Yesterday, Kamala Harris said something extraordinarily wise. It was a rare moment of shining brilliance from our very historic vice president:
“Every election cycle we talk about this is the most election of our lifetime,” she blathered.
Yes, indeed, 2024 is shaping up to be the most “election” of our lifetime.
Not just an election. The most election.
In other words, a s***show.
While America awaits the Supreme Court ruling on whether or not Colorado can bar Donald Trump from the ballot, other states are considering how they can follow Colorado’s suit and bar the leading Republican candidate for the presidency from the ballot. According to the New York Times, there are at least 16 other states that are considering barring Trump from the ballot, including four state lawsuits in Michigan, Oregon, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, and 11 federal lawsuits in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. As of now, the cases in Arizona and Michigan were dismissed in Trump’s favor, but have been appealed. Maine has also been added to this list.
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If the Supreme Court doesn’t take up the Colorado case, Trump will remain off the ballot there — and we can be sure this insanity will be repeated anywhere there is a Democratic Supreme Court or legislature and governor. In fact, yesterday, the California lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis wrote a letter to the California Secretary of State begging for her to “explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.” Hilariously, Kounalakis is apparently illiterate: In the original version of her letter, she wrote, “The constitution is clear: you must be 40 years old and not be an insurrectionist.”
Actually, you have to be 35.
But same difference.
Now, it’s clear the Colorado Supreme Court is legally wrong. Even Trump’s detractors say so. Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr, who has hardly been a Trump ally in the days since the 2020 election, stated, “I think that this case is legally wrong and untenable. And I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive. They backfire.”
And Chris Christie, who is running a campaign simply to throw dirt in Trump’s eye, agreed, saying, “I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being president of the United States by any court.”
But that doesn’t matter: Those who hate Trump truly believe it is morally justifiable to use any means necessary to keep him from the White House. According to a new poll from YouGov, 54% of Americans approve of the Colorado State Supreme Court’s decision to boot Trump from the ballot, including 84% of Democrats. That’s not because they believe the legal theory. It’s because they believe any club available to slam Trump in the skull must be used.
They’re in the same camp as Mary Trump, Trump’s niece who has made a new career out of bashing her uncle. She gushed:
Fabulous news today from the Colorado Supreme Court who ruled that Donald Trump, yes, Donald Trump, the insurrectionist, anti-American anti-Democratic fascist, who for some bizarre reason is leading the Republican nominating contest by 50 points, is not eligible to be on the ballot for the Republican primary in that state. This is amazing news!
Joe Biden is fomenting all of this by supporting the rationale behind the Colorado ban. Yesterday, he was asked about the ruling, and he said that Trump was certainly an insurrectionist, which would presumably bar him from the ballot.
“I think that was certainly self-evident,” Biden declared. “You saw it all. Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection. No question about it. None. Zero. And he seems to be doubling down on about everything.”
No wonder Republicans are up in arms. If Democrats are going to claim that the law can be used as a club — and that they are law-abiding citizens merely following the law — then Trump fans will similarly pick up any club at hand. That’s why Trump fans are increasingly cheering his applause line about temporary dictatorship.
And if Democrats truly seek to bar Trump from the ballot across the country, Republicans will presumably do the same, as Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick stated:
Seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think — except we believe in democracy in Texas — maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing eight million people to cross the border since he’s been president disrupting our state for more than anything anyone else has done in recent history.
America is indeed on the precipice of something truly dangerous. Are there any conditions under which Republicans will accept a Biden victory at this point? Are there any conditions under which Democrats will accept a Trump victory?
If not, what comes next?
Nothing good.
2024 is indeed going to be very “election.”
The most election, as Kamala Harris.
So get ready.
