The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft "The unelected justices of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the people of Colorado cannot vote for former President Donald Trump on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election.
The decision, passed by a narrow margin, was led by four justices whose ruling has sparked a fierce debate about legal standards and democratic principles.
"According to CBS News, “lawsuits challenging Trump’s candidacy have been filed in more than 25 states ahead of the 2024 election.”
"The case in Colorado, instigated by a far-left organization, argued that Mr. Trump should be barred from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment over allegations of insurrection. Despite a lower court’s ruling that noted while Trump engaged in alleged “insurrection” by inciting the Capitol event, the Amendment does not apply to presidential candidates specifically; the Supreme Court’s majority saw things differently." . . .
‘Our Democracy’ Isn’t What You Think, And You Just Saw It in Colorado - (spectator.org) . . ."Because that insane ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court — which seeks to ban Donald Trump from the ballot in that state on grounds that the 14th Amendment bars “insurrectionists” from federal office — is about as bright-line an example of the difference between “Our Democracy” and what an average American would see as democracy that it’s possible to conjure.
Your concept of democracy as an American isn’t, after all, even democracy in the classic sense. Our Founding Fathers were terrified of democracy as a system of government, which is why they built in an intricate clockwork of checks and balances in creating the world’s greatest constitutional republic.
"In America it isn’t the majority that rules; it’s the law that rules. And the law is established through a representative democracy. There are things a “democratic” majority cannot do in this country, for very good reasons.
"A patriot who recognizes and respects this would not properly refer to “our democracy.” Rather, a patriot would refer to “our republic,” as that’s a far more precise term.
"But Democrats — and especially the people who control the Democrat Party today, a crowd who have been the active ingredient in that party since Barack Obama came on the scene and turned the Democrats into a radical, viciously anti-American hard-left mob — despise the use of the word “republic” to describe America.
"Most of them hate that word because they associate it with “Republican,” and anything close to “Republican” has to be bad and can’t be said. Partisan Republicans will make sure to include a reference to “little-D” democrats when talking about proponents of democracy; the Obama Left won’t extend even that courtesy.
"But the less intellectually deprived on the left won’t refer to “our republic” for a different reason: They despise the concept of a republic with as much fervor as our founders despised a democracy." . . .
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