Democracy, at its core, is "majority rules." That means if you get 50 percent-plus-one of the vote, you get your way. Now, thankfully, America isn't a democracy. We're a constitutional republic, where the rights of the minority don't get trampled by the will of the majority.
Democrats, of course, hate this. That's evidenced by their attacks on the Electoral College and the Senate, which pop up ever so often when it seems like they're going to lose an election. That behavior makes it clear that, in a pure democracy, Democrats would absolutely steamroll the rest of us.
But I am a big proponent of making the Democrats adhere to their own rules, rules they're happy to force on the rest of us but exempt themselves from, and that applies to their supposed love of democracy, too.
Yesterday, CNN reported that the vast majority of voters, including Black voters, support voter ID. The numbers are telling: 85 percent of White voters, 82 percent of Latino voters, and 76 percent of Black voters support it. A whopping 71 percent of Democrats support it. But not the Democrats in D.C., it seems.
Senator Chris Murphy went on MS Now to say that voter ID is what's used to steal elections, calling such measures "terrible."
Conspiracy theorist and part-time Senator Chris Murphy says commonsense voter ID is “terrible” and will be used to "steal" elections.
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Nearly 90% of Americans agree you should have to show your ID to vote.
Why don’t Democrats only want American citizens voting in elections? pic.twitter.com/92uNLnZdJf
"The SAVE Act, in and of itself, is a terrible piece of legislation," Murphy said. "I do think the president is going to put the screws to John Thune and his allies in the Senate, because his options to steal the election are going to continue to narrow. And so he's likely to want a piece of legislation that may not be constitutional but at least tests the question to the Supreme Court of whether there are circumstances where he can come in and take over a state election."
"Steal" elections. What an odd thing to say.
Remember when questioning the outcome of an election was a high crime and an attack on democracy?
But what happened to "defending democracy"? Why do the Democrats insist on listening to the will of the majority only when it goes their way?
Well, because they're hypocrites, of course. And because they've tacitly admitted countless times that they can only win when our electoral system is vulnerable to fraud and rife with insecurities.
Anyone who cared about democracy, as the Democrats claim to do, would support robust voter ID laws and security measures to make sure the voices of the majority are heard loud and clear. But for Democrats, they believe democracy only works when they win.
Look at Prop. 8, for example. The democratically passed legislation was offensive to Democrats, so they went to court to overturn the will of the people. Or remember 2024, when President Trump won the popular vote, too. When a Democrat does that, even if he loses the Electoral College, Democrats whine about how we need to respect the majority. When a Republican wins, they spend his term obstructing his agenda in court.
