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The election is upon us and Kamala Harris’ fans are playing the race card. Her bankrupt policies are immaterial, oppose Harris and one is racist and sexist, never mind blacks like Leo Terrill and Candace Owens are Trump supporters, in Joe Biden’s words, “they ain’t black.”

The Democratic Party, which Harris represents, is no longer subtle about burying the republic. It prattles about democracy, abjuring Benjamin Franklin’s immortal words about what the founding fathers had created in the Philadelphia summer of 1787: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

The American nation was not created as a democracy but as republic of sovereign states whose method of choosing a president —the Electoral College — ensured that no one region of the nation could impose its will on another by weight of population. It is that republic that the Democrats seek to annul by abolishing the electoral college as well as by a paranoid desire to pack the Supreme Court, by an almost fanatical opposition to cleaning up the voter rolls, and by illegally importing millions of third world aliens whom they are subsidizing and will naturalize to gain permanent control of the nation. Over one million aliens have jumped the border since the Biden administration began and more are on the way. That small towns are overwhelmed by alien peoples, that crime and communicable diseases, notably TB, are resurgent, is just not important to them. Ordinary Americans’ concerns are dismissed, they just don’t matter, they’re “deplorables”, they’re “garbage”, and they’re “racists”.

The Democratic Party, with constant cries of “white supremacy,” demonizes white Americans and discriminates against them with DEI, racial quotas, and affirmative action, and has done so since the Vietnam War. As a party, it is anti-Christian demonstrated by trying to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to cover abortion in their insurance policy, by attacks on the religious beliefs of Catholic political nominees, and by prosecuting and persecuting the likes of the Protestant Colorado baker who refused celebrate homosexual “marriage” on his cake decorations because to do so violated his Christian religion. Harris has now gone so far as to say there should be no religious exemption when it comes to abortion, a clear violation of the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. She supports unlimited abortion (even Roe did not do that) and endorses the illogical, and evil notion of “transgenderism,” actions that any believing Christian would see as Satanic. Vice-presidential candidate Timothy Walz and his fellow Democrats also mean to curtail the First Amendment protection of free speech and freedom of the press holding that what they consider “misinformation” is not protected speech and that regulations are needed to curtail its exercise.

Allegations against Trump have proven spurious or fantastic exercises in “lawfare”. Even former prosecutors like Andrew McCarthy and prominent lawyers such as Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley who disdain Trump have said that. The accusations of various generals calling Trump a NAZI or Fascist only reveal they have no idea of the history of those movements or that it is the modern Democratic Party which exhibits many of those anti-democratic principles.

From their own utterances, Democrats have revealed that it is not Donald Trump who is a threat to liberty, but themselves. It is they who regard the constitution as an obstacle to “progress”, it is they who disparage the people they want to govern.

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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.

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