OPINION:
Donald Trump, amid his campaign for president against the man who is currently sitting in the Oval Office and of the opposite political party, has been booted from the 2024 primary ballots in Colorado and Maine. The states cited the 14 Amendment as cause for the action, calling out Trump as ineligible to run for the office due to his Jan. 6 calls for insurrection.
That he hasn’t been found guilty of inciting a riot and causing an insurrection is beside the point. In America, under Democrats, the system of innocent until proven guilty has been replaced by one of innocent if deemed so by those who hold the power.
It’s tyranny in America.
That it’s not even clear Jan. 6 was an insurrection is beside the point. That it’s not even factual to say Trump called for an insurrection — let’s remember; he actually called for a peaceful assembly — is beside the point. That it’s not even logical to call out Jan. 6 as an insurrection, and Trump as an insurrectionist, while turning blind eyes to the Molovotv-cocktail-throwing antifa; street-closing and rock-hurling Black Lives Matter; “reap the whirlwind” and “get them at their restaurants, get them at their places of work, get them wherever they go” anti-MAGA catcalls of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters; storm-the-streets-in-front-of-the-Supreme-Court justices-homes abortion-loving zealots — all that is beside the point. That it’s not even acknowledged and agreed that the First Amendment protects Trump and conservatives and yes, even MAGA types and America First advocates, same as Democrats and liberals and the socialists and communists and Marxists they shelter — that’s beside the point.
The point of persecuting Trump is to keep him off the ballot.
The point with Democrats is that Trump must be kept out of the White House no matter the means, no matter the strategies. The Democratic Party’s lords of globalism have made it clear that if Trump wins the White House again, then days will be rued, whirlwinds will be unleashed, communists will lose power.
The Great Reset will die a quick death.
The Build Back Better B.S. of Joe Biden days will be tossed to the streets.
The New World Order, One World Order, total top-down controlling crowd of Marxists who spread their corrupting influences through the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum and the like will see their gains of the last few years utterly crumble. America will quickly initiate a 180-degree policy. The cockroaches of communism will be scattered to their dark corners. The deep state will be destroyed.
Bill Gates will cry.
All these things and more will come to pass if Trump gets back in the White House.
The removal of his name from states’ ballots has become the virus lockdown for 2024: If Democrats can’t get voters to stay home and mail in the ballots so as to steal the election, they’ll simply switch gears and make it so voters can’t vote for Trump in the first place.
The U.S. Supreme Court must rectify these Colorado and Maine rulings with speed. It’s not just about Trump, and whether Trump is a likable guy, or whether Trump is a solid presidential candidate, or whether Trump should have a shot at another term. It’s about the state and status of America’s system of law and order and justice.
Innocent until proven guilty is a bedrock of law and order societies.
Freedom of speech for all — not just a select, politically chosen few — is a foundation of an advanced society.
A political class that truly serves the citizenry and recognizes, with humble attitude, the boundaries of the Constitution and limits of power the document places on the political class is a basic key of American governance.
All those have been violated by the Democrats — and why? Because they hate Donald Trump.
That’s not enough reason to throw out the Constitution and abandon core American principles. That’s certainly not enough reason to turn America into total tyranny.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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