Now that President-elect Donald Trump has built a resounding red wave to crash over the supposed blue wall, it’s time to put the Left’s false claim that Trump is a “threat to democracy” to rest.
“But he’s a convicted felon!”
“But he’s been indicted!”
Those cries fell flat last night as voters saw through the mirage of blind justice amid the reality of a politicized justice system against Trump. This miscarriage of justice was the true threat to democracy.
Trump won his party nomination with grassroots support, in spite of GOP elites. Kamala Harris was coronated by Democratic Party elites without grassroots support. Harris didn’t earn one single vote in the 2024 Democratic primary season, nor did she as a candidate in 2020. Trump, who also won the popular vote Tuesday night, is the embodiment of democracy and We The People.
Voters trust Trump more than the Left about “threats to democracy.” Shortly before President Joe Biden bowed out of the race after his disastrous debate performance, The Washington Post reported about its polling with the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University showing that Trump was trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters that Biden narrowly won in 2020.
The Post said “a little more than half of voters classified as likely to decide the presidential election say threats to democracy are extremely important to their vote for president … but that [President Joe Biden] has yet to convince them he is the one to defend it.”
A majority of voters said the lawfare persecution of Trump happened because of a weaponizing of the justice system. Over the summer, 62% of Americans polled in a Quinnipiac University survey said the Department of Justice’s case against Trump over the mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House was politically motivated.
Just 34% of those surveyed said they think the DOJ’s federal charges against Trump were mainly motivated by law. In essence, the fact that the current Biden-Harris White House was trying to jail its political rival didn’t sit well with the American people.
The timing of these various prosecutions across a number of states was very suspect, given it all coalesced during an election year, despite having three previous years to supposedly carry out blind justice.
In June, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., told HBO host Bill Maher that if Trump hadn’t been running for president, the former president wouldn’t have been prosecuted in the state for his hush money payments.
“The attorney general’s case in New York frankly should have never been brought,” Cuomo said, rightly stating also that even New Yorkers who don’t like Trump perceived the process as weaponization of the justice system.
Washington Post columnist George Will—no fan of Trump—agreed, reminding readers: “This was concocted by an elected, flamboyantly anti-Trump Democratic prosecutor in Manhattan, who, in a marvel akin to the multiplication of the fishes and loaves, transformed a bookkeeping misdemeanor into 34 felonies in New York. Democrats, who call Trump an ‘existential’ threat to everything, endeavored to secure him another presidential nomination.”
Indeed, Trump was slipping in the primary polls up until the August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago (pertaining to classified documents), followed by his indictment in the hush money case. These eventually clinched the nomination for Trump, driven by voters incensed by the improper use of the justice system.
The promise of equal justice for all—even one’s political rivals—is a core principle of American democracy. Maybe now the Left will learn its lesson and act accordingly.
Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice.
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