OPINION:
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, the Democrats’ choice to respond to President Trump’s speech to Congress, took to national airwaves and accused the administration of leading America down a path to recession, leading America down a path of insecurity and instability, and leading America down a path of division, disunity and discord.
And then she dropped her notes on the floor and the cameras flashed and all the world could see that all her references to “Donald Trump” were written in red ink, over crossed-out references to “Joe Biden.”
This is gaslighting at its finest.
The Democrats may not be talented in governing; they may be clueless when it comes to effectively leading. But lying? Accusing others of what they are actually guilty of doing? Gaslighting the masses? Blue ribbons all around.
“For generations, America has offered something better. Our security and our prosperity, yes, but our democracy, our very system of government, has been the aspiration of the world. And right now, it’s at risk,” Slotkin said.
Security under Biden was insecurity.
Prosperity under Biden was the path to poverty.
And once again, for those in the back of the room — America is not a democracy. It’s a republic. No matter how hard Democrats try to change history — to gaslight the masses — Founding Fathers never intended America to be a democracy because they knew this was a word that described a governance by mob rule. A republic, conversely, is a government by law and order.
No wonder Democrats try to change the language and redefine America’s governing system.
They stand for open borders — the wider the opening, the better. That’s called security.
They stand for regulations and taxation and economic concessions for foreign countries that place U.S. businesses at competitive disadvantage — all leading to higher prices and lower valuations of the dollar; all leading to inflation, inflation, inflation. That’s called prosperity.
They stand for progressivism, socialism, democratic-socialism, democratic-progressivism, communism, Marxism, collectivism — anything that regards the good of the state over the good of the individual; anything that takes the rights and liberties of the individual and puts them in the hands of the government to dole as it pleases. That’s called democracy.
“It’s at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the Constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen,” Slotkin said.
“It’s also at risk when the president pits Americans against each other,” she said.
Umm. Can you say Barack Obama, the pen-and-phone president, who openly bragged about bypassing Congress with his executive-level hubris? How about Biden, and his continual doling of taxpayer dollars for college kids who didn’t want to pay back their loans — despite court rulings saying that was, umm, unconstitutional? Divide and conquer; under Obama Term One, Obama Term Two and then Biden Whisperer Obama, also known as Obama Term Three, pitting Americans against each other became a Democrat Party art form. There wasn’t a white man in the nation who didn’t hate black people. There wasn’t a white police officer in the country who wasn’t patrolling the streets in search of black people to beat.
“We all know that our country is going through something right now,” Slotkin warned.
Yes. It’s called a course correction.
America, under Trump, is finally getting the overhaul it needs to bring back a time of law and order and constitutional governance. It’s only the gaslighting Democrats who label that radical and call it out as a crisis.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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