By Ted Nugent

The Democrats chose “We the people” as the theme for the opening day of the 2020 Democratic National Convention — but just which “people” are they talking about?

To clear thinking Americans, they’ve made the answer to that question very plain. They mean the people who are creating “unrest and violence in the streets,” just as Democrat Representative Ayanna Pressley recently instructed them to do.

They obviously mean the people who beat a truck driver to a bloody, unconscious pulp in Portland, apparently because he tried to use a street they had declared “occupied.”

They mean the people looting and burning hundreds of businesses, burning down police stations, and destroying monuments to the Founding Fathers and American war heroes.

They mean the antifa thugs who attack people in the street and in their homes.

They mean Black Lives Matter, its founding cadre of communists and black nationalists, and its chants for police officers to be assaulted and “black criminals” to be protected.

They mean the legions of looters, vandals, rioters, arsonists, and murderers that the media still inexplicably refer to as “mostly peaceful protesters.”

Those are the people they will be speaking for — and to — at the Democratic National Convention, not hard-working, law-abiding Americans who are just trying to provide for our families and live our lives in peace and security.

The worst of the radical rot runs up right to the Democratic presidential ticket. Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris marched with these people, providing sanction and cover for a “movement” intent on “burning down” the American system and putting thousands more lives at risk — most of them black — by abolishing the police. Since then, she has had ample opportunity to distance herself from political violence and explicitly anti-American organizations.

Harris has done no such thing, not even as it became clear she would be Joe Biden’s running mate. Instead, she used her position to encourage rich liberals to pay the bail for the most violent of the “mostly peaceful protestors” — the dangerous ones arrested for attacking police officers and citizens, lighting fires, and a litany of other anti-social crimes. Then, when she got a chance to question Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf, instead of being concerned for business owners who had their stores looted, Harris was worried about the “mostly peaceful” rioters who have had to be subdued with tear gas.

The same goes doubly for out-to-lunch Biden. Not only has he refused to issue even the mildest condemnation of the rioters and violent anarchists, but he also picked Kamala Harris to join his ticket without demanding that she take one iota of responsibility for playing footsie with the lawbreakers.

So, when the Democrats talk about “We the people” at their national convention, it’s necessary to ask: Which people do they mean?

It sure ain’t us. It’s not the police who protect us, either, nor the federal agents who have had to step in when Democrat governors and mayors refused to restore order. The Democrats certainly aren’t standing with the good people being battered and assaulted for wanting to walk freely in their own cities, nor the small business owners in Chicago and other Democrat-controlled urban centers who have helplessly seen their stores looted — sometimes multiple times — while Democrat officials stood by and did nothing.

To the Democratic Party in 2020, “We the people” means the people who savagely beat their fellow citizens and get away with it. Remember that when you watch their stump speeches.

Ted Nugent is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Michigan.