You might have heard that voters choosing to elect Republicans — especially a certain one — is the biggest threat to democracy today. Democrats don’t quite put it that way, of course, but it’s why they’re throwing the kitchen sink at Donald Trump legally and disqualifying him from state ballots. It’s why dozens of Democrats around the nation are working to disqualify more than 100 Republicans from running for Congress. Heck, Democrats in a couple of states even removed other Democrats from the ballot so their dear leader doesn’t face a primary challenge.

Saving democracy by preventing citizens from voting for their preferred candidates. Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.

The theme of Biden’s first big 2024 election speech last Friday was to repeat a tired refrain and scare voters about Trump’s supposed threat to democracy. The Leftmedia’s job is to poll voters to make sure they got the message, and then report the results of the poll to reinforce the message. That’s pollaganda. After that, Biden and other Democrats can keep talking about the issue because voters say it’s important.

It’s one of the most obnoxious feedback loops in politics today, but don’t underestimate its effectiveness with low-information voters armed with bulk-mail ballots.

To illustrate the point, a coinciding CBS News/YouGov poll found that an astonishing 81% of Democrats believe that Colorado and Maine were right to disqualify Trump from their state ballots and that other states should follow suit.

In other words, 81% of Democrats are fascists.

Fascists concoct bogus charges — in this case “insurrection” — to disqualify their opponents from elections. People honestly defending democracy (and we’re a Republic in any case) don’t do that.

As Peter Heck rightly notes, “Why should it be surprising that the same movement that fought so hard to discredit Fox as a legitimate news operation, or remove Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves, or conspire with the censorial ideologues running every major social media platform, would take the next logical step and try to remove troublesome political rivals from ballots?”

Among Republicans, 90% of those polled think Trump should remain on the ballot.

Assuming Trump is the GOP nominee, the real problem is this: 44% of independents also think he should be disqualified from the ballot. (Former conservative and now New York Times columnist David French is among them, which isn’t surprising given that he suffers from one of the most acute cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome we’ve ever seen.) We don’t think it’s a stretch to say those are unlikely Trump voters, which could also hurt down-ballot Republicans. Put another way, it’s going to be awfully tough to win an election when large numbers of voters don’t think you should even be on the ballot.

Ironically, by the way, 70% of respondents in that same poll say “democracy today is threatened.” Perhaps they should look in the mirror.

Public sentiment could change after the Supreme Court settles the issue after hearing Trump’s challenge to Colorado’s Supreme Court decision on February 8. If the justices throw out the Colorado court’s preposterous reading of the 14th Amendment, voters might conclude that continuing to have a former president’s name on the ballot is tolerable after all.

Yet Democrats have also worked extremely hard in recent years to delegitimize the Court in the eyes of the aforementioned low-information voters. In this case, they’re feeding that distrust with hints that Trump’s Court appointees could line up behind him out of loyalty.

Unfortunately, Trump’s own attorney is also doing that. Alina Habba is one of the few lawyers in the country willing to take on the client from hell, so we’ll give her credit for trying, but in one of the most foolish and self-defeating things we could imagine a lawyer saying, Habba made this prediction: “I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them. You know, people like [Brett] Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he’ll step up.”

The prosecution rests its case.

That notwithstanding, Democrats have made a complete mockery of justice and “democracy” in all of this. After Trump shocked the world by defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016, Democrats pulled out all the stops, using the Leftmedia and the deep state to wage a four-year coup against him. They impeached him twice. They’re now prosecuting him on 91 charges in four separate cases. And they’re trying to keep him off the ballot.

While these fascists play their anti-democratic games, Joe Biden goes out there to make a grand speech at Valley Forge in which he said, “We’ll be voting on many issues: on the freedom to vote and have your vote counted.”

Just not if you want to vote for Donald Trump, certain GOP congressional candidates, or even another Democrat in the presidential primary.

One final note: Bloomberg ran an op-ed with this all-too-real headline: “2024 Is the Year of Elections and That’s a Threat to Democracy.”

This whole thing would be hilarious if fascism wasn’t such a threat to the Republic.