Tucker on X: Colorado Decision on Trump Is “Lunacy”
It looks like lunacy because it is lunacy, Tucker Carlson says.
And he’s right, he typically is, although I do wonder about his choice of the word “democracy” in his post on X. I’ll get to that in a bit.
Said Carlson on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot:
“Whatever else January 6 was, and in some ways, we still don’t know exactly what it was, it was not a Trump-led insurrection. The crowd had no guns. They had no plan to overthrow the government. Nothing like that has ever emerged. And above all, Trump was not leading it. He was miles away at the White House at the time, where he issued a public statement calling for calm and nonviolence.
“So why were the people on television telling us that Trump led an insurrection? This was, of course, a lie, but it was also a very obvious lie. So, clearly, we were watching the rollout of a talking point, words crafted for a specific purpose. But what was the purpose?
“We got an answer to that question yesterday when the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that because he led an insurrection, Donald Trump’s name cannot appear on the state’s ballot next fall. The four liberal judges who concluded this cited as their justification Article three of the 14th Amendment, which was written in 1868 to keep former Confederate officials from holding office. That was the sum total of their reasoning, despite the fact Donald Trump has never been convicted by any court of insurrection. And although the 14th Amendment specifically does not apply to the presidency, Donald Trump cannot run for president because he’s an ‘insurrectionist.’”
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Tucker Carlson‘s exit from Fox News has done much to torpedo the American public’s trust in the Mockingbird media. It has simultaneously lifted citizen journalism to new heights, as Elon Musk-owned X/Twitter is more friendly to American patriots wanting to fight the information war.
Carlson’s insistence on using the word “democracy,” however, continues to puzzle me. This has been a long-standing topic I have broached with my students and civics teacher-friend time and time again over the years.
The United States of America is actually a Constitutional Republic, which is why it is puzzling for even the Tuckers of the world to be throwing the word around like this. It is something Trump’s enemies do to villainize him, for instance when they parrot the words “Trump will be the end of democracy!” over and over again.
RVIVR publisher Scott McKay, writing for The American Spectator, makes well this very important distinction:
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….
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.
A constitutional republic is one in which there are rules, and there are limits on power. In a constitutional republic, you have to actually follow the republic’s constitution — or you have to reach a very broad public consensus for changing that document before you’re allowed to depart from it.
In a constitutional republic, courts don’t get to play legislature. In a constitutional republic, neither can the executive branch. And in a constitutional republic, God-given, inalienable rights are recognized and cannot be violated by an ambitious, meddling government.
In other words, although yes America does have democratic principles, there is actually a better term for what this country is. Knowing the difference is crucial in this information war. Tucker is right on pretty much everything, including the lunacy of the Colorado ruling, but he could afford to sharpen up his terminology in this case just a bit.
May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
