In President Joe Biden’s first public address to the nation, after he abruptly exited from the 2024 presidential race, in an implicit repudiation of candidate Donald Trump, he highlighted that ‘the defense of democracy is more important than any title’:

‘Nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. And that includes personal ambition.’

The preservation of democracy has been a common theme of Mr. Biden’s campaign as to why he was seeing a second term in office. Indeed, in 2022 during a prime-time speech in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall the president called on Americans to ‘stop the assault on American democracy’ by Republicans who deny the results of the 2020 presidential election. He went so far as to say that ‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic’, though he did say that not all Republicans embrace Trump’s MAGA movement and ‘extreme ideology’.

American democracy, however, was questioned as soon as the president withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, more so when he ‘passed the torch’ to his Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. Aside a few suspicions voiced on the mainstream and social media, we were bombarded as to how heroic and patriotic President Biden is. His decision ‘not to seek reelection’, according to one pundit, ‘was the embodiment of courage and should serve as a source of inspiration’.

Mr. Biden was immediately paralleled as discerning as President Lyndon B. Johnson who in March 1968 told the nation, after his divisive and disastrous policy in Vietnam, he would not seek, nor accept his Democratic Party’s nomination for president. Biden was even compared to President George Washington who chose not to seek a third term as the country’s president.

The comparisons to LBJ and Washington, the latter in particular, are absolutely absurd,

for both left on their own accord, contrary to Mr. Biden, who, notwithstanding his abysmal debate performance in June, was vehemently seeking a second term.

The rhapsody that entailed a week after the Biden-Trump debate, led some, like Trump critic Mark Liebovich to say:

‘I’ve learned two things for sure: first, that Republicans are not the only party being led by a geriatric egotist who puts himself before the country. And second, that Republicans are not the only party whose putative leaders have a toxic lemming mindset and are willing to lead American democracy off a cliff.’

He accused the Democrats of lying when it became obvious that the president was no longer able to carry on for another four years. Yet the ‘most absurd [support of Mr. Biden] came from Representative James Clyburn, the venerable South Carolina Democrat, whose endorsement in 2020 swept Biden to victory in that state and arguably resurrected Biden’s campaign after a disastrous start. Yes, Clyburn allowed, Biden suffered through a “poor performance” in the debate last week. But it was merely “strike one’’, he attempted to reassure, adding that “if this were a ball game, he’s got two more swings”’.

On the contrary, ‘Mr. Biden’, said Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., columnist with The Wall Street Journal, ‘deserves to be remembered as the cat’s-paw of the most cynical attempt to cling to office in the history of the presidency if not the actual author of it, only part of which was his attempt to hide his impairment.’

New York Times writer Katherine Miller, illustrating the Democrats’ short-sightedness, if not cover-up on President Biden’s lack of mental acuity, wrote: ‘Few things recently have been more of a strain to live through than the uncertainty surrounding Mr. Biden’s presidency and the nature of presidential power.’

For all the legitimate concerns about a second Trump presidency, Mr. Biden’s feeble governance—or whoever was running the show behind the scenes—and the falsehoods fed to the American public by the Democrats as to his mental and physical incapacities have achieved exactly what President Biden accused Mr. Trump of: weakening democracy. This is ‘because of insider mischief’, adds Jenkins,

‘because of the self-corruption of an establishment’ President Biden and the Democrats represent’.

On the surface level, holding onto Mr. Biden and portraying him as a president in control of things was not a denial on the part of the ones who run the Democratic Party. Instead, it was a lie on their part, just as US intelligence had done when it lied to Americans about Hunter Biden’s laptop to help his father to the presidency in 2020.

In truth, the president did not bow out of the race, but was ousted by his own Party. Incidentally, in a parliamentary democracy, which is essentially found in Europe, the power ultimately resides within the Party, not the People as with the presidential system in the United States. Hence, the head of Government ‘may be brought down by either a parliamentary vote of no-confidence or a party munity…. If [Members of Parliament] fear that their party leader is growing personally unpopular, putting them at risk of losing their hearts in the next general election, they may attempt to elevate a new one’.^[1]

The Democrat’s coup-d’état of their presidential candidate is so radical and unheard of in U.S. modern politics that it discloses that Mr. Biden was perhaps not up to the job from day one. In truth, the leftwing, which turned on its own president, had to ensure its control of the body politic at all costs—it seems now more than ever that President Biden’s reelection strategists were in control of the policy machine. Perhaps Ms. Harris was aloof to such endeavors just as Vice President Harry Truman was when he took over the reins of government when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945—some of the information kept from Mr. Truman by FDR was the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb—which is highly doubtful. All things being equal, she is a part of the cohort against the democratic principles established by the Founding Fathers, regardless of whether she was an absentee vice president or part of the cover-up that deceived Americans.

Yet just like the failed assassination attempt on Mr. Trump unified Republicans around him—he even gained sympathy from his political adversaries—Biden’s exit and his appointment of Ms. Kamala Harris as his successor has likewise rallied Democrats together.

One of the most famous quotes attributed Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, was: ‘If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.’ Another one, while not that well known, but equally artful:

‘We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.’

This is not to say the Democrats (or the Republicans) are National Socialists, although

the former resonate Nazi ideology with their full support of abortion, at least that is what Pope Francis holds

having casted abortionists as ‘Nazis with white gloves’.

The Democrats have self-deceivingly found their messiah in Vice President Harris, who will lead them to victory against Mr. Trump—all under the pretension of preserving democracy. Yet now-candidate Harris bears the heavy burden of the Biden-failed policies, such as inflation, the border-immigrant crisis, the chaotic Afghan withdrawal, and so on. She also inherits the unnatural silence about a now-defunct Biden reelection alliance with the most radical figures in the most progressive sanctums in the country, namely Democratic prosecutors.

The Democrats have called out President Donald Trump for incurring the January 6 riots on Capital Hill and his anti-democracy strive to stay in power by claiming that the election was rigged. Well, they should look at themselves and see how they have already demonstrated that they are a threat to democracy.

^[1] Henry Kissinger, Leadership: Six Studies in World Leadership. United Kingdom, Allen Lane/Penguin Random House, 2022, 324.