Democrats and liberals like to talk about “protecting democracy.” But if the response to last Thursday’s calamitous debate performance by Joe Biden reveals anything, it’s that all their talk about “protecting democracy” is nothing more than talk – and lying talk, at that. The fact is, the Democratic Party’s elites have been lying to us for years. Thursday night just happened to be the night when those who hadn’t seen it, or who hadn’t allowed themselves to believe it, could no longer avert their gaze and deny the truth: Democrats have been lying all along.

The Democrats were – and are – so determined to hold on to political power that when it came time to prepare for the 2024 presidential election, they prevented any meaningful primary contest from occurring. An exercise in practical democracy – that is, requiring wannabe presidents to compete for support from actual voters – was nixed by Democrat elites. When a lone, brave Democrat Congressman was so determined to make Democrat elites confront the issue of President Biden’s age and mental acuity that he launched a primary challenge against Biden, he was denied the courtesy of a single debate with the incumbent.

Now, in the wake of Thursday’s debate debacle, we’ve gone at 100 miles per hour from, “There’s nothing to see here, these are not the ‘droids you seek,” to “We need a new nominee, and fast!” And that discussion is taking place among an elite handful........

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