Must we? Must we discuss every paranoid fantasy Democrats have about Donald Trump? How well did that work out for media trust over the last few years? Oh yeah …
GALLUP: Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades. pic.twitter.com/EBwH7h3Nd2
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) February 27, 2025
With that in mind, one would think that media outlets would begin to rethink their ‘narrative’ strategies, especially when it comes to carrying water for the Democrat paranoid fringe. CNN instead wants you to hold their beer:
Zelensky noted that, in his country, the law doesn’t allow for elections during periods of martial law.
“So you say during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump responded. “So let me just say, three and a half years from now – so you mean, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”
Laughter ensued. Trump wondered aloud what the “fake news” would do with his comment.
It didn’t take long to find out:
But increasingly, Democrats aren’t laughing.
A growing number of them are arguing Trump will do something to either try to cancel or commandeer elections to keep his hold on power.
That might seem ridiculous to some.
It seems ridiculous to almost everyone, and for good reason. It’s absurd. It would be almost impossible to accomplish in any event, and there has been literally no reason to think that Trump has any such thing in mind.
Rather than go over the litany of ways in which national elections distributed and run by the states can’t just be “canceled,” let’s just remember what happened in 2020. The country was in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. Rioters had taken control of the streets in American cities from Minneapolis to Washington DC, Atlanta to Seattle, and Portland Oregon to New York City. Chaos and disorder erupted everywhere, and with commerce and interaction shut down in many states until the election, many wondered not only if the elections could be canceled but should be canceled (and it was a dumb suggestion even in that situation).
Did Trump even propose canceling that election, when he might have directly benefited from such a cancellation? Of course not. The election took place, Trump lost, behaved badly about it at times, but left office on January 20th.
He then prepared to run again, which prompted Democrats to try to cancel his candidacy. They conducted corrupt legal charges and maneuvers to bully him out of politics, and then tried to imprison him over phony charges regarding payments on a non-disclosure agreement and other nonsense. At the same time, Democrats essentially canceled their own presidential primaries in an effort to cover up Joe Biden’s senility and unfitness for office. They then all but canceled their voting convention to install Kamala Harris as his replacement without a single vote to do so — even with the convention ahead to allow for the “election” of their party’s nominee.
This is a case of paranoid projection, not a serious “threat to democracy,” which Democrats abandoned over the last four years anyway.
Democrats like J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, and others claim that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard is some sort of pretext or practice run to seize control of elections through control of the populace. That’s equally absurd; the Guard deployment supports civil law enforcement, not martial law. If governors choose that route, the same would be true in their cities as well. The result in DC has been a dramatic decline in crime and street violence, which allows citizens to feel more secure in public and more likely to engage in public processes — like voting.
This hysteria is just another manifestation of Democrats’ derangement and obsession with Trump and their tunnel-vision focus on nothing else. They have spent four years pursuing the “Trump is an existential danger to democracy” strategy when all it turns out is that their Trump obsession is an existential danger to the Democrat Party. They have stopped bothering to govern entirely, as Newsom in particular showed during the wildfires at the beginning of the year. Pritzker shrugged off the violence in Chicago this week by wondering why anyone cared that cities are violent and crime-ridden. They have abdicated on issues that matter to voters in favor of their Ahab/Javert-like obsession with a bete noire that manages to succeed where they keep failing.
If CNN wants a real conversation, perhaps they should discuss that rather than choose to amplify progressive panic porn. Then again … this is CNN.
I’ll give my friend Salena Zito the last word (and don’t forget to buy her book Butler if you have not yet done so):
This is not happening. (and my profession wonders why, oh why, no one trusts us anymore). https://t.co/jy6lfEcw0A pic.twitter.com/QFnxIPTwsY
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 3, 2025
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