Two Takes on Dems’ Efforts to Keep Trump Off the Ballots

Republican Senator Eric Schmitt calls the Colorado Supreme Court ruling to remove Trump from the state primary ballot “one of the most dangerous court rulings in US history.” He says that Democrats “completely lost their minds” when they realized that Trump’s lead against Biden was growing even after he was hit with all those criminal and civil charges. Click here.

Meanwhile, Bill Barr, who became an anti-Trump hero when he testified against him before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capital, has said that though he is “firmly against Trump’s candidacy,” he also believes that “efforts to knock him off the ballot are legally untenable, politically counterproductive, and, most ominously, destructive to our political order. The Supreme Court needs to act swiftly to strike down these foolish decisions.” Read his argument here.

What do I think?

Trying to stop a candidate from running for office through criminal and civil charges is a common political strategy one sees in Banana Republics and totalitarian states.

Talk about a “threat to democracy”! Democracy is not about woke values. It’s about a political system in which the citizens, and only the citizens, have the right to choose their leaders.