By Mike Huckabee
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a
false face for the urge to rule it.” H. L. Mencken
About a week ago, I wrote to warn about what Democrats plan to do to go
around the will of the voters should Trump win, even if his win is decisive. VOTE
IN PERSON, I said, to make as sure as you possibly can that your vote will
count, and be ready for anything after the votes start coming in. That’s
especially true if your state is considered to be, even possibly, a “swing”
state.
Democrats aren’t even bothering to be secretive about
their plans; Madame Defarge herself (Hillary) says that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
should Biden concede. And the WASHINGTON POST ran an op-ed saying that only if
Biden won in a landslide would there be no rioting and looting afterwards. It
was like saying, “Vote for us, the looters and rioters, so your life won’t
be destroyed by looting and rioting.”
Since I brought you that story, the threat has been
clarified even more. What the left is trying to do right now is straight out of
a George Orwell novel. Recall that in “1984,” the “Ministry of Truth” is
actually in charge of just the opposite: maintaining a fiction.
Over the summer, Democrats and the media (but I repeat
myself) began laying the groundwork by suggesting Trump wouldn’t go quietly if
he lost. Why, the military might have to save us from him. Pieces like Zachary
Cohen’s for CNN first tried to cast doubt on Trump’s fitness for office, asking
“Can military commanders refuse an order from Trump?” Cohen reassured
his frightened readers that with the “layers of safeguards” we have, the
President can’t unilaterally deploy a disproportionate nuclear attack. I’ll
provide the link to this ridiculous commentary, but read it only if you’re
absolutely sure you can keep your head from exploding.
Here’s another completely crazy one, by a couple of retired Army
officers wanting to further the scenario of Trump playing “dictator” and
refusing to leave the White House if he loses. This is based on nothing other
than Trump warning about mail-in ballots and election fraud. (News flash: Trump
is absolutely right about mail-in ballots and election fraud. Why do you think
Democrats are pushing so hard for mail-in voting? It’s so they can discredit
the results if Trump wins, and also to set the stage for chaos.) People actually
read this piece of drivel, and I’m sure some took it very seriously.
Then there was the WAPO story we talked about last week:
John Podesta’s George Soros-funded “war games” seminar at which about
100 Democrat leaders and some anti-Trump Republicans –- so they could use the
word “bipartisan” –- looked at all the possible election scenarios.
(Here’s the Orwellian part: this was called “the Transition Integrity
Project.”) In the scenario of Trump clearly winning, Podesta, playing the
role of Biden, refused to concede (just as Hillary has advised), pressured even
states won by Trump to send a Democrat slate of electors to the Electoral
College, and “trusted the military to take care of the rest.” In other
words, vote for Trump and bring on the coup.
What would follow a Trump win, they said, would be “a
street fight, not a legal battle.” Recall that we GOT a legal battle in the
aftermath of the George W. Bush/Al Gore “hanging chad” election, with
Democrats using the legal dispute forever after to claim that Bush wasn’t a
legitimate President. That mess will look like a picnic in the park compared to
2020 if Trump wins, they’re warning. This time, it’s gonna get rough.
And, of course, it will be all Trump’s fault.
So the second part of the plan is to make sure we think
it IS all Trump’s fault. Why have the Democrats chosen to speak so freely for
months about the likely need for an anti-Trump coup? That one’s easy: they’ve
got to get the idea of a coup out there –- A COUP CAUSED BY TRUMP –- with the threat
that we’ll have “a repeat of this summer, only much, much bigger.” Then,
when the time comes, “crank the propaganda to eardrum-shattering decibels
and fill the streets of every major city with ‘protesters.’ Shut down the
country and allow only one message to be heard: ‘Trump must go.’” And
you know the media will do it, blaming Trump for the whole mess.
So, how does the Trump administration prepare for a clear
electoral win in which Biden won't concede, when Democrats are already busy
twisting the story into the opposite of that? Maybe the Republicans need to
play out their own “war game” scenario. In case there is a coup, they
also need a clear idea of who is on their side. And the President needs ways to
communicate with the American people that can go around most of the major
media. (Tweets won’t do it; he’ll be banned, of course.)
Trump had better be ready, and we need to be warning
about this from now till Election Day. I believe, just as I did in 2016, that
Trump will win. It’ll have to be a landslide to overcome the inevitable mail-in
ballot fraud, but he will win. I just don’t believe that THAT many Americans
have utterly lost their minds. Democrats will insist Biden really won and that
any “coup” is Trump’s fault, but it’s a lie they’ve been setting up for months.
I’ll leave you with an opinion piece about this that is guaranteed not to
make your head explode, by Jonathan Tobin in the NEW YORK POST. But take heed:
it is very much a warning.
