Now that the president-elect donald trump has built a resounding red wave to crash against the supposed blue wall, it is time to put the leftPut to rest the false claim that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”

“But he’s a convicted felon!”

“But he has been accused!”

Those cries failed last night as voters saw through the mirage of blind justice amid the reality of a politicized anti-Trump justice system. This miscarriage of justice was the real threat to democracy.

Trump won his party’s nomination with grassroots support, despite Republican elites. Kamala Harris was crowned by Democratic Party elites without popular support. Harris did not win a single vote in the 2024 Democratic primary season, nor as a candidate in 2020. Trump, who also won the popular vote Tuesday night, is the embodiment of democracy and We the People.

Voters trust Trump more than the left when it comes to “threats to democracy.” Shortly before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race after his disastrous debate performance, The Washington Post reported about your surveys with the Schar School of Politics and Government at George Mason University showing that Trump was trusted more than Biden on democracy among key voters in swing states that Biden narrowly won in 2020.

The Post said that “a little more than half of voters classified as likely to decide the presidential election say that threats to democracy are extremely important to their vote for president… but that (president joe biden) still has to convince them that he is the one who should defend him.”

Most voters said the legal persecution of Trump was because the justice system was weaponized. During the summer, 62% of Americans respondent in a Quinnipiac University survey He said the Justice Department’s case against Trump over his mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House was politically motivated.

Only 34% of respondents said they thought the Justice Department’s federal charges against Trump were primarily motivated by the law. In essence, the fact that the current Biden-Harris White House was trying to imprison its political rival did not sit well with the American people.

The timing of these various prosecutions in various states was highly suspect, given that they were all merged during an election year, despite having had three prior years to supposedly carry out blind justice.

In June, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., he told HBO host Bill Maher that if Trump had not run for president, the former president would not have been prosecuted in the state for his hush money payments.

“Frankly, the attorney general’s case in New York should never have been brought,” Cuomo said, also rightly claiming that even New Yorkers who dislike Trump perceived the process as weaponizing the justice system.

Washington Post columnist George Will, who is not a Trump fan,agreed, reminding readers: “This was invented by a chosen one, ostentatiously anti-Trump Democratic prosecutor in Manhattan, who, in a marvel similar to the multiplication of fishes and loaves, transformed one countable misdemeanor into 34 felonies in New York. “Democrats, who call Trump an ‘existential’ threat to everything, went out of their way to secure him another presidential nomination.”

In fact, Trump was falling in the primary polls until the August 2022 FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago (relating to classified documents), followed by his indictment in the hush money case. These ultimately secured Trump’s nomination, fueled by voters outraged by the misuse of the justice system.

The promise of equal justice for all (even political rivals) is a fundamental principle of American democracy. Maybe now the left will learn its lesson and act accordingly.

Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Voice of independent women.

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