POLITICS: Kamala Harris Is The Real Threat To Our Constitutional Republic

  Margot Cleveland Visit on Twitter @ProfMJCleveland

Harris’ policies promise to wreck our Constitution and threaten our republic.

Dick Cheney went from despised war criminal to the Left’s new bestie on Friday when the former Vice President announced he was voting for Kamala Harris. Cheney justified his decision by claiming “[i]n our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” Cheney’s rhetoric ignores reality — both what Trump actually did when he was president and what the Harris-Walz ticket proposes to do. And it is the Democrat ticket’s policies that represent the actual threat to our constitutional republic. Here are three clear examples.

1. Free Speech

Freedom of speech is so fundamental to our constitutional republic that the founding generation prohibited government infringement on that right in the First Amendment. However, since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 launched the censorship-industrial complex, the government has been moving aggressively to silence speech. And the consequences of government censorship can be devastating, as Americans learned in the context of COVID, when our government hid or minimized the dangers of vaccines, and deprived citizens of a fulsome debate over mandatory masking and school closures.

Donald Trump has promised to end the federal government’s efforts to censor speech, pledging last week to “sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens.” Trump further committed to “ban[ning] federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation” and to firing federal bureaucrats responsible for domestic censorship activities.

Conversely, “Harris’ track record shows she’s the enemy of our most fundamental liberty: free speech.” As Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York, detailed in a recent article for the New York Post, “Harris chose as her deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, formerly the White House director of digital strategy — the person who called the shots about what got censored under President Biden.”

During her failed primary run in 2019, then-Sen. Harris also pressured Jack Dorsey, the then-CEO of Twitter, to deplatform Donald Trump. The California senator justified her call for a ban by claiming Trump “used his platform, being the president of the United States in a way that has been about inciting fear and potentially inciting harm against a witness to what might be a crime against our country and our democracy.”

With Twitter now X and owned by Elon Musk, a President Harris may not succeed in silencing her political opponents at that outlet — at least not directly. But Democrats are already positing solutions to the problem of Musk. For instance, Robert Reich, who served as the labor secretary under Bill Clinton, proposed the Federal Trade Commission sue Musk if the owner of X refuses to “take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals …”

And if Harris wins the White House, she’ll control the Federal Trade Commission and the priorities of that and the dozens of other federal agencies, making the risk to free speech rights a clear and present danger.

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