Are Democrat rigging the 2024 election to make certain that Donald Trump is not the Republican nominee? Or to make sure that he is the nominee, but so damaged that he cannot win – even if it entails denying him a place on some states’ ballots?
Before you answer, read the first part of an excellent analysis by John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist:
News broke Monday that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing the Jan. 6-related case against Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., set a March 4, 2024, trial date for the former president.
It just so happens that March 4 is the day before Super Tuesday, when more than a dozen states, from California to Texas to Virginia, will hold Republican primary elections. What a coincidence!
What this means is that Trump, the Republican front-runner by a wide margin, will not be able to campaign ahead of the most important date on the GOP primary calendar. It also means he’ll likely be tied up in court a week later on March 12, when four more states hold primary elections.
But this isn’t merely election “interference,” it’s a naked attempt to rig the 2024 election. The timing here is important, because not only will Trump be pulled off the campaign trail at a crucial time, he will almost certainly be convicted over the summer. After all, the jury in this case will be drawn from a pool that voted 92 percent for Joe Biden. No matter how outlandish and unconstitutional the charges are, no matter how utterly politicized the process is, a D.C. jury is going to convict Trump.
A summer 2024 conviction sets up the real play here, which is for blue states and counties to remove Trump from the ballot, citing a faulty and blatantly lawless reading of the 14th Amendment. Assuming Trump wins the GOP primary, this will leave Republicans with no candidate on the ballot across vast swaths of the country heading into the fall. Even if the Supreme Court steps in, if Democrats time it just right it will be too late to send out corrected, lawful ballots in time for Election Day.
Whatever one thinks of Trump’s post-2020 election challenges — whether they were legitimate, delusional, or downright treasonous — they were nothing compared to what Democrats are trying to pull here.
Any doubt about what is going on here?
And any doubt about the quality of Democrats who go along with it, either because they have no problem subverting the most basic tenets of this country or, though troubled by what their party is doing, will not have the courage/integrity/guts to speak up and do something about it?
My personal opinion? The best thing that can happen here is that Trump is forced out of the race….and that enough Democrats are as outraged by the way it was done as most Republicans will be, to insure that the Republican alternative (assuming he/she is palatable to at least some Democrats) is swept into office, along with a majority in both houses.
If that happens, then maybe – maybe – this nightmare will start to reverse.
The alternative – that Democrats pull this off successfully – is, in my opinion, the end of the United States as we know it.
