The spectre of fascism lives in the Democratic Party

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.

More than one Republican is lamenting that “the party of Reagan is not the party of Reagan.” No, it isn’t. This is not the world of Ronald Reagan, Reagan himself would admit that. Reagan, supplanting the party of Gerald Ford had forged ahead to rescue the country from Jimmy Carter as Donald Trump supplanting the party of George W. Bush is forging ahead to rescue the country from Joe Biden. Regan’s time is gone, and yes, there are dangerous enemies abroad, but more insidious ones at home, determined to raise socialist authoritarianism from the dead.

While the left rails against the non-existent Fascism of Donald Trump (do they even know what Fascism is?) President Biden has continually violated his oath of office to faithfully execute the law. Here are but a few examples:

Repeatedly violated 8 USC and permitted and supported invasion by foreign persons.

Gives aliens benefits violating law forbidding “immigrants” from becoming a public charge

Proposes amnesty by executive order giving illegal aliens a path to citizenship

Publicly stated his favoring making the majority population a minority–social democide

Publicly demonized white Americans as white supremacists

Politicized the service academies with anti-white “Critical Race Theory”

Ignored the Supreme Court invalidating the illicit eviction moratorium

Ignored the Supreme Court invalidating student loan forgiveness

Allowed the FBI to harass traditional Latin Mass Catholics as potential terrorists

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Allowed the FBI to persecute parents who oppose transgender propaganda in schools

Allowed HHS regulations to force Catholic hospitals to perform transgender surgery

Allowed federal agencies to push gender ideology through their rule making power.

Allowed DOJ to indict Dr. Haim for exposing Texas Children’s Hospital illegal “trans” surgeries

Allowed army anti-terrorism training at Ft. Liberty (Bragg) to label pro-life as terrorism

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Biden’s alliance with big business and unions like the AFT are the basic definition of what was termed the Corporate State, the unity of government, the cartels, the big unions, in other words, Fascism–Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s failed authoritarian prescription to save the Italian nation.

Biden’s version has brought a ruinous inflation hollowing out pay cheques and savings, pushing housing out of reach and making ordinary commodities luxuries. His big business allies have continued to move jobs to China or cheap labor countries devasting the US industrial base and communities, his powerful union supporters like the AFT have ruined public education and lust to destroy private and charter schools where pupils actually learn. Meanwhile, federal agencies like the EPA unconstitutionally extend their tentacles into every aspect of life with rules of appeal so costly as to be prohibitive.

Not content with strangling the economy the Democrats have shown themselves inimical to the very structure of the country, a country they are busy undermining by destroying constitutional safeguards like the Electoral College and the Supreme Court.

The reasons for the Electoral College are as valid today as they were when the constitution was conceived. The electoral system* recognizes the United States is a federal republic, not a democracy. It prevents the large states (in those days, Virginia and New York, today the West Coast and Northeast) from dominating the nation at the expense of the rest of the country. To examine the effect in microcosm, see Reynolds v. Sims which destroyed a “republican form of government” at the state level allowing the large metropolitan areas to dominate both houses of the legislature.

The current conservative-leaning Supreme Court is the enemy of “progressive” ideology and must be destroyed by packing the court or attacking the character and actions of originalist justices. Their real reason is that an originalist view of the constitution impedes their desire for an all-powerful central government with themselves in charge. This is not new; they’ve been at it for over a century. The great “progressive (and militant segregationist) Woodrow Wilson had contempt for the constitution because it impeded his view of presidential power. Renowned legal scholar Rosco Pound deplored the separation of powers as restricting “the courts to interpretation and application” i.e., the courts could not engage in legal magic by usurping the legislative power. It was only legal legerdemain that imposed Reynolds, and Roe on the country as noted in Raoul Berger’s seminal Government by Judiciary.

Far from being a “fascist” it is Donald Trump who is the constitutionalist. As president, he did not use the law to punish opponents but faithfully executed the law he was sworn to uphold and adhered to constitutional limitations. It will be Trump and the Court’s conservatives (and hopefully a Republican Congress) that will hold back the “progressives” in their headlong rush to constitutional vandalism and the authoritarian state.

Alfred G. Cuzán, “In Defense of the American Way of Electing Presidents,” Academic Questions* (Journal of the National Association of Scholars) Summer 2024 p. 37

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William Layer

Lt. Colonel Civil Affairs, USAR (ret) served twenty-six years in the regular and reserve components of the US Army. He was civil military liaison for the 260th Military Police, DC National Guard, State Public Affairs Officer, Commander of the Public Affairs unit and a counter-drug intelligence analyst. Transferring to the 352 Civil Affairs Command as monuments and archives officer, he became the Command Public Affairs Officer in Iraq as well as liaison to local Iraqi leaders and acting Secretary to the General Staff. He was instrumental in recovering photographic artifacts of the Iraqi Royal family while in Baghdad. He was wounded in action in an ambush in Feb. 2004 for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.
In his civilian career he worked primarily in Army Public Affairs and for the Air Force as historian to the presidential wing in the early Reagan administration and later for Air Force Legislative Liaison covering congressional hearings and assisting in preparing testimony for senior leaders.
His essays and reviews have appeared in the scholarly and popular press including Asian Affairs and the Washington Times. He is co-author, with Ali Wahab, of The Iraqi Royal Family, a Collection of Photographs Recovered from The Ruins of the Zuhur Palace, 2004.
A native New Yorker, he holds a BA with honors in history from Findlay College (Ohio) and an MA in history from The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of the US Army Command & General Staff College and was graduated with distinction US Naval War College with a MA in National Security and Strategic Studies.