In New Mexico, the Democratic governor apparently thinks the Constitution doesn’t apply to her.
“New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in response to a spate of gun violence,” the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/albuquerque-guns-governor-concealed-carry-fc5b4b79bf411b8022c3ad58975724d7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> reported. “The Democratic governor said she expects legal challenges but she was compelled to act because of recent shootings, including the death of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week. Lujan Grisham said state police would be responsible for enforcing what amount to civil violations.”
The New Mexico governor claims that emergency powers give her the ability to simply suspend constitutional law. But the Albuquerque police chief is already saying he won’t enforce her order because it’s unconstitutional: “No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute,” Grisham stated. “There are restrictions on free speech. There are restrictions on my freedoms. In this emergency, this 11-year-old, and all these parents who have lost all these children, they deserve my attention to have the debate about whether or not in an emergency, we can create a safer environment. Because what about their constitutional rights?”
When people speak of political fascism, this is it. When a member of the government simply declares via emergency order that they can willy-nilly violate full-scale constitutional rights based on no actual emergency — we are not talking about a tornado hitting the state or some sort of giant earthquake — that’s fascism. She is basically saying, “I don’t like that people got shot. Therefore, I’m banning you from exercising your constitutional rights.”
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You could do this for anything. Someone could say, “Listen, we have a national epidemic of hate.” (You’ve seen this in places like Chicago, where the former mayor, Lori Lightfoot, tried to declare that racism was a public health emergency.) You could see somebody like this idiot governor saying, “Racism and hate are public health emergencies, and I’m declaring an emergency. Therefore, you are not allowed to say the following words in my state,” and then just list them. That would be a significant First Amendment violation.
She could go even further. She could say, “You’re not allowed to use the internet because the internet obviously has facilitated so much violence. I’ve decided in my state, you’re not allowed to use it — not on the basis of any sort of elected legislative session, but on the basis of my own judgment that an emergency has now been constituted because I don’t like what is happening.” If all of your rights are simply dependent on one lady deciding she really doesn’t like what is happening in the world, that is tyranny. That is the essence of tyranny.
It’s amazing she would try this, but it was always going to happen. The minute we shut down everything in the world for COVID, and then maintained that for two years, even as the data emerged that it actually wasn’t the sort of national emergency that was being suggested, it was only a matter of time before Democratic officials tried to do something like this.
If this is the new way the Democrats make law, then they could do it on the basis of anything.
And that’s a pretty terrifying prospect.
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The Democratic Governor Of New Mexico Has A Taste For Fascism

Ben Shapiro

Fascism

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Gun Laws

New Mexico

Opinion

Readers Pass

Second Amendment

Jake Tapper conducted an interview with Chris Christie the other day. He asked him a question that a lot of people in the Left-leaning media constantly ask: Do Republicans have an authoritarian problem? 
Authoritarianism is not what people in the media think it is. They think authoritarianism is Donald Trump tweeting. But there are many forms of authoritarianism. In fact, fascism is an element of both Left and Right. It is not merely a Right-wing action. Authoritarianism can just as easily be implemented by a series of executive orders that go outside the Constitution, that radically re-shift the balance between people in the government, something Joe Biden does with alacrity. 
Tapper told Christie, “There was a column in ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer’ by a progressive journalist named Will Bunch talking about how he thought the news media was doing a disservice to the public by not frankly and candidly describing what he views as an authoritarian streak going on in the Republican Party. You haven&#8217;t read the column I assume so I&#8217;m not even going to ask you about it. But you do describe the conduct of Donald Trump trying to overturn the election as reprehensible. You do condemn it?”
Christie: “Yeah.”
“But so many people in your party, and I&#8217;m not just talking about people running for president or on Capitol Hill, but I mean voters, Republican voters, don&#8217;t seem to have a problem with it,” Tapper declared. “And I&#8217;m wondering, do you think that your party has an authoritarian problem? That they really honestly don&#8217;t have a problem with violently trying to stop a free and fair election from going — going forward?” 
 
“No, Jake, I absolutely don&#8217;t think that we have that problem,” Christie responded. “I think what we have is a Donald Trump problem. And that right now what&#8217;s gone on is that people view Donald Trump synonymously with the Republican Party. And that if you oppose Trump, that is somehow favoring Biden. And many Republicans don&#8217;t want to do that for very obvious reasons.”
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It is true that for many Republicans, Trump is seen as synonymous with the Republican Party. And if you tell people it&#8217;s either Biden or the Republican Party, a lot of people are going to vote Republican. But what&#8217;s insulting to the intelligence is this generalized narrative that the media are constantly drawing, in which they suggest that fascism or authoritarianism or tyranny is an element of the Right, and the Left is completely free, that their hands are completely clean.</h4>
It&#8217;s obviously not true. The truth is that fascism as an ideology is closer to the American Left than it is to the American Right. Fascism is an ideology that was generalized in response to communism, but it drew from Marxism, Hegelian politics, and progressive-era ideas, which is why many of the early supporters of Mussolini were members of the Left, including people who had worked in Woodrow Wilson’s administration who went on to work in the FDR administration.
But the media feels free to lie, saying that the Right is universally authoritarian and the Left is for freedom.
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Fascism Isn’t Right-Wing

Chris Christie

Donald Trump

Jake Tapper

Everybody knows what fascism means, right? After all, our politicians and media members use the word constantly. Everybody you don&#8217;t like is a fascist. Everybody you do like is fighting fascism. But what exactly is fascism?
The one thing everybody seems to know is that fascism is like Hitler and this means the chief characteristic of fascism is the Holocaust. Therefore, by the transitive property: Everyone you don&#8217;t like is fascist; every fascist is Hitler; the most Hitler thing is the Holocaust. So, Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or whomever the media say that day is probably going to commit a holocaust.
Invariably, the people in the media who use the word fascism use it to refer to a politician of the Right. But it turns out that fascism is Right-wing only when compared with outright communism. Fascism in Europe was a reactionary force. By American standards, fascism — which calls for unity of central authority and governmental control over private industry, among other agenda items — was far more Left-wing than Right-wing, which is why so many members of the American Left were originally quite warm toward Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
To understand this, let&#8217;s look briefly at the history of fascism. Fascism is a very messy concept in that it crosses streams with a wide variety of other ideologies ranging from Marxism to religious integralism. So what are the common features of fascism? 
First, fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized state. We can sense the roots of fascism going all the way back to Plato who called for a Philosopher King in a utopian state, although there are those who read Plato as esoteric in this call. We can sense fascist themes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 &#8211; 1778), who called for the dictatorship of the general will, a sort of miasmatic power emanating from the people but vested in a centralized authority, in which all people would feel themselves members. This is why Robespierre, the author of &#8220;The Reign of Terror,” cited Rousseau as divine. Georg Friedrich Hegel, (1770 &#8211; 1831), saw the power of the state as the apotheosis of mankind: 
<blockquote>“The state consists in the march of God in the world.”</blockquote>
This means that fascism sees both economic and individual freedoms as antithetical to the good when they challenge the power of the state.
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Second, fascism is characterized by a belief in nationalism or in its most virulent form racial hierarchy. We can see the roots of fascism in ancient Sparta, a militaristic dictatorship rooted in racial purity. With the death of biblical adherence to the notion of a universal humanity during the enlightenment, racial division became a deep part of Western thought.
Immanuel Kant (1724 &#8211; 1804) spoke about a hierarchy of races in his earlier work. He attempted to walk some of that back later in life. This sort of thought was exacerbated by Charles Darwin&#8217;s theory, which was misread to embrace scientific racism. Such scientific racism became a dominant philosophy throughout much of the progressive world, which is why both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were advocates of eugenics.
Third, fascism is militaristic. It sees organization around military lines as a model for human existence and recommends action in the world as a response to existential nihilism.
There&#8217;s a reason Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 &#8211; 1900) was beloved to fascists. He spoke of the &#8220;Ubermensch&#8221; who would be able to conquer through power of sheer will. Fascism suggests a sort of mystical spirit residing in the nation that must be fed through expansionism and militarization of life.
Historically, the most important fascist was actually not Hitler but Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was the first politician to truly channel the roiling forces of fascism into one movement. The word fascism comes from the word “fasces,” a bundle of rods grouped together to form a roman weapon. Fascism comes from Italy.
Mussolini was originally attracted to the work of Marx, which was not anti-fascist in any real way. Many of the predicates of fascism also worked quite well for Lenin and Stalin. But Mussolini eventually came to realize rejecting Marx could serve his own ends.
In the aftermath of World War I, Mussolini gained power by marching on Rome, with the acquiescence of the king, in order to supposedly save the state from Bolshevism. Mussolini&#8217;s philosophy was somewhat vague but it carried all the central tenets of fascism. In 1927, Mussolini laid out the “Doctrine” of Fascism.” He wrote:
<blockquote>“Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State…”</blockquote>
Mussolini wrote that fascism was a “spiritual attitude.” That spiritual attitude required outward expansion:
<blockquote>“The state is not only authority which governs and confers a legal form and spiritual value on individual wills, it is also Power which makes its will felt and respected beyond its own frontiers thus affording practical proof of the universal character of the decisions necessary to ensure its development. This implies organization and expansion potential if not actual.”</blockquote>
That expansion meant not just militarization, but gargantuan public works, massive expansion of the welfare state, corporatization of the private sector with the government leaving private industry intact, but essentially working hand-in-glove with it to control it and channel its resources in the direction sought by the fascists.
Private companies remaining in private hands, that&#8217;s the reason that we&#8217;re able to create innovative products right here in America that are recognized and used the world over. We know how incompetent the government is, imagine them actually controlling all private business. Things would look pretty bleak.
Glorification of the State and the great leader lay at the root of the Mussolini regime. Mussolini quickly gained worldwide credence and approval. Fascism spread throughout Europe. Hitler greatly admired Mussolini, of course, and Hitler&#8217;s original Beer Hall Putsch was supposed to mimic the success of Mussolini&#8217;s march on Rome.
Hitlerian fascism was significantly more totalitarian than Mussolini&#8217;s brand. The cult of the great leader reached its fruition in the Führer. Philosopher Martin Heidegger embodied the feelings of millions in 1933:
<blockquote>“The Führer himself and he alone is the German reality, present and future, and its law. Heil Hitler!” </blockquote>
Nazism, of course, took on racial eugenics in a far more significant way culminating in the Holocaust. And Nazism&#8217;s militarism ended in the catastrophe of World War II. Hitler was not the only fascist to follow Mussolini&#8217;s lead.
Fascist regimes took over in a variety of countries ranging from Hungary and Romania to Paraguay and eventually Iraq. Other states, ranging from Spain to Argentina, mimic many aspects of fascism, leading many to label them quasi-fascist.
Certain aspects of fascism, particularly in the economic realm could even be seen under FDR in the United States. FDR&#8217;s New Deal, complete with government resources directed at forcing economic conformity, controlled huge swaths of American life, with FDR aide Harry Hopkins openly suggesting,
<blockquote>“We are not afraid of exploring anything within the law and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do to be legal.”</blockquote>
And this is why the term fascism is so attractive in political discourse. Everybody thinks of Brownshirts and small mustaches when they invoke fascism, but there are a lot of aspects of fascism that survive in a variety of forms.
Corporatism — government working hand-in-glove with industry — is a form of economic fascism. Racial hierarchies can be indicative of fascist thinking, particularly when combined with differential treatment under law. Militarism can be termed fascist, particularly when its resources are directed at domestic populations.
Few people will admit to being fascist today. It would be far more useful for everybody to simply critique policies with reference to history but without reference to the buzzword that poisons everyday discourse. We can have good and interesting conversations about the value of corporatism, for example, without invoking Hitler, we can talk about opposing the shortcomings of atomic individualism without invoking the Holocaust.
The truth is that nowadays the term fascism tends to be a slur rather than a predicate to a useful conversation. As it turns out, everybody you don&#8217;t like probably isn&#8217;t Hitler.
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FACTS EP 3 FASCISM

Not Everyone You HATE Is A Fascist

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Italy

World War II

In the third episode of his new YouTube series, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/facts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facts</a>,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro explained the history of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fascism</a>, detailing how most people who use the term today do not understand the origins or nature of the ideology.
The Daily Wire co-founder noted that the media missed the mark when it portrayed conservative political figures, like former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as fascists, explaining that the fascist ideology centers around the idea of a strong centralized state, an idea popular among many American leftists.
“Fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized state. We can sense the roots of fascism going all the way back to Plato, who called for a philosopher king in a utopian state,” Shapiro said in the episode, which was released on Saturday.
Another characteristic of fascism is holding to a belief in nationalism, and sometimes a rigid racial hierarchy. This can be seen first in ancient Sparta and later in the scientific racism that was embraced toward the end of the 19th century.
“Such scientific racism became a dominant philosophy throughout much of the progressive world, which is why both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were advocates of eugenics,&#8221; Shapiro said, adding that &#8220;fascism is militaristic.&#8221;
&#8220;It sees organization around military lines as a model for human existence and recommends action in the world as a response to existential nihilism,&#8221; Shapiro said.
Historically speaking, Shapiro said, the most important fascist figure would not be Adolph Hitler, but Benito Mussolini, the dictator of Italy from 1925-1943. Shapiro explained how Mussolini laid out “The Doctrine of Fascism,” which was predicated on making the will of the individual subservient to the state.
“Glorification of the state and the great leader lay at the root of the Mussolini regime. Mussolini quickly gained worldwide credence and approval. Fascism spread throughout Europe. Hitler greatly admired Mussolini, of course, and Hitler&#8217;s original Beer Hall Putsch was supposed to mimic the success of Mussolini&#8217;s March on Rome. Hitlerian fascism was significantly more totalitarian than Mussolini&#8217;s brand,” Shapiro said.
In the modern day, The Daily Wire host explained that corporatism, racial hierarchies, and militarism were all aspects of fascism. He added that fascism was typically used as an insult, and often shut down conversations on important topics like corporatism and individualism vs. collectivism.
&#8220;The truth is that nowadays, the term fascism tends to be a slur rather than a predicate to a useful conversation,” Shapiro said. “As it turns out, everybody you don&#8217;t like probably isn&#8217;t Hitler.”
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Ben Shapiro Breaks Down The History Of Fascism In Latest ‘Facts’ Episode

You are a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fascist</a> if you believe in &#8220;God, Family, and Country,&#8221; as Italy&#8217;s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni does. American leftists want you to know. Yet her political &#8220;rival&#8221; and former Italian PM Matteo Renzi says that description is &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fake-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fake news</a>.&#8221;
Folks on networks like CNN have been fretting that Italy&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-giorgia-meloni-claims-victory-as-italys-first-female-prime-minister" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new prime minister</a> is ushering in a new era of Mussolini-style politics. Renzi, prime minister from 2014 to 2016,  is a center-left politician. On Monday night, he took to the airwaves to defend Meloni against attacks from pundits and leaders from around the globe.
&#8220;There is not a danger for Italian democracy,&#8221; Renzi said on CNN. &#8220;She&#8217;s my rival, I&#8217;m her rival, we will continue to fight each other, but the idea now that there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely fake news.&#8221;
A video of the segment can be seen here:
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Former Italian PM Matteo Renzi on the newly elected Giorgia Meloni:
&quot;There is not a danger for Italian democracy&#8230;fascism in Italy is absolutely fake news.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iluUo6PyhO">pic.twitter.com/iluUo6PyhO</a>
&mdash; J.W. Gibbons (@JoelWGibbonsV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWGibbonsV/status/1574788485420048386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Where would critics get the idea that she is a fascist? Well, she loves Italy, is proud of its history, and defends the family against leftist views.
Perhaps her most famous <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-election-meloni-idAFKBN2QR02P" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quote</a>, &#8220;I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me,&#8221; has sent shivers down the spines of leftists around the globe.
In Meloni&#8217;s critics&#8217; minds, enlightened people in Western nations are not supposed to be individual critical thinkers — they are supposed to go along with the global elite. Her embrace of womanhood and motherhood represents her embrace of the patriarchy — the very same backward system of oppression that globalists are trying to take down.
Being a Christian and patriotic? That is unheard of, and only for dumb, backward MAGA voters, you can just hear the CNN newsroom saying, repeating verbatim the sort of rhetoric tossed around amongst the crowd at the World Economic Forum.
And yet, Meloni has metaphorically given all of those folks the middle finger. She was also staunchly against lockdowns and wanted Italy to get tougher with China in response to COVID. She has zero desire to go along with what Big Government, Big Tech, and Big Business think is best for the entire world. She wants to do what is best for Italy.
In other words, she cannot be controlled.
Her enemies must understand that her message is appealing — it is pretty similar to the kind that launched Donald Trump to prominence in 2015 — because they are now doing everything they can to smear her.
What those critics could not possibly anticipate is the quickness with which even her political rivals like Renzi shot down their allegations of fascism.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

CNN, Girogia Meloni

‘Absolutely Fake News’: On CNN, Giorgia Meloni’s Political ‘Rival’ Shuts Down ‘Fascism’ Fears

On CNN, Giorgia Meloni's Political 'Rival' Shuts Down 'Fascism' Fears

Fake News

Congressman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/raskin-channels-schiff-insists-to-cnn-he-has-evidence-republicans-begged-trump-for-january-6-pardons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamie Raskin</a> (D-MD) defended President Joe Biden&#8217;s recent remarks during a Sunday appearance on CBS&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; claiming that failure to accept the result of a free and fair election was one of the &#8220;hallmarks&#8221; of a fascist party.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/shapiro-joe-biden-is-the-real-semi-fascist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a> took some heat earlier in the week — for asserting that some Republicans had embraced &#8220;semi-fascism&#8221; and that so-called &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; were a threat to American democracy — as critics argued that the president who ran on uniting the country was only dividing the American people further. Raskin doubled down on Biden&#8217;s comments.
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Jamie Raskin on CBS: &quot;Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don&#39;t accept the results of elections that don&#39;t go their way, and two, they embrace political violence. And I think that&#39;s why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9S13L7ZG3D">pic.twitter.com/9S13L7ZG3D</a>
&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1566437703427792896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/next-question-democrat-rep-refuses-to-say-how-inflation-reduction-act-will-lower-inflation-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raskin</a>, responding to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s repeated claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent, argued first that every case Trump&#8217;s attorneys had put forth had failed.
&#8220;Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don&#8217;t accept the results of elections that don&#8217;t go their way, and two, they embrace political violence. And I think that&#8217;s why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week,&#8221; he added.
But Raskin hasn&#8217;t always been so accepting of election results himself. In January of 2017 — when it came time for Congress to certify the results of the 2016 election — Raskin was among those who argued that the votes cast by electors from the state of Florida should not stand.
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Flashback 📸 : Trump lawyers show video of Democrats objecting to certifying his election in 2017. <a href="https://t.co/VlT7z8v2lm">https://t.co/VlT7z8v2lm</a> <a href="https://t.co/EiJQh0x5Kh">pic.twitter.com/EiJQh0x5Kh</a>
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Then Vice President Joe Biden struck down the move, saying, &#8220;Please come to order. The objection cannot be received.&#8221; Raskin dismissed criticism of his objection by saying that in 2017, no one had stormed the Capitol.
Raskin also objected to the 2000 presidential election, stating in a video unearthed by the Republican National Committee that former President George W. Bush had effectively been appointed by the Supreme Court rather than elected by the American people.
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Incredible work by the RNC to find a 2003 (!) clip of Jamie Raskin saying that the 2000 presidential election was stolen. <a href="https://t.co/r7hXAj6KVl">https://t.co/r7hXAj6KVl</a> <a href="https://t.co/0uo57szWWM">pic.twitter.com/0uo57szWWM</a>
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And Raskin was not the only one. Former Secretary of State — and failed presidential candidate — Hillary Clinton claimed that the 2016 election was &#8220;stolen&#8221; from her. President Joe Biden, after an audience member at a rally referred to Trump as an &#8220;illegitimate president,&#8221; jokingly asked the person to be his vice presidential candidate.
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Here is ten straight minutes of Democrats denying election results.<a href="https://t.co/bJRbzEcIO2">pic.twitter.com/bJRbzEcIO2</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1566463210957455364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Nancy Pelosi Holds Bill Enrollment Event For Inflation Reduction Act

Democrat Election-Denier Claims Denying Elections Is One Of The ‘Hallmarks’ Of Fascism

Jamie Raskin, Election-Denier, Claims Denying Elections Is One Of The 'Hallmarks' Of Fascism

2016 Election

2020 Election

Jamie Raskin

Joe Biden

Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-gutfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Gutfeld</a> ripped into President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> over his recent attacks accusing Republicans of embracing &#8220;semi-fascism&#8221; and suggesting that they&#8217;d need an F-15 fighter jet to defend themselves against the government.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/so-deeply-offensive-greg-gutfeld-reveals-what-makes-him-want-to-punch-al-gore-in-the-face/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gutfeld</a> made the comments during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of popular drive-time panel show &#8220;The Five,&#8221; arguing that people might be allowing Biden&#8217;s age to make them believe he was kinder and gentler than he really was.
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&quot;It&#39;s kind of a sick boast. It’s not semi fascist, it’s full on fascist. Who knew Joe would become a wartime president, but he is waging war on people in the country,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/greggutfeld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@greggutfeld</a> unloads on Biden. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheFive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheFive</a> <a href="https://t.co/nQJKgPuacN">pic.twitter.com/nQJKgPuacN</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1565106777997328384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Co-host Judge <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeanine-pirro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeanine Pirro</a> put the topic to Gutfeld first, saying, &#8220;One of the things that the president talked about was — he says if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15, you need something a little more than a gun. First of all, it’s a little tone-deaf given that we were at the one year anniversary of having left Afghanistan and having left F-15s for the Taliban, but what was he talking about?&#8221;
&#8220;With that logic, why are we giving arms or money to Ukraine? Isn’t that useless if you’re against a superior army?&#8221; Gutfeld asked. &#8220;By his logic, we should give up all of our rights, all of our protections, because they&#8217;re no match for government force. Right? It’s kind of a sick boast. It’s not semi-fascist, it’s full on fascist.&#8221;
&#8220;Who knew Joe would become a wartime president, but he is waging war on people in the country,&#8221; Gutfeld continued, adding, &#8220;He’s an empty vessel that they filled with left-wing agitprop and all this other crap.&#8221;
Gutfeld went on to note that a lot of Americans had been sucked into the narrative of Joe Biden the &#8220;nice guy,&#8221; adding that people then tended to forget he was also the guy who had claimed then-presidential candidate <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitt-romney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitt Romney</a> (R) would put black people back &#8220;in chains.&#8221;
&#8220;He says the craziest stuff,&#8221; Gutfeld added. &#8220;I think what we’re suffering from is old man syndrome. This is when you ascribe certain gentleness to people as they age, like I&#8217;ve noticed that since my hair has gone gray, babies like me, they think I’m harmless&#8230; When you look at inmates, older inmates, you feel bad for them and go, that guy wouldn’t hurt a fly. While 30 years from now he murdered a family, so of course now he’s got salt and pepper hair, he looks like Harold, everything’s okay. That’s the problem with Joe. Joe hasn’t gotten nicer, he’s gotten angrier.&#8221;

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‘It’s Kind Of A Sick Boast’: Greg Gutfeld Rips Biden For Making The Leap To ‘Full-On Fascist’

Greg Gutfeld Rips President Biden For Making The Leap To 'Full-On Fascist'

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Jeanine Pirro

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kirstie-alley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirstie Alley</a> called out President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> on Monday, claiming he had called “half the country fascist” or “semi-fascist” during a speech to Democrat donors in Maryland.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kirstie-alley-on-baldwin-incident-i-have-never-been-handed-a-gun-by-an-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">71-year-old actress</a> sent a message directly to her 1.5 million followers on Twitter about how Biden, in the past, has described himself as “inclusive,” and Alley asked how others felt about the president&#8217;s disparaging remarks.
“Sooooo our current ‘inclusive’ POTUS just called half the country Fascist.. or was it semi fascist?” Alley tweeted. “Ahhhhhh I&#8217;m so glad he billed himself the INCLUSIVE president .. I feel SO inclusive. How bout you?”
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sooooo our current “inclusive” POTUS just called half the country Fascist.. or was it semi fascist?… ahhhhhh I’m so glad he billed himself the INCLUSIVE president .. I feel SO inclusive🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣How bout you?
&mdash; Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) <a href="https://twitter.com/kirstiealley/status/1564364899341537280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During the Maryland event, Biden told donors that what “we&#8217;re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-slam-republicans-as-haters-semi-fascists-and-tell-them-to-get-out-of-town-all-in-one-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
“It&#8217;s not just Trump,” POTUS told donors. “It&#8217;s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I&#8217;m going to say something: It&#8217;s like semi-fascism.”
Biden went on to compare “MAGA Republicans” to semi-fascism. When pressed about what he meant, Biden told members of the press, “You know what I mean.”
WATCH:
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“What do you mean by semi-fascism, sir?”
BIDEN, smirking: “You know what I mean.” <a href="https://t.co/hMJk2GGVov">pic.twitter.com/hMJk2GGVov</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1563378005270925314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In 2020, Biden was singing a different tune after the election when he declared that he would “unify” the country, as <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a> noted.
“I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” Biden shared at the time. “And to make America respected around the world again and to unite us here at home.”
“It&#8217;s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, to lower the temperature, to see each other again, to listen to each other again, to make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy,” he added. “We are not enemies. We are Americans.”
The “Look Who&#8217;s Talking” star has proved she&#8217;s not worried about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kirstie-alley-rips-cnns-covid-coverage-fear-of-dying-is-their-mantra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking out</a> against mainstream media when it comes to the pandemic and showing her support for Trump, despite her career in Hollywood. In 2016 and 2020, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stop-the-mean-girl-s-kirstie-alley-blasts-jen-psaki-for-her-attitude" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> her followers she voted for the former president.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stop-the-mean-girl-s-kirstie-alley-blasts-jen-psaki-for-her-attitude">Stop The &#8216;Mean Girl S***&#8217;: Kirstie Alley Blasts Jen Psaki For Her Attitude</a>

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Kirstie Alley Blasts ‘Inclusive POTUS’ Biden Who ‘Just Called Half The Country Fascist’

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CNN anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/incredibly-cynical-and-hypocritical-cnn-torches-democrats-for-strategically-funding-far-right-candidates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Avlon</a> blasted President <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-says-the-government-needs-money-because-theres-going-to-be-another-pandemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> recent comments referring to some Republicans as “<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/horribly-insulting-gop-gov-demands-biden-apologize-for-saying-some-republicans-motivated-by-semi-fascism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semi-fascists</a>,” saying that remarks like that were “not befitting of the office of president.”
Avlon joined a panel discussion on Tuesday morning&#8217;s broadcast of “New Day,” and he argued that at the very least, Biden was not doing himself any favors with independent voters when he painted half the country with such a broad and unflattering brush.
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CNN&#39;s John Avlon says Biden&#39;s &quot;semi-fascist&quot; remarks are &quot;not helpful,&quot; and &quot;not befitting of the office of the president.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>: &quot;Biden has all the precision of a surgeon with a meat ax.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WYJSkxcWmF">pic.twitter.com/WYJSkxcWmF</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1564672989882454021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The discussion began with CNN political commentator — and former National Coalitions Director for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — Ashley Allison, who argued that the United States was in a precarious position with regard to preserving democracy.
“I also want to put context into what the president said. He did not call half of America fascist,” she said. “He said people who believe that the 2020 election was stolen, people who want to ban books, people who are taking these steps — we’re on a very dangerous line and we have to call a thing a thing. Or we run a risk allowing someone like Donald Trump — we just had a conversation how dangerous he is — I don&#8217;t think Joe Biden is calling everybody fascist but you have to stand up for right and right and wrong is wrong.”
Avlon pointed out the fact that the language was the problem, arguing that it was not helpful for Biden to be seen as divisive.
“The term semi-fascist is not helpful, it&#8217;s not befitting the office of president,” he said. “While you can absolutely call out the dangers to our democracy — but it makes perfect sense for someone like Sen. Hassan because, look, in New Hampshire, more than 40% of registered voters are Independent, another 30 and change are Republicans. Democrats are the third category among registered voters. So, she needs to be able to reach out and that language doesn’t help her do that.”
“Actually — you’re being kind trying to parse and put what he said in a certain context,” Republican strategist Alice Stewart added. “The takeaway from Republicans is that the President of the United States — who campaigned on, won on, and was sworn in on a message of unity, lowering the temperature and bringing this country together — just called half the country fascist.”
“Not half —” Avlon objected.
“You can parse it how you want, but that’s the takeaway &#8230; He painted the Republican Party as a bunch of fascists,” Stewart repeated.
“This isn’t the one-time thing, I mean, Biden has all the precision of a surgeon with a meat ax, here,” Republican commentator Scott Jennings added. “When Republicans wouldn&#8217;t go along with his bill to federalize all elections, he said, well, you’re either Jefferson Davis or Bull Connor. His natural instinct is to go to an extreme insult. You’re either racist or fascist.”

Collision 2018 – Day Two

CNN Anchor Blasts Biden Over ‘Semi-Fascist’ Remarks: ‘Not Befitting The Office Of President’

CNN Anchor John Avlon Blasts Biden Over ‘Semi-Fascist’ Remarks

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What kind of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moron</a> is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlie-crist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlie Crist</a>?
In the past week, the Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat labeled half of his constituents as &#8220;haters,&#8221; tapped a teachers union leader as his second in command, and defended President Joe Biden after he called half of the country &#8220;semi-fascists.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVejEB5uVk">It&#8217;s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let&#8217;s see if it pays off for him</a>.
We&#8217;ll focus on Crist&#8217;s latest comments on Monday first, then break down the rest of the peculiar campaign strategy.
While appearing on CNN, Crist claimed that the president was just being &#8220;honest&#8221; when he labeled &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; as a bunch of semi-fascists threats to the rule of law.
&#8220;I think what&#8217;s important is to state the facts as they are,&#8221; Crist said in response to a clip of Biden&#8217;s comments. &#8220;He&#8217;s gotta be honest and express what he feels in his heart and his soul, and I think that&#8217;s probably exactly what he did.&#8221;
In the words of Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, &#8220;Facts don&#8217;t care about your feelings.&#8221; Biden feeling &#8220;in his heart&#8221; that MAGA Republicans (which appear to account for large swath of the GOP) are semi-fascists doesn&#8217;t make it so. Furthermore, is Crist aware that Trump carried Florida in both 2016 and 2020? Why would Sunshine State voters support a man who won&#8217;t defend them from being blasted as semi-fascists?
Well, the answer to that question lies in Crist&#8217;s public comments about voters who support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R): He&#8217;s told them that he doesn&#8217;t even want their votes.
“Those who support the governor should stay with him and vote for him, and I don’t want your vote,” Crist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-want-your-vote-florida-democrat-celebrates-primary-win-by-alienating-half-the-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this week. “If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there!”
“I want the vote of the people of Florida who care about our state: good Democrats, good independents, good Republicans,” Crist added. “Unify with this ticket. Unify with Val Demings and Charlie Crist. Unify with us. Those who are haters? You’re going to go off in your own world, and you better get right.”
But that strategy could backfire, and in a big way. According to one poll, DeSantis is <a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/552047-poll-shows-ron-desantis-underwater-with-independents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beating</a> Crist by 5 percentage points. In 2018, DeSantis earned 4,076,186 votes. Since then, more Republicans have entered the state.
What kind of a candidate tells more than four million people to not vote for him?
Likewise, just days after Miami-Dade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/year-of-the-parent-conservative-school-board-candidates-gain-control-in-key-florida-counties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elected</a> a conservative school board — populated with DeSantis-endorsed candidates — Crist chose the president of the Dade Teachers Union to be his running mate. Karla Hernández-Mats, the teachers union president, is outspokenly against DeSantis&#8217;s anti-woke agenda.
&#8220;Teachers didn&#8217;t go into this profession to be politicized. We&#8217;re truth-tellers,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2022/08/29/charlie-crist-karla-hernandez-mats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS this summer. &#8220;We don&#8217;t believe in banning books …We see all these different culture wars from Governor DeSantis and really extreme legislators in Tallahassee that are impacting our school system.&#8221;
Crist seems to think those sorts of stances will help his chances.
Yet a recent poll indicates that, actually, Florida residents — especially Hispanic voters and blue-collar workers — appear to side with DeSantis in the fight against the cultural attacks from the Left.
USA Today recently <a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/24/poll-florida-desantis-culture-war-voters/10352673002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a &#8220;Florida survey found that 52% of Florida voters approve of the governor’s focus on culture issues — such as gender identity, sexual orientation and race — in schools and businesses and 47% disapprove.&#8221;
Democrats overwhelmingly oppose those efforts, yet 52% of independents support him. Furthermore, a whopping 54% of voters without a college degree and 60% of Hispanic voters support him as well.
The thing about Crist is that he has never been driven by ideological principles. It isn&#8217;t as if he has held these Leftist views his entire career like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
He appears to be far more driven more by whatever he thinks can get him elected than any adherence to specific political platform.
All that being said, why wouldn&#8217;t he fake political views that are more aligned with Florida voters?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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What Kind Of Moron Is Charlie Crist? Florida Democrat Presents The Worst Week Ever In Campaigning

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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed on Wednesday that the upcoming midterm elections were not going to be a referendum on President Joe Biden, the Democrats in control of Congress, or the continuing rise of inflation.
Rather, Scarborough argued — against the backdrop of Holocaust Remembrance Day — that the real <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/democrats-heading-for-2022-wipeout-attempt-to-make-trump-villain-again/">referendum</a> was going to be what played out in the Republican primaries as voters determined whether they wanted to move in a &#8220;more neofascist direction.&#8221;
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Wherein Joe Scarborough uses <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HolocaustRemembranceDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HolocaustRemembranceDay</a> to claim that the 2022 midterms will not be a referendum on Joe Biden and the Democrats in power, but instead will determine whether Republicans will &quot;move in a more neofascist direction.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/bEYxH2WJJa">pic.twitter.com/bEYxH2WJJa</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1519330800772300801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. And it seems to me, for most of our lives, most of our adult lives, whenever there was Holocaust Remembrance Day, we were looking at black and white photos, trying to figure out how madness spread across Germany and the rest of the continent the way it did that would lead to such grave tragedies,&#8221; Scarborough began. &#8220;How one man would be responsible for each evil and influence so many others. These pictures are actually historic reminders and unfortunately bring warning still to us today.&#8221;
Scarborough then drew a direct comparison to what was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/so-much-for-that-de-nazification-campaign-nbc-reporter-reacts-after-russia-bombs-holocaust-memorial/">happening in Ukraine</a> as Russian occupation forces, directed by dictator Vladimir Putin, continued to wage war against the neighboring nation.
&#8220;One man’s evil. Just one man, one man’s evil designs on others bringing unspeakable horrors to an entire nation of Ukraine,&#8221; he said, before pivoting to draw a comparison that was much closer to home.
&#8220;Domestically, you see the fire hose of falsehoods that the Russians use, the big lie that Hitler used to get to power. You see so many things being employed. You see neo-fascists, viewpoints being deployed by a segment of a political party in America,&#8221; he continued.
Scarborough went on to say that he couldn&#8217;t yet tell whether the the problem was growing or shrinking — although he did suggest it was limited to Republicans — but he argued that the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-polls-signal-major-problems-for-democrats-ahead-of-2022-midterm-elections/">2022 midterms</a> were likely to provide some answers.
&#8220;We will see how things go in 2022. Because these 2022 elections, they’re not a referendum on Joe Biden. They’re not a referendum on Nancy Pelosi. They’re not a referendum on Chuck Schumer. They’re really a referendum on the Republican Party,&#8221; Scarborough claimed.
&#8220;And we’re going to see a lot primaries over the next several months that are going to be a referendum of the Republican Party. Where Republican voters have to decide where they want to go. Do they want to move back towards the views of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher? Or do they want to move in a more neofascist direction, a direction they were going that of course culminated on January 6.&#8221;

Joe Scarborough And Mika Brzezinski Take Part In “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-To-Peer Conversations”

Joe Scarborough Uses Holocaust Remembrance Day To Say 2022 Midterms Are About Republicans Turning To Neo-Fascism

2022 Election

Holocaust

Joe Scarborough

Mika Brzezinski

America’s Founding Fathers considered “<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/no-taxation-without-representation">taxation without representation</a>” the definition of tyranny; today’s Democratic Party considers it a policy goal. Democrats have replaced the American republic with an ill-defined concept of “Our Democracy,” in which Democrats hold power, even if they have to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do">fundamentally transform</a> America’s electorate to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do">maintain their hold on power</a>.
When Republicans win, liberals do not talk about overturning elections; they simply thwart the will of the people as effectively as possible in the name of protecting “our democracy.” Here are the steps Democrats take to assure the American people do not get their way when they elect Republicans.
1. Stripping Republicans of their committee assignments.
Congressional Democrats seem to believe that if you can’t prevent an opponent from being elected, you can keep him from doing his job. In the last year, Democrats have resorted to an unprecedented campaign to stymie Republicans by stripping them of their committee assignments in an effort to keep the most vital part of the legislative process to themselves.
Although the media usually report on legislation once it comes up for a vote, the work of congressional committees has been described as “<a href="https://www.senate.gov/general/Features/Committees.htm">essential</a>” and “the <a href="https://www.ushistory.org/gov/6c.asp">most important work of Congress</a>.” Committees launch investigations, grill witnesses under oath, and craft legislation before it reaches the full House. Members without committee assignments “basically have nothing to do,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/congress-house-republicans-committee-assignments-stripped-1145320">cracked</a> Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
For <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/03/congress-comittees-removed">most</a> of U.S. history, congressmen would only lose committee membership for criminal behavior, such as when agents <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/story/politicians-gone-wild-scandals-of-2006">found</a> $90,000 in bribe money in Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)’s freezer in 2006. Then-Speaker John Boehner lowered the bar by <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Chocola-Boehner-committee-assignments/2012/12/05/id/466662/">stripping</a> conservatives of some of their committee assignments for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fed-up-conservatives-plot-revenge-against-boehner">voting against him as Speaker</a>, and Kevin McCarthy later stripped <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-steve-king-defends-himself-says-he-has-frank-camp">Rep. Steve King</a> (R-IA) of <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/05/gop-rep-steve-king-blasts-republican-party-for-treating-him-like-a-federal-felon-861003/">all assignments</a> for a series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/steve-king-frank-camp">controversial</a> remarks.
House Democrats have decided to supercharge the process. They began by targeting newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) last February, one month after she took office, over controversial conspiratorial comments she made <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-removes-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-from-committees-in-unprecedented-vote">before</a> her election. Typically, Congress allows voters to vet candidates — and trusts their verdict — but not this time. Although only <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202125">11 Republicans</a> voted to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/72/text">remove Greene</a> from her two committee assignments, stripping a member’s committee assignments requires only a majority vote which the chamber’s Democratic majority gladly provided. “Serving on a committee isn’t a right. It’s a privilege,&#8221; said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA). Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-democrats-file-resolution-strip-marjorie-taylor-greene-committee-assignments-n1256365">said</a> her motion was offered for “reducing the future harm that [Greene] can cause” and acting as a “restraint on her influence.”
A handful of Republicans pointed out the revolutionary nature of the punishment. “What the majority is really proposing to do today is establish a new standard for punishing members for conduct before they ever became a member,&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/963785609/house-to-vote-on-stripping-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-from-2-key-committees">said</a> Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK). “This change opens up troubling questions.” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) added, “This is nothing more than an abuse of power by a party drunk with power.”
Like any drunk, congressional Democrats decided they wanted more. After teaming up with 5% of elected Republican congressmen to strip Greene of her assignments, Democrats won only <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-gosar-censure-committees-house-aoc-video/">two Republican votes</a> while successfully stripping Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) of his after he made a string of controversial <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/560730-gosar-to-hold-fundraiser-with-white-nationalist-nick-fuentas">speeches</a> and starred in a bizarre anime video. Since then, Democrats have proposed the same treatment for Rep. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omar-says-she-is-confident-that-pelosi-hold-vote-to-strip-boebert-of-committee-assignments-next-week%20AND">Lauren Boebert</a> (R-CO) and Rep. <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/cawthorn-should-be-removed-from-committees/">Madison Cawthorn</a> (R-NC), and more may follow. Coincidentally, this would further shift their committees’ composition in the Democrats’ favor.
President Woodrow Wilson once <a href="https://history.house.gov/Education/Fact-Sheets/Committees-Fact-Sheet2/">quipped</a>, “Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work.” Democrats clearly do not want Republican congressmen to work for the people who elected them.
2. Expelling elected representatives from Congress
Like addicts, Democrats need stronger stimuli to get the same thrill. Not content with having stripped Greene of her committee assignments, one month later a California Democrat introduced <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/260/text?r=17&amp;s=1">a resolution</a> to expel her from Congress. That was too small for Squad member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), who called for the potential expulsion of every sitting Republican from the House of Representatives.
What grounds would Bush expel Republicans from the current Congress? Protesting elections the same way Democrats have in years past and, most chillingly, because of the way they voted on two congressional bills.
Bush’s <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117hres25ih/html/BILLS-117hres25ih.htm">bill</a> states that during the 2020 election, “over 140 Members of Congress” took “unprecedented steps to defy the will of the American people who overwhelmingly voted for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris by voting against the certification of the votes of the Electoral College.” Bush falsely asserts that this move is “unprecedented,” as Republicans’ decision not to certify the electoral vote followed the precedent set by Democratic lawmakers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-objected-to-electoral-vote-certification-in-2000-2004-2016">2000, 2004, and 2016</a>. Bush also attempts to insert — wait for it! — racism into this action. Her bill states bizarrely that “refusing to concede the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election … suggests racial animus,” and insists that “efforts by Republican Members of Congress to denounce the votes of millions of Americans is a continuation of Jim-Crow era measures.”
Finally, Bush’s legislation intimates that all sitting Republicans in the House should be expelled, because they did not vote for Democratic legislation to nationalize elections. “House Republicans have refused to vote in support of voter protections aimed at supporting disenfranchised Black, Brown, and Indigenous voters, including H.R. 1, the For the People Act and H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” Bush is right that <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202162">both bills</a> failed on <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021260">party lines</a>. True, not a single Republican voted for HR 1 — but <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bennie-thompson-only-dem-vote-against-hr1-election-bill">neither did</a> Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson. Strangely, Bush did not recommend his expulsion nor accuse Thompson, who is black, of “racial animus” for following the will of his constituents.
Justice Joseph Story warned that the expulsion power “might be exerted for mere purposes of faction or party, to remove a patriot, or to aid a corrupt measure.” That time has come. In Bush’s world, voting against Democratic bills is enough to expel every member of the opposing party from Congress as insurrectionists.
While Bush is on the far-Left, the sentiment flows throughout the Democratic Party. Even moderate Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has <a href="https://youtu.be/kfB9G0Z15kc?t=492">said</a> Congress should consider <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/534565-manchin-removing-hawley-cruz-with-14th-amendment-should-be-a-consideration">removing</a> Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) over their objections to certifying the 2020 election.
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Adding those two senators to all House Republicans targeted by Bush’s bill would overturn 214 separate elections. To put that number in perspective, only 20 people have been <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45078.pdf">expelled</a> from Congress in U.S. history — 18 of whom were removed for disloyalty to the government (17 related to the Civil War and one in 1797 for a senator who intended to enrich himself by inducing “Indians and frontiersmen to attack Spanish Florida and Louisiana, in order to transfer those territories to Great Britain”). The next expulsion came 118 years later, in 1980, when Congress expelled Rep. Michael Myers (D-PA) after his conviction on bribery charges from the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam">ABSCAM investigation</a>. The last congressman to be expelled from Congress, Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) in 2002, had been convicted of numerous felonies. Threatening to expel every elected official of the opposing party because they did not vote the way one member would have preferred is, to this writer’s knowledge, unprecedented in a democratic republic.
Naturally, Bush is unlikely to prevail. The Constitution <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei">requires</a> two-thirds of a chamber to vote before it can “expel a member.” But the specter itself is chilling — albeit not as chilling as the party’s election experts would prefer. Democrats have proposed another means to prevent voters from electing their favorite candidates in the first place.
3. Invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to prevent candidates from running for office
There is a reason Democrats have attempted to label every action that counters their agenda as part of an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-things-the-media-are-now-calling-insurrections">insurrection</a>”: The Constitution disqualifies anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States, or aided such efforts, from serving in Congress. Stretching the definition of insurrection, Democrats hope to prevent their opponents from seeking office in 2022. Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias <a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1473118873302056961">tweeted</a> last December, “My prediction for 2022: Before the midterm election, we will have a serious discussion about whether individual Republican House Members are disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from serving in Congress.” The lawyer wrote, “We may even see litigation.”
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My prediction for 2022: Before the midterm election, we will have a serious discussion about whether individual Republican House Members are disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from serving in Congress. 
We may even see litigation. <a href="https://t.co/pF7P2fw0kn">pic.twitter.com/pF7P2fw0kn</a>
&mdash; Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1473118873302056961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“It seems quite likely that one or more Republican members of Congress will be subject to this disqualification, and it is important that we start to identify them now,” Elias <a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/news/naming-the-insurrection/">elaborated</a> in an article a month later. “Preferably, the Department of Justice would lead this effort,” using “the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/burden_of_proof">lower civil standard of proof</a>.” If the DOJ does not act, “Congress and private litigants will need to step in” and prevent the American people from voting for the candidates of their choice “[i]f we are to remain a democracy.” Similarly, <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/noah-bookbinder/">Noah Bookbinder</a>, the president of the left-wing “ethics” organization <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/02/03/we-can-stop-the-collar-insurrectionists-from-doing-it-again-heres-how/">CREW</a>, wrote that Americans must <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/02/03/we-can-stop-the-collar-insurrectionists-from-doing-it-again-heres-how">prevent</a> “white-collar insurrectionists” who allegedly “inspired the violent insurrectionists” on January 6 from running for office in 2022. “If we fail to do so, we risk losing forever our system of government of, by and for the people.”
This overturns the concept of elections themselves: The voters simply never get a chance to elect the candidate they want. The Democrats here aim at the prophylactic prevention of democracy.
Legal scholars argue over how to trigger the Fourteenth Amendment prohibition. Some argue Congress could bar someone from running from office by a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/12/14th-amendment-insurrection-trump-removal-problems/">simple majority vote</a> — the kind congressional Democrats have already used twice to strip House Republicans of their committee assignments — or that Congress should pass a law <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/disqualifying-insurrectionists-and-rebels-how-guide">enabling judges</a> to determine a candidate’s ability to seek office, giving judges a veto over voters’ preferences. Imagine an unelected judge ruling that voters could not select their preferred candidate in the name of preserving democracy.
Whatever the mechanism, Democrats are once again on board. Last January 10, Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11021-0">telling</a> her colleagues, “Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment Section 3 and impeachment are valued.”
These three measures are far from comprehensive. If a candidate manages to wiggle through this gauntlet of anti-democratic resistance, Democrats try to thwart the president’s effectiveness. Members of the highly unionized federal bureaucracy, who are nearly impossible to fire, routinely drag their feet during Republican administrations. Increasingly, they accuse Republican officeholders of immoral or illegal actions, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-left-wing-media-promoted-a-baseless-covid-conspiracy-theory">Rebekah Jones’ baseless claims</a>that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) manipulated the state’s COVID-19 death toll. These accusations give elected Democratic officials an excuse to launch investigations, appoint a special counsel, or file articles of impeachment — which is also treated as part of the Democratic Party’s electoral strategy. In May 2019, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-congressman-admits-impeaching-trump-all-josh-hammer">admitted</a>on MSNBC that he believed Democrats must impeach Donald Trump, because “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.”
No party that so brazenly abuses the democratic process can be trusted to protect voters from politicians seeking to overturn elections.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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