Our Democracy”: The Democratic Weaponization of Government and the Need for Decentralization : American Greatness
Hence the plethora of handwringing articles warning that Donald Trump is a dictator -in-waiting, a new Hitler, a refurbished Mussolini who, should he be reelected, will mobilize the military to impose his will on a hapless American populace. Taibbi quotes from a December 2023 strategy memo in which Biden s puppeteers describe Trump as an existential threat to democracy.
It sounds absurd. It is absurd. But, as I and many others have pointed out, that is the story we are being asked to swallow. This is the logic:
Trump is a threat to democracy.
Ergo, we must use any means necessary to keep him off the ballot.
Otherwise, people might vote for him, and that would be bad for democracy.
The arrogance of this gambit is breathtaking. It assumes, with Liz Cheneyesque smugness, that ordinary people cannot be entrusted with so important a task as electing their leaders. Only anointed saviors like Liz Cheney can do that. But alongside the arrogance of the we-have-to-destroy-democracy-in-order-to-save-it mindset is the chilling revelation of the extremes to which the people in power are willing to go in order to preserve their prerogatives. They will, for example, censor any opinion they do not like as malinformation, i.e., an opinion that might be true but is not consistent with The Narrative. It all adds up to what I have called the Sovietization of America.
What, as Lenin famously asked, is to be done?
I am not sure anything can be done. There is a good chance that Michael Anton is right. They Can t Let Him Back In, he wrote in July 2022. The people who really run the United States of America, he noted, have made it clear that they can t and won t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.
Anton and Taibbi both outline some of the many things they the agents of the deep state will do, are in fact doing right now, to prevent this most awful of eventualities.
via amgreatness.com
Roger Kimball.