Trump is not a Threat to American Democracy, Democrats Confirm!

New York Times columnist Ezra Klein revealed last week that top Democrats had privately admitted to him that former President Donald Trump is not actually a threat to democracy. Considering this narrative has been the centerpiece of the Democrats’ nine-year gaslighting campaign against Trump, this bombshell revelation should have been shouted from the rooftops.

Regarding his off-the-record discussions with Democratic lawmakers who are currently deciding whether to back President Joe Biden or abandon him after his disastrous debate performance, Klein said: “I’ve had top Democrats say to me, basically, say something like, ‘I don’t know why all these Democrats who think Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy are acting the way they are. But the reason I’m acting the way I am is because I don’t think that.'” [Emphasis added.]

Klein continued: “Like, ‘It would be quite unpleasant for me [the lawmakers] personally to come out against the president as an elected official in the Democratic Party,’ and weighing what will happen if Donald Trump wins, and saying, in a revealed preference way, ‘I can live with Donald Trump winning.’ And I’ve heard people say that to me off the record, to be fair.”

‘It would be quite unpleasant for me [the lawmakers] personally to come out against the president as an elected official in the Democratic Party,’ and weighing what will happen if Donald Trump wins, and saying, in a revealed preference way, ‘I can live with Donald Trump winning.’

The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, clearly shaken by Klein’s remarks, demanded that he “out” his sources. “You have a calm voice, but you’re skyrocketing my f***ing blood pressure right now,” Miller said. “Ezra, I’m just, like, so f***ing mad.”

Agreeing with his comrade, Klein added, “I find it maddening, but I do find it consistent.” 

Miller’s indignation was representative of the large and growing number of Democrats for whom progressivism has become a religion, one based on the group’s shared belief that Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. 

Some, like Miller, firmly believe it. But, as Klein revealed, others pay mere lip service to it out of loyalty to the party. This means that, rather than calling out party leaders for implementing their vile Soviet-style character assassination agenda against Trump, they’ve become willing participants (or useful idiots) in a massive fraud.

The truth is that the Democrats’ gaslighting campaign was born of their very real fear that a Trump presidency would pose a threat to their hold on power. In 2016, Trump ran on disrupting Washington and revitalizing what had become a bloated, ineffectual government that had long ago stopped working for the public it was supposed to serve. 

False though their narrative may be, Democrats have gone to painstaking lengths to perpetuate it. Some of their greatest hits include the Trump-Russian collusion hoax, two sham impeachments, multiple federal and state indictments on bogus charges, and efforts to keep Trump off the ballot in several blue states. 

We all know how well this has worked out for Biden. Three weeks after his debate against Trump, he’s losing to Trump in every battleground state and most national polls. New York Times columnist Doug Sosnik, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, has studied recent polling, advertising, and campaign spending in the battleground states and concluded that “Biden’s path to re-election has all but vanished.” Sosnik added that he’s “never seen such a grim Electoral College landscape” for Biden.

A “defiant” Biden, however, brushed off concerns and told his donors last week, “[W]e’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” He added that “we have to go after him.”

Clearly, in light of the assassination attempt on Trump on Saturday night, Biden’s words did not age well. 

Given the extreme lengths that Democrats have been willing to go to destroy Trump, and the normalization of reckless rhetoric by the legacy media, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to kill him. Conservatives have often warned of this possibility. What did the Democrats expect to happen after they’d spent years comparing Trump to Hitler and demanding that he be stopped? 

On Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. blamed the Biden campaign’s incendiary rhetoric for the shooting in a post on X. He wrote: “Don’t tell me they didn’t know exactly what they were doing with this crap. Calling my dad a ‘dictator’ and a ‘threat to Democracy’ wasn’t some one off comment. It has been the *MAIN MESSAGE* of the Biden-Kamala campaign and Democrats across the country!!!” He attached the following posts from Joe Biden to make his point.

Now Democrats have to reckon with  the image of Trump pumping his fist in the air after narrowly avoiding being killed, and mouthing to supporters, “Fight, fight, fight,” as blood from a gunshot wound dripped from his ear. The image has made him a legend — a legend who loves America.

Elizabeth Stauffer is a Research Fellow at the Sixteenth Council