Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley on Thursday poured cold water on Democrats’ “apocalyptic” attempts to portray former President Trump as a threat to democracy, calling the scare tactics a “constitutional violation of the most stable democratic institutions.” “It’s defamation of character,” he told “Fox & Friends.” in the history of the world. ”
This high-profile Trump surrogate votes for former president in early voting
Jonathan Turley: This is like a Halloween flare, a kind of panic politics that something evil is coming… “If you vote against me, you know… What is missing here is a sense of history in any constitutional sense. For more than two centuries, we have the oldest and most stable democratic system in the history of the world. We have gone through wars, economic crises, social crises, and we are still here. This is a system designed to last because there are overlapping safeguards and checks and balances and a tripartite system. For these dire, apocalyptic predictions to come true, all of them must fail. And the danger of this is that panic politics is designed to distract voters and say it doesn’t matter what else they care about. right? Vote for your life because unless Harris is elected, democracy and your way of life will be over.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event with Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming on Monday, October 21, 2024 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. (AP/Molly Gash)
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The problem here is that Americans are innately able to tell when they are being made fun of. It’s not easy for them to decide between Trump and Harris, but they disagree. They don’t subscribe to the idea that after the last two centuries of democratic success, it’s all over unless Harris is elected president… They’re doubling down because this is the only thing they want to talk about. There is. They are trying to win elections based on extreme fear mixed with ethereal joy. And so far, that hasn’t translated to voters. However, as a legal matter, it is close to constitutional defamation. There’s a lot to complain about about our system, but one thing I’d like to encourage you to do is that we’re still here. This is a system that James Madison designed to last. And you know, when President Obama says he’s going to take on unchecked power, it’s going to make you scratch your head. We have a system of checks and balances. Our company has a three-party system to prevent this. Where will it all go? Where will the judges and legislators go when tyranny prevails because Harris is not elected president?
President Biden on Tuesday reiterated his long-standing claim that Trump’s re-election poses a threat to the country’s democracy.
“Our democracy is at stake,” he said at a political rally in New Hampshire. “Think about it. Think about what would happen if Donald Trump won this election.”
Biden then said, “I know it sounds weird. If you said this five years ago, it’s like you’re going to lock me up. We have to lock him up.”
But the president appeared to come to his senses quickly, adding: “Politically lock him up. Lock him out. That’s what we have to do.”
Vice President Kamala Harris made a point of comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler during a CNN town hall on Wednesday, saying she believes Trump is a “fascist.”
Asked if she believed President Trump was a “fascist,” Harris told host Anderson Cooper, “Yes, I do, yes I do.”
“Trump wants unchecked power,” Harris told X earlier Wednesday, saying he resembles the dictator of Nazi Germany.
“He wants an army like Adolf Hitler that is loyal to him, not the Constitution,” Harris wrote. “He’s vacillating, he’s unstable, and even if he were given a second term, no one would stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.”
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Fox News’ Louis Casiano, Paul Steinhauser and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
