Democrats false allegations that GOP is threat to democracy

 David Zukerman:

The January/February issue of The Atlantic warns that Donald Trump, in 2024, may bring about a "democratic collapse."   Hillary Clinton, the other day, predicted the end of democracy in 2024 with the re-election of Mr. Trump.   And David Leonhardt, in the Pravda-aping New York Times, offers a preview of "America's Anti-Democratic Movement" 

Clearly, the left has started to fire opening salvos of propaganda to mislead the American people into believing that the Republicans -- not the Democrats -- present the clear and present threat to what Madison, in Federalist No. 57, called the spirit of American freedom.

Writes Leonhardt, quite falsely, "An antidemocratic movement, inspired by former President Donald J. Trump, but much larger than him, is making significant progress."  (Consider this baseless allegation as an expansion of the lie that Mr. Trump inspired racism, or Islamophobia, or misogyny.  Simply stated, leftists who are unable to respond with convincing arguments against Trumpian common sense, shriek out in terms of irrational, hysterical, polemics.)

Leonhardt quickly presents the matter of Liz Cheney as his first example of this "antidemocratic movement."  "In the House, Republicans ousted Liz Cheney from a leadership position because she called out Mr. Trump's lies."  This, of course, is the lie. Cheney was removed, by vote of the House GOP conference (a democratic procedure, mind you), because she voted to impeach a former president whom she denounced as a threat to the Republic -- that is to say, she mindlessly parroted an extreme leftist talking point, the kind of point that has become de rigueur propaganda for Democrats.  How long would a Democrat remain in his leadership post after denouncing Nancy Pelosi for the actual threat to democracy she represents by her imperialistic, inquisitorial, unconstitutional methods of governance?

What does Lowenhardt regard as threats to democracy?  Measures to ensure that voting will be on the up and up, not tainted by ballot-stuffing, ballot-harvesting, multiple-voting by individuals.  What does Leonhardt consider anti-democracy?  Voter ID laws, would you believe?   Are voter ID laws more intrusive than the new requirement in New York City that to sit down in a restaurant, the patron must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination?  (I was barred from sitting down in Ben's Kosher Restaurant in Manhattan, December 14 because I left my vaccination card at home.).  My local post office substation requires a photo ID to make a financial transaction. Common sense advises that fraud-in-voting is more likely than not where proof of identity is not required.

The inanity of Leonhardt's specious argument is evident by this reference to a change in procedure in Pennsylvania:  "Republicans are trying to amend the state's Constitution to make the secretary of state an elected position, rather than one that the governor appoints."   Imagine, Leonhardt sees the election of the secretary of state in Pennsylvania as a threat to democracy.

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What they really mean by a threat to democracy is a threat to stop Democrat cheating and a threat of a free and fair election. 

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