The Un-Democratic Party
– By Howard Sierer –
We’ve heard Democratic Party leaders tell us literally hundreds of times over the last three years that only they could “save democracy” by defeating the evil of former Pres. Donald Trump. Trump would become a dictator if elected to a second term.
In June of this year, Pres. Biden posted on X that “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.” The New Republic magazine devoted it’s June issue to “American fascism,” comparing Trump to Hitler.
While I am no Trump fan, take a look at how those pulling the strings behind the scenes in the Democratic Party have gone about subverting democracy within their party and ignoring their own voters.
While the rest of the nation, including members of both parties, watched Biden’s growing senility with increasing concern, his handlers in the White House along with Democratic party leaders in Congress and their lapdogs in the leftist media told us time and again how sharp he was, how he was in command of the facts and was steering our ship of state. Those lies, the coverup, was unmasked for all to see during Biden’s debate with Trump in late June.
Democratic party leaders ran interference for Biden by doing all they could to prevent Robert Kennedy and Democratic Representative Dean Phillips from appearing on party primary ballots, using subterfuges and pressure on state party officials. Kennedy repeatedly accused the DNC of “rigging” the party’s primaries against him. In campaign emails and videos, he blasted the DNC’s decision not to host debates between Biden and other candidates. Phillips said that Democrats who failed to toe the party line on Biden would be punished.
Another telltale evidence: the Democratic National Committee gave Biden-stronghold South Carolina the leadoff spot on the primary calendar this election cycle rather than Iowa or New Hampshire where Biden’s support was weak.
Following Biden’s withdrawal, Democratic voters might have expected candidate debates among contenders for the party’s nomination or at a minimum, an “open” convention where delegates pledged to Biden would be free to hear from various candidates and choose their nominee from the floor.
Instead, party leaders huddled out of sight and chose Vice President Kamala Harris as the party nominee. Then they fanned out to state party leaders, announced their selection and – as the Democratic Party has demonstrated its ironclad grip on its Congressional representatives time and again – forced convention delegates into a united front, threatening dissenters with banishment to the party’s Siberia.
Harris’ experience running for elected office has been limited to California where a black female is assured victory in a state where identity politics overshadows merit. In her one attempt at national office, she announced for the presidency in 2019 but got such little support that she withdrew even before the Iowa caucuses.
As Vice President, Biden sent Harris on a fool’s errand to address illegal immigration’s root causes. It was clear where her sympathies lay on this topic. When she was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, she declared her intent to use executive orders to end deportations and create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Unable to explain what she was doing as Vice President to address immigration problems, she was widely panned by the media. Even liberal CNN noted that Harris and her political supporters were far more worried about her crumbling reputation than they were about solving the border crisis and implementing immigration law.
Harris received not a single vote as a presidential candidate in 2024 from her party’s voters. Yet despite this, she is the Un-Democratic party’s standard bearer in November. Contrast that with the Republicans.
As always, Donald Trump remains a controversial figure. But his party staged a series of debates and primary contests in which Republican voters were given real choices when he faced two accomplished candidates: Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former U.N. ambassador. Haley especially was exceptionally well qualified. The Republican primaries were robust and featured debates with aggressive exchanges between the candidates.
While I supported Haley, I would have been satisfied with DeSantis and was disappointed that Trump prevailed. But he was chosen by millions of Republican voters, not by a backroom cabal of party leaders and foisted off on us.
So who are the real small “d” democrats? The Un-Democratic Party managed its nomination process the same way the former Soviet Union and today’s Russia manage their backroom selections of the “people’s choice.”
Which party is the threat to democracy? For a shorthand answer, take note when any Democrat in Congress breaks with what is almost always a total party-line vote on any legislation. Don’t any of them have minds of their own? I am sure Democratic voters do.
