It's pretty easy to tell, from the narrative of Trump tweets and posts on Truth Social, if not a mountain of other evidence, that there will be multiple attempts to alter the results of the upcoming midterm elections, especially if the news for Republican chances continues to be as bad as it now has become. The pollsters and political analysts who are always very cautious about making big shifts or show big movements in their numbers are still being cautious, but even some of the more conservative ones are hinting that the House will be a lost cause for Republicans. It's also looking like the Democrats may also win back the majority in the Senate, by enough seats to negate the VP's tie breaker.
The possibility of some kind of fraud being initiated by Trump and his cronies is more than just speculation. It's a certainty.
So what is being done about it?
Learning From History Avoids Repeating It
Ever since Trump became the GOP front-runner for the 2016 election, Democrats have been claiming that he is the biggest threat to American democracy we have faced since the Civil War. They haven't done as much to prevent that as I think has been necessary to prove their belief in that claim, and that's a personal evaluation based on observation. So I am concerned, as an American who sees this exactly that way, and would like those I help elect to take effective action in ending the threat, and not make subsequent actions to do so necessary.
When Democrats had control of Congress and the White House, for two years between 2021 and 2023, there were those who had the vision and the boldness and were willing to take the risk to pack the Supreme Court, seeing that this particular court was much more partisan and much less constitutional in its rulings. In fact, it would have been possible to prevent a second Trump term, and in fact, to bring him to justice for his crimes, if the advice of the progressive Democrats had been followed, and the Senate had disposed of the filibuster to amend the judiciary act and give President Biden the ability to appoint six justices to the court.
Had that happened, we would have lost the filibuster, but we could figure out how to compensate for that. What would have been gained was the overturning of Citizens United and the Presidential Immunity rulings that prevented Trump from being tried and convicted for his crimes while in office. All of those obfuscations and delays in getting the insurrection and documents indictments to court would have disappeared when the Supreme Court made them go away and brought it to a quick and speedy end long before the election campaign season started.
But the old school prevailed. We're in a political age when those who have the power must use it to preserve American democracy in any way they can. The days of celebrating bi-partisan deals ended when the Republicans abandoned that strategy, back during the Dubya Bush administration. We had the power and we didn't use it.
Lesson learned. Maybe.
But no. Democrats tolerated the foot dragging and obfuscation and delaying tactics which let Trump off the hook for his crimes. They knew there was an election approaching which would change the circumstances by which the criminals crimes could be considered. There was a lot of talk, but almost nothing in the way of legislation to correct some of the abuses of power we are now seeing, but there was no effort at all to use the power of the Presidency to move those trials along, cut through the red tape and make it happen. Were they afraid of Trump or afraid of losing because of the damned Supreme Court? So, we have Garland going down in history as one of the weakest, most ineffective Attorney Generals in American History.
Then, in the wake of the 2024 election, with evidence of enough vote counting irregularities, delays, messing with mail-in ballots and other kinds of fraud, no one did anything at all. There was talk, talk, talk, about the tactics, what they were going to do and how it would effect the outcome of the election for months prior to the ballots being counted. But, standing on protocol, after being so critical of the Republicans for screaming about voter fraud, Democrats did nothing at all, and lost because of it.
More lessons learned. Perhaps.
We have seen actual examples of ways to suppress voters right out in the open now. There are two years between the election cycles, which seems to be plenty of time to do something about potential voter fraud. The other side is not just admitting to it but they are taking steps to do it. And it seems like through all of the talking that is happening, Democrats do not appear to be doing anything about the anticipated voter fraud.
I hear a lot of talk about what to do about potential voter fraud in this election. I don't see much being done. I see a lot of fund raising and nest-feathering, but not a lot of action to find out what kind of fraud is going to be perpetrated and how that will work. The FBI just raided election offices in Georgia, which is a clear tactic aimed at committing voter fraud, and we have reported it and given our tsk-tsk-tsk but I am not aware of anything being done to stop it.
Bold Risks Are Being Taken by the American People
In record numbers everywhere, Americans are turning out to show their disgust with Trump's failed presidency, and with the way he and his administration are handling their responsibility. They ignore the Constitution, they violate the law with impunity and they keep on getting away with it because the standard excuse of "we're not the party in power" keeps being brought up. Don't tell me that! We've seen all of the tactics the Republicans use when Democrats are in power, to keep progress from being made. So far, our record of using the filibuster in the Senate that was saved when Democrats backed away from packing the court is less than 50-50.
It's time for the nest-feathering and campaign fundraising to stop, and for this party to stand on the strength the people in the streets are providing for them, and be as bold in taking risks to stop Trump as the people are telling them they want them to be. Earn the mantle of the party of opposition.
And step up, call out and do something about the attempts to cheat in the election that are a matter of course for the GOP.
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