Friday, September 29, 2023

Gary Bauer: The Real Threat


President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Arizona yesterday to honor the late Senator John McCain. (As I've noted before, in the minds of progressives the only acceptable Republicans are dead Republicans.) 


Among other things, Biden announced funding for a new McCain Library at Arizona State University. It's being built with $83 million in COVID relief funds. Sen. McCain, who was known for fighting pork barrel spending, would be outraged. His son-in-law certainly was. 


More importantly, Joe Biden was back in attack mode, demonizing and dehumanizing the majority of the country that would kick him out of office if the election were held today.


Biden claimed there is a growing "dangerous" and "extremist movement" in the country that "does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy." Well, he's right about that. But he says the "extremist" threat is the MAGA movement. He's wrong about that.


The real threat to democracy is coming from the neo-Marxist left that is literally trying to put Donald Trump in jail for saying what many liberals have said. At the same time, the neo-Marxist movement is building a campaign around the insane idea that half the country is a "threat to democracy." 


They are doing everything they accuse us of doing! Let me count the ways the left is threatening our constitutional Republic.


Their loyalists in the Deep State spread lies about Russian collusion to undermine the duly-elected president. 


Then they worked with Big Tech oligarchs to censor the truth, Trump and anyone else who dissented from the party line on multiple issues.


Rather than trying to restore confidence in our elections, the left is promoting policies that make cheating easier, thus undermining confidence in our elections.


The left has undermined the equal protection of the law by selectively using law enforcement to prosecute conservatives while radical leftists get off scot-free.


The left is trying to pack the Supreme Court, and regularly undermines the legitimacy of the court.


The left is teaching our children that America was evil from the beginning and is evil today.


The left is perfectly willing to exploit race and stoke racial tensions to gain power.


They are threatening to starve poor children in order to crush any opposition to the radical LGBTQ movement and transgender insanity.


They rejoined multiple international organizations that are taking sovereignty away from the American people.


The number one obligation of the government is to protect the country from foreign enemies. This administration intentionally puts America at risk. It is leaving our borders wide open


They are so hostile to normal American sentiments that they are importing a new population, which they believe will be more subservient to the nation they want to build, a "fundamentally transformed America."


Most progressives reject freedom of speech. They are at war with religious liberty. They want to gut the Second Amendment


And, of course, they are using a justice system they control, in jurisdictions they dominate, along with biased judges to imprison their leading political opponent and his followers. 


Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez would be proud.