“Make no mistake — democracy is on the ballot for us all.”
So declaiming in his Union Station speech to the nation on the real stakes in the 2022 elections, President Joe Biden, who was immediately echoed by Barack Obama, painted himself and his party into a corner.
For if Trump Republicans carry the day Tuesday, Biden will have to declare, if there is any consistency left in him, a “defeat for democracy” and a victory for the party that he has said is steeped in “semi-fascism.”
Assume, for the sake of argument, a GOP capture of the House of Representatives and of a majority of the U.S. Senate.
How would Biden describe that GOP victory, if he has persisted in his stated belief that the fate of “democracy” itself was on the table? Would he say that “democracy” had been rejected in America, dealt a crippling blow, a “shellacking,” by a party dominated by semi-fascists?
How does Biden then work for the next two years with leaders of a party whose ascendancy James Clyburn, third-ranking Democrat in the House, has just compared to the Nazis coming to power in Germany?
If you have equated your rising Republican rivals across the aisle in the early 2020s with the ascendant Nazis in the early 1930s, how do you work together with such as these on a common agenda?
What do liberal Democrats do, if, in a free and fair election, U.S. voters throw them out and replace them with people our elites routinely equate with fascists and Nazis?
We may be about to find out.
Indeed, if Trump Republicans are what the Democratic leaders say they are, and the country still votes them into office, what would that tell us about the character of the American electorate and American people?
Prediction: Democrats, if defeated Tuesday, will find a way to work with the victorious Republicans. Why? Because they do not truly believe in the names they have been calling Republicans, and because they lack the courage and conviction to rise up and rout genuine Nazis, if they should one day confront them.
Which brings us to what the election is really all about: the failure of a regime, and of the president, party and philosophy steering that regime.
In a republic such as ours, the government has many major duties.
High among them are resisting foreign invasions, securing the nation’s borders, protecting the value of the currency and securing the rights of citizens, first and foremost, the right to be free from domestic violence.
The Democratic Party that controls both houses of the Congress and the presidency has abjectly failed in all of these fundamental duties.
Consider.
In Biden’s 22 months in office, the U.S. has witnessed an invasion across its 1,900-mile southern border by millions of illegal aliens. Another million illegals have entered our country while effectively evading contact with U.S. authorities. These are the “gotaways.”
We do not know who these people are, where they came from and why, or where they are now, except to say that they have broken our laws and broken into our national home and are living here among us.
Some 250,000 migrants are now arriving at the border every month, irretrievably altering the character and composition of our country over the enraged protests of its citizens.
The president is thus failing abysmally in one of his foremost duties — to secure our borders. And neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris has shown the least interest in protecting that bleeding border, or even visiting it.
As for protecting the value of the U.S. dollars that constitute the wages, salaries and savings of our people, that value has been eaten up for a year by a cancerous 8% inflation that began soon after Biden began to implement his policies.
As for protecting the rights of citizens of this republic to be free from domestic violence, the Biden years have been witness to a pandemic of murders, rapes, robberies and assaults. Media reports and videos of the new savagery in our society have converted “crime” into one of the primary national concerns in a nation we used to call “God’s Country.”
This, then, is what Tuesday’s election is really all about.
“Democracy” is not on the ballot. What is on the ballot is a huge slice of the leadership and ruling class of the national Democratic Party, which is not the same thing. What is being decided by the ballots this election season is the verdict of the nation on a president who has failed, a party that has failed, and a political philosophy that has failed.
Democracy has not failed America. The reigning Democrats have failed America. And their desperate leaders are urging us to equate their party’s defeat and repudiation with a rejection of our political system.
If we lose the election to these Republicans, Democratic leaders have been telling America, it is because the American people preferred fascism to democracy.
This is the Big Lie of 2022.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
The lies, cons, hate, hypocrisy and treachery of this treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
These disgraceful, immoral, demonic, Democrats are also coming after our children.
Trying to confuse and indoctrinate our young children into their LGBTQ+ abomination. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Their idea of democracy, is just like thousands of tyrants over the centuries. VOTE FOR ME or else..
” A Politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen,”- Winston Churchill
What gets me, is we KEEP SEEING Dems say “Because of how threatening guns are to others, WE NEED ALL THESE restrictions on ownership.. BUT YET WHEN it comes to voting, WHICH IS A LOT MORE Threatening, not just to those in you own state, but the ENTIRE COUNTY< if not the world, WHY THE HELL Do we not have the same (if not HARSHER) restrictions on voting.. ESPECIALLY SAY an IQ test, to weed out the brainless?
In a republic such as ours, the government has many major duties.
High among them are resisting foreign invasions, securing the nation’s borders, protecting the value of the currency and securing the rights of citizens, first and foremost, the right to be free from domestic violence.
The Democratic Party that controls both houses of the Congress and the presidency has abjectly failed in all of these fundamental duties.
Consider. In Biden’s 22 months in office, the U.S. has witnessed an invasion across its 1,900-mile southern border by millions of illegal aliens. Another million illegals have entered our country while effectively evading contact with U.S.
A article by Baron Bodissey wrote in January 24,2007, having to do with illegal immigrants crossing America’s open borders and he explains the misguided reasons why some still believe in immigration, he wrote this, ” It is also true that not all those who undermine Western civilization through support for MULTICULTURALISM and MASS IMMIGRATION do so out of a hidden political agenda. some do it out of plain stupidity and vanity.
” Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s most open minded of them all?” Professors come to mind…. who use immigrants as a mirror to reflect their own inflated egos…in the mistaken belief that denigrating your own heritage is a sign of goodness and lack of prejudice…”
Democracy is at risk if Democrats are not stripped of power.
Anyone who equates the concepts of American Democracy with the party that currently unjustly bears the name, has about the same cumulative I.Q. of both Biden and Fetterman, which combined together in a total, would not equal the digit counting of Trump’s two middle fingers.
Add to that, BY our constitution, we are NOT A TRUE Democracy. BUT a representative republic..
The real term for the left’s concern about risk should be DemocraTcy, the way this administration, you can’t confine it to the President, it’s been a group effort by those pulling all the strings, has been the shameful use of raw power to subjugate any opposition and set out on an agenda to forever alter the Republic!