his destination.
Further, the Democrats are railing against last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning the doctrine known as “Chevron deference” because it means that “experts” will no longer be allowed to essentially make law when they confront vague statutes. In reality, this ruling puts the power of lawmaking squarely back where it should be (and should have been) – in the hands of Congress, right where the Constitution says the legislative power belongs. In the future, Congress will have to write statutes with more specificity. The House and Senate will no longer be allowed to abdicate their duty and responsibility, hoping that unelected bureaucrats will make the tough decisions. If lawmakers do not have a majority to vote for such specific legislation, the laws will not pass – as it should be in a representative democracy.
This lying is not a new thing, either. Democrats have been saying for years that their political opponents (read: Donald Trump and Republicans) are a “threat” to “democracy,” and have used that “threat” as the justification for abusing standard democratic practices.
For example, in 2016, senior leaders in the high commands of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Central Intelligence Agency, opposed to Trump, abused government power to create the Russia collusion hoax in an effort to prevent Trump’s election. John Durham, the special counsel assigned later to investigate the origins of the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Trump’s activities, concluded that the FBI never should have opened the investigation in the first place.
In 2020, 51 members of the vaunted “Intelligence Community” – in response to the "impetus" of then-Biden-campaign-adviser/current-Secretary-of-State Antony Blinken – published a letter asserting that “the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter … has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” – and could, therefore, be dismissed. But the laptop was not part of a Russian information operation, and neither were its contents: A different agent of the federal government recently used information found on the laptop, verified by the FBI, in the prosecution of Hunter Biden.
In neither case, nor in many others, did these supporters of the Democrat candidate for president trust the voters with the truth. Democrats haven’t been trusting voters for years.
This week we celebrate the 248th anniversary of the birth of our nation – a republic, if we can keep it – where, because of the sacrifices made by our forebears, sovereignty rests in the hands of the people. If you truly value democracy, if you want to honor the first Americans’ sacrifices, vote Republican.
Jenny Beth Martin is President of Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund
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