I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid colonists fought for the then-novel concept of democratic self-government.
A cursory glance at Merriam-Webster is instructive. That venerable dictionary defines “democracy” as “government by the people” or, more elaborately, as “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.”
Simple enough. But someone ought to remind our nation’s liberal elites and their foot soldier activists.
On Monday the Supreme Court ruled. That all nine justices agreed with Trump’s core legal argument is nothing short of remarkable.
For months, liberal pundits and anti-Trump legal “experts” assured us that the 14th Amendment “insurrection clause” argument for Trump’s ballot disqualification was ironclad. One-time conservative judicial stalwart turned Trump Derangement Syndrome patient zero J. Michael Luttig opined that the court’s logic was “masterful,” “brilliant,” and “unassailable.” Left-wing cable news outlets platformed countless other guests who ceaselessly pushed the same argument.
In the end, the argument garnered zero votes at the Supreme Court. Even Justices and didn’t debase themselves by going along with such a half-baked, anti-democratic ruse. So much for “unassailable” logic!
The anti-Trump criminal prosecutions and other unsavory lawfare tactics they are also now weaponizing give the game away: Democrats hate democracy and harbor immense disdain for normal Americans’ beliefs.
Put simply, they don’t want to leave the country’s fate in our hands.
https://www.newsweek.com/liberal-elites-against-democracy-opinion-1877159