End Democrats starting a second civil war before it begins

[Randolph]

Roughly half of Republicans and over one-third of Democrats believe our
country is on the brink of civil war. If such an unthinkable war breaks
out, it will be the Democrats’ fault.

In their quest for power, radical elements within the Democratic Party
have abandoned any pretense of fairness, tolerance and justice. In their
“woke” new world, Democratic strategists use unscrupulous tactics to skew
our election system even as weaponized bureaucracies like the Department
of Justice, FBI, and National Archives now under Democratic control seek
to destroy the Republican Party and its de facto leader, former President
Donald Trump.

For more than 200 years, Americans lived in a world of paper ballots with
strict ID and signature match procedures where only legal votes counted.
Today, through bends in the law and sleight of hand by Democratic
secretaries of state, Democrats have created a “stuff the ballot box”
world where absentee and mail-in voting, universal voting, automatic voter
registration, drop boxes, ballot harvesting and relaxed signature match
procedures have blown open the doors to fraud.

The Democrats’ persecution and prosecutions of Mr. Trump and his advisers
are equally toxic to our democracy. Never did I imagine in January 2017,
when I entered the White House to serve my country, that virtually
everyone I would share a foxhole with — along with the president himself —
would be assaulted with indictment after indictment and subpoena after
subpoena, not just by DOJ but also by big-city prosecutors and blue state
attorneys general.

The Democrats’ lawfare goal is to convict Mr. Trump of anything that will
prevent him from running for president or serving if he wins. As Stalin’s
deputy premier Beria once boasted: “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the
crime.”

Barring such a conviction, President Biden’s hit men, with names like
Merrick Garland and Jack Smith, hope to bury Mr. Trump in enough mud to
sour the electorate on him. This withering assault on my former boss
constitutes unlawful election interference at best and seditious
conspiracy at worst.

In the case of Mr. Trump’s advisers and closest aides, some are being
pressured with threats of prison to turn on Mr. Trump. Some are facing
threats to their livelihood: For example, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and
Jeff Clark all face disbarment by Democratic-controlled bar associations.

All of us are being buried in massive legal fees, with this burden
cynically designed to silence us in the public arena and siphon money from
Republican donors that might otherwise be spent on winning back Congress
and the White House.

Meanwhile, to put an exclamation point on this unprecedented use of
America’s now dual system of injustice, the gun-toting, foreign influence-
peddling Hunter Biden, along with a long list of Democrats involved in the
Russia hoax and other efforts to overthrow the Trump presidency, remain
free of legal scrutiny.

Of course, none of this unprecedented political violence is really about
Mr. Trump or his advisers. As Mr. Trump himself has rightly said, the
Democrats are really coming for you — we Trump folks are just in the way.

When I say “you,” I mean you in that broad swath of America that still
believes in God, country, family, and constitutional principles like
freedom of speech and association; the right to bear arms and own
property; secure borders; and equal justice under the law.

It is between you in this Middle America majority and the most radical
elements of an increasingly socialist Democratic Party that a civil war is
most likely to break out.

Here, we would do well to remember that America’s first civil war was a
just and righteous one. The North sought to abolish slavery, and over half
a million Americans would perish before the dust and the issue were
settled for the good of all.

The Democratic activists and strategists now driving this nation toward a
second civil war have neither justice nor righteousness on their side.
Instead, they are attempting to trample on our religions, disarm us, and
impose all manner of “woke” social, cultural and economic changes that are
far outside the bounds of America’s traditions, traditional values and
constitutional roots.

My strong admonition to these Democrats — as I appeal to the wiser in your
party — is this: Back this anti-democratic truck up before it runs over
you.

Do you not understand that the longer you engage in your assaults on
American families and values, the more likely a new civil war becomes?

And do you not understand that the perverse precedents you are creating
through your weaponized bureaucracies and “woke” attacks will come back to
haunt you as soon as Republicans take back Mr. Trump’s America from your
cold, “woke” hands?

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