The following is an edited transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s new DailyWire+ series <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/foundations-of-the-west" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foundations of The West</a>. Join Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and his esteemed colleagues in this new 5-part series exploring the ancient cities that shaped the West.
Start time: 12:17
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Jordan B. Peterson: Where are we?
Spencer Klavan: We are on the sight of a miracle. This is what&#8217;s called the Pynx. It comes from a Greek word meaning “closely packed together.” From 507 B.C. onward, the Athenian citizens would gather here to debate and discuss the fate of their city. There was nothing, basically, that they couldn&#8217;t decide if they voted on it here in almost every context — in war, in peace. This was the site where the Ecclesia, the Democratic Council of Citizens, met to debate and vote on every question you can imagine. There was almost no choice that couldn&#8217;t be made here by the people and by a vote. Initially, we think it had about a 5,000 person capacity. Most of the original Pynx is no longer visible at this point. It is remarkable to consider. You come up here, you sacrifice to Zeus, who is, you know, Zeus of the Council, Zeus of the Gathering. And then that cry goes out: “Who wishes to speak?” And you&#8217;re gazing out upon this sparklingly new row of columns rising up effectively out of the hill as you spoke.
The closest thing to the Pynx in modern America is the town hall. In the painting called &#8220;Free Speech&#8221; by Norman Rockwell, a man gets up and just addresses the crowd. It refers to our American belief that every man is created in the image of God and endowed with liberty by his Creator. That&#8217;s the spirit of the Pynx alive in America. 
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We believe fundamentally in the same idea that the Greeks had of equality before the law and freedom of speech. It doesn&#8217;t matter who you are or where you&#8217;re from. You get a say. That&#8217;s the idea. What&#8217;s astonishing about this place is the temple not far from here, the Temple of Zeus (Olympian Zeus), was built under a tyranny. Cleisthenes, who was of these very famous and wealthy aristocrats, led what became a popular uprising. And every other city around this region reacted in the same way. They had an uprising, a revolution, and the installation of a tyranny because that&#8217;s a natural response, a revolution to extreme wealth and equality. This sort of thing has happened since time immemorial. The miracle to me is that what happened instead in Athens, they turned to this guy Solon, and they gave him the sole archonship of the city. He canceled the slavery of debt, but what he didn&#8217;t do is redistribute property or take tyrannical control. So that choice had left the Athenians in this unique position among all their contemporaries. They still had this inkling, this tradition, that actually there was another course here. 
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Peterson: How did the democratic state arise to begin with? Why did the aristocrats abandon their power or distribute it? What emerged to foster that? 
Klavan: Well, it&#8217;s a great story of high morals and low venal ambition. At the end of the sixth century B.C., leading into the fifth century, we get what we would now call a democracy. Cleisthenes, in an allegiance with the Spartan King Cleomenes, marshals the people to his aid. What you end up with is an aristocrat who is so cornered that the only people he can turn to are the people. So that&#8217;s where you get this extremely direct democracy. They would meet on this hill, which they then chiseled out into this audience space, and they would ask, “Who wants to speak?” There was still a hugely powerful aristocracy. But fundamentally, what you now had was a situation in which anybody within the citizen role, from the lowest farmer to the bluest blooded aristocrat, had something to say. It&#8217;s a shocking turn of events, and it makes Athens distinctive for the rest of its history. During the Persian War, when they beat back this massive empire — whereas the Persian forces were being driven by the lash of their great king, who was the embodiment of Ahura Mazda — these guys were fighting for their freedom, and it was only because they stood up for that that we even have an idea of democracy at all. It was itself a bad word in antiquity. It was very suspicious to a lot of people. 
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Peterson: Yes, well, why would you give the rabble a voice? 
Klavan: Why, indeed. Freedom inevitably creates more potential for chaos. The genius of the American founders was that they lived during a time when these questions were being reexamined and reanimated, and the founders were looking out at this enormous expanse of land and territory. And they were looking back at Athens and saying, “Well, ok, this is very beautiful that they fought for their freedom. But ultimately, of course, they ended up in a kind of disarray.” The Peloponnesian War comes, so they were looking back at the fall of that and thinking, well, it&#8217;s really Rome, the Republic of Rome, and the representative government that works best. Our whole idea of politics comes from the word polis, and a polis is a city. From that, we have our word politique, which is the art, the technique of gathering together in community and living life together. That&#8217;s not just a list of laws. There&#8217;s so much more to politique, to the art of politics and of community. And what Aristotle says is that mankind is a political animal, and by that he doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re born naturally into the world with an interest in tax policy or economic figures. What he means is that everywhere we live, we live in structured community together. The question is going to be how? What is the most just? The best way to organize our lives? That&#8217;s what politics is.
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Peterson: In the Judeo-Christian tradition, in Exodus, Jethro tells Moses that tyrant judge plus rabble isn&#8217;t a good model of government; there has to be hierarchical levels intermediating, and that&#8217;s the alternative to the tyranny and the desert. It&#8217;s something like the hierarchical organization of authority, which is, by the way, how your brain works too. It interacts with the world in nested concepts that are hierarchically structured. If that hierarchy is performing optimally, then you get the right balance between chaos and order. Then you could see in democracy that the Judeo-Christian tradition and the Athenian tradition stack. The combination of those two in some sense is the core of modern conservatism. Power should be distributed down to the hierarchy, to the lowest, most local possible level of decision. And you could say, “Well, that should just be democracy where everyone has their voice.” But the problem with that is it gets very, very fractious, and it doesn&#8217;t scale.
Klavan: The problem with democracy is that it devolves into mob rule, which opens the way for a strong man and a tyranny.
Peterson: That&#8217;s what people clamor about when they talk about the danger of populism.
Klavan: Yes, exactly.
Peterson: The mob has gotten out of hand; now, they&#8217;re going to elect a tyrant.
Klavan: Really, the republic is a perpetual motion machine. It&#8217;s designed to take that cycle and just freeze it essentially.
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Foundations Of The West: Jordan Peterson And Spencer Klavan Explore Athens And The Logos

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Democrats are now talking about “saving democracy.”
“Democracy” technically means that if we&#8217;re all in a room together and we want to make a decision, we all vote on that specific decision. A republic means you have representatives, which means you don&#8217;t vote directly on many of the decisions that are being made. Instead, you delegate the power to vote on those decisions to a representative government. Typically, that representative government has a series of checks and balances.
The United States is a republic. It is not a direct democracy. It&#8217;s a democracy in the broader sense, which is that we vote. But it&#8217;s not a democracy in the technical sense in which you vote on every issue or in which a pure majoritarian popular will decides every single issue.
In fact, the founders decried exactly such a system. They saw that as what they would call a mobocracy. They didn’t want just a series of referenda on every single issue to go to the popular vote, which is why intervening institutions in the government exist.
It&#8217;s why Congress is represented on a popular level, but the Senate was originally supposed to be represented at the state level by the state legislatures. Originally, state legislatures were supposed to pick their senators. It&#8217;s why the Senate itself is not proportional; Montana and California have the same number of senators. It is why a series of checks and balances between the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judiciary exist. It is why an electoral college exists.
There are all sorts of institutions in our republic that are designed to check excesses of the mob. That was very much at the forefront of the founders’ concerns, as is evidenced by the Federalist Papers.
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Why is that important? Because a shift in the way people thought of democracy in the United States took place, which started in the late 19th century as a take-away from German progressivism. Much of modern American government, our structures, particularly the administrative state, are drawn from it.
Woodrow Wilson, who was the dean of Princeton University before he became the President of the United States, greatly admired that system. He wrote extensively about German progressivism and his vision for what democracy should look like. He believed that the Constitution of the United States had outlived its sell-by date, that the Constitution’s checks and balances were useless.
Wilson, a Democrat, wanted something that was both more democratic and less democratic: He wanted a popular vote for one man who would make all the decisions with the help of administrative bureaucrats who were experts on the issues.
In other words, he wanted a government of expertise. He believed all the checks and balances thwarted that government. In 1908, he famously <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/education/classroom-resource-library/classroom/8.6-primary-source-quotes-on-executive-orders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution, it will be from no lack of constitutional powers on its part, but only because the President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not.” 
In other words, the president is elected by the public, effectively speaking, which means he should have as much power as humanly possible. That was important to Woodrow Wilson because he believed in the setup of the administrative state, an entire branch of the government that was effectively independent of the popular will.
When Democrats say democracy, this is what they mean. They do not mean that they respect the institutions of the Republic. They don&#8217;t respect the Supreme Court of the United States except when it is giving them precisely what they want.
The Democrats like to say the word “democracy” because they want to portray Donald Trump as an incipient fascist. But it is actually Joe Biden who is hell-bent on undermining the actual democratic republic.
CNN, which is hosting the first presidential debate, interviewed several Trump supporters and asked about him undermining democracy. The Trump supporters correctly responded that we don&#8217;t live in a democracy; we live in a republic, which is true. We live in a representative democracy with a series of checks and balances that thwart the popular will on a regular basis.
CNN tried to say it&#8217;s very bad to say that we live in a republic, not a democracy. They interviewed author Anne Applebaum, who <a href="https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1802653350803988619">said</a>:
<blockquote>These words were used in different ways in the 18th century. And it&#8217;s true, the Founders didn&#8217;t want direct democracy, by which they meant people gathering on the town square. They wanted representative democracy. But I think the reason why this conversation about language has risen now is because there is a part of the Republican Party that would like to rule as a minority, and they need an excuse for why that&#8217;s okay. And so they have begun to say, we&#8217;re not a democracy, we&#8217;re a republic. It&#8217;s not 100% clear what that means, but I think they mean, we want Donald Trump to be able to do whatever he wants.</blockquote>
This is truly Orwellian because it&#8217;s total projection. The people who want the president of the United States to do whatever he wants without any checks and balances are typically Democrats.
So with the polls indicating Trump is winning, Democrats are already preparing to do what they want to do: subvert the institutions of the Republic.
They are looking to subvert the democratic institutions of the Republic. They are looking to subvert the legislature. They&#8217;re looking to subvert the presidency. They&#8217;re looking to subvert the courts.
In an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/trump-2025-democratic-resistance.html#:~:text=Opponents%20of%20Donald%20J.%20Trump,Internal%20Revenue%20Service%20against%20them." target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled, “The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started,” the New York Times stated:
<blockquote>Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed. One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash the Internal Revenue Service against them. Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication.
A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential second Trump presidency, drawn together by the fear that Mr. Trump’s return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda but to American democracy itself.</blockquote>
Understand how Orwellian that is. They are saying they need to do non-democratic things to save democracy. They need to burn down the village in order to save the village. One of the actions they are going to take is to stack the administrative state. The Times continued, writing:
<blockquote>Interviews with more than 30 officials and leaders of organizations about their plans revealed a combination of acute exhaustion and acute anxiety. Activist groups that spent the four years of Mr. Trump’s presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges, ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters to oust him from power in 2020, are now realizing with great dread they may have to resist him all over again. … The Biden administration pushed through a flurry of regulations in the spring, meeting a deadline to ensure that those rules could not be summarily overturned next year under a 1996 law if Mr. Trump wins the election and Republicans take total control of Congress.</blockquote>
This is a thwarting of democracy. It is hilarious to watch all the same people who are shouting to the rafters about the evils of Trump and his attacks on democracy now attempting all the same measures that they say Republicans should never attempt.
This is how the Left thinks of our institutions, that they own these institutions. Any outside threat to these institutions, including the future boss of the institution, must be destroyed.
This is stealing democracy: actively setting up structures that prevent the fundamental working order of the government, so long as the Republican is the person who is running the government.

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday&#8217;s media spin took aim at the 2024 presidential election — which is looming ever closer as the Memorial Day weekend will kick off a summer replete with campaign events, major party conventions, and more. And based on the tone of the Sunday political shows, the narrative the mainstream media networks plan to carry into the election season is a simple one: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
For former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, the message on her MSNBC show &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki&#8221; centered around former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) and her decision to endorse Donald Trump after months of criticizing him and even running a campaign against him that lasted through Super Tuesday.
Psaki compared Haley to other Republicans who had chosen to turn on Trump, saying that she had &#8220;seen this movie&#8221; before — and that she had come to expect Republicans to &#8220;fall in line&#8221; even after the former president attacked them because they feared being ousted from the party altogether.
&#8220;Republican speaks the truth about Donald Trump… Trump smears, attacks, and belittles them… Republican falls in line rather than face excommunication from the party. How many times have we seen this movie?&#8221; she said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jrpsaki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jrpsaki</a>: “Republican speaks the truth about Donald Trump… Trump smears, attacks, and belittles them… Republican falls in line rather than face excommunication from the party. How many times have we seen this movie?” <a href="https://t.co/Ob6tr2oCZl">pic.twitter.com/Ob6tr2oCZl</a>
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1794764179900871104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Psaki&#8217;s guest Sarah Matthews took it a step further, arguing that in Haley&#8217;s case, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. was also likely forfeiting any leadership role in the Republican Party once Trump was no longer leading it.
&#8220;She could’ve – maybe in a post-Trump Republican party – been the leader. Instead, she chooses to bend the knee, kiss the ring,&#8221; she said.
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“She could’ve – maybe in a post-Trump Republican party – been the leader. Instead, she chooses to bend the knee, kiss the ring.”<a href="https://twitter.com/SarahAMatthews1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SarahAMatthews1</a> on what Nikki Haley gives up by supporting Trump. <a href="https://t.co/YS8ooiBwxJ">pic.twitter.com/YS8ooiBwxJ</a>
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1794766696290386283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; anchor Kristen raised the specter of Americans refusing to accept election outcomes when she sat down with four secretaries of state and asked whether any of them had been threatened simply for attempting to do their jobs.
&#8220;It has impacted not just us, but also our families,&#8221; Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D-AZ) said.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kwelkernbc</a> asked four secretaries of state to raise their hands if they’ve received threats for doing their jobs.
They all did.
Arizona Sec. <a href="https://twitter.com/Adrian_Fontes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Adrian_Fontes</a>: “It has impacted not just us, but also our families.” <a href="https://t.co/8RxZ0qMC5a">pic.twitter.com/8RxZ0qMC5a</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1794737852149870623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fontes added, &#8220;Threats against elections officials in the United States &#8230; is domestic terrorism &#8230; We&#8217;re working with law enforcement across the country to really start to address these things. It&#8217;s not too little too late.&#8221;
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WATCH: Arizona Secretary of State <a href="https://twitter.com/Adrian_Fontes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Adrian_Fontes</a> (D) says &#8220;threats against elections officials in the United States &#8230; is domestic terrorism.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re working with law enforcement across the country to really start to address these things. It&#8217;s not too little too late.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/tO5plcKtgZ">pic.twitter.com/tO5plcKtgZ</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1794735581894767056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Welker framed the conversation — with Fontes and three others — around the upcoming election and polls that suggest a majority of Americans believe that &#8220;democracy in the U.S. is under threat.&#8221;
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Good Sunday morning —
In just over five months, voters will pick 11 governors, 34 U.S. senators, 435 members of the House and choose thousands of local and statewide officials.
It comes as more than 80% of voters say democracy in the U.S. is under threat. <a href="https://t.co/rPUnQI6NK7">pic.twitter.com/rPUnQI6NK7</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1794730592065511546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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What Welker did not mention was that the same Georgetown University poll that revealed 81% believed democracy was in danger — and 51% thought Trump posed a risk — also stated that 47% believed the mainstream media was a threat to democracy.
ON CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; anchor Dana Bash fomented fear of another January 6th when she continued to beat the same dead horse so many network hosts trot out every time they interview a Republican senator: &#8220;Will you vote to certify the election no matter who wins?&#8221;
Senator Tim Scott was on the receiving end of that question on Sunday, and his answer was simple: &#8220;Well, certainly, we expect a fair and honest election. And as a result of that expectation, we will certify the election and certify President Donald Trump as our 47th president.&#8221;
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BASH: “Will you vote to certify the election no matter who wins?”
SCOTT: “Well, certainly, we expect a fair and honest election. And as a result of that expectation, we will certify the election and certify President Donald Trump as our 47th president.” <a href="https://t.co/x43PncK8uu">pic.twitter.com/x43PncK8uu</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1794745278378996027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As the election draws closer — and it becomes clearer that the multiple court cases against Trump have either failed to sideline him or won&#8217;t be decided prior to the election — media appears ready to pull out all the stops to make sure they keep telling people to be afraid of the former president.

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It&#8217;s been several days now, but the outrage mob is still having conniptions over a speech given by a Catholic NFL kicker at a Catholic college, in which he dared to suggest that some women want to be mothers. That was too much for the Left and certainly for most media outlets, who have spent the last several days panicking and, in many cases, <a href="https://x.com/thehill/status/1791280753600262545" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lying</a> about what Harrison Butker said.
But if we were a sane culture, there&#8217;s another commencement speech that would be attracting considerably more negative attention. It was delivered yesterday by Joe Biden at Morehouse College, the historically black school in Atlanta. And in the span of about thirty minutes, Joe Biden did everything they&#8217;re falsely accusing Harrison Butker of doing — and then some.
Biden actually did demean and insult millions of Americans, very clearly. He also deliberately stoked hatred and lied repeatedly, with the apparent goal of dividing this country even more than it&#8217;s already divided. And of course, all of this is more concerning than anything Harrison Butker could possibly say, because Harrison Butker is a football player. And Joe Biden, at least nominally, is the president of the United States. What he says reflects how the Democratic Party intends to govern if they remain in power.
That said, as you&#8217;d expect, Joe Biden didn&#8217;t resemble the president of the United States at any point during this ceremony. He looked more like a half-conscious, decaying muppet on the stage, particularly as other speakers were delivering their remarks. 
Take a look at Biden&#8217;s face as the Morehouse valedictorian spoke, for example:
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He looks like he’s literally dying right in front of us. To be fair to Biden though, the speech from the Morehouse valedictorian wasn&#8217;t easy to listen to: &#8220;It is my stance, as a Morehouse Man — nay, as a human being — to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza strip.&#8221; 
Yes, he actually uses the word &#8220;nay,&#8221; as if he&#8217;s delivering an address in front of the House of Commons in the 18th century, and not a random college in Atlanta with an average SAT score just north of 1,000. There&#8217;s no self-awareness whatsoever. Who wouldn&#8217;t squint in pain at least a little bit, in the face of that kind of pretentiousness? In what universe would the Morehouse College valedictorian think he can &#8220;call&#8221; for a &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; in any conflict, outside of maybe a food fight in the school cafeteria?
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1371-biden-inspires-black-graduates-by-telling-them-that-democracy-is-dead-and-white-people-are-out-to-kill-them-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Of course, being realistic, Joe Biden wasn&#8217;t squinting in pain so much as confusion. So he claps at the end of the remarks, presumably because everyone else was clapping. Every time Biden goes out in public, we&#8217;re reminded that he&#8217;s barely hanging on. He&#8217;s certainly not governing the country right now.
As if to underscore that point, Biden began his commencement speech with one of his trademarks: He made an outlandish claim that&#8217;s clearly false. Watch:
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As a general rule, when Joe Biden says &#8220;I&#8217;m not kidding,&#8221; he actually does mean it. He&#8217;s not kidding — he&#8217;s lying. 
There is no council of insightful Morehouse College graduates in the White House telling Joe Biden what to do. In fact there don&#8217;t appear to be any high-ranking Morehouse grads anywhere in the Biden administration, as far as I can tell. There are Duke grads like the White House chief of staff, Columbia grads like the press secretary, Yale grads like the national security advisor, and Oxford grads like the CIA director. But Morehouse graduates — nay, Morehouse men — don&#8217;t appear to be well-represented.
This is a recurring theme in Biden&#8217;s career, where he pretends to be an everyman populist while keeping the commoners as far away from himself as possible. It&#8217;s the same scam Barack Obama pulled, only Biden isn&#8217;t remotely subtle about it because his brain has disintegrated.
But you knew that already. The bigger issue on Sunday were Joe Biden&#8217;s prepared remarks — because those prepared remarks were written by the people who actually run the government. In particular, Biden&#8217;s team thought this clip from his speech was so profound that they proudly posted it to his Twitter page. This was the excerpt from the 30-minute speech that the White House felt really underscored the president&#8217;s message. Watch:
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It is indeed a profound clip, but not in the way the White House thinks. It&#8217;s actually a profound illustration of what our leadership has become. The president of the United States stood in front of young adults who had just graduated college and angrily ranted about how America hates them, white people are out to kill them, and how democracy is a &#8220;trail of broken promises.&#8221; Biden&#8217;s message, as always, was depressing, demoralizing, unpatriotic, and most of all: false.
He says George Floyd was murdered. No, he wasn&#8217;t. George Floyd was one of a rapidly growing number of black men who died of a drug overdose in 2020. You rarely hear it mentioned — Biden certainly didn&#8217;t talk about it at Morehouse — but overdose deaths among blacks <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0719-overdose-rates-vs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped</a> by nearly 50% that year. The overdose epidemic is a real crisis that is killing thousands and thousand of Americans of every race, but our political leaders can’t even pretend to care about it. Biden certainly can’t pretend. Then again, he can’t do anything.
Rather than address that problem in any way, Democrats like Joe Biden decided to blame police officers. In fact, in their platform in 2020, the DNC claimed that millions of people have &#8220;good reason&#8221; to fear being murdered by police officers. So, the police pulled out of black communities, resulting in even more crime and death.
Biden doubled down on this approach at Morehouse on Sunday. He said black men are being &#8220;killed in the street.&#8221; That&#8217;s true in a sense. But Biden&#8217;s implication is a lie, because he wants us to believe that black men are being killed by white people (including all those white supremacist police officers). But the truth is the opposite. Nearly all black victims are killed by other black people. And a black person is far more likely to kill a white person than the reverse. Last year, for example, 86 black people were <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1792294685546823746" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> by whites. But the number of whites who were killed by black assailants was more than five times higher, at 488.
This is data that holds up year after year. Here&#8217;s <a href="https://national-conservative.com/interracial-homicides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a chart</a> that the National Conservative has prepared on this. It shows the number of interracial homicides so far this year. What do you notice?
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Black-on-white crimes dominate the chart, followed by Latino-on-white and black-on-Latino crimes. You have to willfully ignore all available evidence to come to the conclusion that white supremacy is the problem here.
But willfully ignoring all available evidence was a theme of Biden&#8217;s speech. Joe Biden went on to say that the black community is being &#8220;left behind&#8221; by &#8220;broken promises.&#8221; What broken promises, exactly? Democrats have run many major cities in this country for a long time, without any real opposition. And without exception, they&#8217;ve all become much less desirable places to live. Go for a walk after dark in Chicago or Selma or Baltimore or D.C. some time if you don&#8217;t believe that. The black community is leaving itself behind through rampant crime, violence, drug use, and fatherlessness. Also by continuing to vote into office Democrat politicians who promise to make everything worse — and do. So there are no broken promises. Only bad promises, faithfully kept.
But instead of telling the truth to his audience at Morehouse, Joe Biden kept lying to them. He also declared that as a nation we &#8220;say&#8221; that we are going to &#8220;end racism and poverty.&#8221; Really? When has the nation ever said that? I’m in this nation and I never said it. Nobody I know has ever made this declaration. Neither racism nor poverty will ever be ended. There isn&#8217;t a country on the planet, at any point throughout history, that&#8217;s eradicated racism or poverty. It&#8217;s impossible to do so.
You have to wonder how long Democrats will buy this messaging. In order to believe Biden&#8217;s pandering at Morehouse, you&#8217;d have to ignore the fact that he&#8217;s been in the White House for the past several years. You&#8217;d also have to ignore the fact that Barack Obama had eight years in office — at the beginning of which, all the way back in 2008, he promised to build a, &#8220;more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.'&#8221;
Now Democrats aren&#8217;t even pretending to want any of that. Instead, they want absolute power. And they intend to obtain that power by lying and dividing this country as much as possible. Whenever institutions get in their way, Democrats intend to ignore them.
At Morehouse yesterday, Biden made that explicit. Watch:
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He&#8217;s talking there about &#8220;forgiving student debt,&#8221; meaning redistributing that debt to taxpayers. Forcing working class Americans to pay the debts of college graduates, who on average have a higher net worth than they do: &#8220;When the Supreme Court told me I couldn’t, I found two other ways to do it.&#8221; Nowhere in his speech does Joe Biden even pretend that this is legal. He just celebrates that he got it done, to applause from his audience.
In 2024, that&#8217;s what &#8220;democracy&#8221; means to Biden and the White House. When they say they&#8217;re preserving democracy, they mean they&#8217;re enacting Democratic Party agenda items by force, without regard to checks and balances.
Implementing policy like this only works if a majority of the country despises the other side — to the point that they&#8217;re not willing to play by the rules anymore (otherwise known as the Constitution). Biden&#8217;s speech at Morehouse makes it clear, once again, that this is the strategy the White House has chosen for the upcoming election.
I&#8217;d be lying if I said it wasn&#8217;t effective. Other than a few Morehouse students who turned their backs on Biden, pretty much everyone in attendance seemed on board with this. Millions of Americans see no problem with it, either.
They can&#8217;t tolerate Harrison Butker&#8217;s message emphasizing personal choice and fulfillment because it&#8217;s the polar opposite of Biden&#8217;s screed pushing racial animosity and lawlessness. Only a deeply broken country, careening towards more division and more chaos, would make a scandal out of the former commencement address and cheer for the latter.

President Biden Delivers Commencement Address at Morehouse College

Biden Inspires Black Graduates By Telling Them That Democracy Is Dead And White People Are Out To Kill Them

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Matt Walsh

Academics have a bone to pick with the authors of &#8220;White Rural Rage: The Threat To American Democracy,&#8221; a best-selling book that argues rural voters — many of whom have <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/28/rural-voters-favor-trump/72337833007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rallied behind</a> former President Donald Trump — pose a danger to the United States.
Journalist Paul Waldman and professor Tom Schaller are being accused of negligence by some of the very same researchers they cited in their book, which publisher Penguin Random House <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734507/white-rural-rage-by-tom-schaller-and-paul-waldman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> is about how &#8220;rural Whites&#8221; have become the &#8220;most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions&#8221; with the encouragement of GOP politicians and conservative media.
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Nicholas Jacobs, a political scientist from Colby College, said in an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/05/white-rural-rage-myth-00150395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed published by POLITICO</a> Magazine on Friday that his research and the work of others are &#8220;being misinterpreted and misunderstood.&#8221; The authors made &#8220;two persistent types of errors&#8221; when examining the data on rural Americans, he explained.
The first, Jacobs said, is they &#8220;routinely fall victim to the logical fallacy of composition when they attribute group characteristics to individuals.&#8221; He cited as examples attempts to suggest rural voters who support Trump are more likely to be authoritarian, claim their communities are beset by Christian nationalism, and ignore the smaller numbers who back Democrats.
The second &#8220;persistent error,&#8221; Jacobs said, is the authors &#8220;cite polling data with little attention to issues of quality, which less sloppy scholars would question to make sure their conclusions were valid,&#8221; including on race and immigration as well as the &#8220;birther&#8221; claim regarding former President Barack Obama and whether he was born in the United States.
&#8220;This shoddy analysis and faux expertise does real damage,&#8221; Jacobs wrote, dismissing the central focus of the book. &#8220;It is clear that the overwhelming portrayal of rural America as angry and irrational feeds into and amplifies the divisions between rural and urban Americans, overshadowing the shared challenges and aspirations that cut across these geographic lines.&#8221;
Jacobs also joined with B. Kal Munis to write in a post published on <a href="https://reason.com/2024/03/07/the-truth-about-rural-rage/#:~:text=The%20overarching%20argument%20of%20White,rural%20communities%20than%20within%20them." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reason.com</a>, saying they were two of the scholars whose work the authors of &#8220;White Rural Rage&#8221; got wrong, going as far as to accuse Waldman and Schaller of &#8220;academic malpractice&#8221; in their book.
&#8220;Schaller and Waldman favorably cite our research showing that there is a modest correlation between rural resentment and racial resentment, a commonly used attitudinal measure of negative racial stereotyping,&#8221; the pair <a href="https://reason.com/2024/03/07/the-truth-about-rural-rage/#:~:text=The%20overarching%20argument%20of%20White,rural%20communities%20than%20within%20them." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in their op-ed from March. &#8220;What they fail to note is the only statistically and intellectually sound conclusion that could be drawn from our data: While this slight correlation exists, rural resentment is an attitude distinct from racial prejudice.&#8221;
In response to the criticism, Schaller and Waldman spoke with The New Republic editor Michael Tomasky in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTdo5eAW1Ws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent interview</a> and touched on the veracity of their work. The book &#8220;is right, right now,&#8221; said Schaller, who then quipped about hoping that in 10 to 15 years they will have to &#8220;retract a lot of it because white, rural Americans&#8221; will have returned to their roots and support a &#8220;secular, pluralist constitutional democracy.&#8221;
Waldman said they have &#8220;taken a lot of criticism even from people who say, &#8216;This book is why rural people are resentful.&#8217; That it&#8217;s the &#8230; condescension of the snooty Eastern elitists and that&#8217;s the end of the story and you don&#8217;t have to interrogate really where that belief comes form, but we&#8217;ve also heard from a lot of people in rural American of all kinds just ordinary people — journalists, activists — &#8230; who have said, &#8216;This is an accurate reflection of what&#8217;s going on in my community. This is a real problem and we have to address it.'&#8221;
The criticism, however, keeps coming.
Kristen Luna Trujillo, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/white-rural-rage-cites-my-research-it-gets-everything-about-rural-america-wrong-opinion-1877917" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> for Newsweek that the authors cited but did not misrepresent her work, yet she chastises them for how they &#8220;do criticize rural Americans for their anti-intellectualism, building on tired tropes of rural people being backward, dumb, violent, and ignorant, while pushing a narrative that worsens such distrust in the first place.&#8221;
Another assistant professor, Tyler Austin Harper of Bates College, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240406214424/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/white-rural-rage-criticism/677967/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> for The Atlantic that he spoke with 20 scholars in the &#8220;tight-knit rural-studies community&#8221; and most of whom are cited in &#8220;White Rural Rage&#8221; or thanked in the acknowledgments. He said these academics &#8220;left me convinced that the book is poorly researched and intellectually dishonest.&#8221;
Harper said he found a pattern after fact-checking many of the book&#8217;s claims and citations that showed most of &#8220;the problems occur in sections of the book that try to prove that white rural Americans are especially likely to commit or express support for political violence.&#8221;
Claiming the authors are &#8220;bending the facts to fit their chosen scapegoat,&#8221; Harper wrote they &#8220;mislead the public about the all-too-real threats to our democracy today. As serious scholarship has shown—including some of the very scholarship Schaller and Waldman cite, only to contort it — the right-wing rage we need to worry about is not coming from deep-red rural areas. It is coming from cities and suburbs.&#8221;

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‘White Rural Rage’ Book Enrages Same Academics It Cites

'White Rural Rage' Book Enrages Same Academics It Cites

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, claimed during an interview that aired on Sunday that he has ended corruption in Mexico and that the hundreds of political assassinations that are carried out every year in his country are not a threat to democracy.
AMLO made the claims during a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview about the crisis on the U.S. southern border and about the Mexican drug cartels.
The left-wing news program noted that AMLO takes a &#8220;bare knuckle brawls with the press&#8221; which it said was in &#8220;sharp contrast to the softer approach he&#8217;s taken with the drug cartels.&#8221;
AMLO claimed that his &#8220;hugs not bullets&#8221; method for dealing with the cartels has worked out &#8220;very well,&#8221; even though violence remains high and the cartels have grown in size.
When asked about the more than 30,000 murders that happen in Mexico every year, AMLO claimed that the Mexican government prosecuted &#8220;all&#8221; of the cases, even though only around 5% are actually prosecuted.
AMLO deflected blame for the role his country has played in the fentanyl crisis in the United States since nearly all of the illicit fentanyl that ends up killing Americans is manufactured by cartels in Mexico.
&#8220;Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico,&#8221; he claimed, ignoring the fact that the illicit fentanyl used in street drugs comes from his country. &#8220;And the chemical precursors come from Asia. You know why we don&#8217;t have the drug consumption that you have in the United States? Because we have customs, traditions, and we don&#8217;t have the problem of the disintegration of the family.&#8221;
He also falsely claimed that drug consumption in Mexico was not a problem.
When asked if he has &#8220;completely&#8221; eliminated &#8220;corruption&#8221; in Mexico, AMLO claimed: &#8220;Yes, basically, because corruption in Mexico started from the top down.&#8221;
&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; noted that independent organizations have found there has been &#8220;no improvement in the corruption problems that have plagued Mexico for decades&#8221; under AMLO.
When asked about the 355 government officials and political candidates who were murdered last year in his country, he downplayed the matter, saying there were only &#8220;some specific instances.&#8221;
He said that the assassinations posed no threat to democracy.
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President Lopez Obrador Meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

AMLO Claims He Ended Corruption In Mexico, Not Worried About Hundreds Of Political Assassinations

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> argued on Saturday that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s claims that Trump and his &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; movement <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/biden-says-trump-maga-republicans-are-threat-to-democracy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pose a danger</a> to democracy is a new &#8220;hoax&#8221; and that Biden is the &#8220;real threat.&#8221;
At a gala held by the New York Young Republican Club, Trump said Biden&#8217;s line of attack is based on &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; another in a growing list of controversies that date back to his successful 2016 campaign.
&#8220;The radical left Democrats, their fake news allies have unveiled their newest hoax that Donald J. And the Republican Party are a threat to democracy … This is their new line. Here we go again — &#8216;Russia, Russia, Russia,&#8217; &#8216;Mueller, Mueller, Mueller,&#8217; &#8216;Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.&#8217; One hoax after another,&#8221; Trump said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-claims-hes-threat-democracy-hoax-says-biden-real-threat-will-save-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>.
Trump called the strategy a &#8220;desperate and shameless attempt to distract from the monstrous abuses of power the Left is committing before your very eyes.&#8221; He also said, &#8220;We call it now the threat-to-democracy hoax, because that&#8217;s what it is.&#8221;
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A little more than a month before the 2024 primary season gets underway, Trump and Biden are locked in a war of words ahead of what could be a 2020 rematch in the general election.
Biden has employed warnings about democracy being at risk as he makes his re-election pitch to voters and donors, hearkening back to the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, and efforts by Trump and his allies to challenge the results of the 2020 election. He has also seized on Trump pledging to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-predicts-biden-wont-be-dems-2024-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a &#8220;dictator&#8221;</a> only on the first day of his second term in order to tackle issues such as border security and drilling for energy.
&#8220;Let me be clear,&#8221; Biden said at a fundraiser in California over the weekend. &#8220;Donald Trump poses many threats to the country, from the right to choose to civil rights to voting rights to America’s standing in the world. But the greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy, because if we lose that, we lose everything.&#8221;
Trump made the case on Saturday that Biden has it backward.
Biden is the &#8220;real threat to democracy for two simple reasons: he&#8217;s corrupt and incompetent — grossly incompetent,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/RealAmVoice/status/1733702086762660079" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

Former President Donald Trump

Trump Rejects ‘Threat-To-Democracy Hoax,’ Says Biden Poses The ‘Real’ Danger

Trump Rejects 'Threat-To-Democracy Hoax,' Says Biden Poses The 'Real' Danger

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If this author knows anything about anything, it&#8217;s that Democrats and the Left think that even the most minor disruption of an official proceeding of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> is just about the worst thing you can do in American politics these days (or so they claim). Such an action desecrates the hallowed ground walked upon by our nation&#8217;s public servants and spits on the Constitution itself, Legacy Media has beaten into us for the last two-and-a-half years.
No matter how small or non-violent the action might be, even if accidental, anybody who would disrespect Congress must be thrown into the slammer, made an example out of, and have his or her life ruined. They should be given a nickname, too. Like The Lectern Guy, or The QAnon Shaman fella with the horns.
And so, it gives me no pleasure to say, but the evidence suggests that Congressman Jamaal &#8220;The Fire Alarm Guy&#8221; Bowman (D-NY) is now a threat to democracy who must have the book thrown at him.
On Saturday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-rep-reportedly-caught-on-camera-pulling-house-office-fire-alarm-ahead-of-continuing-resolution-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Bowman was seemingly caught on camera pulling the fire alarm at the Cannon House Office Building ahead of a motion to adjourn on Saturday as Democrats seek to delay a continuing resolution vote. Bowman and his ilk are threatening to shut down the government if Ukraine doesn&#8217;t get their money in the stopgap spending bill.
We didn&#8217;t think Bowman would literally threaten to shut down the government by sending everybody into a panic, but a still image of a man who looks a lot like Bowman pretty much confirmed it.
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🚨🚨NEW &#8212; Capitol Police are circulating this photo of a man pulling the fire alarm in Cannon. Looks a lot like Jamaal Bowman <a href="https://t.co/khzpigSvWI">pic.twitter.com/khzpigSvWI</a>
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Bowman allegedly broke multiple laws with such a heinous action. First, it&#8217;s a crime in Washington, D.C., to pull a fire alarm when there actually isn&#8217;t a fire.
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Secondly, obstructing a Congressional proceeding is a felony.
Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX) offered to apprehend him.
&#8220;I’m hearing Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was CAUGHT ON CAMERA pulling the fire alarm in a House Office Building to delay the CR vote. IF TRUE: he should be charged with obstructing an official proceeding which is a FELONY. As a former Sheriff, I’d happily slap the cuffs on him.&#8221;
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I’m hearing Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was CAUGHT ON CAMERA pulling the fire alarm in a House Office Building to delay the CR vote.
IF TRUE: he should be charged with obstructing an official proceeding which is a FELONY. 
As a former Sheriff, I’d happily slap the cuffs on him.
&mdash; Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTroyNehls/status/1708184117265711602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Now, Bowman&#8217;s spokesperson is saying that he did not mean to cause a panic. It was all a big misunderstanding.
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NEW: Bowman spox Emma Simon on him pulling the fire alarm.
“Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”
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But oh no, just like those who entered the Capitol on January 6 and have argued they didn&#8217;t mean to break any laws, Bowman can&#8217;t be let off the hook. He wouldn&#8217;t want that either if he had any legal and moral consistency.
As Bowman once said, &#8220;No one in this country is above the law.&#8221;
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This is a post from Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY). 
This is the same guy who was just caught on camera pulling the Cannon fire alarm in an alleged attempt to delay the CR vote.
Oh, the irony! <a href="https://t.co/BVeOLVhgfr">pic.twitter.com/BVeOLVhgfr</a>
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Rules are rules. Bowman needs to be held to the same standard set by the Democrats. He can tell his sob story to the judge.
PS: Bowman is a former middle school principal. He didn&#8217;t know pulling the fire alarm would cause chaos? Give me a break.
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D) was a high school principal before getting elected to Congress. He literally had hours of fire drill safety training &amp; probably knows better than anyone the life &amp; death consequences of pulling a false fire alarm. <a href="https://t.co/h9ZAN7v1ik">https://t.co/h9ZAN7v1ik</a>
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Rules Are Rules: Jamaal ‘The Fire Alarm Guy’ Bowman Is A Threat To Democracy

Rules Are Rules: Jamaal 'The Fire Alarm Guy' Bowman Is A Threat To Democracy

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Jamaal Bowman

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Top military leaders from Gabon, a central <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/africa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African</a> nation, declared a coup on Wednesday shortly after the country re-elected its president in what&#8217;s been called a fraudulent election.
Military officers <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/africa/gabon-military-officers-say-power-seized-election-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> the coup on state television Wednesday just hours after the country declared President Ali Bongo Ondimba – whose family has ruled Gabon for over 50 years – the winner of the disputed election. Bongo was detained on Wednesday and placed under house arrest. The unrest follows a string of similar actions taken in other African countries and would mark the eighth coup in the region since 2020 if successful, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-us-is-deeply-concerned-by-situation-gabon-2023-08-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reuters.
“Today the country is undergoing a severe institutional, political, economic, and social crisis,” the military officers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/gabon-coup-military-takeover-gabonese-election-disputed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a video message announcing the attempted coup. “On behalf of the Gabonese people and guarantor of the protection of institutions, CTRI [the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions] has decided to defend peace by putting an end to the regime in place,” an officer <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/africa/gabon-military-officers-say-power-seized-election-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
During the address, the mutinous officers said that Bongo had been placed under house arrest and that the results of the election had been “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gabon-coup-attempt-military-officers-say-election-cancelled-west-africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a>.” In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/africa/gabon-military-officers-say-power-seized-election-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">address</a> of his own, Bongo said that he was being detained in his residence while his wife and son were taken to separate locations.
The coup leaders also arrested Bongo&#8217;s inner circle, alleging “high betrayal of state institutions, massive embezzlement of public funds (and) international financial embezzlement,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gabon-mutiny-elections-power-a61d03963f75ae93ba85a4ba7eec3c71" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.
“Nothing is happening, I don’t know what’s going on,” Bongo said, calling on his supporters to “make noise.” Despite the call to action from Bongo, the demonstrations appeared to be in support of the military coup, with crowds celebrating in the streets and thanking the army, the AP reports.
Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema, head of the Republican Guard unit which is tasked with protecting the president, was named the leader of the military junta and transitional government; Oligui is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gabon-mutiny-elections-power-a61d03963f75ae93ba85a4ba7eec3c71?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> the cousin of Bongo. Following the address, footage shows the military leader being paraded through the streets while fellow soldiers cheered and civilians shouted “freedom,” according to The New York Times.
On Wednesday, Bongo was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world/africa/gabon-coup-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> the winner of the country’s presidential election, which took place on Saturday, garnering 65% of the vote, according to The New York Times. The election was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gabon-president-ali-bongo-wins-third-term-after-disputed-election-2023-08-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely viewed</a> as fraudulent within Gabon due to voting delays, a lack of international election observers, foreign broadcasts being suspended, and the government cutting internet service for days following the vote.
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Shortly after Bongo was declared the winner, gunfire could be heard in the capital of Libreville, followed by the television address announcing the coup by 12 officers, according to the Times. The group behind the coup refers to themselves as the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions, and they <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gabon-military-officers-announce-seized-power-rcna102493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> to “dissolve all institutions of the republic” during their address.
“There was discontent in Gabon,” Oligui <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world/africa/gabon-coup-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Le Monde, a French newspaper. “So the army decided to turn the page and do something.”
In 1960, the country <a href="https://uca.edu/politicalscience/home/research-projects/dadm-project/sub-saharan-africa-region/gabon-1960-present/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gained independence</a> from France. Bongo’s father, Omar Bongo Ondimba, became president in 1967, and Ali Bongo was elected after the elder Bongo’s death in 2009. During his two terms, he has been accused of corruption, and survived a previous coup attempt in 2019.
Even though Gabon is an oil-rich country, roughly one-third of the country’s population lives in poverty, according to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13376333" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the BBC</a>.
This past December, Bongo visited Washington where he met with President Joe Biden at the White House, Today News Africa <a href="https://todaynewsafrica.com/white-house-says-u-s-monitoring-developments-in-gabon-amid-coup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Following the news of the coup, White House national security spokesman John Kirby called the events “deeply concerning,” and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-us-is-deeply-concerned-by-situation-gabon-2023-08-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the U.S. will “remain a supporter of the people in the region, a supporter of the people of Gabon and of their demand for democratic governance.&#8221;
Last month, military leaders in Niger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-officials-missionaries-evacuated-from-niger-as-military-seizes-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seized power</a> and installed General Abdourahmane Tchiani as president.

Gabonese soldiers announce they have seized power

Military Leaders Declare Coup In Central African Nation, Vow To ‘Dissolve All Institutions Of The Republic’

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The Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, approved an amendment to the country’s Basic Law on Monday, standing staunchly against the Israeli Left, which has exploded in anger at seeing its control over the political arena erode.
The 64-0 vote, with all members of the right-wing bloc voting for the amendment and all members of the opposition boycotting the vote, was to curb the nation’s “reasonableness standard.” That standard enabled judges in Israel to apply a “reasonableness standard” to block decisions by elected officials that they believe are beyond the scope of what a responsible and reasonable authority would do.
The standard thereby gave the justices a de facto veto on most if not all government policies. The Israeli Supreme Court has always been dominated by leftists, and unlike the United States and other Western countries, enables justices on the court to pick their successors, thus giving the Left permanent control of the judiciary and thus control over government decisions.
The Left has somehow twisted its loss of control as a threat to democracy and launched protests around the country.
“We started by correcting the cause of reasonableness, as part of the important reform to correct the entire judicial system,” Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir stated, according to <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/373960">Israel National News</a>. “The time has come to return the power to the public and stop the rule of the junta. Correcting the cause of reasonableness is an extremely important step, but we must pass the entire reform. Changing the Judicial Selection Committee, the cancellation of the Override Clause, changing the powers of the Attorney General. Bringing democracy back to Israel.&#8221;
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich added, “64 supporters against 56 opponents to the reduction of the cause of reasonableness. Tonight, democracy won.”
Minister of Aliyah and Integration Ofir Sofer agreed, saying, “Tonight, we passed an important amendment to the cause of reasonableness in the first reading. An amendment that will allow the government ministers to implement the policy for which we were elected. I congratulate Minister Yariv Levin and the chairman of the Constitution Committee, Simcha Rothman, and call on the members of the opposition to behave responsibly and heed the call of the Minister of Justice to negotiate for the benefit of the State of Israel.”
The opposition hurled criticism at the amendment; Former Prime Minister and opposition leader Yair Lapid called the right-wing government, “thieves in the night,” threatening, “Millions of Israelis will take to the streets tomorrow.”
Yisrael Beitenu chairman Avigdor Liberman echoed that the amended law poses “serious damage to democracy.&#8221;
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I am not the biggest Bibi fan. 
But can we just stop and honor a man who is so freaking driven in his service to Israel that he had heart surgery and then put on a suit, got in a car, and is now running negotiations like a super-boss from his Knesset seat like he just woke up… <a href="https://t.co/CrZS4leWoQ">pic.twitter.com/CrZS4leWoQ</a>
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Israeli parliament approves controversial bill limiting âreasonableness standardâ

Israel Passes Judicial Reform In Face Of Mass Left-Wing Protests

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Judiciary

Protests

Israel’s democratically elected legislature, the Knesset, is in the midst of voting on a series of laws that would scale back the power of the unelected judiciary and place more power in the elected body. Tens of thousands of Israelis along with Israel’s usual detractors are up in arms, calling this &#8220;tyranny&#8221; and the “end of democracy.”
To start, those who continue to push the “end of democracy” narrative are objectively counterfactual, counterproductive, and over-reactionary. When a democratically elected body makes efforts to wrangle back power from those appointed by a committee controlled by the Bar Association and the judiciary itself, it is, in fact, putting more “power” into the hands of the “people.” In simple terms, making the political system more “democratic.”
Democratic governments around the world take many different forms, from constitutional republics, like the United States, to parliamentary systems, like the United Kingdom, and many variations there between. Israel is just shy of 75 years young, and is still in the nascent stages of forming what its democracy will look like. For instance, while its founders set out to form a constitution, none has yet been put in place. The entire process the democratically-elected government is going through is at the very core of democracy.
While it’s hard to see it through the hysterics, Israel’s proposed judicial reforms are, in fact, imperfect in their current state. However, this is the case when most laws are initially proposed. This is why there is a process, in most (or all) democracies in the world, Israel included, that allows for debate, input, discussion, and ultimately amendments. Those opposing the judicial reforms would be better served by pushing for constructive dialogue rather than destructive protests. Calls for the Knesset to change direction simply because of the nightly protests should fall on deaf ears, as a well-functioning government should never cave to what would essentially be mob rule.
Taking a quick step back, the proposed judicial reforms aim to accomplish five things: (1) Changing the process of selecting judges, so as to give the governing coalition of the Knesset a majority in the judicial selection committee; (2) Prohibiting the Supreme Court from making decisions based “on reasonability” rather than on laws passed by the Knesset; (3) Changing legal opinions of general counsels of government departments, appointed by the attorney general, from binding to advisory; (4) Raising the standard for the Supreme Court to strike down a law passed by the Knesset to 11 out of the 15 judges; and (5) Providing the Knesset the capacity to override a decision by the Supreme Court that strikes down a law passed by the Knesset with a majority of the Knesset members. Of course, the proposals are more nuanced than the above-outlined, but these are the general strokes of the proposals.
That judicial reforms are needed is the broad consensus view. The self-elected judiciary has become hyper-political, if not hostile, to the government, to the ultra-Orthodox, and to the conservative majority. The Supreme Court has also unilaterally expanded its own power by granting itself powers of judicial review and making key decisions based on its subjective interpretation of “reasonability,” and general, undefined concepts of dignity and liberty. The impact of the Supreme Court’s rulings is even more far reaching, given that the Israeli Supreme Court is a Court of first instance, in that almost anyone can file claims directly with the Court on a host of issues. At bottom, an unelected branch of government has run amok and the Knesset is looking to rein it in through these reforms.
The only truly controversial or delicate provision in the proposed reforms, in my opinion, is the “override clause.” The fact that the Knesset is seeking to include an override clause is not a problem per se. Given the past relationship between the branches, and the importance given by the elected body to ensuring that those elected by the people have final say on critical issues, the ability to override the Court’s decision makes sense. Israel would not be alone in implementing an express “override clause.” Canada, a country which no one would seriously charge as “non-democratic,” has a similar law, which permits the Parliament to pass a law “notwithstanding” their Court’s having found that law to be unconstitutional.
Still, for purposes of political stability, which is critical for the social and economic well-being of any nation, the issues which should qualify for override should be very limited and an override should only pass with a supermajority of the Knesset. These limitations would all but guarantee that the override would only be used sparingly and could not be abused by any party to satisfy the political whims of the day.
Finally, the governing coalition should learn from the mistakes of the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate in 2013, when they removed the 60-vote filibuster for the president&#8217;s nominees, requiring only a simple majority instead. This was a shrewd move in the short term to get President Obama’s nominees seated, but when control of the Senate shifted back to the Republicans, Democrats quickly regretted that the Republicans could pass through the president&#8217;s nominees without the support of a single Democrat.
In Israel today, it is hard to see when and how the political Left could return to power. But, politics lives on a pendulum, and when (not if) political control inevitably shifts in Israel, those in control of the Knesset today will regret having a law in place which requires only a simple majority to override the Supreme Court.
At the end, the Likud party and its coalition partners should not make any decisions based on the hysterical protests and threats of its detractors. Still, the government shouldn’t rush through the reforms without robust and honest debate about its impact. Particular care should be taken to limit the override clause so as to protect the integrity of the Supreme Court while providing the supermajority of the Knesset the ability to have final say on critical issues that go to the heart of the Jewish and Democratic State of Israel.
Gabriel Groisman is a partner at LSN Partners in Miami, Florida, a Jewish rights leader and the former mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Protests Continue Over Proposed Judicial Overhaul In Israel

Israel Is Reforming Its Judiciary. It’s Not Perfect, It’s Democracy. 

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Despite the White House&#8217;s repeated insistence that &#8220;democracy&#8221; itself was on the 2022 midterms ballot, CNN anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/is-that-intentional-cnns-dana-bash-grills-adam-schiff-over-avoiding-witnesses-whod-challenge-the-january-6th-narrative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dana Bash</a> noted at the beginning of her network&#8217;s Election Night coverage that it wasn&#8217;t even a top-five issue for voters.
Bash was part of a Tuesday evening panel — which included fellow anchors <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/not-all-of-it-jake-tapper-interrupts-biden-official-who-keeps-insisting-gas-prices-are-putins-fault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a>, Abby Phillip, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-not-perception-thats-reality-chris-wallace-wont-let-nyc-mayor-deflect-on-crime-stats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Wallace</a> and Kasie Hunt — and they began their coverage of the election with a conversation about last minute poll data and exit polls just as polling locations began to close across the country.
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&quot;You know what&#39;s missing from this one, two, three, four, five, top five issues? Democracy.&quot;
&quot;Oh, yeah.&quot;
&quot;It&#39;s not even in here.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iFCdOWyhgB">pic.twitter.com/iFCdOWyhgB</a>
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&#8220;The numbers in these exits do not line up with what we were seeing in the polling data going into this election about what people cared about and the order in which they ranked it,&#8221; Hunt began. &#8220;So we have had a lot of questions throughout this time about new voters, people that hadn&#8217;t been in there before that were perhaps not getting captured by the polling. So maybe this is a sign that we&#8217;re going to see a little bit more of that than we expected. We obviously don&#8217;t know yet.&#8221;
&#8220;And you know what&#8217;s missing from these one, two, three, four, five, top five issues?&#8221; Bash asked before answering her own question: &#8220;Democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, yeah,&#8221; Tapper agreed.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not even in here,&#8221; Bash continued, adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s not to say that it&#8217;s not an issue for people, but it doesn&#8217;t even come close.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not the issue,&#8221; Tapper added.
President Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted that &#8220;Democracy is on the ballot,&#8221; saying, &#8220;The remarkable thing about American democracy is this: Just enough of us on just enough occasions have chosen not to dismantle democracy, but to preserve democracy. We must choose that path again.&#8221;
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Democracy is on the ballot. <a href="https://t.co/f327esxgnZ">pic.twitter.com/f327esxgnZ</a>
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Biden was not the only one, either. &#8220;The View&#8221; host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-suggests-americans-who-are-worried-about-inflation-are-stupid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> even went so far as to suggest that Americans whose primary concerns were inflation and the economy were just not smart enough to understand that if they voted to save the economy they could lose democracy.
&#8220;As I always say, inflation fluctuates. Democracy does not. And so, we need to know that. I don’t want to make a speech, I’m just saying, I feel like people are not comprehending the seriousness of what is going on,&#8221; she said.

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‘It’s Not Even In Here’: CNN Anchor Admits ‘Democracy’ Isn’t Even A Top-Five Issue For Voters

CNN Anchor Dana Bash Admits 'Democracy' Isn't Even A Top-Five Issue For Voters

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