Posted on October 10, 2024 by Scott Johnson in 2024 Election, Democrats, Illegal immigration, Joe Biden

David Horowitz: Political war

David Horowitz is founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the bestselling author of several books, including the classic autobiography Radical Son and The Black Book of the American Left. His new book is America Betrayed. He has sent us this column for publication on Power Line. David writes:

Many Americans concerned about the fate of our country are asking themselves why the election polls seem so close. The Chinese have a piece of wisdom that suggests an answer: To restore civil sanity and order it is first necessary to call things by their right names. Whether out of politeness or cowardice, Republicans are lame at this.

As many of us have pointed out too many times to no avail, Democrats reflexively call conservatives racists, white supremacists, and Hitlerites, while Republicans respond by calling them “liberals.” What is liberal about attacking, undermining and seeking to abolish the First Amendment? Or interfering with presidential elections by mobilizing a corrupt judiciary to take the leading Republican out of the race? Or calling for government censorship of social media platforms, or privileging certain races over others?

In the current presidential campaign, Democrats in the media seek to distract voters from the conditions Democrats have inflicted on them by defaming Trump as “an existential threat to democracy.” Republicans respond by referring to the fact that Democrats have “weaponized” the Justice Department. Even if a voter understands that “weaponize” does not mean providing the FBI and federal police agencies with weapons, it sorely lacks the emotional charge of Hitlerism – although that is exactly what it means. If justice is not blind but becomes a partisan force to criminalize political opponents like Trump then the logical goal of weaponizing justice is a one-party dictatorship and a totalitarian state. Or, as Hillary has put it, without government censorship of the media “we will lose total control.”

Democrats criminalize arguments and facts they can’t answer by calling them “disinformation.” In a campaign worthy of the KGB, the Democrat Secretary of State suborned 51 top intelligence officials including the former head of the CIA to sign a letter calling Hunter Biden’s treasonous lap top “Russian disinformation” right before the 2020 election. This behavior is not just about winning elections, which it was and would be bad enough. It’s about betraying your country and fellow countrymen.

Republicans are rightly alarmed that the Democrats have destroyed America’s borders, let in an estimated 20 million unvetted individuals including hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals, virtually all from countries and continents ruled by corrupt dictators and fanatic terrorists. They are shocked by the Democrats’ determination to give these illegal aliens the right to vote along with more goods and privileges than the indigenous population.

But they are tongue-tied when it comes to calling these policies what they are: criminal and treasonous attacks on our country and its Constitution. Joe Biden had no legal authority to change America’s immigration policies by executive order. Immigration policy is the purview of the legislative branch of government not the destructive schemes of one demented executive. Destroying the border is the greatest crime committed against America in its 237-year history. It is not a run of the mill policy difference.

When Trump attempted as president to begin deporting immigration criminals, he was forced temporarily to separate their children, leaving them in the care of Border Control agents in facilities that Obama had built. He had no choice while the parents were being processed because U.S. law forbids incarcerating children for their parents’ criminal acts. Trump terminated his efforts after two months.

The Democrats’ seized on this situation to smear Trump as a heartless Nazi, calling the Obama-built facilities they were housed in reminiscent of Auschwitz. President Joe Biden led the charge, saying that Trump had ripped babies out of their mothers’ arms and then incarcerated them in “concentration camp” facilities. When Biden became president, he and his administration invited “unaccompanied minors” to make the dangerous trek through the hemisphere’s jungles with Mexican drug cartels as their guides.

While Trump had separated 4,000 children for two months, the Democrats’ policy successfully lured nearly a million minors separated from their parents for an indefinite stay. In 2024 the Department of Homeland Security revealed that they had “lost” 350,000 of these children and had no way to find them. Since the cartels were active in the sex trafficking trade and in breaking America’s child labor laws it was not too difficult to guess where the missing children had been taken.

It is difficult to fathom how callous the hearts of the Democrats have become. They not only lie about their political opponents but do so while pretending to care about the suffering of lost children when frankly they don’t give a damn – any more than they care about their country and its people. What they care about is winning the power to censor and control their political opponents so they can be free to “re-imagine” the American future whatever the human cost.