Friends, my latest article is a history lesson. Surprise surprise! Right now the Democrats are claiming to be the defenders of American democracy, the stewards of election integrity, etc etc. They say that President Trump's refusal to guarantee a "peaceful transfer of power" (to them) is outrageous, and no one should question the results of a U.S. presidential election, even for a moment! Perish the thought.
Well, all that is hogwash, as I attempt to demonstrate. The fact is that the Dems have been undermining confidence in our elections for decades...and in 2020 (irony of ironies!) it may be President Trump who reaps the benefits.
See what you make of it. It'll be appearing soon at World Net Daily.
In 2020, the Democrats May Reap What
They Have Sown
Perhaps
to distract from their own sinister plans to pack
the Supreme Court
with pliable left-wingers once they (inevitably, in their eyes) win
the 2020 election, Democrats and their progressive allies in what
passes for the “press” these days are pestering Republicans,
including President Trump, with gotcha questions about a “peaceful
transfer of power”. Trump, rightly, has said the obvious: he will
accept the results of a fair election, but not an unfair one. Duh!
The
Democrats' preference? It should be they and their media acolytes who
get to decide who the winner is in 2020. President Trump should thus
be forbidden
from declaring victory,
even if he has more votes, and the counting, and the litigating, of
the election returns should continue until such time as Joe Biden is
the victor.
Just
as Al Gore wanted to drag
out the process in 2000,
because every time the votes were counted he seemed to gain a few
more, so Democrats today assume that a combination of gamemanship,
lawyerly cunning, procrastination, and a
whole lot of mail-in ballot irregularities
can guarantee them the White House in 2021..and, who knows, maybe
indefinitely thereafter.
And, unless we're
very careful, they may be right.
Let us pause for
a moment, however, to consider the audacity and the duplicity of the
Democrats' position.
Democrats
are claiming that voter fraud is so rare as to be inconsequential.
They suggest that Republican concerns about the integrity of the
mail-in ballot process are baseless. They and their pet journalists
assert that President Trump's allegations of election fraud are
“false” and there is “no evidence” to back them up. They
assure us that millions of ballots sent out, unsolicited,
to people who may or may not still be registered (or alive), at
residences that may or may not be theirs, are hardly a cause for
concern. Our elections are bulletproof, after all! To temporize about
whether one would accept the results of a U.S. presidential election,
therefore, is beyond the pale...
Consider
that this is the same party that practices ballot harvesting — the
collection of ballots by “helpful” activists — on
an industrial scale
in places like California, but nonetheless argued that a
Congressional election in North
Carolina in 2018
should be invalidated because similar techniques were used
(illegally, in that state) by a Republican operative. In other words,
our ballot process is bulletproof, say the Democrats, except when
Republicans refuse to play by the rules — which, in their eyes, is
often!
Consider
that Democrats regularly charge that Republicans engage in “voter
suppression”
and gerrymandering
to “steal” and “cheat” their way to victory. Requiring voters
to present IDs, for example, is a racist plot designed to prevent
black people from voting. (Driver's licenses, by contrast, are not
a racist plot to prevent black people from driving. Go figure.)
Likewise, efforts to “purge” voter rolls of people who have died
or moved to a different precinct, city, or state (such purges are
required by law, for obvious reasons) are similarly inspired by
“white supremacy”. In other words, the election system in this
country is, to borrow a word beloved of Democrats, “systemically”
racist, discriminatory, and unfair...but surely we should always
trust the outcomes of our elections. Yeah, right!
Consider
that Democrats routinely allege that our elections are compromised by
“dark money”, authorized by the supposedly illegitimate 2010
Supreme Court ruling Citizens
United.
(Never mind that Democrats themselves are swimming
in dark money
in 2020, and they rode unlimited contributions and super PACs to
victory in 2018.)
Consider
that Democrats spent most of 2017 and 2018 pursuing a witch hunt
against President Trump and Republicans, trying to prove that the
Russians manipulated the 2016 election and
that they still maintain illicit influence, and possibly direct
control, over President Trump and his lieutenants. And keep in mind
that the Russians' main contribution to the 2016 election was to
release
damaging emails
(never disavowed by the Democrats) that proved that the DNC was “in
the tank” for Hillary Clinton, and plotting against the campaign of
Bernie Sanders, from the start.
But hey, democracy is alive and well! No, really.
Consider
that one of the darlings of the Democratic Party is Stacey Abrams,
their candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2018. She narrowly lost,
but rather than concede the race, she continues to allege that
Republicans stole
the governorship
by means of illegal “voter suppression”. She could have contested
the results, of course, but knew her legal case was weak, so decided
to carp and moan instead.
And
this shameless tactic of refusing to concede even when you are beaten
lives on in Hillary Clinton. To her credit, Clinton did accept the
inevitable in 2016, but in 2020 she is urging Joe Biden never
to concede
“under any circumstances”. Not even, presumably, if more people
vote for Donald Trump! Minor detail, right?
Consider
that the Democrats, despite their supposedly limitless confidence in
the American voter and our electoral system, have retained phalanxes
of lawyers,
ready to do battle in any of the states where the results can be
contested in their favor.
Consider
that the Democrats have been trashing
the Electoral College,
the means by which we choose our presidents and vice-presidents, for
years, on the grounds that it is anti-democratic, racist, and an
artifact of the era of slavery. Translation: the Democrats would
prefer to rely on the national popular vote, rather than the
Electoral College, because they believe they have a greater chance of
winning the former.
Consider,
moreover, that Democratic doubts about the validity of U.S. elections
are not a recent phenomenon. The majority of Democrats believed, in
2016, that Donald Trump won the presidential election because Russian
agents tampered
with the results.
And, as far back as 2004, Democrats alleged that George W. Bush's
victory over John Kerry was
illegitimate,
because, among other supposed irregularities, the
voting machines
in use in the crucial state of Ohio were manufactured by a company
with ties to Republicans. Obviously, therefore, the machines were to
blame for Bush's reelection, not the good people of Ohio.
Consider,
lastly, that only weeks ago Democrats were claiming that the post
office was plotting
against American democracy,
and a failure to pump tens of billions of dollars into the postal
system constituted a Republican conspiracy to impede mail-in voting.
Add all this together, and how credible are the Democrats' claims to
be ardent believers in the reliability and integrity of our voting
system? How seriously should we take their saccharine love letters to
American democracy? Not very!
The truth is that the Democrats and their left-wing allies in the
media have been undermining confidence in U.S. elections for decades.
They do so when it suits them, which is often, and they playact the
role of saintly champions of election integrity when that species of
mendacity suits them better.
Democrats, in short, are consistent in only one regard: they respect
elections that they win, and they despise and disparage elections
that they don't. We can expect the same in 2020.
If Donald Trump wins in 2020 via a contested election, therefore,
and many of the ballots for Joe Biden are ultimately disqualified, we
can thank the Democrats themselves for helping to demonstrate, over
many years, the flawed nature of our election system. In truth, we
couldn't have done it without them!
For, when you cry wolf time and time again, it's possible — just
possible — that people might begin to believe that wolves exist.
Dr.
Nicholas L. Waddy is an Associate Professor of History at SUNY Alfred
and blogs at: www.waddyisright.com.
He appears weekly on the Newsmaker Show on WLEA 1480/106.9.
And here it is at WND:
https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/election-integrity-dems-duplicity-shameless/
