Are we at the end of history or the end of the republic?
Decades ago, before September 11, 2001, in the midst of a jihadist war against the modern world, political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that history as we know it was over. Has completed. History, he says, is an effort toward the end of humanity, and we are already there. Liberal democracy remains the final form of government, and the “last man” (and woman) always has the right to vote and a role in their lives, under a rule of law that applies equally to all. It turns out.
Gabbard’s words of warning speak to an America on the brink of fundamental transformation into something no one should ever hope for.
The attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center dealt the first major blow to Fukuyama’s beautiful theory. The ensuing war and the unrelenting wrath of radical Islamic theocracies posed real existential challenges to liberal democracies. The two cannot coexist. One overcomes and cancels out the other.
Tulsi Gabbard is a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and a 2020 presidential candidate. Gabbard, now an independent, has written her first brilliant new book, posing another, perhaps more dangerous challenge to the health of liberal democracies and the republic. “For the love of our country: leave the Democratic Party‘ is Gabbard’s powerful Witness the true battle for America’s soul and future.
This time, the threat is not some radical cleric preaching bloodthirsty doctrines in a camp halfway around the world. It’s not like we’re beholden to some medieval foreign power that got rich from oil. It’s not foreign at all, but it’s completely foreign to the American way of thinking and living.
The threat is the Democratic Party that Gabbard has the courage to leave behind in 2022 and hopes others will leave behind as well.
Gabbard opens her book with a salvo aimed squarely at her former partisans. Gabbard said, “Guided by the belief that the ends justify the means, Democratic elites have used the power of law enforcement to target political and personal opponents, undermine the very essence of the rule of law, and undermine America’s It exposes their contempt for the people.” And democracy. ”
“If left unchecked, the America we know and love will disappear forever,” she warns.
Consider the Obama and Biden administrations. Under the Obama administration, the IRS prosecuted nuns and used the law to intimidate opponents and prevent them from taking action against legitimate opposition groups (formed around the country to challenge President Obama). targeted the Tea Party).
Under the Trump administration, long before Inauguration Day, Biden and other Democratic leaders Russian collusion hoax It plagued and undermined Trump’s entire presidency.
Trump faces more than 91 indictments, all brought by partisan Democrats, as he seeks to unseat Biden. Some of these same Democrats have no problem allowing violent criminals to escape, have no problem erasing borders to protect national security, and have no problem engaging in illegal activities for personal gain. Some people do. The rule of law means nothing to them. But they are using our legal system to interfere in our presidential election and march across the Rubicon to attack the very foundations of our nation.
Gabbard wrote that these and other actions could be “the final nail in the coffin of our democracy.”
Gabbard points out that we now live in a country of double standards, in fact two nations living side by side. For one thing, the Democratic elite and his friends can get away with anything. The other is that Democratic Party elites will indict and prosecute Mr. Trump and those who challenge them for acts they themselves have committed that have not been prosecuted so far.
The confidential document incident makes this clear. The Biden administration’s Justice Department has indicted President Trump on suspicion of possessing classified records. But Biden also has classified records and is at no risk of prosecution. Trump was barely investigated and was released as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” and if convicted, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Particularly in the minds of Democratic Party elites, such an outcome would remove the most powerful opponents from the board, while simultaneously intimidating other would-be challengers. ,I believe.
As Gabbard writes, this is unprecedented in America and fundamentally un-American.
During her time in Congress, Gabbard earned a reputation for telling the truth, no matter the consequences or who it upsets. She cemented her reputation during and after her presidential campaign by leaving the party, claiming it was abandoning the rule of law and turning our democracy into a banana republic.
America is in grave danger, Gabbard said. Mr. Biden has repeatedly attacked and attacked his people, saying that the half of people who oppose him are the most serious threat facing the United States. Gabbard said so clearly in her eerily red-flag authoritarian speech in Philadelphia in 2022. Gabbard denies that, arguing that Biden and the Democratic elites who support and control Biden are actually the gravest threat.
What Gabbard writes is simply true. It is an honor that this young lifelong soldier and public servant has the courage to speak out. Her words of warning speak to an America on the brink of fundamental transformation into something no one should ever hope for.
