On Monday, January 6, 2025, Congress will meet to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, the final procedure to ensure Donald Trump's victory and this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This will be the final hurdle before the inauguration ceremony on January 20th. .
Vice President Kamala Harris' final political act will be to preside over the certification of President Trump, but her authority is limited to a ceremonial role by the president. reform It was passed in 2022 to “protect democracy.”
Ah, the irony. Had Harris won the election, January 6 would have marked the solemn anniversary of what President Joe Biden once incorrectly called “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” .
Democrats used the certification of electoral votes to make 2024 the ultimate repudiation of President Trump and confirmation that Democrats had, in fact, saved democracy from a would-be fascist dictator, the new Adolf Hitler. Dew.
Instead, Democrats now claim that they are threatened by President Trump's 2021 rallies against what many Americans believed was a stolen election. ” needs to be modeled. Democrats will be forced on Monday to reject in deeds, if not words, their argument that President Trump is too dangerous to ever be allowed near the Oval Office again.
There will be some angry speeches, and there will probably be some tears, but in the end they will certify him as the next president.
There may be some exceptions. Some Democrats will no doubt object to certification, as they have done in every presidential election won by Republicans since 2000. The chairman and several members of the January 6th Committee themselves opposed this and sought to prevent a Republican president from taking office. Certifying votes — an effort by media fact checkers fired At least when Democrats tried to do it, it was “relatively common.”
January 6, 2024 Congress ordered Trump to hold office based on a misreading that was first proposed in February 2024 by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a committee member and former House impeachment manager. Some may try the more ambitious idea of having a person declared ineligible for employment. Subject to the provisions of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, except for insurrectionists.
In recent weeks, some Democrats have publicly advocated this strategy. who knows? There may also be a vote on that.
But such efforts will likely fail, as will any efforts to disrupt the proceedings with some kind of march or riot.
Unlike then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who privately acknowledged that they did not do enough to protect the Capitol on that fateful day in 2021, Republicans will protect it. (Notably, Ms. Pelosi was never called to testify by the committee on January 6, nor was her daughter's footage from that day subpoenaed as key evidence.)
The simple truth about January 6, 2021, is that it was a disaster brought about by mistrust between the two parties — one year earlier, when Pelosi publicly criticized President Trump's This was also emphasized when he gave his State of the Union address. President Trump's strategy to force electoral votes back to the states was reckless, even if it was based on legal and constitutional arguments. His efforts to pressure tough Vice President Mike Pence were doomed to failure.
But it wasn't a “rebellion.” Many participants believed they were saving democracy, not subverting it.
In the end, Democrats undermined their own moral case by persecuting Trump and his supporters. The final verdict was decided by voters, who decided that Mr. Trump was an expression of democracy, not an enemy.
The Capitol riot will be remembered by history as a mistake, but January 6th will be just another normal day.
Happy January 6th, America!
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. he is the author of Agenda: What should President Trump do in his first 100 days?available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of Trumpian Virtues: Lessons and Legacy of the Donald Trump Presidencynow available on Audible. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
