Various factions on the left have long called the Constitution of the United States of America "outdated," "flawed," "broken," and even "harmful." Now that the 2024 Democrat ticket of presidential nominee Kamala Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz — the most radical ticket in the history of America — is one step from the White House, calls to repeal the Founders' document have reached a fever pitch.
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson proclaimed during her speech on the third night at the Democrat National Convention that people (Democrats) need to "reimagine" freedom and democracy beyond the Founders' "little piece of paper."
We can't just worry about protecting democracy. In this moment, we've got to reimagine it with people that look and love like us at the center. And I think for us right now is about reimagining freedom and this American story in a way that is more revolutionary than what our Founders actually put down on that little piece of paper, but instead is the type of democracy that is by and for all of the people in this country. That's the opportunity that we have.
How naive. How arrogant. And how not new.
In July 2022, Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks trotted onto MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” and told race-hustling host Joy Reid that Americans are becoming “slaves” to the Constitution and that the Constitution itself is the real problem in the country. Why? Because America's founding document often gets in the way of the left's radical policies.
And in March 2022, far-leftist Elie Mystal declared that the Constitution is "actually trash" but that the Supreme Court can be fixed. Translation: SCOTUS can be packed to the hilt — meaning until enough left-wing associate justices sit on the bench to insure the left wins cases virtually every time.
Also in August 2022, Harvard Law Professor Ryan D. Doerfler and Yale Law Professor Samuel Moyn, in a guest essay in The New York Times, declared that "the Constitution is broken and should not be reclaimed."
When liberals lose in the Supreme Court — as they increasingly have over the past half-century — they usually say that the justices got the Constitution wrong. But struggling over the Constitution has proved a dead end. The real need is not to reclaim the Constitution, as many would have it, but instead to reclaim America from constitutionalism.
Insane. But, hey — at least the elitist whack-jobs were honest.
As radical and whacked-out as the above examples are, they're actually part and parcel of how the left views everything from congressional legislation to Supreme Court decisions to presidential election results. If leftists don't like outcomes, their first inclination is to cheat. If cheating doesn't get the job done, they want to change the rules. Those rules range from changing election and voting laws to attempting to pack the Supreme Court.
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If Harris-Walz wins in November — an outcome that isn't as farfetched as some conservatives think — the rabid left is going to run wild trying to change foundational tenets of this country.
George Washington Law Professor and Fox News senior legal analyst Jonathan Turley weighed in on the issue in his Friday column. Turley referred to his long support of LGBTQ to illustrate his position.
As someone who has supported LGBT rights for over four decades, I have nothing but admiration for those who fight for equal rights for everyone to be able to live their lives according to their own values and associations.
However, a radical “reimagining” of our constitutional system is a popular and growing call on the left. It is often left vague in terms of what such a reimagination would entail, but suggests structural, not just policy, changes.
It is that “little piece of paper” that has secured the equal rights for members of this community.
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Before we start “reimagining” our way out of the most stable constitutional system in history, we may want to consider how the alternatives have been faring around the world.
It is that “little piece of paper” that introduced a revolutionary concept of governance that permits a nation of rivaling factions and values to govern as one. That does not mean that we do not have deep and at times bitter divisions. However, we are joined in a common article of faith in the Constitution.
Professor Turley, of course, nailed it.
However, the increasingly radical Democrat Party continues to have less and less interest in "a nation of rivaling factions and values" continuing to "govern as one."
If Harris and Walz do win in November, and the Democrat Party holds the Senate and retakes the House? Shudder the thought. No, really.
