Democrat orthodoxy holds that Black Americans are incapable of making it through life without the help of a government controlled by their party. This is not because there is any validity to the liberal truism that social, economic, and legal victimhood helps Black people. Black victimhood helps Democrats. It’s about to become more important than ever thanks to the party’s immersion in radical left insanity so objectionable to many Americans that Democrats will be forced to return to the safe, sound Nanny State basics they staked their claim to long ago.
The problem is that the Jim Crow days are over despite what our feeble, failing president would have us believe. There is no Jim Crow 2.0, no Jim Crow on steroids, only efforts by states to protect the sanctity of the vote and a Democrat Party dedicated to making sure our votes are as vulnerable to fraud and abuse as possible.
When you depend on voters who no longer need you, what comes next?
MLK matters for all the wrong reasons
Democrats have a proud history of using Martin Luther King, Jr. as a symbol to be twisted, misrepresented, and misconstrued to suit the purpose of the moment. The only requirement is that it has some connection, however tenuous, to Black Americans. I would argue that King’s vision was much broader and all-encompassing than we give him credit for, but I’m a Trump voter so my opinion on MLK, however favorable, doesn’t count.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial1
Whose opinion does matter? For MLK Day 2024 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) espoused what her party has turned into a grotesquely hypocritical take on voting rights:
“Dr. King spent his life advocating for voting rights for the most disenfranchised members in our society,” Norton said. “He supported home rule for D.C. well before the District focused on statehood. His efforts led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, allowing people of color to exercise their franchise in states with chronic histories of enacting restrictive voting laws. Although the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the Court invited Congress to update the Act. In the absence of responsible action by Congress, states have felt emboldened to pass new voter suppression laws.2
Anti-democracy, pro-Democrat Party efforts to do precisely this have nothing to do with racism or people of color and everything to do with denying conservatives the candidate of their choice on this year’s primary election ballots.
The move to disenfranchise Trump voters began long before Colorado fired the first salvo. Norton released a threatening press release in February 2021 that foreshadowed what was to come:
“I strongly supported impeachment, conviction and disqualification of former President Trump, who incited an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6,” Norton said. “However, since the Senate has acquitted him, I again call on Congress to pass my censure resolution. It is the only method available now to send a bipartisan, bicameral message to the country and the world that the United States is a nation of laws, and it’s the only avenue left to prevent Trump from holding public office again.”3
Acquittal is meaningless to Holmes and her party because equal justice, due process, the rule of law, and other guardrails against their brand of anti-democratic authoritarian rule are judged invalid if they don’t further Democrats’ goal of a permanent one-party state.
Would King approve of disenfranchising Trump voters? He was prescient about the consequences of injustice:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Democrats’ persecution of the former president and their willingness to destroy American democracy and deny voting rights to conservatives for the sake of raw political power is unjust and dangerous in the extreme. Reciting tired talking points about King’s legacy while they do the opposite of what he represents is hypocritical and grotesque and defiles the memory of America’s quintessential voice on civil rights.
Sources
1“North Wall Inscriptions. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=2894143&id=311FAB37-1DD8-B71C-072604C40D2E200D, retrieved January 15, 2024.
2“On MLK Day, Norton Calls on Congress to Pass D.C. Statehood and Other Voting Rights Legislation.” norton.house.gov. January 15, 2024. https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/mlk-day-norton-calls-congress-pass-dc-statehood-and-other-voting-rights, retrieved January 15, 2024.
3“After Senate Acquits Trump, Norton Calls on Congress to Pass Her Censure Resolution.” norton.house.gov. February 13, 2021. https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/after-senate-acquits-trump-norton-calls-on-congress-to-pass-her-censure, retrieved January 15, 2024.
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