President Joe Biden joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and numerous other Democrats this week in a partisan attempt to preemptively delegitimize the 2022 election. Twice the president was asked by reporters whether voters could trust the electoral system, and twice the president contended that a fair election was unlikely unless the Senate was blown up and the Democrats’ election power grab was passed — a maneuver that poses a far more serious and lasting threat to the constitutional order than anything Donald Trump is cooking up right now.
“I think it would easily be illegitimate,” said Biden. “The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in proportion to not being able to get these reforms passed.” Vice President Kamala Harris, sent out on the morning shows Thursday, offered basically the same position.
For people lamenting the “Big Lie,” this is nothing new. Trump’s election fraud conspiracy theories have been endlessly documented. Sometimes it sounds as if he has merely appropriated the language of Democrats, who’ve been playing this ugly game for years. And it’s not only the post-election evidence-free Stacey Abrams-style sore-loserism that we’re typically subjected to. It’s far more pervasive.
During Trump’s first impeachment — headier times, when we were still pretending to care about the fate of Ukraine rather than inviting Vladimir Putin to take a slice — Democrats argued that ousting Trump was a precondition to a fair election. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned colleagues that maintaining the position that elections should decide Trump’s fate was “dangerous” and “only adds to the urgency of our action, because the President is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections.” Adam Schiff, one of the leading culprits in the Russia “collusion” swindle, concurred: “The President’s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won.”
Never once, incidentally, have any of these people offered a scintilla of evidence demonstrating that a single person’s vote was changed, altered or appropriated by Trump or Russians or anyone else. Yet at one point, a healthy majority of Democrats claimed to believe that Putin had altered vote tallies. How many Democrats still believe it?
These days, it’s difficult to recount the slew of bizarre Russia-hysterics and various other fantastical stories taken up by Democrats and their allies in pursuit of undermining trust in the 2016 election — and the 2020 contest, just in case. Remember those insane politicians chaining themselves to mailboxes as if they were holdouts at Masada? Democrats spread pictures of locked mailboxes in places such as Burbank, California — a hotbed of contemporary white supremacism, no doubt — that were actually meant to stop criminality, not voting?
Pelosi called back the House for an emergency session to deal with the “crisis” of “operational changes” made “slowing the mail and jeopardizing the integrity of the election.” These turned out to be routine cost-cutting reforms, which Pelosi knew well. It was another effort to corrode trust in 2020 and advocate the anarchic COVID-era voting regimes that Democrats now want to normalize in every state.
Needless to say, political journalists did not stalk every elected Democrat, demanding their solemn attestation to the sanctity of the 2016 presidential election lest they be expelled from society as apostates of “democracy.” Far from it. Hillary Clinton claimed that Trump was an “illegitimate” president on numerous occasions, later advising Biden not to concede under any circumstances in a close race. And when Democrats were gaming out a potential 2020 loss — a scenario that did not “look that different from 2016,” with “a big popular win for Mr. Biden, and a narrow electoral defeat” (in other words, a legitimate Trump victory) — leading Democratic Party strategist John Podesta, playing the role of Biden, refused to concede the race. Instead, he alleged “voter suppression” and then persuaded Democratic governors of Trump-won states to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College and try to steal the election. In another scenario, a Democratic House unilaterally named Biden president.
Horrifying, right?
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
But they are being more brazen about it and much more aggressive in their push to get things where they want them.
They still cannot understand that allowing unvetted mail-in votes, and non-ID’d people to vote is the origin of suppression of the votes of valid American citizens in illegal vote cancellations. Suppression of the vote happens when middle of the road non-party voters cannot vote in both or all party primaries to ensure we get the best qualified candidate put forth from each party, instead of the Party selected hollow vapid age depleted, next in line corrupt Democrat candidates we now have. Just by Democrats demanding we eliminate voter IDs is a sure sign something criminal is afoot.
OH< they understand VERY WELL.. They just don't CARE< as most of those illegal votes, ARE DEMOCRAT.
The Ukraine’s one hope of American help and salvation is probably in the fact they have enough criminal evidence of illegal money laundering in the Ukraine by the Biden crime family, that they can force Joe to again trade his family profits for the lives of American servicemen, just like he did in Afghanistan. Joe wavers, and wavers, and wavers, fearful his crimes might get revealed but fears more that he will have to return the money and justly impoverish his family when truth, justice and the American way prevails. Open that can and the other cans containing the 2020 election darkness will be found and opened, just like the House on un-American activities pumpkin tapes were during the 50s.
“Biden Is Not Alone. Democrats Have Been Delegitimizing Elections For Years”
(Totally non-credible) Brandon and the Democrat Party approval rating is only 28% and falling.
The Treasonous, Dishonest, disgraceful, Socialist Democrat Party game plan is to lie, cheat and steal elections in order to take total control of the American people,
increase Taxes on everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees and to promote Socialism.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
This treasonous, dishonorable, dishonest, non-credible, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
That’s why it’s time for the national divorce or civil war.
IMO a divorce, won’t work, as they will just SPREAD TO OUR SIDE of the nation.. A civil war, where we TOTALLY AND UTTERLY CRUSH them is the only way, I can see, to save this nation.
The left wing democrats are doing now what they have been building towards for decades now. Somehow, and they don’t care how, they are trying to turn this constitutional democratic republic into their version of a socialist dictatorship, with them in charge of course. What they may find that the loyal American citizens don’t want that, and will fight to prevent that from ever happening. With the democrats trying to destroy and eliminate our constitution we have to wonder just what our military will do, follow the democrats, or will they live up to their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, and boy do we have those domestic enemies in our current government. There are many groups out there that don’t want to lose our country to socialism and will fight to help prevent that from happening. There’s also a lot of us old military people that may be old, but we are still able to fight for the country we devoted our lives to. This is going to be one tough and bloody fight, but I believe we will win over the democrats trying to destroy the United States of America.
THEY care… They are actively working to ENGINEER that imo..
They have been recruited by the Globalists to change our world.
A couple of major problems. Not necessarily in order, One is the media has no respect for the truth, Democrats lie more than they breath, There are too many RINOS, even the majority of real Republicans are too scared to stand up for what is right. There are more. but. I don’t have time to list them all. In the past the Republican party WOULDN’T fight back against Ther Democratic lie and subversion! I got mad many times when I was a Republican precinct committeeman in Arizona, because the party just sat on their thumbs and said “oh well” when the Democrats lied. NO GUTS
When democrats and soros pay voter workers to deceive and the destroy voter documentation of course there is no evidence. The is a gigantic difference between no evidence and destroyed evidence. So sad America has so many idiots that do the devils work and then will not own up to it. If the republicans dug as far up piglosis a$$ as they have President Trumps there would not be one room big enough sewer space to hold it. And msm would not have enough time to destroy it before it was released.