&#8220;I vote for the man (or woman), not the party&#8221; is what millions of Americans say and what, in fact, many do. It is intended as a noble sentiment: &#8220;I am not one of those Americans who votes blindly by party; I measure each candidate and then decide which one to vote for.&#8221;
If there were ever a time when this was a noble sentiment, it would have been when Republicans and Democrats shared basic moral and American values and differed only on what policies would lead to the two parties&#8217; shared goals.
For example, though they never ran against each other, one might argue that the differences between the Democrat John Kennedy and his Republican predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, were not particularly great. But that was very rare. The fact is that, since the inception of the Republican Party, which was founded to counter the Democratic Party&#8217;s defense of slavery, there has almost never been a time when the philosophical differences between the parties were not great.
And since slavery, there has never been a time when the two major parties differed as much as they do today. Therefore, the notion that one should vote &#8220;for the individual, not the party&#8221; has never made less sense. It would be as if someone in the mid-1800s had said, &#8220;I strongly oppose slavery, but the Democratic candidate is a much finer and more likeable individual than the Republican candidate.&#8221;
Fine Democrats who defended slavery did as much harm to blacks and to America as disreputable Democrats. And elected officials vote with their party more often than in principled opposition to it, however fine they may be as individuals.
Nevertheless, a great number of Americans still vote for &#8220;the individual.&#8221;
The most obvious examples are Republican &#8220;Never Trumpers.&#8221; They say that they would vote for any Republican except Donald Trump because they find his character so objectionable.
My friend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, is one prominent example. He believes in a strong American defense, supported Trump&#8217;s withdrawal of the United States from Barack Obama&#8217;s agreement with Iran, credits Trump with the Israeli peace agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, saluted Trump&#8217;s moving of the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and presumably supports other Trump policies, such as the president&#8217;s extraordinary success with regard to the American economy prior to the lockdowns that crushed the economy.
Yet, he so loathes the president that he will vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
He and many other Americans (we will soon know how many) who support the president&#8217;s Republican policies will vote for the party that stands for almost everything they oppose because they will &#8220;vote for the man, not the party.&#8221;
I find nothing admirable in this position—morally or rationally. At this time in American history, to care more about an individual candidate than the party is to support the unraveling of America. It is so irrational as to be incredible.
Voting for any Democrat—whether for mayor, district attorney, state legislature, state governor, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate or president—is to vote for someone who will enable the Left to destroy America as we know it. (That is their wording, not only mine.) The Democratic Party was once largely liberal. But today, it is Left, and the Left readily acknowledges it wishes to &#8220;transform&#8221; America, which means to destroy America as we have known it.
To vote for any Democrat is to vote for the party that believes America is &#8220;systemically racist,&#8221; that it is rotten to the core, vile from its inception (in 1619, they claim, not 1776).
To vote for any Democrat is to vote for the party that will renew the Obama agreement with one of America&#8217;s and the civilized world&#8217;s greatest enemies, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It is to vote for undoing every economic policy that led America to its greatest economic boom in memory.
It is to vote for Kamala Harris, the most left-wing member of the U.S. Senate, for vice president (and, given Biden&#8217;s age and health, perhaps soon president).
It is to vote for the party that wants to allow millions more illegal immigrants into America and grant them benefits heretofore reserved for Americans. Democrats don&#8217;t use the words &#8220;open borders,&#8221; but they support this country-wrecking policy.
It is to vote for the party that supports the Green New Deal, or something very close to it, which will further ruin an economy already in ruins from Democrat-supported lockdowns.
It is to vote for the party that seeks to nationalize American health care (&#8220;Medicare for All&#8221;).
It is to vote for the party whose mayors, governors, and district attorneys allow violent riots and seek to &#8220;defund&#8221; police, a policy even most blacks oppose.
It is to vote for the party that supports the unprecedented suppression of free speech by Big Tech and universities.
It is to vote for the party that insists that men menstruate and that biological men must be allowed to compete against biological women in sports, no matter how often the biological men defeat them.
It is to vote for the party with the only anti-Semites, not to mention Israel-haters, in Congress.
It is to vote for the party that, for the first time in American history, openly identifies with socialism more than with capitalism.
It is to vote for the party that Big Pharma, big corporations, and radical teachers unions support.
All because many Americans like their Democratic candidate for a Senate seat (as in Arizona) or the Democratic candidate for president more than the Republican candidate. They do not appreciate a likeable Democrat will do as much harm to our country as any other Democrat.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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A new ad comes to the defense of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, slamming Democrats and &#8220;liberal extremists&#8221; for their anti-Christian attacks on the Catholic mother of seven.
The ad, released Tuesday by Judicial Crisis Network, highlights the controversial questioning of Barrett by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Dirk Durbin (D-IL) during the judge&#8217;s confirmation hearing to be a federal appeals judge in 2017.
Both Feinstein and Durbin were hit with charges of anti-Catholic bigotry for pressing Barrett about her personal religious views, most notably when Feinstein told the judge, &#8220;the dogma lives loudly with you.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats and liberal extremists are attacking Amy Coney Barrett for her faith,&#8221; the voiceover in the ad starts. &#8220;It&#8217;s shameful bigotry, but it&#8217;s not new.&#8221;
The ad then cuts to a clip of Durbin pressing Barrett on whether she is an &#8220;orthodox Catholic,&#8221; and then shows a clip from Feinstein saying, &#8220;The dogma lives loudly within you, and that&#8217;s of concern.&#8221;
&#8220;Amy Coney Barrett stood her ground,&#8221; the voiceover continues. &#8220;Democrats know she&#8217;s brilliant and principled, so their attacks on her faith will only get worse.&#8221;
&#8220;Stand with Amy,&#8221; the ad concludes.
Following Coney Barrett&#8217;s federal appeals judge hearings, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) raised concerns over attacks from Democrats on the judge&#8217;s faith.
“I think some of the questioning that you have been subjected to today seems to miss some of these fundamental constitutional protections we all have,” Sasse said at the time, <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/watch-dems-shamefully-grill-trump-judicial-nominee-over-her-religion/">according</a> to Law&amp;Crime.
The outlet also noted that University of North Carolina law professor Carissa Hessick similarly pushed back against the Democrats&#8217; religious-based questioning.
&#8220;I hope that reporters press [Senator Dick Durbin] on why he thinks it is acceptable to question judicial nominees about their religious beliefs,&#8221; Hessick <a href="https://twitter.com/CBHessick/status/905506988909613056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E905506988909613056%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flawandcrime.com%2Fhigh-profile%2Fwatch-dems-shamefully-grill-trump-judicial-nominee-over-her-religion%2F">posted</a> via Twitter. 
In 2020, similar attacks on Barrett&#8217;s faith are resurfacing from prominent Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gingrich-if-its-barrett-will-kamala-rein-in-her-anti-catholic-bigotry">The Daily Wire</a> last week, The Washington Post highlighted Barrett&#8217;s faith in an apparent attempt to paint her as an extremist unfit for the Supreme Court.
“Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump’s list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has said we should always remember that a ‘legal career is but a means to an end … and that end is building the Kingdom of God,&#8217;” one <a href="https://twitter.com/RonCharles/status/1307737438006243330">Washington Post reporter</a> tweeted.
“Trump’s likely RBG replacement, Amy Coney Barrett, is a Catholic extremist with 7 children who does not believe employers should be required to provide health care coverage for birth control,” one progressive activist said of the judge. “She wants the rest of American women to be stuck with her extreme lifestyle.”
And it hasn&#8217;t stopped there. Barrett&#8217;s adopted children, who are Haitian, have also been the used as a bludgeon to attack the judge as a &#8220;colonizer&#8221; and racist looking for &#8220;cover.&#8221;
Barrett&#8217;s confirmation nevertheless seems all but sealed.
&#8220;We can slow it down perhaps a matter of hours, maybe days at the most,” Durbin admitted on ABC News this past weekend. “But we can&#8217;t stop the outcome.&#8221;
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently announced hearings for Coney Barrett will begin Oct. 12.
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Evangelist Franklin Graham warned that the prevailing agenda of the Democratic Party poses a threat to religious liberty and urged American Christians to join with him in prayer as he leads the first Prayer March in the nation&#8217;s capital this weekend.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Wire, the 68-year-old Graham spoke first of the upcoming <a href="https://prayermarch2020.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Prayer March 2020</a> in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, during which thousands of Christians plan to walk the length of the National Mall in a symbolic act of prayerful supplication for a nation in turmoil.
Participants will stop at seven landmarks along the way to offer up specific requests, according to <a href="https://static.billygraham.org/sites/prayermarch2020.com/uploads/prod/2020/09/Wshtn-Prayer-March-Map-9-22.pdf?_ga=2.235727361.184282641.1601052382-820837723.1601052382" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">literature on the Prayer March website</a>. Topics of prayer range from repentance at the Lincoln Memorial to intercession for military and law enforcement at the World War II Memorial; pleas for racial reconciliation feature at the African American History Museum, and entreaties for religious freedom at the National Archives.
The march ends at the Capitol, where prayers will focus not just on Congress, but also the Supreme Court. That the march takes place on the same day that President Donald Trump is slated to nominate a new Supreme Court justice is a coincidence not lost on Graham, who is thankful that it &#8220;gives us a chance to pray for her, whoever she is, and ask God&#8217;s help getting her nominated and passed into the Supreme Court.&#8221;
The march is not the only Christian group meeting on the Mall this weekend, but Graham emphasized that the apolitical event he organized is focused solely on prayer. &#8220;Every person who comes participates because they all get to pray, and we all walk and do this together,&#8221; he said, adding that he hopes the unity that characterized the marches of the 1960s will prevail. &#8220;The church needs to be united, and we need to pray and call upon God and ask him for his help. There&#8217;s no other solution to the problems we face as a nation other than God.&#8221;
Noting that Americans are more divided now than at any other time in his life, Graham reflected soberly on the magnitude of the complex crises facing the country. Speaking specifically about the protests that have sprung up in major cities nationwide over the summer, Graham said, &#8220;We have seen unrest boil out onto the streets as a result of the police marginalizing citizens in their communities. And we have seen people tragically lose their lives who should never have lost their lives. And so I understand this unrest and I understand the turmoil.&#8221;
&#8220;But there have also been people who have taken advantage of this and, as a result of taking advantage of it, are trying to use it for their own agenda,&#8221; he warned.
Graham discerned the dangers behind the Black Lives Matter organization in particular, which he said &#8220;has certainly gotten the attention of many people, but unfortunately it was started by people who are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">devout, avid Marxists</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;The concept that black lives matter is true,&#8221; Graham clarified. &#8220;Black lives do matter. But so does everyone&#8217;s life. And, for me, as a Christian, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m pro-life, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m against abortion. I&#8217;m pro-life. And we look at the black lives that are aborted every year. There&#8217;s a disproportional number of black babies that are terminated over any other race. And so, yes, black lives matter, and we need to address the abortion issue in this country.&#8221;
More broadly, Graham also expressed deep concern regarding the trajectory of the Democratic Party&#8217;s agenda, which he says &#8220;is going toward socialism.&#8221; Acknowledging that Democratic nominee Joe Biden is not a socialist, Graham nevertheless observed that many of the people around Biden are socialists and that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-and-bernie-sanders-debut-unity-guidance-that-pulls-from-sanders-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he has had to make concessions</a> to far-left figures like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
&#8220;The socialists want to turn our country into Venezuela,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;They want to turn it into something like a Cuba. And, of course, the church is their number-one target because they want to shut the mouths of pastors and they want to stop people from getting together and worshiping. And they&#8217;ve done that very successfully throughout eastern Europe and throughout every socialist country in this world. And they will do the same to the United States of America.&#8221;
Regarding what the future may hold for American Christians, Graham reiterated the warning of freed pastor Andrew Brunson, who will be attending the march and offering the prayer at one of the stops along the Mall. A year ago, Brunson told the Washington Examiner that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/i-think-were-very-close-freed-pastor-andrew-brunson-urges-young-american-christians-to-prepare-for-persecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he believes persecution is possibly &#8220;very close&#8221; for the American church</a>, a prediction about which, Graham said, there is &#8220;no question.&#8221;
Graham condemned the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-church-relents-to-county-demands-after-fines-exceed-100000" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lingering lockdowns of churches</a> in states like California as illegal and unconstitutional. &#8220;The Constitution guarantees us the right to worship without interference from the government,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For a governor just to arbitrarily say that Lowe&#8217;s, Home Depot can be open, or Walmart can be open on Sunday, but churches have to be closed, and they can&#8217;t have more than 100 people or 50 people or whatever, it just shows you that they are targeting churches.&#8221;
&#8220;Businesses can stay open, but churches cannot. I appreciate the president saying that churches are essential,&#8221; Graham added, commending Los Angeles pastor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-inexplicable-ruling-john-macarthurs-church-cannot-hold-indoor-services-l-a-judge-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John MacArthur</a> especially for taking a stand against state and local authorities, despite continuous court battles. &#8220;He&#8217;s right,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;We have the right to worship, whether pandemic or not a pandemic. We have the right to worship and the government can&#8217;t stop us.&#8221;
&#8220;Our country needs God&#8217;s help,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;Only God can fix these problems. And there&#8217;s no easy answer to it. It&#8217;s going to take a solution from on high, which I believe God can give if the church prays and seeks his face.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/high-hypocrisy-5-cited-3-arrested-at-outdoor-church-service-in-idaho-after-not-wearing-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘High Hypocrisy’: 5 Cited, 3 Arrested At Outdoor Church Service In Idaho After Not Wearing Masks</a>
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Democrats in the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices, from lifetime appointments — which is outlined in the Constitution — to just an 18-year single term.
The bill is being prepped on the heels of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s September 18 death, leaving a vacancy open for President Donald Trump to fill, and the Republican-controlled Senate to confirm.
Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-termlimits/democrats-prepare-bill-limiting-u-s-supreme-court-justice-terms-to-18-years-idUSKCN26F3L3">reported</a> on the forthcoming bill, Thursday:
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According to Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna (CA), the bill — the &#8220;Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act&#8221; — is intended to tamp down partisanship.
“It would save the country a lot of agony and help lower the temperature over fights for the court that go to the fault lines of cultural issues and is one of the primary things tearing at our social fabric,” said Khanna.
The California Democrat plans to introduce the bill on Tuesday, alongside Democratic Representatives Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts and Don Beyer of Virginia, Reuters said.
As noted by the outlet, legal experts have highlighted that changing the term of Supreme Court justices would have to be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment.
&#8220;The bill seeks to avoid constitutional concerns by exempting current justices from the 18-year rule,&#8221; Reuters said. &#8220;Those appointed under term limits would become &#8216;senior&#8217; upon retirement and rotate to lower courts.&#8221;
Khanna argued, “That’s perfectly consistent with their judicial independence and having a lifetime salary and a lifetime appointment.&#8221;
<div>As <a href="https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/09/21/why-do-supreme-court-justices-have-lifetime-appointments/">noted</a> by News at Northeastern in 2018, Northeastern law professor Michael Meltsner, who specializes in the Supreme Court, said lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court were intended to &#8220;insulate justices from partisan politics.&#8221;</div>
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News at Northwestern noted, &#8220;This makes Supreme Court justices free to issue rulings based on the law, rather than political favor, Meltsner said.&#8221;
The fight over Ginsburg&#8217;s seat sparked Democrats to initially threaten even the impeachment of the president, an effort to stop Trump and the Senate from filling the vacancy. (If articles of impeachment are filed, the Senate will have to push the SCOTUS nominee&#8217;s confirmation to the back burner.)
Leading Democrats and activists are pushing the president to &#8220;honor&#8221; Ginsburg’s “most fervent wish,” that she not be replaced until after the inauguration — something that clearly has no legal or constitutional standing.
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Earlier this week, The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vote-him-out-trump-and-first-lady-booed-as-they-pay-respects-to-ginsburg">Jon Brown</a> reported, &#8220;even a ceremonial resolution introduced by Republicans intended to honor the late justice became a point of contention after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attempted to slip in an amendment about the alleged dying wish, which Trump has speculated was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-ginsburgs-dying-wish-probably-written-by-democrats-pelosi-schiff-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">actually written by Democratic leadership</a> to be used as an emotionalized political bludgeon. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-blocks-partisan-resolution-honoring-rbg-after-schumer-attempts-to-slip-in-dying-wish" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocked the amended resolution</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Despite furious opposition from Democrats, Trump said he plans to name a new Supreme Court justice nominee on Saturday, after funeral ceremonies for Ginsburg are over,&#8221; Brown added. &#8220;He has vowed to name a woman, and many speculate that he intends to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative Roman Catholic.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vote-him-out-trump-and-first-lady-booed-as-they-pay-respects-to-ginsburg">‘VOTE HIM OUT!’ Trump And First Lady Booed As They Pay Respects To Ginsburg</a>
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In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on September 18, Kamala Harris — Senator, Democratic vice presidential candidate, and very possibly the next president of the United States if Joe Biden keels over as imminently as he seems poised to do — wrote the following tweet: “‘My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.’ – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her final moments before passing. We must honor that wish and fight for her legacy.”
Democrats have seized upon Ginsburg’s dying wish as reason to delay the nomination of a new justice until after the presidential election. This is not simply a flawed argument: it is also a revealing one. It shows quite precisely what the Party of Biden and Harris, of BLM and Antifa, believes.
Granted: in our age of legislative deadlock and judicial supremacy, court confirmations are bound to be high-stakes, down-and-dirty things. The Democrats took this to unconscionable extremes last time, provoking what can only be described as a moral panic by slandering Brett Kavanaugh as a rapist on the basis of flimsy anecdotes about his youth in an attempt to prop up uncorroborated allegations.
But as a rule, folks on both sides will say just about whatever they have to in order to get the right guy in. That’s not news: it’s just politics, and I wish the Right had wised up to it sooner. So no Republicans should be losing a minute’s sleep, for example, over the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking a different position on Ginsburg’s replacement than he did on Antonin Scalia’s when Obama, not Trump, was nearing the end of his term. The issue is not the integrity of Mitch McConnell, it&#8217;s the trajectory of America. The soul of the country and the lives of the unborn are at stake in the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade, we we&#8217;ve got bigger concerns than whether Cocaine Mitch plays nice.
The significance of the Ginsburg’s-dying-wish meme isn’t that it’s a shamelessly desperate leftist power play. The real issue is that Democrats thought to use the tactic at all, presumably because they believe some portion of the American electorate will imagine that the final wishes of a dying woman — however esteemed she was — carry any weight whatsoever in the American system.
They don’t. None. Zip. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wishes — objects of interest and concern for her admirers though they may be — are profoundly irrelevant in determining who should pick the next Supreme Court Justice. The only relevant constraints and directives in that process are those outlined in the United States Constitution.
To suggest otherwise is to imply that Americans no longer wish to operate within their own republican system, or that they simply do not understand what that system entails. Since antiquity, anyone who has ever wanted to be politically free has had to commit to obeying laws only, and not the whims of any one human being.
When the Persian tyrant Xerxes was marching his massive army into Greece to conquer it, he asked the exiled Spartan king Demaratus why the Greeks dared resist him. The Greek historian Herodotus records Demaratus’ answer: Xerxes’ soldiers fought for him because they feared his punishment if they disobeyed. But the Spartans, said Demaratus, “are free, but not entirely so: their master is the law. They fear it far more than your men, Xerxes fear you.” Spartans would fight until every last one of them was dead in the ground rather than submit to rule by any man.
After Herodotus, this central idea was developed by countless other theorists of freedom — from Plato and Cicero to James Madison and John Adams. The logic of liberty demands that we tremble before the law, but fear no man. If we obey any human being, it is because that human being is an agent of the law.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was such an agent, but it was not in that capacity that she made her dying wish. It was in her capacity as a private citizen that Ginsburg made the request which Kamala Harris asks us to hear and obey. That is not the logic of liberty: it is the logic of hero-worship, tyranny, and slavery.
That logic is now the governing logic of the American Left. It is a logic of terrorism and mob rule, a logic that demands we bend the knee to certain revered figures — to George Floyd and the hateful campaigns of racialist violence that have been carried out in his name, for instance — rather than to our laws.
The Democrats claim it is Trump who threatens to destroy our institutions. But to anyone with eyes to see, it is clear who threatens the very foundations of our regime. Americans should vote accordingly.
Spencer Klavan is host of the <a href="http://youngheretics.com/">Young Heretics</a> podcast and assistant editor of the <a href="https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/">Claremont Review of</a> Booksand <a href="https://americanmind.org/">The American Mind</a>. He can be reached on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/spencerklavan">@SpencerKlavan</a>.
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KLAVAN: Democrats Demand We Obey RBG’s Dying Wish. Here’s What That Reveals.

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on September 18, Kamala Harris — Senator, Democratic vice presidential candidate, and

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Last week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87. Her death immediately initiated a political firestorm in Washington, D.C. — one that threatens the very integrity of the republic.
That&#8217;s not because, as the media and Democrats would claim, some sort of institutional norm has been violated by a Republican president selecting a replacement for Ginsburg to be voted on by a Republican Senate. It&#8217;s because Democrats have declared that so long as they are unable to replace Ginsburg with an activist left-wing judge willing to use the Constitution to cram down progressive policy prescriptions, they will tear down every barrier to majoritarian tyranny.
The Constitution was specifically constructed to promote gridlock. That&#8217;s because the Founding Fathers greatly feared majoritarian tyranny — legalized mob rule by which simple majorities could cram down violations of rights on minorities. To that end, they balanced the House of Representatives, which was popularly elected, and the Senate, which was represented by state and selected by state legislatures. They balanced the legislative branch with the executive and judicial branches. They balanced power between a federal structure and state governments. The founders believed that the greatest protection for individual rights lay in ambition checking ambition at every level.
Progressives have, since the beginning of the 20th century, objected to this philosophy of government. Instead, they have seen institutional gridlock as a danger to &#8220;getting things done.&#8221; Former President Woodrow Wilson infamously explained that &#8220;Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals,&#8221; and that, therefore, there ought to be no institutional checks against governmental necessity. Democrats have faithfully carried forward that vision, checked only by political reality — Wilson unconstitutionally expanded the executive branch; Franklin Roosevelt infamously sought to pack the Supreme Court; Lyndon Johnson radically expanded the size and scope of the federal government; Barack Obama declared that the government itself &#8220;is us.&#8221;
That meant that for the political left, all institutions of government had to be converted into instruments of power or destroyed. The left has done just that with the Supreme Court for generations, viewing it as a repository for transformational change rather than a legal body with a mandate to only interpret honestly the words of the law. With that view of the court threatened by a Republican-appointed majority, Democrats are now panicking.
And they are responding with radical threats to break every check and balance. This week, Democrats openly threatened to destroy the Senate filibuster, a traditional mechanism for restraining bare majorities, most recently used by Democrats themselves to stymie COVID-19 relief funding. They also threatened to add new states to the union, specifically citing federal territories they believe will elect Democrats and to pack the Supreme Court, reestablishing a Democratic-appointed majority by adding new seats.
These actions aren&#8217;t merely violative of constitutional principles and the founding philosophy. They are dangerous. Imagine a 55-vote Democratic majority in a 104-seat body, cramming through a gun confiscation measure, greenlit by a 13-member court packed by Democrats. Will red states simply acquiesce to this overt seizure of power, to this absurd rewriting of the constitutional bargain? Why should they?
All of which means that the 2020 presidential race has now become a referendum on the Democrats, not President Donald Trump. Democratic candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s inherent campaign pledge was a return to stability, not a leap into revolution. But by threatening the institutional architecture, Biden&#8217;s campaign has become just that. Now Americans will be forced to choose between the vulgarity of Donald Trump — a vulgarity and boorishness, however off-putting, that has not threatened constitutional rights — and a vengeful Democratic Party threatening to remold the country from the top down.
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SHAPIRO: Democrats Threaten to Burn Down the Republic to Stack the Supreme Court

Last week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87. Her death immediately initiated a political firestorm in Washington, D.C. —

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In the wake of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, different parties are preparing a response.
The Republicans say President Trump should nominate a replacement and proceed to seek the advice and consent of the Senate as prescribed by the Constitution.
The Democrats say they will burn every city in the country to the ground, terrorize innocent citizens, bring the economy to a standstill and in short continue doing what they’ve been doing for the last four months.
NeverTrumpers say they will support the Democrats because Donald Trump is a danger to the Constitution.
Republicans say they want to appoint a justice who will honor the vision of the American founders and respect the text of the Constitution as written.
Democrats say they want to appoint a justice who will interpret the Constitution as a living document on which all the living words are able to jump up and run away so they can be replaced by other living words that will exchange Americans’ God-given rights for make-believe rights like the right to kill children, the right to use other people’s money as their own, and the right to control the thoughts and actions of their fellow citizens according to any crazy race-based theory they think will serve to destroy the freedoms for which our forefathers fought and died.
NeverTrumpers say they will support the Democrats because Donald Trump is a danger to the Constitution.
The Republicans say we must proceed in keeping with our traditions and laws.
The Democrats say we must honor the dying wish of Justice Ginsburg because she is an angel now like Princess Leia at the end of The Rise of Skywalker, and so has become part of the light side of the Force, and anyone who is against her is on the dark side and must be destroyed, including the writers of the Constitution which is based on slavery or something.
NeverTrumpers say we must support the Democrats because Donald Trump icky-poo stinky-face gobbledegook bing-bong.
So 2020 continues as usual.
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With Ginsburg Gone, Democrats Say They Must Destroy The Country In Order To Save It [Satire]

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Democrats and the mainstream media have attempted to use the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s dying wish that she not be replaced until a new president is installed in an attempt to pressure Republicans from filling her seat.
However, some of those same Democrats are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-threatens-packing-supreme-court-in-response-to-mcconnell-trump-being-in-violation-of-rbg-wish">ignoring</a> what she said about packing the Supreme Court: that it was a &#8220;bad idea&#8221; that she was &#8220;not at all in favor of&#8221; doing.
&#8220;What does concern you?&#8221; NPR host Nina Totenberg asked Ginsburg. &#8220;If you’re not worried about the term limits, what are you worried about?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what was the, you mentioned—&#8221; Ginsburg responded.
&#8220;Adding the number, changing the number of justices—&#8221; Totenberg interjected.
&#8220;Oh, yes. Yes,&#8221; Ginsburg said. &#8220;There is no fixed number in the Constitution, so this court has had as few as five and as many as 10. Nine seems to be a good number and it’s been that way for a long time.&#8221;
Ginsburg specifically called out the Democrat Party over the idea of packing the Supreme Court, saying that it would undermine the court&#8217;s legitimacy because it would &#8220;make the court appear partisan.&#8221;
&#8220;I have heard that there are some people on the Democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges,&#8221; Ginsburg said. &#8220;I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court, his plan was for every justice who stays on the court past the age of 70, the president would have the authority to nominate another justice. If that plan had been effective, the court&#8217;s number would have swelled immediately from nine to 15 and the president would have six appointments to make.&#8221;
&#8220;You mentioned before the court appearing partisan, well if anything would make the court appear partisan, it would be that—one side saying, ‘when we’re in power, we’re going to enlarge the number of judges, so we want to have more people who will vote the way we want them to,’&#8221; Ginsburg concluded on the matter. &#8220;So, I am not at all in favor of that solution to what I see as a temporary situation.&#8221;
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Ginsburg passed away late last week at age 87 after losing her fight against her fifth bout with cancer. Ginsburg was widely praised for her toughness and grit in fighting the disease.
NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87">reported</a> that Ginsburg “dictated” the following statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
Independent Women’s Forum President Carrie Lukas slammed the notion that Ginsburg’s wish should be brought into consideration in nominating a new Supreme Court justice, writing on Twitter: “I’ll add on RBG: If reports of her ‘last wish’ are true, then she had a fundamental misunderstanding of her role. She didn’t own her seat – merely had the privilege of filling it for many, many years – and had no business telling the political branches how it should be filled.”
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Honor Her Wishes: RBG Blasted Democrats For Proposing ‘Bad Idea’ Of Packing Supreme Court

Democrats and the mainstream media have attempted to use the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#039;s dying wish that she not be replaced until a new president

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Conservative radio host Mark Levin blasted the Democratic Party on Sunday for implementing tactics he described as totalitarian in their attempt to wrest power from their political opposition, such as packing the Supreme Court.
Speaking with “Fox &amp; Friends” about the political fallout following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s death, Levin tore into the Democrats, first of all, for demanding that President Donald Trump disregard the Constitution, which requires him to appoint justices. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a very strange thing, this Democrat Party,&#8221; he began. &#8220;First of all, they hate the Constitution because they spent the last several months pulling down statues of the founders and saying that the Constitution was adopted by slaveholders. Then they wave it around to justify their destruction of the Constitution.&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be very, very clear,&#8221; Levin continued. &#8220;Let me read you a quote. &#8216;That&#8217;s their job. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year. Eight is not a good number for a collegial body that sometimes disagrees.&#8217; That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016. But this seat doesn&#8217;t belong to Ruth Bader Ginsburg; it doesn&#8217;t belong to anybody. It&#8217;s in the Constitution, and the American people and the president has a say.&#8221;
&#8220;Now under our constitutional system, as Will has said, and you both have said, the president makes a nomination. Now, what the Democrats want to do is sabotage this entire process,&#8221; he added.
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Levin went on to blast Republican senators such as Sens. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-susan-collins-calls-on-senate-to-wait-until-after-the-election-to-replace-rbg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Susan Collins (R-ME)</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/my-position-has-not-changed-lisa-murkowski-confirms-she-opposes-replacing-ginsburg-before-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)</a> for not supporting the president&#8217;s constitutional right to appoint a justice as speedily as possible, but he reserved an especially pointed rebuke for the Democrats threatening to add more justices to the Supreme Court when they have the ability. Noting how a Democrat-controlled Congress once blocked former President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s attempt to do the same thing because they honored the Constitution, Levin said today&#8217;s Democratic Party is no longer bothered by such restraints.
Levin went on to warn how Democratic leadership is openly explaining how they want to abolish the Electoral College, pack Congress with Democratic senators from Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, sabotage the 2020 election with mail-in voting and refuse to concede defeat, encourage the riotous mobs roiling major cities, and attack law enforcement as &#8220;Gestapo.&#8221; He further said the mob supporting such tactics &#8220;one way or another, will be crushed. If they&#8217;re not crushed at the voting booth, they will be crushed otherwise.&#8221;
“The Democrat Party is a diabolical institution that&#8217;s getting worse and worse. It has a diabolical history, whether it is slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, or today, this so-called socialism,” Levin later said, adding, “Our school systems are under attack; a vaccine is under attack; our borders are under attack; the courts are under attack. Everything&#8217;s under attack with the current Democrat Party because their attitude is, if we can&#8217;t control everything, then burn it down. They&#8217;re the mob in the street, without Molotov cocktails. That&#8217;s exactly what the modern Democrat Party is today.”
“This is a party that is following a Saul Alinsky, Stalinist model. I can&#8217;t put it any other way, and they’re taking it into the election,” Levin continued. “Joe Biden was the leader of the pack, destroying the nomination process, destroying the Supreme Court. He was the leader of the pack, which is why he was hiding yesterday because he didn&#8217;t want to talk about the vacancy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
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‘Diabolical Institution’: Mark Levin Slams Democratic Party For Scheme To Pack Supreme Court

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Democrat senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), on Saturday threatened that “nothing is off the table” if Republicans hold a vote on a new Supreme Court Justice before the election.
CNN’s senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju reported that Schumer told Democrats on a call: “Let me be clear: if Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table.”
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Twenty minutes later, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made the same threat, tweeting, “If Republicans recklessly &amp; reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.”
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If Republicans recklessly &amp; reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.
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The threat leaves open the possibility of packing the Supreme Court, an idea many Democratic presidential candidates said they were at least open to. Left-wing media outlets have also published numerous articles suggesting that’s exactly how Democrats should respond if Republicans install a new Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday evening. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, however, previously said he was not open to court packing.
The fact that Democrats and their media supporters are so open to court packing shows they only care about the judicial body if it is on their side, tweeted National Review editor Rich Lowry.
“That the Left has taken up court-packing so readily shows how it never really took the court seriously as a court—instead it has thought of it primarily as a quasi-legislative body useful to the extent it enshrines its policy goals,” Lowry tweeted Saturday night.
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That the Left has taken up court-packing so readily shows how it never really took the court seriously as a court—instead it has thought of it primarily as a quasi-legislative body useful to the extent it enshrines its policy goals
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Democrats are still sore over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) 2016 refusal to hold a vote on then-President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. McConnell argued at the time that since the 2016 election would install a new president &#8212; either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump &#8212; the “American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” adding that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
At the time, Democrats controlled the White House and Republicans controlled the Senate following multiple elections where Democrats lost majorities during Obama’s terms. In 2020, Republicans control the White House and the Senate, making the two situations distinct. Obama exercised his right to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice, and Republicans in the Senate exercised their right not to hold a vote. Obama had no right to get his nominee appointed just because he was nominated.
In 2016, when Obama nominated a left-leaning judge, Ginsburg herself argued the Senate should hold a vote on the nominee, saying: “There&#8217;s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.” She also said during this same interview that “Eight is not a good number,” referring to the remaining number of Supreme Court justices.
Following Ginsburg’s death, McConnell released a statement explaining the differences between the two years.
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promises,” McConnell added. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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‘Nothing Is Off The Table’: Democrat Senators Threaten Action If Republicans Vote For New Supreme Court Justice

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Comedian Chris Rock slammed the Democratic Party, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by name during an interview this week for letting &#8220;the pandemic come in&#8221; while they were busy trying to remove President Donald Trump from office through impeachment.
&#8220;Part of the reason we’re in the predicament we’re in is, the president’s a landlord,&#8221; Rock, 55, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/arts/television/chris-rock-fargo.html">said</a>. &#8220;No one has less compassion for humans than a landlord.&#8221;
Rock continued:
<blockquote>Did you ever see that movie “The Last Emperor,” where like a 5-year-old is the emperor of China? There’s a kid and he’s the king. So I’m like, it’s all the Democrats’ fault. Because you knew that the emperor was 5 years old. And when the emperor’s 5 years old, they only lead in theory. There’s usually an adult who’s like, “OK, this is what we’re really going to do.” And it was totally up to Pelosi and the Democrats. Their thing was, “We’re going to get him impeached,” which was never going to happen. You let the pandemic come in. Yes, we can blame Trump, but he’s really the 5-year-old.</blockquote>
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed Democrats for worrying more about impeaching the president while the pandemic was in its early stages in China.
&#8220;When it comes to the month of February, most Democrats and the media were more worried about impeaching President @realDonaldTrump than coronavirus,&#8221; Graham wrote on Twitter. &#8220;We voted to acquit President Trump on February 6. During that time, Democrats were making witness requests which – if they had been granted – would have extended the trial through most of February. Very sad, very dangerous.&#8221;
Trump has also hit Democrats for having focused on impeachment while the administration was taking steps to combat the pandemic.
“All she did was focus on impeachment,” Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/31/why-new-effort-blame-coronavirus-fumbles-impeachment-trial-fall-so-far-short/">said</a> during a Fox News interview in reference to Pelosi. “She didn’t focus on anything having to do with pandemics, she didn’t focus on — she focused on impeachment and she lost. And she looked like a fool.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell previously <a href="https://hughhewitt.com/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-5/">stated</a> that the pandemic struck &#8220;while we were tied down on the impeachment trial&#8221; which &#8220;diverted the attention of the government because everything every day was all about impeachment.&#8221;
The pandemic originated in Wuhan, China, sometime late last year. China has widely been accused of lying about the outbreak, suppressing critical information, and silencing whistleblowers that tried to warn the world.
The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Editorial Board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-hold-beijing-accountable-for-the-coronavirus-11595976973">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Suggesting that an outbreak of a deadly bat coronavirus coincidentally occurred near the only level 4 virology institute in all of China—which happened to be studying the closest known relative of that exact virus—strains credulity.
Above all, China’s extensive coverup raises red flags. In the critical first weeks after the initial outbreak, Beijing actively suppressed essential information and prevented World Health Organization investigators from entering the country while samples were destroyed. When a courageous Chinese biologist posted the sequenced genome of the virus online, his lab was immediately shut “for rectification.” The Chinese government has forbidden scientists to discuss publicly the origins of the pandemic. Citizen journalists investigating the issue have disappeared. In the words of a European Union report that were controversially later removed from the final version, “China has continued to run a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic.”</blockquote>
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Chris Rock: Democrats ‘Let’ COVID-19 ‘Come In’ To U.S. By Focusing On Impeachment Instead Of Pandemic

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Comedian Chris Rock slammed the Democratic Party, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by name during an interview this week for letting &quot;the pandemic

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The Scientific American came out this week with its first presidential endorsement in 175 years, urging its readers to vote for Joe Biden. Donald Trump, claims the publication, “rejects evidence and science,” whereas Biden allegedly “has a record of following the data and being guided by science.”
On the heels of this announcement, Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, tweeted “#VoteForScience.” Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote simply “Science knows.” Many others on the Left and in the media chimed in, hailing Joe Biden as science’s Guardian and Protector, and themselves as its greatest fans.
Biden is glad to play this role. Speaking in Wilmington on Monday, the former vice president spoke about the need to govern according to science. He also said this:
<blockquote>Donald Trump’s climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes but if he gets a second term these hellish events will continue to become more common, more devastating, and more deadly… If we have four more years of Trump’s climate denial, how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires, how many suburban neighborhoods will have been flooded out, how many suburbs will have been blown away in superstorms? If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze? If you give a climate denier four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised when more of America is under water?</blockquote>
Leaving aside the fact that the pejorative “climate arsonist” makes even less sense than “climate denier,” Biden here is accusing his political opponent of causing, or at least failing to prevent, fires, floods, and hurricanes. In no uncertain terms, he says that re-electing Donald Trump will mean that your entire neighborhood might be swept away in a superstorm, drowned in floods, or incinerated (hopefully not all at once).
Joe Biden, patron saint of science, apparently believes that there is some sort of physical mechanism by which the President of the United States can actually cause hurricanes to materialize and flood waters to rise. He is not talking about humans merely contributing in some partial way to gradual changes in climate over the course of many decades and centuries. Rather, he is suggesting that one single human on Earth today can, through his own exertions, have a material impact on global weather conditions. When Biden and his supporters speak of “science,” this is what they mean.
But at least Biden’s theory of climate change is slightly less crazy than Nancy Pelosi’s, who recently speculated that wild fires happen because “Mother Earth is angry, she is telling us… the climate crisis is real.” The idea that natural disasters are the result of a displeased Earth goddess may have passed for science among ancient tribes in the year 6,000 BC, but it is a bit outmoded in the modern age. Yet this, again, is what we get from the Party of Science.
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The Party of Science also tells us that the child conceived by two human beings and developing in the womb of his mother is not fully human, or not fully person, or not fully alive. As an MSNBC anchor once <a href="https://cnsnews.com/news/article/msnbc-royal-baby-parents-feelings-say-when-life-begins-not-science">put it</a>, the answer to when life begins &#8220;depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents.&#8221; These same custodians and conservators of science say that a male can have a functioning female reproductive system, and a female can have a penis and a Y chromosome. Or perhaps, say the science lovers, a person may have no gender at all. They may be &#8220;gender fluid,&#8221; possessing no discernible form. Once again: science.
I have personally asked two prominent leftists with doctorates — one a medical doctor, the other a supposed &#8220;internationally recognized expert on sexuality&#8221; — to define the words &#8220;man&#8221; and &#8220;woman,&#8221; and neither of these left-wing science experts with PhDs could do it. Dr. Eugene Gu <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1150949138864803841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1150949138864803841%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fwalsh-i-asked-left-wing-doctor-define-word-man-he-matt-walsh">told me</a> that a man can be defined as &#8220;anyone who identifies as a man.&#8221; Dr. Logan Levkoff <a href="https://twitter.com/LoganLevkoff/status/1297922673650159623">insisted</a> that a &#8220;woman&#8221; is &#8220;anything she wants to be.&#8221; The latter answer might make a good inspirational slogan for a guidance counselor&#8217;s bulletin board, but it is not science.
Perhaps the situation can be summarized this way: the side of the political aisle that talks the most about science, and most trumpets its own commitment to the methods of science, also believes that it’s possible that a man who is pregnant with a non-human fetus might die in a hurricane caused by the president. That is all that needs to be said to establish that the Party of Science has rather failed to live up to its assumed name.
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WALSH: The ‘Party Of Science’ Is Waging A War On Science 

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The Scientific American came out this week with its first presidential endorsement in 175 years, urging its readers to vote for Joe Biden. Donald Trump,

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Ever since President Donald Trump and Republicans passed historic tax cuts, Democrats have been promising to repeal them if elected back into office. Now the party has changed its tune, at least a little.
Democrats now say they won’t immediately inflict tax hikes on the American people should Democratic nominee Joe Biden win the White House and Democrats retake the Senate. Instead, they’ll wait to raise taxes on the so-called wealthy (the base range for who is considered a “wealthy” individual sometimes ensnares middle-class families in expensive states like California and New York) and corporations until after the economy has recovered from the coronavirus recession, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/516417-democrats-back-away-from-quick-reversal-of-trump-tax-cuts">reported</a>.
“Instead, the priority will be on spending to create jobs and raise wages, investments in green technology and infrastructure and a national plan to contain the coronavirus pandemic,” the outlet reported. “Some of those stimulus and relief bills could include tax incentives for clean energy infrastructure and strengthening the nation’s supply chain and domestic manufacturing base. Tax relief in the form of child tax credits and earned income tax credits for lower- and middle-income families are also on the table.”
Democrats have changed their rhetoric as polls continue to show that even though Biden leads Trump nationally, the current president is getting higher marks on his handling of the economy.
“I think we ought to make the decision when we have a better sense of where the economy is going,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) told the outlet.
“We have so much on our plate. We’ve got to deal with COVID and testing,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). “We need to put in place a whole thing to get our arms around the virus and a recovery act.”
“I’m sure a tax piece will be in there somewhere, but No. 1 priority will be COVID,” Stabenow added.
She also told The Hill she had “no idea” when Democrats would increase taxes should they retake control of the White House and Senate.
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<blockquote>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Democrats will need to “balance” the need to raise revenues with the overall health of the economy, which has slowed dramatically as a result of the pandemic.
“I think a tax bill can be made effective at a time when we think the economy will be sufficiently robust that some increase in taxes will have no detrimental effect,” he said.
Sen. <a href="https://thehill.com/people/christopher-coons">Chris Coons</a> (D-Del.), a prominent Biden ally, laughed out loud when asked what the Democratic plan for tax reform is next year.
“Look, if Joe Biden is successful in being elected the next president it will be because we’re in the middle of three crises at the same time: a pandemic, a recession and a renewed focus on racial inequality.”
“He will have the challenge and the mandate to address some of those,” he said.</blockquote>
Other Democrats, however, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), want the party to increase taxes immediately if they take control of the White House and Senate.
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Democrats No Longer Promising To Raise Taxes Immediately After Election

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On Aug. 23, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer. The original video, which only included the last moments of the incident, gave no context for the incident. But further video and police reports made clear what happened.
According to the police association, the police were called to the scene by a black woman who had dialed 911 to report that Blake was attempting to steal the keys to her car. There was an open warrant on Blake for third-degree felony sexual assault; the alleged victim is the woman who dialed 911, and she apparently had a restraining order against Blake. Back in May, she <a href="https://archive.is/YcYRU#selection-2199.0-2331.16">alleged</a> that Blake entered a room where she was sleeping near one of her children, thrust his finger into her vagina, pulled it out, smelled it and said, &#8220;smells like you&#8217;ve been with other men.&#8221; The alleged victim also said that Blake physically assaults her approximately twice per year.
Upon arriving at the scene, the police attempted to effectuate an arrest. Blake resisted. He apparently got one of the officers in a headlock and resisted two separate uses of a stun gun. He then disobeyed officer commands, walked around to the driver&#8217;s side of an SUV and reached inside. A knife was found on the driver&#8217;s side floorboards.
This is the definition of a justified shooting, by all available evidence. Yet Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris have chosen to side with an alleged rapist and against police officers attempting to do their job.
On Sept. 2, Biden said he thought that the officers in Blake&#8217;s shootings should be charged, adding &#8220;let&#8217;s make sure justice is done.&#8221; Harris — whose judgment on these matters ought to be doubted, given her conviction that Michael Brown was murdered and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a probable rapist — agreed that the officer &#8220;should be charged.&#8221;
But Biden and Harris didn&#8217;t stop there. Biden traveled to Kenosha and met with Blake&#8217;s family. Biden got on the phone with Blake — who was handcuffed to his hospital bed, since he is currently under arrest — and quoted the book of Psalms, adding that &#8220;nothing is going to defeat&#8221; Blake. Harris went further, telling Blake she was &#8220;proud&#8221; of him and saying that the Blake family is &#8220;incredible&#8221; — an amazing description of a family wherein the son is an alleged rapist and the father is an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-kamala-harris-proud-of">open anti-Semite</a>, according to his public social media posts.
The New York Times provided cover for this insulting insanity in a long puff piece about Blake, describing him as a hero who &#8220;survived and has begun to tell his own story.&#8221; That piece left any description of his crimes to paragraph 17 and never mentioned that he resisted arrest and had a knife in the vehicle.
On a raw level, none of this makes sense. Blake is, by all available evidence, a villain. The police officer was, by all available evidence, acting within the scope of his duty.
But in the context of a broader Democratic narrative that police are systemically racist, and that all criminals of minority ethnicity are victims of that system, it all makes perfect sense. If you think that American racism is responsible for a black man allegedly raping a black woman, this is a story in which there are only victims and there is no perpetrator but the system itself — in this case, a system represented by the white police officer.
If we wish to live together in a society, this perspective cannot win. By lionizing Jacob Blake while decrying the police who tried to arrest him, Democrats justify and incentivize criminality. This must stop. Individuals are responsible for their crimes; police are necessary to stop those crimes. Those who disagree cannot be allowed to gain power.
More from Ben Shapiro: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-why-wont-biden-condemn-antifa-or-blm-violence">Why Won’t Biden Condemn Antifa or BLM Violence?</a>
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SHAPIRO: Surprise! The Democrats Pick the Criminal

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Liberals are all about demanding that people do as they say, but they never apply their rules to themselves. The COVID-19 pandemic has unmasked Democrats for the true hypocrites they are — and always have been.
Take House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The California Democrat, who has supported full lockdowns over COVID-19 and advocates a national mask policy, was caught last week dropping into a hair salon in California — ordered closed by the governor — and walking around without a mask.
In security footage obtained by Fox News, Pelosi is seen walking through the eSalon in San Francisco on Aug. 31. Ironically, during an appearance on MSNBC that same night, Pelosi blasted President Trump for delivering his Republican National Convention acceptance speech before a live audience on the White House South Lawn where many people were not wearing masks.
The 81-year-old California Democrat, who got a wash and a “blow-out” at the salon, took a few days to come up with a defense: It was all a setup.
“I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times, and when they said, ‘We’re able to accommodate people one person at a time.’ I trusted that,” the speaker said. “So I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that’s all I’m going to say on that. I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up.”
Salon owner Erica Kious told Fox News, “It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work.”
But that’s how Democrats roll — do as I say, not as I do. And if they’re caught, they’ll demand you apologize. It’s not just Pelosi.
Philadelphia’s Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney doesn’t have to abide by his own rules, either — those are for the little people.
A photo of a maskless Kenney sitting inside a restaurant flashed around social media websites late last month. The mayor was in Maryland, even as his own order had banned indoor dining in his city.
The blowback was immediate.
“I guess all your press briefings and your narrative of unsafe indoor dining don’t apply to you. Thank you for clearing it all up for us tonight,” Philadelphia chef and restaurateur Marc Vetri wrote on Instagram.
Like Pelosi, Kenney never apologized.
“I know some are upset that I dined indoors at a restaurant in Maryland yesterday. I felt the risk was low because the county I visited has had fewer than 800 COVID-19 cases, compared to over 33,000 cases in Philadelphia. Regardless, I understand the frustration,” he said.
Frustration? How about an apology?
Then there was Chris Cuomo, the very angry man on CNN.
“All right, here it is, the official re-entry from the basement,” he said in an April video after self-quarantining from a positive COVID-19 test.
“This is what I’ve been dreaming of literally for weeks,” said the anchor as he walked up the stairs from his basement. “This is the dream. Just to be back up here doing normal things.”
But the video — intended to make viewers think that Cuomo had been in the basement for 21 days — had broken his “self-isolation” at least once before, traveling to his under-construction home in the East Hamptons on Easter Sunday.
How do we know that? Because Cuomo got into an altercation with a resident there, who was riding by on his bicycle, and later ranted about it, calling the bicyclist a “jackass, loser, fat-tire biker” on his Sirius-XM radio show.
The bicyclist confronted Cuomo, the New York Post reported, and he said Cuomo yelled at him, “Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!”
“I can do what I want.” Spoken like a true Democrat.
And of course, Democrats decried protests against draconian rules regarding COVID-19, but were all in when protesters rioted over the death of Black men at the hands of police. Suddenly, there was no need for masks or social distancing.
Then there was this perfect hypocrisy: When Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, died in July, federal lawmakers packed into an Atlanta church for his funeral.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser had ordered that all city residents who travel to “hot spots” — like Georgia — must quarantine for 14 days upon return. But Bowser simply made all federal lawmakers exempt from her order. They’re “essential,” she said. Classic.
Remember this Election Day that Democrats want to tell you what to do — forever. They won’t do it themselves, mind you, but they expect you to toe the line.
And if they get caught, they’ll demand you apologize.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-blasts-pelosi-over-salon-trip-mocks-her-setup-claim/">CNN’s Don Lemon Blasts Pelosi Over Salon Trip, Mocks Her ‘Setup’ Claim</a>
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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CURL: Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Hypocritical Democrats Show Their True Colors

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Central to his opponent’s strategy is the narrative that President Donald Trump’s entire political platform is one of fear. Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1301162966255980545">claims</a> that “Donald Trump is determined to instill fear and divide us,” Kamala Harris fundraised with the <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1298461415964053505">call</a> to “elect a president who will lead with hope &#8211; not fear,” and New York Times columnist Charles Blow recently penned a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/opinion/trump-white-fear-2020.html">piece</a> titled “Trump, Vicar of Feat and Violence” which described Trump’s supposed use of “white fear and white victimhood as potent political weapons.”
While such shallow accusations fit into the Democrats’ habit of presenting their enemies as something entirely negative in order to present themselves as the perfect antidote — “compassion over cruelty, empathy over ego, facts over fear, and hope over hate” — there is a deeper failing beneath this strategy of simple insults.
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By electing Democrats up and down the ballot, we have a chance to choose compassion over cruelty, empathy over ego, facts over fear, and hope over hate.
Not just in the White House, but in the halls of Congress, in state legislatures, and in local offices across the country.
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This pattern involves taking their worst traits, flaws, and failures of logic, and projecting it upon their enemies in an intellectual version of “I know you are, but what am I?” They claim to reject cruelty in favor of compassion while actively celebrating the destruction of unborn life. They claim to reject ego in favor of empathy while building their entire platform upon a cult of celebrity. They claim to reject fear in favor of facts while peddling the odd lie or two…
The most relevant subject of projection in our current climate of widespread riots across the country is the topic of “fear.” While the American Left have repeatedly attempted to label Trump as someone uniquely fueling this emotion for political gain, they have attempted to hide the fact that fear is one of the fundamental pillars which supports their entire ideology.
In its most obvious form, fear is leveraged by the Left by presenting any alternative to their rule as one of terror and doom. Hyperbole or deceit is carefully woven together to demonize all other choices until the Democrats remain as the only “safe” option. Such fear is stoked through ominous climate change predictions, the threat of COVID-19, or the claim that we are on the brink of a racial civil war. These vague and often unsubstantiated threats are used interchangeably with one goal in mind — to terrify people into voting blue.
In a more subtle form, the Democrats are also beholden to a devil of their own making. They have spent decades diligently nurturing the false narrative that the United States is irredeemably bigoted, that minorities should live in constant fear of the “majority” who seek their demise, and that victimhood systems such as intersectionality are principles on which all progress must be built. The problem for the Left is that, after making this bed, they are occasionally forced to lie in it. This results in a new fear — a fear of the truth.
Many have — justifiably — criticized the inconsistent attitudes demonstrated by Democrats regarding public events and COVID-19 measures. Republican rallies and anti-lockdown protests are condemned as dangerous, while Black Lives Matter rallies and pride parades are encouraged. Often, the assumption is that this inconsistency is rooted in the stereotypical hypocrisy possessed by the average politician. In cases like Nancy Pelosi’s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face">shameless</a> flouting of lockdown guidelines, hypocrisy is indeed the answer. However, sometimes the reason is fear.
Fear is the reason why Democrats behave differently based on the predominant identity group of those involved. Fear is why they cannot adequately criticize the violent riots gripping our country. Fear is why they label every police shooting of a black person as evidence of unwarranted police brutality. Fear is why they cannot condemn the blatant bigotry of figures like Al Sharpton, Ilhan Omar, or Louis Farrakhan.
By admitting the truth, they risk everything. You cannot criticize the riots without criticizing those responsible for the riots, including Antifa and Black Lives Matter. You cannot label anyone shot by the police as anything other than a victim without admitting that some police shootings are justified. You cannot condemn the bigotry of anyone who isn’t white without rejecting the principles of identity politics and intersectionality which claim that such conclusions are impossible.
The Democrats may state that they wish to choose facts over fear. This is hard to believe when fear is at the heart of their approach to what is true and what is false.
More from Ian Haworth: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-trump-acted-like-obama-the-left-would-explode-5-comparisons">If Trump Acted Like Obama, The Left Would Explode: 5 Examples</a>
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HAWORTH: What Democrats Fear Above All Else

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Some private gym owners in San Francisco are incensed after learning that gyms in government buildings have been open for some time, despite coronavirus lockdown edicts that have kept private gyms shuttered.
Daniele Rabkin from Crossfit Golden Gate told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-government-buildings-keep-gyms-open-crush-private-gym-owners/2357438/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC Bay Area</a> that such a revelation made her angry, especially after she had tried so hard to keep her business afloat. &#8220;It&#8217;s shocking; it&#8217;s infuriating. Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking,&#8221; she said.
When Rabkin reached out to police to offer them the opportunity to work out at her facility, she reportedly learned that they were able to do so at the SFPD Northern District Police Station. The Hall of Justice gym, another facility where city employees frequent, has been open since July 1.
Dave Karraker, who owns a gym called MX3 Fitness, said, “It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do.&#8221;
&#8220;What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe,&#8221; Karraker added. &#8220;So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have.&#8221;
When NBC Bay Area reached out to the city government for comment, they &#8220;were told only that the current health order does not allow indoor fitness gyms to operate, and per Mayor London Breed’s latest reopening announcement, privately owned gyms have to stay closed until at least the end of the month.&#8221;
The gyms are the latest apparent coronavirus double standard for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) district; Pelosi stoked outrage last week when footage emerged that showed her secretly getting a blowout at a salon, which would normally be shut to indoor patrons.
Salon owner Erica Kious told Fox News, “It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work.” She added that she “can’t believe” Pelosi was not wearing a mask.
After she was caught, Pelosi deflected <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-accuses-salon-of-setting-her-up-suggests-shes-owed-an-apology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blame to</a> Kious, accusing her of setting her up and suggesting she is owed an apology. &#8220;I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And that when they said, &#8216;Well, we’re able to accommodate people one person at a time, and that we can set up that time,’ I trusted that.&#8221;
Kious <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/erica-kious-nancy-pelosi-hair-salon-owner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">denied</a> Pelosi&#8217;s allegation to Fox News host Tucker Carlson and slammed Pelosi&#8217;s behavior as &#8220;hurtful,&#8221; especially since her business has been devastated by months of lockdown orders and will likely never recover. She also told Carlson that she has been receiving death threats from people in her community after the incident.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-slap-in-the-face-10-times-democrat-politicians-blew-off-their-own-coronavirus-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘A Slap In The Face’: 10 Times Democrat Politicians Blew Off Their Own Coronavirus Restrictions</a>
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‘It’s Infuriating’: Private San Francisco Gym Owners Angry After Gyms Open In Government Buildings

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On Sunday, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-september-6-2020-n1239438">speaking</a> on NBC’s “Meet The Press” with host Chuck Todd, Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson insisted that it could take a week after Election Day for all of Michigan’s ballots to be tallied, saying, “We should be prepared for this to be closer to an Election Week, as opposed to an Election Day.”
The conversation began with Todd asking, “Jocelyn Benson, what did you learn from Michigan&#8217;s experience? You ended up with a high volume of mail-in ballots. And obviously, you&#8217;ve gone through a whole bunch of election changes since 2016 that you&#8217;re going to be implementing for the first time. So give me your assessment of where you feel like Michigan is right now.&#8221;
“Well, yeah, Chuck, one of the silver linings of 2020 for us has been options for voters and opportunities to clarify those options,” Benson replied. “Voters in Michigan can vote early by mail. They can return ballots through a drop box. We&#8217;ve placed close to 1,000 secure drop boxes all around the state. They can vote early in person at their clerk&#8217;s office, and then every precinct will be open on Election Day. We&#8217;ve been able to hone this plan for November through three successful elections that we&#8217;ve had already this year where we&#8217;ve seen in every single one turnout has doubled, putting us on track to have Michigan&#8217;s November election be the highest turnout ever in the history of our state.”
Todd persisted, “I want to go to the postal service issue. You were pretty concerned about it at one time. Where are you now? Have you had reassurances from the postal service folks that you&#8217;ve dealt with since this kerfuffle began?”
“Well, yes. I mean, I have spoken directly with the postmaster general,” Benson agreed. “And we&#8217;ve been in near constant communication with our postmaster leaders and postal leaders on the ground here in Michigan. We&#8217;re approaching this from a two-pronged strategy. One is to make sure the system works, that citizens can receive their ballots and return them on time. We&#8217;ve created drop boxes as a workaround for citizens who may not feel comfortable or wait till the last minute to return their ballots.”
“But we&#8217;re now also facing a perception issue,” she continued. “That the changes in the postal service, if nothing else, have created confusion and chaos where none existed prior. And so, the voter education and the confidence-boosting we now have to do and will do to ensure voters feel confident that their vote is sent through the mail and will count is a key part of our work moving forward.”
Todd asked, “You guys can&#8217;t start processing until Election Day. It took a long time to get some results during your primary. Should we be prepared for Thanksgiving and the Michigan results to be coming together?”
Benson answered, “No, but we should be prepared for this to be closer to an Election Week, as opposed to an Election Day. I mean, the bottom line is we are not going to have the full results and a counting of all of our ballots on Election Night. We already know that. We&#8217;ve asked the legislature to make changes to the law to give us more ability to be prepared and count those ballots more efficiently. They have not acted for reasons that I don&#8217;t fully, completely understand. But that said, we&#8217;re increasing tabulators. We&#8217;re increasing capacity to more efficiently and securely count those ballots. But I&#8217;m also laser-focused on accuracy. And if it takes a few extra days to ensure we have a full and accurate counting of the results of every race, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to take. And we&#8217;re going to be transparent throughout that whole process to make sure every citizen knows exactly where we are in the counting process and how many more ballots we have to get through.”
At the Democratic National Convention, Benson joined California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to speak on a video where Padilla stated, &#8220;But now, Trump has admitted he&#8217;s trying to sabotage the post office to undermine voting-by-mail. And we&#8217;re not gonna let him do that.&#8221;
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Virginia has gone dark blue.
For years, decades even, the commonwealth — “the Birthplace of Presidents,” as it is sometimes called — was a Republican stronghold (even former Sen. Bob Dole won the state as Bill Clinton won in a landslide in 1996).
Until the past few elections, the last time a Democrat won the commonwealth was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Even this century, Republicans controlled the state: George W. Bush thumped Al Gore there in 2000, then hammered Sen. John Kerry four years later.
But things have been changing ever since.
Barack Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in 2008, then won again in 2012, beating Mitt Romney by three points. And Hillary Clinton won the state by more than five points in 2016, even as President Trump went on to trounce her in the Electoral College, 304-227.
The party is now fully in control. Democrats currently hold majorities in both chambers of the commonwealth’s General Assembly — the House of Delegates and the Senate — and a Democrat dwells in the governor’s mansion. Both U.S. Senate seats are held by Democrats, and the makeup of U.S. House lawmakers from the state is tipped in the party’s favor, seven Democrats to four Republicans.
So it makes sense that the commonwealth — like the party that controls it — is moving hard left on the political spectrum.
Just last week, Virginia’s Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver vowed to force all Virginians to take a vaccine for COVID-19 once one is created and readily available. “It is killing people now, we don’t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives,” Dr. Oliver said.
Virginia state law gives the commissioner “the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021,” a local TV station said. “Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the health commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.”
The Virginia General Assembly is currently weighing a bill in a special emergency session that “eliminates the authority of the Commissioner of Health to require immunization of individuals who object to such administration on religious grounds,” the bill says. But Democrats are in control, so that will likely fail.
Meanwhile, Democrats in the state Senate have passed a bill allowing the assault of a law enforcement officer to be treated as a misdemeanor, which carries less than a year in jail. The bill, which passed the Senate last week by a margin of 21-15, “would allow an assault against a law enforcement officer to a misdemeanor if the person attacked is not hurt,” according to another local station.
The bill, according to its summary, “Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement for an assault and battery committed against a judge; magistrate; law-enforcement officer; correctional officer; person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inmates; firefighter; or volunteer firefighter or any emergency medical services personnel and provides that such crime can no longer be committed as a simple assault and must result in a bodily injury.”
The bill also removes the mandatory minimum six-month jail sentence for assaulting a police officer.
Virginia Democrats got right to work trying to move the commonwealth left after taking over both legislative chambers in January, moving to go after the guns — as they had promised to do.
In February, Democrats in the Senate passed the first pair of bills in a wave of gun-control legislation. One bill proposed restoring the state’s previous one-handgun-a-month rule, while the second proposed to allow local governments to ban guns in public buildings, parks and at permitted events — including political protests. The vote was a straight party line, with Democrats prevailing 21-19.
So Virginia may be lost forever to Republicans. With counties around Washington, D.C., filling with yuppie liberals, the commonwealth — which has produced eight presidents — might never go red again.
And that is making a lot of Virginians blue.
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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