It is becoming increasingly clear that more and more Democrats are outright giving up on democracy and facilitating its downfall, and the consequences will be dire if Democrats do not clean up their own party swiftly.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has joined Colorado Supreme Court Democrats in removing former President Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in their respective states. Trump has not been convicted of insurrection. He has not even been charged with insurrection, a crime that Congress has created language for to apply to situations like this. According to both Colorado’s Democratic Supreme Court and Bellows, it does not matter if Trump has been charged or convicted; they are the ones who get to decide whether he committed an insurrection.
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It isn’t stopping there, either. The effort to remove Trump from the ballot without him having been convicted (or even charged with) insurrection is continuing in the following states: Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The lawsuits will be thrown out in most of them, as they were in Michigan and Minnesota, but several entirely Democratic-run states there pose threats to continue this stunt.
The real reasons for this move are to rally Republicans around Trump (the only serious GOP candidate that President Joe Biden could actually beat) and to delegitimize the Supreme Court when it inevitably strikes this process down. Cynical or genuine, though, this is a straight-up abandoning of democracy and due process by a growing number of Democrats in positions of power that can do real damage to the country. This is Democratic politicians (four partisan Colorado justices and an unelected secretary of state) deciding that only they get to choose who is eligible to run for president.
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Each Democrat that signs off on this, whether by endorsing it or by pushing forward this strategy in their own state, is the very threat to democracy that Democrats have warned about. Trump offers his own threats, sure, but he also left office after losing his presidential election. Picture a reality where his ridiculous “stolen election” lawsuits were embraced by GOP officials and judges to strip Biden voters of their votes in GOP states, and you have exactly what Democrats in Colorado and Maine are doing now.
This is a dangerous road that some Democrats are barreling down in their shortsighted pursuit of power, and it will do untold damage to the country if other Democrats (including the three Democratic-appointed justices on the Supreme Court) do not nip this in the bud immediately. Democrats are playing with fire and dousing democracy in gasoline at the same time. This problem will get out of hand for everyone quickly, if it hasn’t already.