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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Threats to Democracy

One of the major themes in the Democrats' attack on Donald Trump is that he's "a threat to democracy." Very little convincing evidence is ever adduced in support of the accusation, but most people who are inclined to think the worst of Trump don't require evidence anyway. Their aversion is often visceral, not rational.

The allegation is, in any case, an apparent instance of projection. The current threats to democracy appear to be coming almost exclusively from the left as Rob Schneider points out in a post on X.

He writes:
Be careful of Political parties that warn of a threat to Democracy while they themselves arrest their political opponents, work with Tech companies to censor those that disagree with them, allow men in women’s sports & bathrooms, encourage child mutilation surgeries, fire Federal workers & nurses for not getting experimental gene therapies, threaten to expand the Supreme Court and eliminate the Electoral College, cause rampant inflation, increase the cost of groceries by 26 percent, allow 11 million people to illegally cross the border, and push the entire World close to World War III.
He might also have mentioned the suppression of free speech on campus and attempts to purge religion from the public square. Moreover, the current desire of many Democrats to remove Joe Biden from the ballot after millions of their voters chose him in the primaries over Dean Phillips and Jason Palmer seems inconsistent with the spirit of democracy.

If we're concerned, as we very well should be, about threats to our democratic polity we'd be wise to scrutinize the behavior of the left much more closely than many who are blinded by their distaste for Donald Trump seem inclined to do.