Dick Cheney went from despised war criminal to the Left’s new bestie on Friday when the former Vice President announced he was voting for Kamala Harris. Cheney justified his decision by claiming “[i]n our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” Cheney’s rhetoric ignores reality — both what Trump actually did when he was president and what the Harris-Walz ticket proposes to do. And it is the Democrat ticket’s policies that represent the actual threat to our constitutional republic. Here are three clear examples.
Free Speech
Freedom of speech is so fundamental to our constitutional republic that the founding generation prohibited government infringement on that right in the First Amendment. However, since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 launched the censorship-industrial complex, the government has been moving aggressively to silence speech. And the consequences of government censorship can be devastating, as Americans learned in the context of COVID, when our government hid or minimized the dangers of vaccines, and deprived citizens of a fulsome debate over mandatory masking and school closures.
Donald Trump has promised to end the federal government’s efforts to censor speech, pledging last week to “sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens.” Trump further committed to “ban[ning] federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or
