Elites are undermining election integrity to help Biden

As far as Democrats are concerned, anyone who doubts that the 2020 presidential election is the “most secure election in American history” is an insurrectionist “election denier.” And such “deniers” are, in this formulation, a threat to democracy, and their efforts must be thwarted again in 2024. But the assumptions behind this thinking are perhaps why it is the party of President Joe Biden and not the Republican Party. A real threat to the integrity and democracy of this year’s elections.

Democrats, who have spent the past three and a half years branding their political opponents as authoritarians, have come to believe that their success at the voting booth is indistinguishable from the survival of American democracy. But while most Americans don’t buy Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, that alone isn’t enough to give Biden another four years in the White House.

The Democratic Party’s performance on a number of issues, including immigration, inflation and foreign policy, has reinforced the perception that his age has diminished his ability to govern. As a result, his approval rating has fallen to rock bottom. Mr. Trump leads in polls both head-to-head against Mr. Biden and against third-party candidates, and he also leads in most of the battleground states that will decide the outcome of the election.

All that could change over the next six months, but the question remains how Democrats will react to a loss. Since early 2022, much of the corporate liberal media has been predicting that Republicans will try to cheat or steal the 2024 vote. At the heart of this panic against their opponents was the belief that Trump and the Republican Party could only win by cheating.

But there have been extreme cases in which Democrats have sought to censor opponents of their favored policies and opposed state laws aimed at avoiding a repeat of the pandemic-induced disruptions that have undermined confidence in the integrity of voting. Trump’s use of undemocratic tactics strengthens his case.

Most importantly, the banana republic-style legal campaign against Trump has many on the right questioning whether the Democratic Party will allow itself to lose the election under any circumstances. Their all-out efforts to bankrupt, imprison, or banish their opponents from the ballot represent the primary threat to the integrity of the 2024 vote and, by extension, democracy.

For more than a decade, Democrats have campaigned against what previous generations considered normal election practice. Their opposition to voter ID laws, which have the support of an overwhelming majority of voters, including minorities, was based on the argument that fraud is unprecedented in American politics. But to believe that, you have to forget everything about American political history and human nature. Given the stakes involved in the election, it’s safe to assume that both major parties will do whatever it takes to win.

That doesn’t mean either party will cheat this year, or that it’s inevitable that Democrats won’t accept Trump’s defeat. But their narrative of saving democracy and their naked hatred of Trump has given rise to rhetoric that justifies playing dirty to serve what they see as a higher purpose than the law.

The January 6, 2021 Capitol riot gave Democrats the moral upper hand in the election. But their attempts to inflate this disgraceful event into a full-scale riot akin to the Civil War, and label anyone who questions what happened in 2020 as enemies of democracy, has its merits. I threw it away.

The pandemic situation resulted in an unprecedented election in which a huge number of voters did not vote in person on Election Day under the usual safety measures. Many of these safeguards have been left behind by Democratic Congressionalists due to what journalist Molly Ball described as a vast “conspiracy” by left-wing activists, liberal corporate executives, and partisan unions to eliminate large numbers of mail-in voters. was discarded.

It may not have been stolen, but given the way Silicon Valley oligarchs and mainstream media conspired to silence reporting on the Biden family’s major corruption scandal in the weeks leading up to the vote, This means that an election that was not fair was held. The way security agencies collaborated with corporate media to thwart President Trump evoked the kind of behavior that Washington has labeled undemocratic when it occurs in other parts of the world.

Will they do it again?

There are some ominous signs that Democrats will bend or break the rules if they think it will help them. Liberal think tanks may talk about threats to voting. But their attempts to label election laws regarding cleaning up voter rolls, ensuring a fair count, and even the right to challenge questionable results as “election subversion” are a poor guide to protecting the process. Rather, it seems to be a matter of prediction. The Democratic-led Congress could keep this in mind later this year and begin to undermine efforts toward a fair count.

The liberal media, which has spent a great deal of effort predicting President Trump’s new “coup,” is already talking about how Democrats will attempt their own insurrection using Congress to override the electoral votes against Biden. They’re starting to speculate about, which is exactly what they’re accusing Republicans of trying to do. Things to do in 2021.

That doesn’t even take into account the certainty that Trump’s victory will spark more “mostly peaceful” riots in American cities. There is nothing worse for a democracy than an obvious threat of violence if one side doesn’t get its way.

At this point, it’s unclear whether either major party intends to rely on a result that goes against them. But Democrats have already proven they are willing to do whatever it takes to win, including in the Manhattan courtroom where Trump is currently forced to stay. It remains to be seen whether a clear victory for Trump in both the popular vote and the Electoral College will be enough to prevent the November 2024 election from descending into chaos.

Jonathan S. Tobin is the editor-in-chief of JNS.org and a senior contributor to The Federationist. Follow @jonathans_tobin.

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