For your awareness, here is a selection of recent headlines featured in our major news outlets.
“Elon Musk's political power poses a threat to democracy and the economy.”
“How Trump's war with federal workers threatens democracy.”
“Trump's showdown with the courts puts us on the brink of abandoning democracy.”
“Trump's electric shock to expand his power is a direct threat to democracy,” experts say. ”
I could find dozens more if needed, but I think you'll get points. The Washington swamp and its media allies have settled on the line of their attacks on the new Trump administration, and it's exhausting: our democracy is at risk!
At first I had little success. But the second time, it will fall flat.
As I explained multiple times on my campus visits, America was not democratic and was never the case. Societies outside of ancient Greece have been a true democracy until now. Instead, we are the constitutional republics that hold democratic elections.
But even if America is not a democratic, let us acknowledge it as the premise that our system has democratic characteristics. The next time I come across someone in the real world chatting about the dangers of “our democracy,” I would encourage you to ask some follow-up questions. Now starting: “What does democracy mean?”
Next, prepare your follow-up questions. for example:
– More Democrat: Are elected officials like Donald Trump, where do federal funds go, or are they elected bureaucrats who were not chosen by anyone?
-What is “democratic” about a district court judge selected by a president who is no longer in office? Will you issue a nationwide injunction to ban an elected president from suspending funds for foreign-going taxpayers?
– Can you name what Trump is doing now?
That last question is especially important. Far from being a “liar” or a bait and switch con man, President Trump is one of the easiest politicians ever. He runs on the set of promises and then does his best to make them come true.
For example, consider Doge. Trump at a rally last summer I said it blatantly He wants to nominate Elon Musk as his administration's advisor. At his Madison Square Garden Rally just days before the election, Musk boasted that trillions of dollars of doge could cut from federal spending. There was nothing surprising about Doge. Trump has pledged to give America's most well-known businessmen a wide range of anchorages to significantly cut their spending.
The Americans heard that promise, and they handed Trump all the swing states and a popularity vote margin of 2.3 million.
So who is undermining the democracy, the Doge or people trying to shut it down?
Or consider this: Last summer, at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump made the following promise on the 2024 Republican platform: Under all education lists from the outcome perspective. It will close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and send it back to the states that it belongs to, and have the state operate the education system. ”
Trump has hidden nothing about his education plan: remove the Department of Education and lead the nation. He ran on that pledge and won popularity votes at the voting college in November with 2.3 million people in landslides.
Now amid a shocking move, President Trump has ordered the Department of Education to prepare for his own dissolution, allowing education to be returned to the nation.
So who undermines “democracy”? Trump, or people whose ideas of politics are asked to order one unelected federal judge that the Department of Education must exist forever?
This kind of thing happens everywhere. Shortly after taking office, Trump ordered the removal of gender guides and other monsters from the websites of the CDC, NIH and other federal organizations. Trump has pledged to banish transgender social contagion from the government, and polls show that his position is extremely popular.
But this week, District Judge John D. Bates ordered a reversal. illegal Do not provide transgender surgery advice on taxpayer-funded websites.
So go ahead and ask: Who will undermine democracy, President Trump, or Judge John Bates?
And follow up by asking this: If the left is such a fan of democracy, why did he start running for the president again and immediately try to throw Trump into prison? Why did they impose suffocating censorship on all the social media sites they controlled? What was democratic about that?
And finally, ask this: if you don't like to get people expressing their honest opinions, vote for candidates for their choice, or get the policies they vote for, What exactly do you like about democracy?
Charlie Kirk He is founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action and host of top-ranked podcasts and nationally syndicated radio shows.Charlie Kirk Show. ”
