In the wake of the bitter November presidential vote, Democrats have been castigating Trump supporters who claim the election was stolen as foes of democracy. They are accused, in fact, of supporting a coup to overturn the results.
That the outcome was fraudulent is certainly contended by many, albeit with scant evidence. But Donald Trump proclaims such and that is proof enough for believers. Accordingly, from their perspective, it is they who are upholding democracy, not the Biden partisans.
[To promote the voter fraud conspiracy, as the outgoing president does, is certainly ill-founded, but that doesn’t make him a liar, just delusional. He seemingly always has been. Bad things aren’t supposed to happen to him. If forced to acknowledge their existence, his response is that someone or something else is responsible. He believes what he wants to believe. So, of course, he actually won in a landslide.]
Now that Trump has been impeached once again, Democrats are calling for the trial of Trump in the Senate after he leaves office. Typically, an impeachment conviction would result in the office holder’s removal. But the Constitution also provides for another consequence… proscription of future office holding. And that is what the left is seeking.
Whether that Constitutional consequence is authorized against a person no longer in office is unresolved. But it is ironic indeed that Democrats who loudly boast of their commitment to democracy are urging that Donald Trump be barred from running for president again… meaning that voters who might have wanted to vote for him would be denied the opportunity. Isn’t that voter suppression?
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