I’m not sure exactly what the date was that the Democrats decided to make “defending democracy” their main line of attack on Donald Trump. Was it in 2015, 16, or 17? Certainly, it was before or during his first term, and we have been absolutely bombarded with claims that Trump is a fascist and an existential threat to the United States ever since January 6th, 2021.
Joe Biden rode to power on the claim that Trump was a threat to democracy, and spent four years distracting from his own failures by yelling at us about how evil Trump and his minions–including you and me–were.
That voters didn’t buy the bull excrement was made clear in the 2024 election, but one might have wondered whether the constant warnings about Trump since his inauguration have made an impact.
Nope.
Voters again reveal that they don’t think like the Swamp:
Claim Trump protects Constitution better than Biden did, 52%-44% says @Rasmussen_Poll https://t.co/PtEK4LDmuG via @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/dfyxW26QD6
— Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) May 19, 2025
What’s amusing about this fact is not so much that the Democrats’ ploy hasn’t worked, but that it has backfired spectacularly.
After all those years of using the “danger” of Trump to justify breaking laws, arresting Trump and his allies, and abusing the courts to prevent Trump from running for office or doing his job once inaugurated, Americans trust Trump more than the Democrats to defend the Constitution.
How do you like them apples?
Voters have a message for liberals charging that President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy: former President Joe Biden was worse.
In its latest poll to reveal how wrong America views Trump’s Washington critics, Rasmussen Reports said that a majority of likely voters believe that the president is “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution.”
Rasmussen said that 52% feel Trump is upholding the Constitution.
Biden, however, didn’t get a majority to agree when he was president. In May of last year, just 44% said Biden was doing a good or excellent job of preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution.
I have to say that the numbers don’t give me comfort. That so many Americans now believe that a president of either party is willing to betray the Constitution is a sad statement about our times. You would expect about 70-30 for a president of either party, as hardcore partisans will always think the worst of the other side.
You would even expect a slightly larger number of people to think that a president might bend and stretch things to enhance his power–every president does to some extent. It is the nature of our checks and balances system that it was expected, and safeguards put in place.
But in another bit of evidence that we are in the late Republic phase of the empire, a near majority or even an outright majority now believe that their president is willing to break the system to get his way. I fear, too, that our court system–which in theory is supposed to keep the other two branches of government honest– is now more interested in imposing a set of “norms” that accord with the desires of the judges than merely ensuring that the powers used by either branch are used legitimately.
Perhaps I am catastrophizing–our Constitutional system has been strained in the past, as well. In the 20th century, both Woodrow Wilson and FDR arguably exceeded their constitutional authority by a wide margin, and FDR explicitly threatened the Court. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats have similarly, and in an arguably worse fashion, threatened the Court as well.
So maybe I am being a Davy Downer, but I would be more happy if 70% majorities felt that their president of either party were committed to the rule of law.
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