Democrats have been running on the platform of "protecting democracy" ever since Donald Trump became president.
The theme became so embedded in their messaging that the Pravda Media started polling the issue, suggesting that democratic values themselves are at stake in every election. Democrats protect democracy, while Republicans promote authoritarianism.
This is an interesting tactic, not just because the accusation that Democrats are constantly bashing the Constitutional order while Republicans routinely appeal to its legitimacy as a reason they oppose Democratic Party insanity, but especially because Democrats are quite explicit about the need to thwart the will of voters whenever a Republican wins an office.
You may have noticed that it's a common tactic for Democratic legislators to boycott legislative sessions whenever Republicans are about to pass a bill they particularly dislike, often fleeing the states they represent rather than allow a vote. They vow to stop and even jail federal officials who are trying to enforce laws they dislike.
And, most of all, they see government bureaucracies, not elected officials, as the ultimate deciders of what regulations should be and whether the will of elected officials gets carried out.
🚨 THIS IS COMEDIC GOLD. CNN, never let Scott Jennings go, PLEASE!!
— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) July 14, 2026
PANELIST: DOGE is not about "cutting spending." It's about making government too small to stop Trump.
JENNINGS: Why would the government stop Trump? Isn't he the head of the government? Why would they try to… pic.twitter.com/iB0L1iM7O8
🚨 THIS IS COMEDIC GOLD. CNN, never let Scott Jennings go, PLEASE!!
PANELIST: DOGE is not about "cutting spending." It's about making government too small to stop Trump.
JENNINGS: Why would the government stop Trump? Isn't he the head of the government? Why would they try to stop him?
PANELIST: Because he's creating a dictatorship.
JENNINGS: Your view is that Trump is shredding the constitution... it seems you guys believe the unelected bureaucracy has a responsibility to resist political leadership.
PANELISTS: My God, seriously? Do we need to give you a civics lesson? The legislative branch, the FBI, you control the military - this is what you do in a dictatorship...
JENNINGS: Are you suggesting the president is not the commander-in-chief of the military?
PANELIST: The president will put in charge someone who will contravene the constitution. Soon, this conversation will look very silly to you. Right now, you're gaslighting.
JENNINGS: Who? The president is in charge of the military, is he not?
CNN HOST: Yes, the president is in charge of the military, that is how it works.
The Seditious Six literally called on service members to disobey the direct orders of a president, and it is common enough for Democrats to decry a Republican's firing of unelected bureaucrats.
The media celebrated #theresistance, and the New York Times even published an opinion piece by a low-level bureaucrat (cosplaying as an important advisor to the president) admitting that he actively worked to thwart the president's will.
The common theme is this: they believe that government exists to serve the will of the technocracy, the voice of the transnational elite.
Elections, ideally, will become mere formalities.
This vision is best realized in the governing structure of the European Union, in which Members of Parliament are elected, but are essentially powerless. They can pass "legislation," but it amounts to nothing more than the sense of the body. The real power is the European Commission, which creates and executes policy.
Rule by technocrats.
As the size and regulatory power of government have expanded, the distance between laws passed by Congress and policies promulgated by elected presidents and what actually happens has grown ever greater. Massive policy shifts can occur without any democratic input, such as the EPA's's classification of CO2 as a pollutant.
It was an end-run around Congress. It took Trump to undo it, and even then, legal challenges popped up immediately. Judges often get the final say on just about everything, as Trump has discovered.
Democrats are constantly looking for ways to short-circuit the will of the voters and their elected representatives, hoping to make permanent policies they implement when they have control of the government. By handing over power to bureaucracies packed with left-wing bureaucrats—look at the voting practices of government workers, and you know why Democrats so desperately want as much power put into their hands as possible.
You can see all that laid out in that CNN debate, where the liberals were shocked by Scott Jennings' obvious point that the president is the Chief Executive, and it most certainly is not the role of government bureaucrats to defy him.
It is an alien concept to them.
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