A Nigerian immigrant and a German publishing company teamed up to call for the destruction of America and a new Constitution.
In the name of ‘democracy’.
Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris both ran (and lost) on ‘democracy’ and the media branded Trump’s victories as defeats for ‘democracy’. This may seem confusing for those who think democracy means ‘one man, one vote’, but for the Left, democracy means that they win, democratic power means they wield it and anything that threatens their hegemony is a ‘threat to democracy’. When they talk about saving democracy, they really mean working to eliminate it.
So in this Orwellian landscape, calls for democracy are about the scariest things around.
Moderates see election defeats as a setback while extremists see them as an opportunity to radicalize a shocked base into accepting their radical plans. Did Kamala lose in 2024? That’s because we just don’t have enough “democracy”. What does democracy look like?
Osita Nwanevu, a writer at the New Republic, a formerly liberal turned leftist magazine bought in succession by a Facebook founder and banking fortune heir, has a big idea in his book, ‘The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding’, but it’s really the same old idea of smashing the existing system and replacing it with whatever will expand the power of the Left and then calling that totalitarian farce of insider ‘stakeholders’ democracy.
In Nwanevu’s native Nigeria, efforts at ‘democracy’ melted down into a civil war in which millions died. By his account, Nwanevu’s father seemingly fought on the Biafran side. Nigeria’s ‘democratic’ elections routinely begin and end with violence. And Osita Nwanevu thinks that the answer for America is for the Left to stage its own coup and construct a new Constitution.
The Constitution is ‘anti-democratic’ and needs to be remade. The Senate and the Electoral College are also ‘anti-democratic’ so out they go. The Supreme Court? Obviously. Add more House seats. For democracy. Put unions in charge of everything. For the sake of democracy.
Will more people die in the resulting civil war than did in the Biafra War in Nwanevu’s nation?
But before the ‘democracy genocide’ begins, there’s an awkward problem which is that even the Left generally acknowledges that it lost not only the election, but the culture war and the argument in 2024. Democrats didn’t lose because of GOP ‘systemic advantages’, ‘systemic racism’ or ‘systemic racism’ but because the public didn’t like them and doesn’t like them now.
Leftists like Nwanevu insist that the answer is going leftward (because real Communism has never been properly tried and survived) but what’s undeniable is that championing anti-constitutional garbage like ‘The Right of the People’ after 2024 isn’t just an act of hostility to America’s Founding, but is also an anti-democratic rejection of its present.
Nwanevu, like Newsom, isn’t fighting for democracy, but against it, this vision of a “truly democratic Constitution” is a vision of a system of performative democracy where political change only goes in one direction. The very ‘conservative’ elements of the Constitution that leftists hate are the ones that limit the power of the government to overstep its authority. A stronger activist government isn’t ‘democratic’: it eliminates the actual rights of the people.
‘The Right of the People’ romanticises radical state experiments in early American history as a fulfillment of ‘democracy’, but the Framers detested them not because they threatened their own power (as leftist revisionist historians claimed, certainly untrue in the case of George Washington) but because they unleashed lawless majoritarian tyrannies, ideological monsters who quickly set about seizing more power than King George III had ever set out to do.
In my book, ‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left’, I examined the case of the Country Party in Rhode Island, which eliminated trial by jury, disenfranchised political opponents and led a regime of political terror to bolster its economic policy. Their argument that a numerical majority had the unlimited power to repress the minority was soundly rejected by the Constitution. The Framers, with the advantage of watching the Terror unfold in France, understood that democracy easily becomes a radical creed that licenses mass murder.
Nwanevu claims that America needs a better form of democracy, but the Left isn’t actually looking for participatory democracy. What it really seeks is to bribe the dumbest parts of the voting public with promises of ‘free’ everything while sideloading its real agenda of seizing control of the machinery of government to create a totalitarian state in which democracy is confined to members of the ideological ruling class while choosing ‘stakeholders’ who are in their ideological camp to represent communities without giving them any choice in the matter.
Democracy to leftists means unions and community organizers offering the illusion of bottom-up rule while actually dispensing top-down management rather than listening to working class people explain why they don’t want open borders or men competing against their daughters. The Labour government in the UK, whose people played key roles in backing the Biden team, has been rounding up and arresting anyone who questions mass migration. That’s the ‘democratic’ vision that the democratic socialist crowd has in mind for the working class.
Like a good little lefty, Osita Nwanevu goes on about the concentrations of power in capitalism, but his career was only made possible by billionaires, including Bertelsmann, an ex-Nazi publishing giant that has been responsible for nearly every major woke book (and which has directed millions in payments to Supreme Court justices), putting out his anti-American book.
This isn’t people power. It’s aspiring tyrants masquerading as democrats while complaining that the Founders and Framers, and the Constitution, are standing in the way of their ‘democratic’ ambitions. This is all the more obvious because the target demographic for ‘The Right of the People’ are those disgruntled with the last election and who want to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
That’s as anti-democratic as it gets.
