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Democrats have \u200bspent the last three years\u2064 labeling former President Donald Trump and any other Republican who questioned the 2020 presidential election results as \u201cinsurrectionists.\u201d But \u2064as their efforts to \u200deither imprison Trump or \u2062throw him off the\u2063 ballot have shown, they are ready to do just\u2064 about anything\u2063 to ensure he can\u2019t win a second term in 2024. But with President Joe Biden falling in the polls \u2062and Trump demonstrating that he could win, they \u2064need a backup plan\u2063 if the courts won\u2019t do\u200c their bidding.<\/p>\n

As an \u200darticle in The Atlantic<\/a> last week made clear, they have one in \u200cmind. The only problem is that it involves Democrats doing exactly what they\u200b labeled as \u2063\u201cinsurrection\u201d\u200c when \u2064Republicans\u2063 half-heartedly played at doing the same thing in January 2021, when some\u2064 of them voted \u2063not to certify \u200dthe vote of the Electoral College\u200b that handed the election to Biden.\u200b And if \u200dDemocrats win control of\u2064 Congress \u200bin \u2062November, something that could happen even if Trump also wins the presidency, they could succeed where the GOP failed and overturn \u200cthe election.<\/p>\n

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Democratic prosecutors and\u200c judges have imprisoned thousands of \u200dpeople for being present at the \u200dJan. 6 Capitol riot. Democrats \u2062also spent years\u2063 labeling the efforts of Trump \u2062supporters to find a legal\u2062 way\u2062 to overturn the 2020 results they \u2063considered potentially\u2062 fraudulent as another form of insurrection \u200bor even, in the case of\u2062 the tainted Georgia prosecutions led by Fani \u2064Willis, a violation of the federal Racketeer\u2063 Influenced and \u2064Corrupt Organizations statute\u2063 that aimed at curbing mafia \u200dactivity.<\/p>\n

But anyone who imagines that the charge of hypocrisy will\u200d stop Democrats from doing anything they \u2063can to stop Trump from taking office hasn\u2019t been\u2062 paying attention to American politics for the last eight years. Having convinced themselves \u2064that Trump is an\u200b authoritarian threat to American democracy as well as a \u2064stooge of Vladimir Putin \u2014 with the Russian collusion hoax\u200b now being revived<\/a> \u2064\u2014 \u200dit \u200dis inconceivable \u200dthat\u2062 even a clear defeat in the November election would prevent them from\u2063 using \u200devery means \u2063at their disposal to overturn such a result.<\/p>\n

Media and Lawfare Campaign<\/h2>\n
Since 2021, Democrats and\u2064 their corporate media\u200b cheering section have been consistent in alleging that Republicans were going to attempt to steal the 2024 election. Indeed the first anniversary of the\u2063 Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which has \u200cnow assumed the nature of a\u200c Democrat\u2064 holy day\u200b \u2014 was \u200dthe occasion \u200bfor a series of \u2063articles in outlets such as The\u2062 New York Times<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/a>, The Atlantic<\/a>, The Guardian<\/a>, and New York<\/a> magazine that \u200bcentered on unhinged scaremongering about alleged plots for a\u200c GOP coup. That was the \u200bbackground for the Democrats\u2019 Jan.\u200d 6 Committee dog-and-pony show, when blame for the riot expanded from the participants to\u200d more \u200cor less every \u200bRepublican\u2064 who voiced doubts about the count in a 2020 election in which the normal guardrails for\u200b voter integrity had been\u2063 discarded during the Covid panic.<\/p>\n
But as Trump and the Republicans have learned in the last year, the hyperbole about defending democracy wasn\u2019t just disingenuous. It was also a \u2064matter \u2063of projection. \u200dDemocrats have unleashed a far-ranging lawfare campaign aimed at throwing Trump off the ballot and convicting him on an array of bogus crimes. In New York state, a bizarre lawsuit has used a legitimate real \u200cestate transaction \u2063as the excuse \u2062for a case in which a partisan judge \u2063and legal\u200d system seeks to destroy Trump\u2019s \u2062family business and confiscate his wealth in a\u200b manner reminiscent of banana republic proscriptions.<\/p>\n
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If Democrats\u2063 didn\u2019t blush at the use of such naked authoritarian tactics \u2014 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul even said\u200b the quiet part out loud<\/a> when she \u200bassured other business owners that they needn\u2019t fear being the \u2064victims of a \u200dsimilarly \u200darbitrary prosecution because it could only be \u2063applied to Trump \u2014 what would prevent\u200b them from trying\u200c to overturn an election they\u200d lost to the former president?<\/p>\n
They have good\u200d reason to fear a Trump victory. \u2062With Biden\u2019s favorability ratings at a historical low<\/a> for an incumbent seeking reelection<\/a> and \u200dTrump leading him in the RealClearPolitics average \u200dof surveys of\u200c head-to-head<\/a> matchups and in \u200bpolls with third-party candidates included<\/a>, the president is in\u200c big trouble.<\/p>\n
How\u2063 to Stop Trump<\/h2>\n
That\u2019s the \u200cbackdrop for a revealing piece in The Atlantic about\u2063 how Democrats can stop another Trump presidency even if the voters choose him.<\/p>\n
The excuse for doing so will be to \u200bassert the argument being made by Colorado when it tried to throw Trump off the \u2062ballot\u200d in that state: that his alleged status as an insurrectionist makes him ineligible to be president.<\/p>\n
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According to Atlantic staff writer Russell Berman, the key to overturning a Trump victory at the ballot \u2062box is for the Democrats to \u200dwin back control of Congress, the odds for which, even in the event of a Trump presidential win, must be assessed as at least even.\u2062 If they do, then the stage is set for a Jan. 6 rerun, this\u200d time with the Democrats voting not to certify the Electoral College results.<\/p>\n
1988 was the last time Democrats accepted \u2062a presidential election loss\u2063 without attempting to \u2063overturn the results. Since then, every Republican victory,\u200b including\u200b George W. Bush\u2019s decisive 2004 \u2062win, has been questioned by both Democrat politicians and conspiracy theorists on the left. \u2064Indeed \u200cDemocratic Rep. Jamie \u2062Raskin, \u200cwho voted not to certify Trump\u2019s win in\u2062 2016 and then treated\u200d Republicans who did the \u200dsame four\u200d years later as \u200btraitors, said he might\u200d be willing to \u200cconsider decertifying a Trump win in 2024 if\u200b that\u2019s what will happen.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s \u200btrue that some of the most notoriously partisan Democrats such as Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell told Berman that \u2062would\u200c be a bridge too far for\u200d them. But even discounting their unwillingness to show their hand this far in advance, it\u2019s important to\u2064 take into\u2062 account factors that Berman didn\u2019t even bother \u2064mentioning.<\/p>\n
A Trump victory would almost certainly set off bloody riots in every American city in the manner of the \u201cmostly peaceful\u201d Black Lives Matter riots of \u2062the summer\u200b of 2020. If anything, the \u200bnext round of \u2063 left-wing violence<\/a>\u2062 might be even worse. But no matter \u200bhow much America burns following a Trump win on Nov. 5, 2024, you can count on Washington to be swarming with angry leftists and liberals next\u200d January\u2063 in \u200ba manner to put the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally MAGA demonstrators of 2021 to shame.<\/p>\n
The\u200c pressure\u200b on Democratic politicians to stop\u2063 the\u200c Electoral College results \u2064from being certified would \u2063be far greater than the desultory protests that Trump \u200dsupporters put together to head off a Biden presidency. The entire left-wing\u200b intersectional \u2063activist \u2062wing of the party will know that another Trump presidency\u200d could begin\u2063 the process of rolling back the tide of \u200dwoke control\u200b of the government and American society. That factor alone,\u200d along with the visceral hatred for Trump and his working-class \u2063fans, will generate the kind of mass demonstrations that \u200bwill be impossible for Democrat \u2062members of Congress to\u2062 ignore.<\/p>\n
Constitutional Crisis<\/h2>\n
Should they vote\u2064 not to certify the election that Trump had won, that would create a murky constitutional debate about \u200dwhat follows, \u2062but the effect would be the same as an Electoral \u200bCollege tie<\/a>, addressed\u2063 in the 12th Amendment, and \u200cwould likely mean the election would be \u200cthrown to the House of Representatives for a decision.<\/p>\n
There, each state delegation would\u2063 have one vote to decide the presidency, something that \u200chas\u200b only happened after the 1800 and 1824 elections. The House would be limited in their choices to those who \u200cwon Electoral College votes, but at that point, the result might be political chaos, since \u200bElectoral College members would have been free to vote as they liked.<\/p>\n
There is also the \u200cpossibility that the House wouldn\u2019t be \u2064able to resolve the impasse before Jan. 21, when \u2064a president \u2064must be sworn in. In that case, the Senate would elect a\u200c vice president who would serve as president. There again, a Democratic majority could elect Biden \u200cor his running mate. But the wording of the 12th\u200c Amendment, which says that \u201cno person constitutionally ineligible to\u2063 the office of President shall be eligible to that of \u200dVice-President of the United States,\u201d raises\u2062 the possibility of them choosing someone who had not been on the ballot, such as fantasy league options like Michelle Obama. Like virtually everything\u2062 that would \u2064happen once the \u200cexisting system failed to produce a result, it would also mean subsequent court challenges to resolve the meaning\u2063 of the text, which,\u2064 like the Democrats\u2019\u200c attempt to use the 14th Amendment to \u200dstop Trump, is something the \u2063courts \u200dhave never\u200c fully adjudicated.<\/p>\n
At\u2062 this moment,\u200b it\u2019s just one \u2062scenario that the political left is contemplating. But\u200c it would \u2062be foolish to \u2064dismiss the possibility of it becoming reality, especially when one \u200bconsiders the underhanded and authoritarian tactics Democrats have already \u2062employed to take out Trump in the courts.<\/p>\n
Not unreasonably, Republican voters fear that should the current polling averages hold and a \u200cTrump victory actually happen, \u200bthe Democrat \u2063Party\u2062 and left-wing media<\/a> would be\u2063 willing \u200dto back any scheme that would allow\u200d them \u2064to retain power, \u200cnotwithstanding their rhetoric about Republicans who challenged the 2020 vote. Democrats know the courts won\u2019t let\u200c them get their way on preventing Trump from\u200b being \u2063on the ballot and worry that their \u200dbogus lawfare trials against him either \u200dwon\u2019t succeed in jailing \u2063him in time or will be ignored by voters who\u200c understand undemocratic \u2062behavior when they see it. If they do control Congress\u200c in January,\u200b the \u200cchances of them using that power to undo an election loss to\u200b Trump seems like the safest possible bet.<\/p>\n
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What potential constitutional crisis<\/a> could arise if Vice \u2062President Kamala Harris were elevated to the presidency\u2063 regardless \u2063of\u200c the election outcome?<\/h2>\n
D potentially elevate Vice President Kamala Harris \u2062to the presidency,\u200d regardless of the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n
This scenario presents a\u200d constitutional crisis of \u200dunprecedented proportions.\u200d It would undermine \u200cthe very\u2063 foundations of democracy and the peaceful transfer of power\u200c that the United States has long held as a fundamental principle.\u200c It would further deepen the already sharp political divide \u200bin the country and\u2064 could \u2064have dire \u200cconsequences\u2063 for the future of American governance.<\/p>\n
The fact that Democrats are even considering such a plan is deeply troubling. It reveals a dangerous disregard for the democratic process and a willingness to\u2062 manipulate the system to achieve their \u200ddesired outcome. While Democrats have\u200c long accused \u2062Republicans of undermining democracy, they are now \u200bshowing a willingness\u2063 to do the\u200c same in order to maintain their grip on power.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the media’s role in perpetuating these narratives and fueling the lawfare campaign against Trump cannot be overstated. They have consistently \u200dframed the 2024 election as a battle for the soul of democracy, painting Trump and\u200c his supporters as existential threats. This kind\u200d of fear-mongering only\u200b serves to deepen divisions and erode trust in our democratic institutions.<\/p>\n
It is \u200bimperative that Americans\u2064 remain \u2064vigilant and \u2062refuse to allow partisan interests\u2064 to \u2063override the principles of democracy. The\u200b idea that a political party would seek to overturn the\u2064 results of a free and fair election is deeply\u200d troubling and\u200d should be condemned. We must stand up\u2064 for the integrity of our electoral process and reject any attempts to subvert it for political gain.<\/p>\n
In the end, \u2064the\u200d fate of the 2024 election\u2064 rests in the hands of\u2063 the American people. It is\u2064 up to us to ensure that our voices are heard \u200cand\u200b that our votes are respected. We must reject any attempts\u200b to undermine the will\u2062 of the \u200dpeople and fight to preserve the integrity of our democratic institutions. Only then can we \u200ctruly claim to be a nation of, \u200bby, and for the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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