You have to see it. You have a working brain. You have a reality-based worldview. The Democrats are authoritarians. They don’t believe in democracy. They’ve been busy taking away the right of citizens to vote for the leading presidential candidate. There is no tactic beyond the Party they won’t try—election rigging, impeachment, lawfare, whatever (see The Continuing Campaign to Unperson Donald Trump). They’re preparing to assert in law that January 6 was an “insurrection,” and then associate the president with what never happened even though he hasn’t even been charged with the crime of insurrection.
It’s not that Democrats are delusional. It’s that they think enough Americans are as authoritarian as they are—and that many others are so ignorant and stupid—that they will go along with the ruse.
According to an Axios report (Top Democrat “working on” bill responding to Trump ballot ruling), Rep. Jamie Raskin is preparing legislation in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from its state ballot using a Constitutional amendment. Raskin referenced legislation he introduced in 2022 with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (the most loathsome creature in Congress) that would allow the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
“We are going to revise it in light of the Supreme Court’s decision,” Raskin told Axios. He suggested to the outlet that the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring January 6 an “insurrection” and fine without due process those involved “engaged in insurrection.” That’s right, House Democrats will invent a historical event and associate thousands of citizens, including Trump, with it.
It bears repeating: Trump is facing a number of federal charges related to the 2020 election, but he has not been charged with insurrection. If he ever were charged with insurrection, you’d see more clearly than ever the Kafkaesque character of the Democrats’ authoritarian project to entrench one-party rule (see Cancelling Half the Nation: Progressives Reach for One-Party Rule).
Have you ever wondered why House Democrats didn’t explicitly charge Trump with insurrection in the January 13, 2021 impeachment bill? The articles of impeachment asserted the following: “Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States.” The articles go on to declare that the President “unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol,” characterizing the actions as “violent, deadly, destructive, and seditious acts.”
Some would suppose that this language indicates a charge of insurrection. However, the Senate took up the articles and a trial followed in which Trump was acquitted on February 13, 2021. So even if we accept that Trump was impeached for insurrection, he was found not guilty of the crime at trial.
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