{"id":2271037,"date":"2024-06-18T21:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-say-trump-is-a-threat-to-democracy-theyre-projecting\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:16:40","slug":"democrats-say-trump-is-a-threat-to-democracy-theyre-projecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-say-trump-is-a-threat-to-democracy-theyre-projecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Accuse Trump of Endangering Democracy, But Are They Projecting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-say-trump-is-a-threat-to-democracy-theyre-projecting%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=2271037&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>The \u200btext\u200d discusses\u2062 the \u2062concept of democracy in \u2063the United States,\u2064 emphasizing that\u200b it operates as a republic rather than a direct democracy. \u200dHighlighting the views of the founders and\u200b their fear of &#8220;mobocracy,&#8221; the article explains that\u200c the U.S. system involves \u200celected representatives and a series of checks and \u2063balances designed to prevent any single \u200cgroup from\u2063 gaining excessive power.\u200b The\u200d Senate, for instance, represents states equally regardless of population, which is a departure from\u200d purely democratic principles.<\/p>\n<p>The text also\u200d discusses historical shifts in \u2064the understanding \u200dof democracy, particularly noting the influence of German progressivism\u2063 in the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-requiring-id-to-vote-is-not-like-jim-crow\/\" title=\"No, Requiring ID To Vote Is Not Like Jim Crow\">late 19th<\/a> and early \u206420th centuries. President Woodrum Wilson, a\u200b proponent of this view, is cited as favoring a powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">executive branch<\/a> guided by\u200c experts rather than \u200bdirect representation. This perspective is contrasted with \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wikipedia-editors-caught-making-multiple-changes-to-pine-tree-flag-page\/\" title=\"Wikipedia Editors Alter Pine Tree Flag Page Multiple Times\">modern usage<\/a>\u200d of &#8220;democracy&#8221; by Democrats who are portrayed\u200d as opposing the\u2064 traditional republican checks \u200cand balances, especially when they conflict with their goals.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative touches on \u2062partisan media \u2064portrayals and political\u2063 rhetoric, accusing Democrats of \u2062wanting to undermine the Republican\u2062 system because\u2064 it prevents \u2062them from \u200cruling \u200cas a minority. It also mentions \u2064challenges\u2062 to this system \u200dposed by arguments about whether the U.S. is a republic or\u2062 a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>the \u2064piece argues \u2063that contemporary political discourse on democracy\u2064 often confuses or misrepresents the original intent and structural design of the U.S. government.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats are now talking about \u201csaving democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDemocracy\u201d technically means that if we\u2019re all in a room together and we want to make a decision, we all vote on that specific decision. A republic means you have representatives, which means you don\u2019t vote directly on many of the decisions that are being made. Instead, you delegate the power to vote on those decisions to a representative government. Typically, that representative government has a series of checks and balances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States is a republic. It is not a direct democracy. It\u2019s a democracy in the broader sense, which is that we vote. But it\u2019s not a democracy in the technical sense in which you vote on every issue or in which a pure majoritarian popular will decides every single issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, the founders decried exactly such a system. They saw that as what they would call a mobocracy. They didn\u2019t want just a series of referenda on every single issue to go to the popular vote, which is why intervening institutions in the government exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s why Congress is represented on a popular level, but the Senate was originally supposed to be represented at the state level by the state legislatures. Originally, state legislatures were supposed to pick their senators. It\u2019s why the Senate itself is not proportional; Montana and California have the same number of senators. It is why a series of checks and balances between the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judiciary exist. It is why an electoral college exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are all sorts of institutions in our republic that are designed to check excesses of the mob. That was very much at the forefront of the founders\u2019 concerns, as is evidenced by the Federalist Papers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1986-member-exclusive\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why is that important? Because a shift in the way people thought of democracy in the United States took place, which started in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ebay-canceled-dr-seuss-but-you-can-still-buy-works-from-hitler-marx-and-more\/\" title=\"EBay Canceled Dr. Seuss, But You Can Still Buy Works From Hitler, Marx And More\">late 19th century<\/a> as a take-away from German progressivism. Much of modern American government, our structures, particularly the administrative state, are drawn from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Woodrow Wilson, who was the dean of Princeton University before he became the President of the United States, greatly admired that system. He wrote extensively about German progressivism and his vision for what democracy should look like. He believed that the Constitution of the United States had outlived its sell-by date, that the Constitution\u2019s checks and balances were useless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wilson, a Democrat, wanted something that was both more democratic and less democratic: He wanted a popular vote for one man who would make all the decisions with the help of administrative bureaucrats who were experts on the issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, he wanted a government of expertise. He believed all the checks and balances thwarted that government. In 1908, he famously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/education\/classroom-resource-library\/classroom\/8.6-primary-source-quotes-on-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution, it will be from no lack of constitutional powers on its part, but only because the President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, the president is elected by the public, effectively speaking, which means he should have as much power as humanly possible. That was important to Woodrow Wilson because he believed in the setup of the administrative state, an entire branch of the government that was effectively independent of the popular will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Democrats say democracy, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is what they mean. They do <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  mean that they respect the institutions of the Republic. They don\u2019t respect the Supreme Court of the United States except when it is giving them precisely what they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Democrats like to say the word \u201cdemocracy\u201d because they want to portray Donald Trump as an incipient fascist. But it is actually Joe Biden who is hell-bent on undermining the actual democratic republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN, which is hosting the first presidential debate, interviewed several Trump supporters and asked about him undermining democracy. The Trump supporters correctly responded that we don\u2019t live in a democracy; we live in a republic, which is true. We live in a representative democracy with a series of checks and balances that thwart the popular will on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN tried to say it\u2019s very bad to say that we live in a republic, not a democracy. They interviewed author Anne Applebaum, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1802653350803988619\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These words were used in different ways in the 18th century. And it\u2019s true, the Founders didn\u2019t want direct democracy, by which they meant people gathering on the town square. They wanted representative democracy. But I think the reason why this conversation about language has risen now is because there is a part of the Republican Party that would like to rule as a minority, and they need an excuse for why that\u2019s okay. And so they have begun to say, we\u2019re not a democracy, we\u2019re a republic. It\u2019s not 100% clear what that means, but I think they mean, we want Donald Trump to be able to do whatever he wants.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is truly Orwellian because it\u2019s total projection. The people who want the president of the United States to do whatever he wants without any checks and balances are typically Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So with the polls indicating Trump is winning, Democrats are already preparing to do what they want to do: subvert the institutions of the Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are looking to subvert the democratic institutions of the Republic. They are looking to subvert the legislature. They\u2019re looking to subvert the presidency. They\u2019re looking to subvert the courts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-2025-democratic-resistance.html#:~:text=Opponents%20of%20Donald%20J.%20Trump,Internal%20Revenue%20Service%20against%20them.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  titled, \u201cThe Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started,\u201d the New York Times stated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed. One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash the Internal Revenue Service against them. Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential second Trump presidency, drawn together by the fear that Mr. Trump\u2019s return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda but to American democracy itself.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understand how Orwellian that is. They are saying they need to do non-democratic things to save democracy. They need to burn down the village in order to save the village. One of the actions they are going to take is to stack the administrative state. The Times continued, writing:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interviews with more than 30 officials and leaders of organizations about their plans revealed a combination of acute exhaustion and acute anxiety. Activist groups that spent the four years of Mr. Trump\u2019s presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges, ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters to oust him from power in 2020, are now realizing with great dread they may have to resist him all over again. \u2026 The Biden administration pushed through a flurry of regulations in the spring, meeting a deadline to ensure that those rules could not be summarily overturned next year under a 1996 law if Mr. Trump wins the election and Republicans take total control of Congress.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a thwarting of democracy. It is hilarious to watch all the same people who are shouting to the rafters about the evils of Trump and his attacks on democracy now attempting all the same measures that they say Republicans should never attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is how the Left thinks of our institutions, that they own these institutions. Any outside threat to these institutions, including the future boss of the institution, must be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is stealing democracy: actively setting up structures that prevent the fundamental working order of the government, so long as the Republican is the person who is running the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are emphasizing the need to &#8220;save democracy.&#8221; Technically, democracy involves direct voting by all on decisions, akin to a group decision in a room. 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