{"id":1529745,"date":"2022-06-27T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529745"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:34:48","slug":"democrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have Become A Serious Threat To The Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AOC-1024x551-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Those who seek to destroy or delegitimize the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution are no better than those who desire to overturn or delegitimize presidential elections. In fact, they probably pose a greater long-term threat to American \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you believe the above contention is hyperbole, consider that many leftists aren\u2019t merely advocating for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMarkey\/status\/1540348991677792257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">court-packing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/reporters-white-house-simply-ignore-scotus-decisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nullification<\/a> of the <em>Dobbs <\/em>decision; they justify those attacks with a litany of <em>other<\/em> grievances about the constitutional order.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the Supreme Court relinquished its power, and threw the abortion issue\u2013unmentioned anywhere in the Constitution\u2013back to the voters, a horde of j-school graduates and politicians, either ignorant of basic civics or contemptuous of them, descended with panic-stricken warnings about the demise of \u201cdemocracy.\u201d Almost none of their objections were grounded in any sort of legal arguments about the alleged constitutionality of terminating unwanted human beings. Instead, their case centered around the specious idea that the court had undermined the will of voters by no longer dictating abortion policy by judicial fiat.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, at this point, sounds virtually indistinguishable from Senate leadership or the authoritarians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/06\/14\/how-aggressively-should-democrats-attack-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a> at The Washington Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1540755940542119938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">points out<\/a> that seven of the nine justices on the court \u201cwere appointed by a party that hasn\u2019t won a popular vote more than once in 30 years,\u201d that one of their seats \u201cwas stolen,\u201d and that \u201cseveral lied to Congress to secure their appointment\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of those contentions are true. Every single justice on the court, including the ones Democrats preemptively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2018\/07\/13\/democrats-dont-fear-brett-kavanaugh-they-fear-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smeared<\/a> as deviants to undermine the legitimacy of the court, was nominated using the prescribed constitutional method that is used by every party. And every senator who voted to confirm those justices did so using the only legal process available to them.<\/p>\n<p>When Democrats win both the Senate and the White House, they have the power to nominate and confirm any justice they desire. But they also seem to be under the impression that when they win only the White House, they\u2019re still authorized to dictate whom Republicans are allowed to confirm (as was the case with Merrick Garland). And when they are completely out of national power, they simply reject the legitimacy of justices who do not meet their invented, evolving, extraconstitutional standards. Democrats treat every victory of the opposition as dubiously attained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Founding Fathers wrote a constitution designed to prevent a tyranny of the majority,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1541032966243106818\">says<\/a> former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod. \u201cBut what happens when you have a tyranny of the minority, gaming the system to promote a radical agenda that flouts the will of the majority under the guise of constitutionalism?\u201d Similar assertions were repeated across the left-wing punditsphere this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Axelrod, in true Obama fashion, begs the question. But the fact that the Electoral College doesn\u2019t align with the \u201cpopular vote\u201d isn\u2019t a disqualifying aspect of American politics, it is the very point. If the Electoral College always synchronized with the outcome of the nonexistent direct democratic national tallies, it wouldn\u2019t need to exist. It isn\u2019t a loophole; it is a deliberately created mechanism that stops a handful of states from dominating policy. (Not only is the national vote immaterial, but we really have no idea what one would look like because (winning) candidates do not run up scores in big states, they campaign nationally.)<\/p>\n<p>Though I do wonder what remedy Axelrod or Ocasio-Cortez have in mind for this supposed problem? Should the GOP abdicate the presidency to a Democrat every time it fails to win the nonexistent \u201cpopular vote\u201d? Should Republican senators from smaller states ignore their constituents and ask Elizabeth Warren for permission to support judicial nominees? Sounds like one-party rule. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>None of this is to even mention that a <em>lack <\/em>of national legislation on an issue isn\u2019t a \u201ctyranny of the minority.\u201d It\u2019s federalism. There is no other way to keep a sprawling, geographically, ethnically, culturally, religiously diverse nation free and self-governing. That\u2019s why enumerated powers exist. And that\u2019s also why the increasingly radical progressive left is obsessed with getting rid of the filibuster, the only thing preserving some semblance of legislative limitation on federal power. The only people who refer to federalism as \u201cminority rule\u201d are people who believe that Americans need to be \u201cruled\u201d over in the first place. Indeed, the court did not stop Illinois from making its own abortion policies. It\u2019s Axelrod who wants the court to compel, by edict, abortion policy in states like Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats want the Supreme Court, created to adjudicate the constitutionality of laws free from political pressures, to follow <em>public opinion polls.<\/em> The only way we can truly know how voters feel about abortion is by subjecting the issue to the democratic process. Whether <em>Roe<\/em>, a legal decision, is popular is irrelevant\u2013though it\u2019s unsurprising the majority of Americans, after decades of media championing abortion, know little about it. Because, at some point, voters will decide if the Democratic Party\u2019s new position, government-funded abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/house-democrats-prepare-to-pass-extreme-abortion-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on demand<\/a> until crowning, or the position of states like Mississippi, 15 weeks bans, are more \u201cradical.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the Supreme Court concocted the constitutional \u201cright\u201d to abortion in 1973, the pro-life movement didn\u2019t promise to dismantle the system; rather it spent 50 years creating an intellectual and political movement that would begin to restore proper constitutional limits. They voted for presidents who promised to put textualists on the bench and elected senators who would confirm them. If you\u2019re unhappy with those rules, you are free to amend the Constitution. But, for the contemporary left, \u201cdemocracy\u201d isn\u2019t just a euphemism for \u201cpolicies we support\u201d anymore, it\u2019s a pernicious belief that Republicans have a responsibility to live in a political system that exists outside of the Constitution. That is going to be untenable. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who seek to destroy or delegitimize the Supreme Court for upholding the Constitution are no better than those who desire to overturn or delegitimize presidential elections. 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