{"id":1763646,"date":"2022-12-05T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763646"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:18:45","slug":"trump-isnt-the-nations-greatest-threat-to-democracy-his-exile-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-isnt-the-nations-greatest-threat-to-democracy-his-exile-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Isn\u2019t The Nation\u2019s Greatest Threat To Democracy. His Exile Is"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftrump-isnt-the-nations-greatest-threat-to-democracy-his-exile-is%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=1763646&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--><p>Former President Donald Trump is back as a candidate, but after leaving the White House, he never left the political arena \u2014 and therefore, the investigations designed to send him into political exile never let up either. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s bid for a nonconsecutive second term is faced with the same level of resistance that hampered his first, when Beltway actors weaponized the levers of government to politically terminate their public enemy number one, beginning from before day one.<\/p>\n<p>In February last year, Trump became the first and only president to undergo an impeachment trial in the Senate after he had already left office. One week before Joe Biden took the presidential oath, Trump was hit with a snap impeachment from House Democrats who sought to indict the outgoing president for the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. <\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t matter that the president had encouraged demonstrators to protest \u201cpeacefully\u201d that day. It didn\u2019t matter that the riot erupted before Trump had even finished speaking more than a mile down Pennsylvania Avenue. What mattered was that Trump supporters flooded the Capitol, interrupted a joint session of Congress, and gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an opportunity to invent a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/one-year-ago-today-a-new-hoax-was-born\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new hoax<\/a> in pursuit of the top item on the Democrats\u2019 policy agenda: the criminal conviction of President Donald Trump, and with it, a lifetime ban on running for office.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, conservative radio host Jesse Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseKellyDC\/status\/1599129597311733761?s=20&#038;t=R6CG9ZdWUfyUmIayOd_CKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, \u201cthe efforts to keep Donald Trump from being elected, remove him once he was elected, and prevent him from being elected again have done more to damage this country than anything in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseKellyDC\/status\/1599129597311733761?s=20&#038;t=R6CG9ZdWUfyUmIayOd_CKw\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s statement might be hyperbolic, but it\u2019s also far from inaccurate. From the Russia collusion hoax to impeachment, Democrats have normalized the radical weaponization of government institutions to thwart their opponents no matter the cost, setting the precedent for decades of political warfare to come with dangerous potential to escalate. <\/p>\n<p>President Biden branded his own election and this year\u2019s midterms as a contest over the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/09\/01\/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soul of the nation<\/a>.\u201d On Sept. 1, Biden launched the fall campaign season with a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/08\/bidens-speech-from-hell-was-everything-the-media-called-trumps-address-at-mount-rushmore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> that looked like it was delivered out of a scene from Hell, in which he claimed Trump and the former president\u2019s supporters \u201crepresent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Margot-Tweet.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Contrary to these hyperventilated claims that are now routine among Democrats and the Beltway press, however, it\u2019s the establishment\u2019s reaction that threatens to undermine American democracy, with witch hunt after witch hunt designed to burn the orange-haired witch. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Pew Research Center, trust in government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2022\/06\/06\/public-trust-in-government-1958-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remains depressed<\/a> at a \u201cnear historic\u201d low. Polling from Gallup <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/403166\/americans-trust-media-remains-near-record-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shows<\/a> fewer than 1 in 10 Americans hold \u201ca great deal\u201d of trust and confidence in the media, while roughly 1 in 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1600\/congress-public.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approves<\/a> of Congress. In August, days after the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on the residence of a former president and future candidate, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/4-in-5-americans-see-two-tiered-justice-system-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a> from the Trafalgar Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Americans are barred from even voting for their chosen candidate, then America doesn&#8217;t have a democracy to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1763649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}