Daniels: Who or what is the Democratic Party today?

As we usher in 2024 and prepare for the election of our next president, the Democrats are correct: We are in a historic fight for the survival of our constitutional republic. However, it is they, the Democrats, who are the biggest threat to our 240-plus years of being the most successful constitutional republic in the history of this world.

The Democratic Party of today is run by its far-left radical wing and the radical wing of the LGBTQ community. It is those two factions that have ushered in the insidious racism of diversity, equity and inclusion; created an enormous national security problem at our wide-open Southern border; made climate change a focal point of their policy decisions; and gotten the Democrats (along with a foolish number of Republicans) to pass enormous wasteful government spending programs, creating the worst inflation we’ve seen in over 40 years and ballooning our national debt to an extremely dangerous level.

As Joe Biden heads out to campaign for his reelection, is he touting his marvelous three years of enormous improvements to the lives of American citizens? No, he can’t because each and every one of us is far worse off today than we were prior to his inauguration. Instead, he is using the Democrats’ tried-and-true policy of inducing fear in the American public by saying that a vote for Donald Trump will destroy our democracy. Never mind that it has been his policies that have gotten us to this critical point in history. Nothing is ever his fault; it’s always someone else’s fault (Trump and the “Make America Great Again” Republicans).

The Democrats fear Trump so much that, for the past seven years, they’ve created an enormous false aura of who Trump really is, and, sadly, have been fully supported by our national print and news media. You can love or hate Trump, but he truly understands the American individual, while the Democrats and Joe only believe in their party, its outlandish/destructive fiscal and monetary policies and maintaining power.

To truly understand who the Democrats are today, just listen to Delaware’s esteemed Sen. Chris Coons. He obviously missed the class on due process when he voiced his support for the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the Colorado ballot. Jack Smith, the special counsel for the Jan. 6 commission, a true joke, has never charged Trump with insurrection because there has never been any legal justification to charge Trump with insurrection. A terrible riot, yes. But it was the Democrats and our national print and news media who quickly used the word “insurrection” to get it planted into the psyche of the American public.

Don’t be fooled by what you hear from Joe and the Democrats over the next eight to nine months. You will never hear Joe tout his enormous accomplishments (there aren’t any), only that a vote for Trump will be a vote for the devil and Adolf Hitler. All Joe has is fear mongering, as his policy choices over the last three years are on the verge of tearing this country apart. Another four years of Joe’s rhetoric against tens of millions of American voters and his idiotic fiscal and monetary policies will take us back to 1861.

Retired U.S. Army Reserve Col. Frank Daniels

Dover

Reader reactions, pro or con, are welcomed at civiltalk@iniusa.org.