The real threat to the republic

The past week has placed in focus where the real threat to America as a Constitutional republic lies. That threat never lay with Donald J. Trump. Indeed, events have shown that he is currently the only man who can save the republic. Rather, the threat lies with those who dare accuse him – and half the country – of being a “threat to democracy.” And it’s not only the Democratic Party – though Democratic might not be an apt name for that Party anymore. It lies with group that has planned to take complete control – and thin the human population to maintain that control. Barack Obama and his handpicked successor were to be the culmination – but Donald J. Trump upset the apple cart. Now those behind Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and now Kamala Harris are out for revenge. The problem is that the loudest noisemakers literally do not care.

Definitions

First, some definitions. America is a Constitutional republic, not a democracy. Though Rod Serling’s script for Seven Days in May (1964) did mention “the democratic way,” it also mentioned “this republic.” Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. It is also unstable and leads to oligarchy. That, in turn, is a handful of Alpha Wolves telling everyone else what’s for dinner. The Republic is a system of law that says what may, and what may not, be for dinner.

Those who claim that Donald J. Trump is undermining the rule of law have it backwards. They that have weaponized the law, and the courts, can no longer claim to be ruling by law. All but one trial judge that have heard Donald Trump’s cases have “unburdened” themselves from considerations of law or fact. (The exception is Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.) The United States Supreme Court has stopped the worst excesses and even set a binding precedent for Presidential immunity. This explains the attacks on that court – including one unhinged rant that even the Justice Department must now prosecute. (Such is the solution by the enemies of the republic for loose cannons on their gundecks.)

First to recognize the real threat to the republic

J. Peder Zane at RealClearPolitics recognized the threat as the first full week of June began. Back then, Biden was still a President (laying election-stealing considerations aside) seeking reelection, or at least legitimatization. Then as now, have-been and no-talent celebrities carried Biden’s torch. (That amateurish lingerie model, Taylor Swift, has nothing on Robert De Niro and the disgraceful performance he turned in.)

More to the point, Zane pointed out the agenda of the Democratic Party, from re-engineering (or abolition) of large household appliances to the eventual abolition of private transportation. They would ensure continuity of power by enrolling just-arrived migrants, of untested and highly dubious civic virtue, as voting citizens. (Registering them to vote before they become citizens is nothing more than a shortcut.) Once they have a “trifecta” of power, they will reshape the national judiciary. Zane mentioned “packing” the Court – likely by adding four Justice seats, which would be all they would need. He did not mention systematic removal of conservative judges and Justices on impeachment for, and “conviction” of, violation of the Democrats’ twisted norms. But the Democrats already are attempting impeachments of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito.

Zane held out no hope of a repeat of the January 6 event if the Democrats win. CNAV would agree: conservatives will give no excuse for another false-flag pseudo-operation. Instead, conservatives will flock to Texas and a few other States, then introduce resolutions of secession. Texas will lead the way.

What has happened since

J. Peder Zane wrote his piece more than three and a half months ago. Since then:

1. Joe Biden turned in the worst performance in a Presidential debate since Richard Nixon sweated bullets in his in 1960.
2. The United States Supreme Court handed down its primer on Presidential immunity. Furthermore, Justice Thomas observed that Trump’s chief prosecutor wasn’t even legally appointed.
3. Thomas Matthew Crooks took potshots at Donald Trump and even wounded him, before dying himself in a fusillade of “silencers.”
4. Judge Aileen Cannon (see above) dismissed the case before her. She wrote – independently of Justice Thomas – that the prosecutor had no legal authority to act. She had recognized that fact months before.
5. Joe Biden ignominiously dropped out of the race, and endorsed Kamala Harris.
6. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. left off the strongest “third party” challenge anyone was mounting, and formed a coalition with Trump.
7. Kamala Harris fared better in her own debate. But the world now knows that the moderators tipped the scales in an insultingly obvious manner. This last has redounded to the discredit of Harris and the moderators and host network.
8. Ryan Wesley Routh camped just outside the fence of one of Trump’s golf courses for twelve hours. Then he prepared to take a potshot at Trump. But the Secret Service chased him away before he could squeeze his trigger once. Local law enforcement brought him in – alive, kicking, and smirking.
9. Twice more did people try to kill Trump – one with a bomb, another with a topical poison.

Does anyone care?

The most disturbing thing about these events is that no one seems to care about them, apart from Trump’s supporters. Someone mocked Trump by observing that his earlobes didn’t suffer after the second attempt. No one is bothering to investigate the third or fourth attempts; legacy media insist the third was a false alarm. (They won’t even talk about the fourth.) But Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has a source inside the Department of Homeland Security that delineates the full threat. According to Breitbart, five different teams are after Trump – and three of them have foreign origin and/or control.

The three countries involved are Iran, Ukraine, and Pakistan. Ukraine has an obvious motive apart from those of the other two – its own advantage against Russia. Iran and Pakistan are part of a would-be Second Persian Empire. Or perhaps they are both patsies of the World Economic Forum, who are pulling the Democrats’ strings. Ukraine is an obvious candidate for another reason: Ryan Wesley Routh was associated with it.

Kamala Harris cagily stopped talking about Trump as “a threat to democracy” when she became The Candidate. (Source: Philip Wegmann of RealClearPolitics.) But her allies have not stopped talking in those terms. True, when Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) joined the ticket, he got The Memo and stopped that kind of talk. (But Harris slipped up during her debate with Trump, though she has maintained discipline since.) Hillary Clinton and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre have shown no such discipline.

More threat to democracy talk

Those two likely took their cue from President Biden. During the Democratic National Convention, he acknowledged in all but name that he had become the issue. So he had to quit the race – to “preserve our democracy.”

Earlier this week – after the second assassination attempt – Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Karine Jean-Pierre why the White House kept talking in such dire terms. And KJP doubled down on it, brazenly asserting that the White House was “not just saying it to say it.” She invoked the January 6 event (a “dark day for democracy”) “more than a dozen times,” according to Wegmann. When Doocy made clear he was having none of that, KJP cut the conference short.

Hillary Clinton has said worse.

At the end of the day, this is a contest between freedom and oppression, between democracy and autocracy, between bringing people together and further dividing us.

Let her look in the mirror, then. She’s the one threatening to put half the country in prison for expressing any disagreement with the Democrats’ message.

I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they should be civilly or criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence.

“Misinformation” has always been definable as disagreement with the official government position or narrative.

On one other occasion, Hillary Clinton clearly indicated she wanted a Cabinet-level position in a Harris-Walz administration. On CBS This Morning, in answer to a question about her serving in a Harris-Walz administration, she said:

Well, certainly, unofficially I want to be as helpful as I can, and would do anything I was asked to be helpful. We have so much to do that it really should be all hands on deck. And anybody who can help in any capacity should be willing to do so.

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I’m very optimistic about a Harris-Walz administration because I think it not only has the capacity to deal with all the problems we know but maybe to lower the temperature in the country. Tim Walz, the coach of America and Kamala, with her real sense of patriotism and commitment to the country and wanting to bring it together, [would] be the president of all Americans, not half the country.

Maybe we can break the fever. Let’s get back to taking some deep breaths and finding ways to work together. There’s so much we could do if we would start listening to each other and talking and making principled compromises. So, I think they have the potential to really produce that for our country.

Yes, with Hillary as Secretary of Information. No, not information technology, or even information as in “We want.” (That would be the National Security Agency – the “Puzzle Palace.”) No, this would be Information, as in Propaganda.

Even ordinary citizens?

The worst threat to the republic, happens when ordinary citizens lament that an assassination attempt failed. Recall Napolitan News’ poll results: one voter in six said the country would have been better off had Trump died. On Wednesday, on C-SPAN, a talk-show caller said the same.

HOST: Willie, Democrat, from Louisiana. Good morning.

CALLER: I just wanted to say I’m a very patriotic American. I did 20 years in the military, two tours to Vietnam, one in 1966, went back in ‘68. I look at myself and think about what we pulled as a military… destroy the enemy by all means available. I see we let this man Trump destroy America, and I look at it and say, well, these two people had to step up and take that shot.

HOST [shocked]: Wait, Willie. You’re not advocating violence, are you?

CALLER: Not violence. I’m talking about defending my country.

HOST: All right. [Cuts caller off and tees up the next call right away.]

That same day, the Justice Department disclosed an indictment against an Alaska citizen who planned to kidnap, torture, and assassinate six Supreme Court Justices. U.S. v. Panos Anastasiou, case no. 3:24-cr-00099-SLG-KFR, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The indictment doesn’t name the Justices the defendant allegedly targeted, but CNAV can guess. They would be the full membership of the Originalist and Moderate Blocs.

Worse still, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) made a statement that some could construe as calling for Trump’s assassination.

Unquestionable at this point: that man [Trump] cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be – he has to be eliminated.

Two quick points. First, to eliminate could merely mean to remove from consideration for a given job of work. Second, why Matt Wallace saw fit to highlight Goldman’s Jewishness is not clear. Goldman’s being Jewish neither explains, excuses, nor otherwise correlates with his being a maniac.

All that aside, the Secret Service should be investigating people like these. Instead they see fit to investigate Elon Musk, after Musk made this pithy observation in a now-deleted post:

And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala. 🤔

Hope yet for the republic

Most likely, Elon Musk is under investigation, by the Secret Service and by the Federal Aviation Administration, because he forthrightly supports Trump. He has been equally forthright in protesting Biden-Harris administration policies. If Trump needed anyone to agree with him that they, not he, are the threats to the republic, Elon Musk would certainly agree.

Besides everything else, the FBI now refuses to cooperate with Florida’s own investigation of the second attempt. In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) said:

The answer is no, they’re not being cooperative. Yes, I am concerned. For example, our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. I think they’ve taken the position that they don’t want the state of Florida to be involved in this. But here’s the thing, there were multiple violations of Florida law across multiple jurisdictions. We think at least three judicial circuits.

This guy, Ryan Routh, committed potential violations of Florida law. We have a duty to investigate this. We have a duty to bring the appropriate charges, and we also have a duty to inform the public about how this happened. I don’t anticipate their cooperation. I think they’ve just taken that position. I think that’s unfortunate because even though I’ve been very clear, the state of Florida is going to do an investigation.

I’ve not disputed their right to also investigate. It’s a federal government matter. He was in their protective custody as a presidential candidate. But let us do this. Hopefully, that tune will change, but I can tell you right now, Laura, we have not gotten a lot of receptive response.

But hope for the republic springs eternal. A Louisiana election official has sued his State seeking to overturn its largely machine-based voting system. His suit alleges that electronic voting machines, and especially the Direct Recording devices most Louisiana parishes use, violate Louisiana’s constitution. Article XI Section 2 reads in relevant part:

Ballots shall be counted publicly and preserved inviolate as provided by law until any election contests have been settled.

In addition, this past week has seen salient election-integrity investigations, lawsuits, and new rules in seven States. They are Ohio, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Georgia. Furthermore, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania eliminated its drop boxes, finding adequate surveillance of them lacking or impossible.

In short, one of two things will happen. Either Trump wins, or the country splits. The Great Sortation will lead to National Divorce. That’s not an outcome to prefer, but it is an outcome to accept, if the alternative is the “fundamental transformation” of the United States from republic to oligarchy.