Holder: ‘American Democracy Could End
with the Election of Donald Trump’
Breitbart Clips,
by
Pam Key
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/19/2024 7:50:04 AM
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that “American democracy could end with the election” of former President Donald Trump.
Holder said, “I think a second Trump term, and this is something voters need to keep in mind, a second Trump term would have a politicized, weaponized United States Department of Justice.” He continued, “You have to look at what it is they’re talking about. That is the Trump campaign, the former president himself and think of the America they’re trying to create. You would have a president who is beyond the reach of the law,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
sw penn 1/19/2024 7:53:47 AM (No. 1639591)
"a second Trump term would have a politicized, weaponized United States Department of Justice"
They always tell you what they are doing, and what their afraid of...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
broken01 1/19/2024 8:01:59 AM (No. 1639598)
Says the corrupt, racist moron who not only was held in contempt of Congress but as Obama's AG weaponized the DOJ to go after We the People. Talk about projection.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/19/2024 8:05:36 AM (No. 1639600)
That's a lot of lip from a guy with no chin.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 1/19/2024 8:10:20 AM (No. 1639602)
Democracy ended with bogus opposition research being used by the partisan FBI to spy on political candidates with impunity in the nature of a Banana Republic.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/19/2024 8:18:01 AM (No. 1639606)
Sounds GREAT!!
End Democracy? Since when has democracy promoted freedom? We are a Republic!! Democrats are totalitarian tyrants who can't even rely on their fan base to get elected. They have to cheat, disenfrachinzing millions of Americans. I'm all for ENDING that process.
Political Democrats are traitors to the Constitution and should be universally charged, tried and executed if found guilty.
Free the J6, political prisoners!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 1/19/2024 8:21:46 AM (No. 1639608)
In other words, it’ll remain as it is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/19/2024 8:22:49 AM (No. 1639609)
Substitute one party left wing rule for democracy and their fear begins to make sense. As stated - crap!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
greyseal 1/19/2024 8:24:31 AM (No. 1639610)
Poster #5 has it right - if Holder means "democracy" as in mob rule then I'm all for ending it...
greyseal
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
homefry 1/19/2024 8:28:57 AM (No. 1639615)
a politicized, weaponized United States Department of Justice.”
You mean like now?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
pixelero 1/19/2024 8:30:14 AM (No. 1639617)
This clown. President Obama’s “wing man.” Gimme a break. Statements for the hysterical, lo-info voter. They are all about reducing the Constitution to ashes and the nation to rubble but have nothing with which to replace it. …Excepting their own self-convinced rectitude. The Lefties are such an ovine herd, so averse to the examined life in person and economic truth in public discourse. They appeal to people’s worst impulses, and in the current libertine culture have succeeded. A life of sacrifice and service especially in service to the American experience of self-government and the anti-tribal, is anathema to them. We as a society regress under collectivism. They’re simply corrupt opportunists, seeking power over not tolerance of their fellow man.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 1/19/2024 8:33:20 AM (No. 1639622)
Their great fear is that the fundamental transformation of this American Constitutional Republic into a democracy will be ended with the election of Donald Trump.
May it be so, by the grace of Almighty God! Pray!
Go to the link provided and read the difference between a Republic and a Democracy and why our founders held views such as the following:
Declaration signer John Witherspoon stated: “Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state—it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.”1
Declaration signer and second President John Adams stated: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”2
In a letter to John Adams on July 21, 1789, Declaration signer and physician Benjamin Rush called a democracy “one of the greatest evils.”3
Noah Webster explained: “In democracy…there are commonly tumults and disorders…. Therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth.”4
Constitution signer and two-term President of the U.S. James Madison insisted that, “democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”5
[Excerpted from America: A Democracy Or A Republic - https://apologeticspress.org/america-a-democracy-or-a-republic/]
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
danoso 1/19/2024 8:35:19 AM (No. 1639626)
Funny thing, he was President for 4 years and didn’t do any of these things.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Digger 1/19/2024 8:39:31 AM (No. 1639628)
This seems to be the recurrent and coordinated theme among democrats this year - end of democracy. Poster #5 reminds us again that we do not live in a democracy, we live in a Constitutional Republic! This message should be proclaimed to America again and again and loudly. Once again our public education system has failed us.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/19/2024 8:45:05 AM (No. 1639631)
Evidently, his law firm let him out of the mail room.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
capecodfox 1/19/2024 8:47:58 AM (No. 1639634)
Yay! The gang is getting back together! Let's go Michelle! Ugh.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/19/2024 8:55:21 AM (No. 1639639)
Simplest question of all - - - - If Donald Trump is a dictator - - how come he isn't still president?
Ask a lunatic leftist that question - - then step back - - and watch their heads explode.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Tusker 1/19/2024 8:58:21 AM (No. 1639641)
One is quite fed up with “democracy” and everything this “democratic” worst administration and congress in the history of the world has imposed on this Republic.
To hell with this “democracy”, exactly from where it comes, and where one relegates it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 1/19/2024 9:04:09 AM (No. 1639650)
American democracy started to end over a hundred years ago with the demoslut party. It picked up steam about fifty ago and really took off with Obozo being elected. Up until then, the demosluts kept their REAL agenda under wraps. Now they no longer care to keep it a secret. They just blame Republicans for things they do themselves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
edgar 1/19/2024 9:08:16 AM (No. 1639652)
A big difference... current Admin is and has engaged in criminal acts to pursue their opposition. If DJT turns the table, he will be pursuing actual criminals that have actual crimes.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Petronius 1/19/2024 9:12:11 AM (No. 1639658)
Doesn't Holder have guns to run to the Mexican drug cartels or something?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
padiva 1/19/2024 9:15:04 AM (No. 1639663)
YES! Restore our republic!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 1/19/2024 9:15:52 AM (No. 1639664)
How democraticly was Holder's Fast & Furious program planned and executed?
"American Democracy" is how we got Jim Crow laws in Democrat controlled states.
The Civil War was fought to preserve the Union (as a Republic).
Marginalized people owe a debt of gratitude to the white people who fought in the Civil War and who voted for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. There were only two black members of congress then.
A country governed by majority rule (Democracy) would never have provided equal protection under the law.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Elljay 1/19/2024 9:20:25 AM (No. 1639667)
I hope the Dems keep up this “sky is falling” idiocy since only the MSNBC-brainwashed will believe it. It would be entertaining to find out just exactly how they think Trump would pull off an attempted coup d’état. Does he have divisions of soldiers secretly lined up? Is he going to nuke Harvard? Are the Proud Boys poised to kidnap Liz Cheney?
The meme of Trump as Hitler or Putin puppet has been worn thin. But that’s how morally and intellectually bankrupt the so-called Democrats have become. They’re running on empty.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 1/19/2024 9:22:15 AM (No. 1639668)
Never says who will weaponize the DOJ just that it will happen if Trump wins. In others words the swamp will/has and the closer Trump gets the worse they get.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 1/19/2024 9:30:01 AM (No. 1639674)
Well the end of "democracy " is OK by me because the United States of America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC "
This constant use of America as a democracy is an attempt to destroy our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
David Key 1/19/2024 9:34:03 AM (No. 1639680)
Ironic considering the source's history.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
janjan 1/19/2024 9:48:56 AM (No. 1639690)
The Democrats and globalists are on a clear mission to erase the 1st, 2nd, and now 4th Amendments as well as trying to jail the front runner in the Presidential election. They refer to this as ‘saving our democracy’. I refer to this as evil minded, power mad rabid dogs who want to destroy the republic and replace it with communism.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 1/19/2024 9:57:57 AM (No. 1639698)
I see Eric received his latest DNC talking points in the mail.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/19/2024 10:03:29 AM (No. 1639703)
Wing man, held in contempt, parrots his betters.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
formerNYer 1/19/2024 10:19:56 AM (No. 1639718)
Tired old tripe
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DW626 1/19/2024 10:25:34 AM (No. 1639723)
Dummy, and I’m being kind, we live in a republic, not a democracy, and it’s you that’s helping destroy it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Miceal 1/19/2024 10:41:10 AM (No. 1639733)
I hope so. I live in a Constitutional Republic and would love to see the United States Constitution once again be the founding document for our Republic. Their "democracy" be damned1
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/19/2024 10:44:55 AM (No. 1639743)
What we have now, people like Holder call a 'Democracy'. Sorry, what we currently have cannot be called a Democracy, a Republic, or even representative government. It represents virtually no one. A small group controls the country for power and wealth. They will do anything to stay in power. Our two-party system is a sham. We are being played people.
Holder is nothing but a spokesperson for Biden, Obama, and the people that control them.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
hershey 1/19/2024 10:47:02 AM (No. 1639751)
Crawl back under your rock Holder...our democracy is already under attack by your cronies...so shut your piehole...
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/19/2024 10:52:15 AM (No. 1639763)
Leftist hegemony could end with Trump---but I doubt it, as the uniparty will be very difficult to expunge.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
moebellini3 1/19/2024 10:55:36 AM (No. 1639770)
THEY ARE WHO THEY WANT YOU TO HATE. Pure communism. The lowest forms of humans on the planet. While destroying our country and our society they talk about democracy. These vile hypocrites treat every American like fools. Pathetic.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/19/2024 11:00:13 AM (No. 1639776)
Something is going on here, but I haven’t figured out what. All this hand wringing from people who stole the 2020 election, and know they plan on doing it again, is over the top. So, what’s behind this media blitz of preparing people for a Trump presidency? Is it creating such a state of hysteria for democrats that they will accept any last-minute skullduggery with their nominee? Is it to try and get out-in-the-open vote fraud sanctioned? Is it a dog whistle for assassination? Are they running out of clones? The Deep State is not afraid but they are trying to convince us that they are.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2024 11:26:29 AM (No. 1639815)
Anything Holder, the hateful, criminal former AG hates, is going to be certain to be a good thing.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/19/2024 11:43:03 AM (No. 1639835)
Oh, I think “Our Democracy” should and will, God willing.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Sully 1/19/2024 11:50:32 AM (No. 1639843)
Trump was ***The Victim*** of a political assassination, not the perpetrator. In what world does that make ***him*** the danger to democracy.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 1/19/2024 11:52:18 AM (No. 1639846)
Being a shyster lawyer and as a Columbia Law School Graduate , Holder is probably unaware , never having read the Constitution that the USA is a Constitutional Republic, as most of the people above have noted.
But WE keep misunderstanding what they really say: it isn't "Democracy" of which they speak, but "DEMOCRATcy".
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
daisey 1/19/2024 12:03:57 PM (No. 1639857)
Obama’s wingman. When I read what this person has to say, I think of Brian Terry, the border patrol agent who was murdered thanks to this dishonest player and his “fast and furious” gun running charade. Horrible “man”.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/19/2024 12:06:52 PM (No. 1639861)
FTA: “'American democracy could end with the election' of former President Donald Trump"
Good, because by our Constitution, we're a Representative Republic form of government, not a Democracy. We need to be driving any "Democracy" into the dirt.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/19/2024 12:17:06 PM (No. 1639870)
Correction of leftist double speak: American Democracy Could End withOUT the Election of Donald Trump.
Note: I'm not in agreement that we are a democracy.
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The end-of-democracy meme is getting stale, very stale, but I suppose the lo-fos who buy it have no appreciation for fresh ideas or originality.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2024 12:56:34 PM (No. 1639901)
End Democracy! Back to the Republic we are supposed to be!
Great news. MAGA!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
SALady 1/19/2024 1:20:41 PM (No. 1639922)
"...a second Trump term would have a politicized, weaponized United States Department of Justice."
For 3 years, the Demon-Rat puppet-masters of Senile Joe bidet have set precedence by having a weaponized US Dept of Justice. So if President Trump did that in his second term, the precedence has been set by the Demon-Rats. Fair is fair, though we all know that President Trump has too much respect for the Constitution to do that!!!!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/19/2024 1:53:52 PM (No. 1639965)
No, just the democrat version of democracy, which is a form of dictatorship and communism.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/19/2024 1:59:41 PM (No. 1639969)
If only we could have seen the future on January 5th, 2021. We could have fixed the past three years before they happened.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
kono 1/19/2024 2:01:58 PM (No. 1639973)
A tacit warning from the Left that a Trump win in November will result in them not protesting or resisting, but them destroying the country, rather than let him run it.
This is an eerily Hamas-like statement - like when their leaders loudly declared to the world that they absolutely. will. never. stop. attacking. Israel. (that a cease fire will never be permanent)
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/19/2024 2:21:38 PM (No. 1639993)
Almost laughable, but then consider the source and then substitute his comments with Biden, and you get their exact current playbook.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/19/2024 11:35:28 PM (No. 1640281)
I have a strong belief in just the opposite....
that Donald Trump, Ron Desantis or Vivek Ramaswami as President would do much to restore and reinvigorate the American REPUBLIC.
If The HairSniffer (or whoever the Democ'RAT Powers Behind the Green Curtain select as their new puppet) wins, the America we love and grew up with may be destroyed, and replaced by a Democ'RAT-party "Our Democracy" where everything that made America great is ridiculed and ultimately destroyed. The 'Rats will do their best to impose a One Party Totalitarian State, run by the Democ'RAT party insiders with most of the people having no idea who is actually running things.... today's HairSniffer Clown Car administration of Perverts and Incompetents on steroids.
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