Luttig: American Democracy in Grave Peril Because ‘There Is No Republican Party’
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig said Wednesday on “CNN This Morning” that “American democracy” was in grave peril because there is no Republican Party.
Anchor Poppy Harlow asked, “Judge, you told our colleague after the latest indictment came down last week, these are as grave offenses against the United States as a president could commit, except possibly treason. I remind our viewers. you are a conservative’s conservative. Trump is winning by a mile in the polls. Republican officials are lining up behind him. What do you think has happened to your party?”
Luttig said, “Frankly, I don’t care about the Republican Party at all, except to the extent that the two political parties in America are the political guardians of democracy in our country. American democracy simply cannot function without two equally healthy and equally strong political parties. So, today, in my view, there is no Republican Party to counter the Democratic Party in the country. And for that reason, American democracy is in grave peril.”
Harlow asked, “There is no Republican Party?”
Luttig said, “In my view. let me explain, a political party is a collection, an assemblage of individuals who share a set of beliefs and principles and policy views about the United States of America. Today there is no such shared set of beliefs and values and principles, or even policy views, within the Republican Party for America. Until or unless the Republican Party can pull itself together into a credible Republican political party, we simply don’t have two competing parties in America.”
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The Anti-Democratic Party
The party that protects democracy by arresting political opponents.
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Since 2016, the Democrats defined their primary political purpose not around agenda items like abortion rights, fighting racism, unlimited immigration or gay marriage, but saving democracy.
Who did democracy have to be defended from? Republicans.
Previous incarnations of the Democrats had made their case that Republicans were too extremist, too beholden to wealthy special interests or too bigoted to be trusted with power. In its latest incarnation, the case has been boiled down to the simple premise that the survival of the country requires stopping Republicans from taking office by any means necessary.
Investigations, indictments, lawsuits and election rigging are just ways to defend democracy.
The central issue is no longer any individual point of disagreement on taxes, abortion or anything else: it’s the total illegitimacy of Republicans and the threat that they represent.
Obama was the last Dem presidential candidate to have campaigned on something other than defending democracy from Republicans, but he was the one who ushered it in with Russiagate. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, both times, campaigned on the extreme threat that Republicans pose to democracy. The serial investigations and indictments of Trump that have stretched on for over seven years represent the fundamental transformation of our system of elections.
Within less than a decade the intelligence community, domestic law enforcement, prosecutors, lawyers and nonprofits had been mobilized in a massive scheme to sue, investigate, and prosecute their political opponents. The Trump investigations and prosecutions form the most obvious examples, but not the only ones, of this new identity of defending democracy.
And in the process democracy has ceased to be something that happens at the ballot box, but now involves the national security state, the judiciary and experts who will determine if actual democracy is taking place or a vast conspiracy that must be stopped with eavesdropping, FBI raids, covert investigations and mass internet censorship similar to that of China.
Elections are now accompanied by dirty tricks campaigns that don’t just involve campaign operatives like the Fusion GPS gang behind the Steele dossier at the beating heart of Russiagate, but intelligence agencies, the FBI, and federal and local prosecutors. Describing such activities as mere abuses of power misses the point. This is not JFK dispatching RFK to go after his political enemies: it’s a political movement whose core argument is that its political opponents are subversives, criminals and threats to national security who must be locked up.
Russiagate was initially performed in secret, but the investigations and indictments since, from Mueller to Jack Smith, have taken place in broad daylight. The public spectacle is a core part of the political argument. The endless show trials are not just a tactic, they’re a political identity.
Democrats have become the party that protects democracy by locking up their opponents. Trending hashtag movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter have come and gone while the only consistent movement to endure has been the rise of a political police state. Unprofitable media outlets like CNN and the Washington Post have boomed from the investigations. books have been published in mass quantities and political personalities have been born out of it.
Identity politics still thrives but it is a cultural organizing principle, not a political one.
By branding as the defenders of democracy, Democrats avoid having to define what they truly stand for. In the identity politics era, Democrats ran not for putting pornographic books in school or burning down entire neighborhoods in violent race riots, but against “intolerance”. Now they do not run to federalize elections and end any political dissent, but to protect democracy from Republicans.
And who will defend democracy from the defenders of democracy?
Defending democracy is the deeply undemocratic idea that there is something undemocratic about the way that elections are practiced today. Democrats claim that they want more people involved in the political process when what they really want is to get the wrong ones out of it. That’s why there have been all the investigations of Trump, the censorship of social media and the rise of political gatekeeping. The trouble with democracy is that sometimes the wrong people win. The purpose of defending democracy is to make sure that can never happen.
The defenders of democracy are actually defending oligarchy from democracy. They define democracy as principles and values rather than free, fair and open elections. Given a chance, they uphold the principles of democracy, which invariably happen to consist of their own principles, by rigging elections and suppressing political debate and free and fair elections.
When democracy is defined, as it is in California and Washington D.C., among many other hyper-leftist places, as the absence of Republicans holding elected office, then eliminating the opposition and seizing total power becomes the new exciting form of democracy. Much as in the USSR, Cuba or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the less meaningful choices people have, the more democratic the elections are. Real democracy is a process while the defenders of democracy are after a preferred outcome which is the opposite of actual democracy.
To make the end of democracy seem like the epitome of democracy, leftists concoct a political threat, real or imagined, that threatens democracy. By making Trump or any Republican seem like a threat to democracy, they make the presence of democracy into a threat to democracy. And eliminating democracy becomes the only way to save democracy from democracy.
Ever since the defenders got started, elections are less trusted and less secure than ever. Political instability has increased leading to a downgrade and every organization, government, corporate and nonprofit, that had gotten involved in defending democracy, from the FBI to Facebook, has been tainted. Defenders of democracy argue that a crisis of trust means that they are needed more than ever to end the mistrust by silencing the mistrustful.
This cycle is not a democratic bug, it’s a totalitarian feature. The defenders of democracy are breaking the system, the culture and the marketplace of ideas to eliminate any alternatives.
The Democrats have rebranded their party identity as a primal struggle to end any political choices beyond, as in most urban areas, a choice between two flavors of lefties.
The party of democracy has become the anti-democratic party.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS A DIVISIONIST OPERATION FOR OPEN BORDERS, AND BANKSTER BAILOUTS. IT MUST BE BANNED AS ANTI-AMERICAN AND CORRUPT AS THE DAY IS LONG
It is difficult to find a Democrat political leader with qualities of faith, protection, caring, and patriotism who will support families. The Democrat party has produced progressive leaders who openly ignore the Constitution. They are at war with the family because they know it is a handy way to destroy American society.
Family units are being targeted for destruction
I am a retired senior. My parents and I have lived through 47% of the time since 1776 when the country was founded, 54% including grandparents. At that time the family was defined as a husband, wife, biological children and extended family. Today many seniors had parents who experienced both World War I and II, the roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” Personally, I have memories of World War II and the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars, civil and gay rights and technology advancements. Together we have experienced 21 different Presidents. Our family history is a cornerstone example of American citizenry, including Irish and German immigration. Families gained great wisdom and knowledge from life. They made a huge investment in their country, facing hardships and wars, and they kept the faith. Families have a history of uniting and together they now realize our country is in serious trouble. A radical and corrupt government agenda has focused on changing the American Family that we know and love.
Families are an American institution because they offer support and security coupled with unconditional love; parents almost always bring out the best in members. One lesson my parents taught me was that change will always come and impact values and beliefs. The “All-American Family” was identified in the 1950s. It was based around a secure life. Economic and global instability gave rise to the need for closely defined family units. This led to economic advancement and social order, longer marriages, more children, fewer divorces. Over the past half-century the structure of the American family has undergone profound changes. The nuclear family, which at one point served as the unchallenged cultural ideal, has slowly been replaced with a more diverse set of social arrangements. Families must now adjust to changes in finances, marriage, society, job, children, education, and religious values. Families accept these challenges but are frightened by the current political changes affecting our society. Families see corrupt leadership, low integrity, Ideologies like socialism and the hatred of religion with its morality.
Families replicate values, political attitudes, religion, caring, and protective responsibility. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated “The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.” Since our country’s founding, parents and grandparents established who was responsible for the education of their children. In the early 1900s mandatory public education began shifting certain functions into the public sector. For example, The U.S. Supreme Court in 1962 exercised its influence on religion with church/ state issues. It did not stop there, activist continued seeking political control, forcing ideologies into our government. Marxist thinking would ensure that children would be educated by the state and not by their parents. Families are now being torn apart by elite government educators. One example: the National Education Association makes it clear that educators should ignore religious values, teach their own revisionist history, and even childhood sexual moral development and identity.
It is difficult to find a Democrat political leader with qualities of faith, protection, caring, and patriotism who will support families. The Democrat party has produced progressive leaders who openly ignore the Constitution. They are at war with the family because they know it is a handy way to destroy American society.
Families are joining together (Moms for America, for example) and fighting to protect their precious children given to them by their Creator. The wisdom and knowledge derived from American family history will be a powerful antidote against these attacks. The family’s centuries-old American roots will defeat these dysfunctional radicals. Families will be reestablished as the center of the American experience.
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