The Real Threat

Biden’s theme of “defending democracy” came up repeatedly in Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing yesterday. Democrat senators repeatedly insinuated that Donald Trump will take away our freedoms, and they demanded that Bondi stand up to his unconstitutional orders. She brushed off their absurd suggestions. (See below.)

Republican senators and American Values are reminding the American people what real threats to democracy look like, that we just lived through four years of unprecedented attacks on our “democracy,” and that the left cheered every abuse and assault against our freedom and liberty.

Let me remind you of a few examples.

The freedom of religion is one of our “first” rights in the Constitution. Biden’s FBI sent agents to multiple Catholic churches under the pretense that the worshippers were potential domestic terrorists. Then the FBI lied to Congress about it when they got caught.

Another fundamental freedom is the right to peacefully assemble to protest. The entire civil rights movement was only possible because of peaceful protests, including marches, sit-ins, etc.

The Biden Justice Department prosecuted pro-life activists whose only “crime” was to go to abortion clinics to pray and sing. Some were given sentences worse than many criminals get in progressive-run cities. My hope and prayer is that Donald Trump will pardon them and release them.

The foundation of our constitutional Republic is the freedom of speech. There’s nothing in the First Amendment that says you can speak only if your remarks are approved by the “Ministry of Truth.”

But Joe Biden, his leftist cronies, their liberal judges, and their billionaires are doing everything they can to redefine free speech as speech they agree with and to redefine speech they don’t like as hate speech or misinformation.

If you support border security, you’re a bigot who wants to keep people of color out of the country. If you believe in the sanctity of life, you hate women. If you don’t want boys in girls’ bathrooms, you are a transphobe or homophobe.

If you think COVID-19 came from a lab in communist China, you’re a conspiracy nut. And don’t even dare think about suggesting there might be fraud in our elections.

The left wants to repeal the Second Amendment. When the Founding Fathers wrote it, they weren’t thinking about hunting. They believed that the right of citizens to own guns was essential if the rights in the First Amendment were to be protected. They believed, and knew from experience, that an armed citizenry is a bulwark against dictatorship.