Democrats Have Become A Serious Threat To The Republic
(I’d say always were a threat)
Part 2 of 2
Though I do wonder what remedy Axelrod or Ocasio-Cortez have in mind for this supposed problem? Should the GOP abdicate the presidency to a Democrat every time it fails to win the nonexistent “popular vote”? Should Republican senators from smaller states ignore their constituents and ask Elizabeth Warren for permission to support judicial nominees? Sounds like one-party rule.
None of this is to even mention that a lack of national legislation on anissue isn’t a “tyranny of the minority.” It’s federalism. There is no other way to keep a sprawling, geographically, ethnically, culturally, religiously diverse nation free and self-governing. That’s why enumerated powers exist. And that’s also why the increasingly radical progressive left is obsessed with getting rid of the filibuster, the only thing preserving some semblance of legislative limitation on federal power. The only people who refer to federalism as “minority rule” are people who believe that Americans need to be “ruled” over in the first place. Indeed, the court did not stop Illinois from making its own abortion policies. It’s Axelrod who wants the court to compel, by edict, abortion policy in states like Mississippi.
Democrats want the Supreme Court, created to adjudicate the constitutionality of laws free from political pressures, to follow public opinion polls. The only way we can truly know how voters feel about abortion is by subjecting the issue to the democratic process. Whether Roe, a legal decision, is popular is irrelevant–though it’s unsurprising the majority of Americans, after decades of media championing abortion, know little about it. Because, at some point, voters will decide if the Democratic Party’s new position, government-funded abortion on demand until crowning, or the position of states like Mississippi, 15 weeks bans, are more “radical.”
When the Supreme Court concocted the constitutional “right” to abortion in 1973, the pro-life movement didn’t promise to dismantle the system; rather it spent 50 years creating an intellectual and political movement that would begin to restore proper constitutional limits. They voted for presidents who promised to put textualists on the bench and elected senators who would confirm them. If you’re unhappy with those rules, you are free to amend the Constitution. But, for the contemporary left, “democracy” isn’t just a euphemism for “policies we support” anymore, it’s a pernicious belief that Republicans have a responsibility to live in a political system that exists outside of the Constitution. And a system with two sets of rules is untenable.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/27/democrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic/