President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party insist that “Democracy is on the ballot” this election. While some of us have challenged that hyperbolic claim, one thing that may not be on the ballot is choice, if the defenders of Democracy have anything to say about it. Georgia Democrats have joined counterparts in other states to prevent citizens from being able to vote third-party candidates.
Months ago, I wrote a column about how Democrats have continued to try to block voters from being able to vote for candidates while claiming the mantle of the defenders of Democracy.
This effort not only included Democratic Secretaries of State attempting to remove former president Donald Trump from the ballots, but efforts in the primary from the ballot. Many of these Democrats now calling for a “blitz primary” previously said nothing as voters were barred from having a choice in the primary.
North Carolina joined this effort recently to block third-party candidates to avoid “mischief.”
Georgia Democrats are challenging efforts to place Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and three other candidates on the state’s presidential ballots. With Biden struggling in the polls and the vast majority of voters viewing him as too enfeebled to serve another four years, Democrats are rushing to reduce the choices for voters.
Democratic Party of Georgia Executive Director Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye insists that Kennedy, independent Cornel West, Claudia De la Cruz of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Jill Stein of the Green Party “have not faithfully observed the state of Georgia’s election laws.” All of them must go.
For voters who may not be thrilled with Trump, the Democrats insist that all is well. To paraphrase Henry Ford, you can have any choice of candidate so long as it is Biden.
We will beat you from within
Nikita Kruchev
Yes, Virginia, it is no longer your father’s and grandfather’s Democratic Party.
It would be interesting, certainly entertaining, to ask these Democrats what they think of the many countries, which they doubtless, likely, or at least should, regard as democratic (small d), where multiple parties and candidates on ballots up and down, and in national and local legislatures, have long been the norm.
Regarding Professor Turley’s other column today, on the scary claims about a Trump reelection: Rachel Maddow make a hysterical claim? I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. But she forgot her usual claim that Russia is involved, like when it’s 99 below zero in Duluth and the heat goes out.
J. D. Vance who is soon to be demonized has a story to tell about real people whose lives were destroyed by outsourcing, drug trafficking coming from the Cartels in Mexico and government policy. If you want to be informed and not indoctrinated you can watch “Hillbilly Elegy” on Netflix. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMfXHT6qc0
This is fun!
Democrats are so desperate, they are willing to do anything to keep Democrat voters, voting for Biden!
Then they have to ratchet up the fear mongering about democracy, while they do everything undemocratic.
Fun! Fun!
If Democrats are able to pass a law changing the Supreme Court and the Court holds it unconstitutional more of this insane fun will begin.
Madeline Brame’s speech at the RNC convention. Please share this speech everywhere you can. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6YRd1tr9w
If a party is self destructive and also a threat to the well being of its own country then you should leave that party. If that party is teetering on the precipice, then there is nothing wrong with giving it a little shove, just to make sure it falls in the right direction and hurts no one else. After delivering the shove, take a walk and comeback with an earthmover to clean up the debris.
Now Biden wants age limits for the Supreme Court. He didn’t mind so much when Ginsburg was on the court. If age limits should apply for the Supreme Court why shouldn’t they apply to the office of the President. (In a whispered voice) Whats logic have to do with it? He’s just channeling his inner Franklin Roosevelt. You know, the dictator that even the Democrats had to rein in after the war. Even Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury said that Roosevelts economic policies had failed. Joe keeps holding on to his hero while the rest of us pay more for food to feed our kids and more for gas to drive them to school. It’s always so fun to be led by a socialist idealogue. AOC is very excited.
Meanwhile, from the Republic of Georgia:
How much additional evidence does one need to conclude that the modern Democratic Party is led by authoritarian, if not totalitarian ideologues who relentlessly work to achieve a one party nation similar to China, Russia, Cuba, or any of the other progressive dictatorships they so admire.
We need Fourth Party candidates. It’s the party of Truman. Elect “A Man From Missouri”. His name is Jack Mehoff. He’s running for President.
Maybe Deez Nutz will come out of retirement as his VP
We need Fourth Party candidates.
How’d that Russ Perot thing work out for Bush and you?
I know how it worked for us here in Montana when it stuck us with Commie Jon Tester voting 100% with Chuck Schumer in the Senate and while Biden attacked our oil patch jobs and coal mining workers.
Maybe because this is RNC week and the events of last Saturday are still fresh in our minds, but it seems like Joe Biden and his administration are fading fast and nearing irrelevancy. His latest attempt to rebound is to advocate 1930s-style policies to pack the Court. That and unlimited abortion laws are all he has. Now that he is barred from placing Trump in a “bullseye” he has nothing, including his dismal record of flops and failures, to run on. Politics, being a zero sum game means that the weaker Biden becomes, the more powerful Trump becomes. Instead of Christmas in July, we should have November in July and immediately brush all the Biden administrtation hacks into the dustbin of history where they and their worthless policies belong.
JJC,
I read about the “virtual nomination” the DNC is pushing for.
Somewhat surprisingly, the anti-Biden Democrats are trying to stop it.
This is truly getting fun!
We had the Biden debate debacle, Democrats calling for him to step aside, mega-donors withholding money not only to the Biden campaign but to the DNC and other Democrats running for re-election. We have all those shocked Democrats who were gaslight by the WH admin, MSM of Biden’s obvious mental decline.
Then in contrast we have Trump, who gets thousands, if not tens of thousands at rallies, with real energy. Then the assassination attempt by the Act Blue donor, Trump not only survives but comes out looking even more presidential and patriotic sending even more energy and gathering more supporters, even people who did not vote for him in the previous election. With Vance, that energy has even increased more.
The energy difference between the two is going to be stark.
Fun! Fun!
I agree! Let’s hope Congress gets to the bottom of all this next week when the head of SS appears and, perhaps, her boss in front of one or more committees to explain what happened in Butler. Trump is on a roll and nothing can stop him now. Biden is almost forgotten by his usual minders, the MSM and the democrat party.
JJC,
The investigation into Butler is going to be interesting and possibly problematic. It could undermine the DEI rhetoric. The SS has had issues previously, but mostly were concerned with manpower, training and resources issues.
Speaking of DEI, Business Insider is reporting Microsoft has laid off its DEI team.
“True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020,”
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-dei-leader-email-2024-7
There were cries of thousands of DEI grads, suddenly silenced and quietly replaced with, “I have a caramel frappuccio, two pumps of soy milk, twist of lemon for Karen!”
“It could undermine the DEI rhetoric.”
Upstate, all I can think of is King Leonidas and the almost impenetrable 300, whose massive shields protected one another from an onslaught of arrows. Then I picture Trump being escorted out and think if DEI existed in Leonidas’ time, their shields would have been the size of a ping-pong racket. The female Secret Service agent was tiny, leaving Trump’s head open to another headshot.
S. Meyer, I am loving your bringing King Leonidas and the ancient Greeks into the conversation. Of course it should be pointed out that the Spartans were defeated due to a traitor showing the Persians the back way into Thermopylae. He must have been a Biden.
Sadly, we are becoming more and more authoritarian under Biden’s regime and the Left. 🙁
Hopefully the Democratic Party will destroy itself and possibly something better will replace it. Not a given by any means but possible. Although I am strongly Republican I do prefer a 2 or more party state because no one has all the answers.
GEB,
The problem of the DNC is the elites, and the loonies they surround themselves with are in power. Just look at the hot mess the Biden admin is, and all their DEI hires.
No wonder the whole world is laughing at us.
Upstate Farmer
Well there was an elite that said “let them eat cake” and that ended poorly. The trouble with elites is there are not too many of them and if they really overstep their bounds then even worse things than an election can spoil their day.
There is a contract with the people and if one group thinks they are above and beyond everyone else then you either end up with an authoritarian government or a bloodbath revolution and/or civil war. And the number of elites seem to decrease in numbers and power.
Well now. Isn’t that nice of them.
“We are just going to make the one and only choice for you, the one we approve of.”
How democratic of them.
Yes, I have found that if an entity has to tell you they’re democratic, usually they are not.
Looks like to loonies are already here.
The self-proclaimed “Defenders of Democracy” are ALWAYS conspiring on creative scams to destroy Democracy! The only things the Marxist Democrats in their insatiable quest for totalitarian power have mastered are Projection, Gaslighting, Lying and Cheating!
Rick,
Speaking of that, are you aware that, even as we speak, the DNC is finalizing plans for a “virtual rollcall” to officially nominate Biden before the DNC’s convention even starts? If that occurs, the Dems won’t be able to swap him out for someone else.
Now, couple that with the Dems attempting to bar 3rd-party candidates from ballots, and Voila! We now have our own version, on their side, of Xi, Putin, Castro, Un, etc. HOw comforting, eh?
Also, come November, what if, despite the last 4 years of Biden, he ends up beating Trump, either by the same margin as in 2020, or an even larger margin, what then?
Perhaps there was no way to prove massive fraud in the last election, but, if what I’ve suggested actually happens, will people finally take allegations seriously and attempt to do something about it (i.e. the courts, Congress, etc.)?
Will I, in the not-to-distant future, end up going to bed under a Communist moon?
Professor, your next column should be about why, and how, you can remain a Democrat when you so conclusively demonstrate, day after day, how the Democrats are deliberately undermining our nation and its institutions.
He may believe he is an authentic Democrat in the mold of Senator Daniel Moynihan (as I once did)
He may believe he wont abandon that party (unlike me) and will “hold the fort down”
He may believe the current iteration of Democrats is self-destructive and will not exist much longer
He may believe he can shape the future Democrat Party once it implodes
Either way, a person’s political affiliation is none of your business. To excoriate anyone as such would be like excoriating you for being a lawyer. Clearly your profile name is misapplied
“Either way, a person’s political affiliation is none of your business.” You just stepped off a ledge E. Care to explain that?
Estovir,
I think that is the same reason why my sister remains a Democrat.
Hope.
Upstate Daniel Patrick Moynahan was a Democrat, and Reagan was a Republican. Both were great men. It is not the party; instead, it is the people they represent. It is their philosophy and willingness to hear the other side’s grievances without abandoning common sense.
That ended with Barack Hussien Obama. He divided this Nation along every social fissure there is putting America in a patchwork of tribalism mentality. Where my tribe over your tribe is all important. He needs to be held legally accountable for his crimes and actions.
I disagree with you on this. Wiseoldlawyer asked the exact question and made the same point that I did earlier. If you continue to support a party that does all the evil things that the Democrats do, then you support that evil. No one is “born” a Democrat, any more than they are “born” a Catholic, or “born” a Moon-Landing-Denier.
The family they are born into may be any of those things, but every human being, at some point in their life, has to consciously make a choice to continue in the belief system. And, if that system is good, then a person may decide to stay with it. As would a Catholic. At some point in history, it was arguably good to be a Democrat, but things change, and Professor Turley, being an honest person, has accurately chronicled that change. Now, Professor Turley has choice.
Stick with the Democrats and openly work to reform the party, or simply leave the Party, and knock the dust from his feet. That is the Professor’s choice, and his right. You are correct on that. Personally, I hope he walks away. Like Tulsi Gabbard.
You are advocating identity politics. That you fail to see that is concerning.
The Democratic party WILL change – that is inevitable.
Trump reflects changes in the GOP that started with the Tea Party. Those changes have driven some people out, and brought new people in.
They or some other changes were necescary or Republicans would slowly become irrelevant.
In many ways(not all) today’s GOP resembles the democratic party of a different era.
And Democrats resemble past republicans.
Trump’s victory in 2016 should have been a message to democrats to tack right.
Instead they moved further left.
But for Covid (and/or election fraud) Trump would have crushed Biden in 2020.
Democrats have been heading the wrong direction on many issues.
They are slowly losing popularity.
But for the success of the “Trump is Hitler” nonsense – Democrats would be facing a mondale/mcGovern style blow out.
At the same time – the democratic party may have several bad cycles. But it is not going to become irrelevant.
One way or another it ill change to become a credible challenge.
Just as the Republicans remade themselves to attract more than 50% of th vote – and more minorities.
So will democrats EVENTUALLY
His blog, his opinions.
As a (probably less wise, but equally old) lawyer I agree that the Professor should leave the Democrat party. I was a Democrat once, most likely many of us were Democrats at one time, but the party has gone radical and they are trending even worse.
Just an observation but how many of us are former Democrats that have turned either Republican or Independent as compared to how many are former Republicans that have turned Democrat. There are probably some people that were turned off by Trump and became an Independent, but not too many have become a full fledged Democrat. Except, and this is important, grifters that are making money off of being a “Democrat”. People like Michael Steele, Morning Joe, the loser on The View along with her panel mate Ana Navarro, Adam Kinzinger, William Kristol, the Lincoln perverts and a few other check cashers.
Any true Republican could not vote for an open border, men in woman’s spaces, money for Iran and Hamas, lawfare, censorship, high regulation, 87,000 IRS agents (while they say they don’t have manpower for the border), left wing DAs, abortion up to the 9th month, RENT CONTROL (the new scam), student payoffs, student rallies for Hamas etc etc etc.
Every Democrat is a FASCIST!
Because their party leaders
spew rage rhetoric???
They claim MAGA supporters are fascists; therefore they themselves are fascists???
One of us seems to be missing the point.