Trump & McConnell Attack Our Democracy
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | September 24, 2020
“No matter what Trump puts the nation through in the coming months, he will not be able to steal the presidency from the American people.”
President Trump continued his assault on voting by mail yesterday. But he also raised the issue to new heights, threatening to have tens of millions of mailed-in ballots thrown out and refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he is not elected by the voters.
This comes as The Atlantic published an article on the doomsday scenarios that Trump could pursue to attempt to overthrow the election results.
Trump’s despicable tactics, his bluster, and his blowhard comments reflect the actions of a man who believes he is going to lose the election.
In typical Trump fashion, his response is to try to steal the election and reject the decision of some 150 million expected voters.
This can, must, and will be stopped by the American people.
If key officials like Trump’s consigliere, Attorney General William Barr, and key Republican state legislators go along with any Trump effort to turn our country into a dictatorship, they will be met by the wisdom of our Founding Fathers and the will of the American people.
The bottom line is this: No matter what Trump puts the nation through in the coming months, he will not be able to steal the presidency from the American people.
Trump’s acts of desperation will not succeed.
Meanwhile, his partner in political crimes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is working to steal his second Supreme Court seat.
In 2016, McConnell used his scheduling powers to block the Senate from voting on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland for 10 months. McConnell’s stated reason for his unprecedented obstruction was that the American people should decide who should appoint the nominee through their decision in the presidential election.
In 2020, McConnell has taken the completely opposite position with no plausible justification. In one of history’s greatest acts of hypocrisy, McConnell is now saying Trump’s nominee, to be named on Saturday, should be rammed through the Senate in just one month and on the very eve of the presidential election – the will of the American people be damned.
McConnell’s reprehensible actions have turned the Senate from “the world’s greatest deliberative body” into the law of the jungle. He has grossly abused his office to become a one-man ruler of a Senate without a moral compass.
History will no doubt make clear the extraordinary damage Senator McConnell has done to the Senate as an institution, to our democracy, to our country, and to the American people.
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