Dems Boot Trump from Ballot in Anti-Constitutional, Hypocritical Move

The Democrat-appointed Supreme Court of Colorado has kicked Donald Trump off the state’s ballots, falsely claiming he incited insurrection (which he has never been charged with). But the reality is that the only true traitors and election deniers are now, as they have always been, the Democrats.

If “election deniers” are insurrectionists, where is the lawfare against Democrat election deniers like Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams? Why are Democrats like Kamala Harris not considered “insurrectionists” for praising and encouraging BLM and Antifa protestors to violate laws, attack law enforcement, stir up racial hatred, and burn down cities in a miniature civil war that convulsed America in 2020? Why are the Democrats who stole the 2020 election and trampled the Constitution not to be disqualified from office? Democrats always accuse their opponents of the very crimes that they themselves are actually committing.

Democrats claim Trump is disqualified from the presidential race based on the Fourteenth Amendment, which is nonsense; Trump has not been charged with or convicted of insurrection, because he never incited one. As I wrote for PJ Media today, the Fourteenth Amendment was meant to allow Congress to prevent Confederate traitors from holding office—though, in the long run, this did not actually occur. Many former Confederates held office after the Civil War thanks to their Democrat cronies, much to the detriment of black Americans’ and white Republicans’ civil rights, both on a state level and a national level.

The Fourteenth Amendment’s Section 3 prevents those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,” from holding office. This does not apply to Trump. If Confederate officers who openly avowed their goal of defeating the United States during the war were allowed to hold office afterwards, it is preposterous to pretend Donald Trump—who is not an insurrectionist and has not been charged with sedition or insurrection—cannot do so. Not to mention that the Amendment mentions Congressional action, but does not allow or empower state courts to start disqualifying political candidates.

With due process through Congress, the Fourteenth Amendment was meant to prevent men like Nathan Bedford Forrest, a traitor who enforced the Confederate law to kill or enslave black troops and their white officers in a bloody massacre at Fort Pillow, from holding office. It was supposed to prevent traitors who had tried to destroy the United States through violent war from continuing their destructive work in political office. The Amendment was not meant to allow any court in the country to target political opponents in a partisan persecution. You can read an excellent analysis of Colorado’s election interfering decision against Trump from Victor Davis Hanson on Twitter/X.

By the way, this isn’t the first time Democrats have tried to rig an election by keeping a Republican candidate off the ballot. The 1860 presidential election saw a number of Southern states’ ballots lacking Republican Abraham Lincoln (Democrats never change, do they?). We can only hope this tactic will backfire in 2024 just as it did in 1860, when Lincoln still secured the electoral victory.