This article identifies and documents some of violence being done to the Constitution by the Democrats, while they claim to be doing the opposite . I found it at WRH and IWB. I've included an excerpt, and the link to the complete list, which includes a printable version option, is below.
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While Claiming to Fear Authoritarianism, the Left Actually Breeds It
While Democrats and progressive fellow travelers shriek with terror about the alleged abuses of power and growing authoritarianism of the Trump Administration, their actions show that their concern should be directed inward.
Curtis Ellis - October 1st, 2019
October 2, 2019
Nancy Pelosi says her latest impeachment spectacle is “about the Constitution.”
That’s laughable since so many of her actions, like those of so many in her conference and their progressive fellow travelers, do violence to the Constitution on a daily basis.
The following non-exhaustive list catalogues instances of the authoritarians’ widening assault on our liberties.
Rule by Edict or No Vote on Impeachment Inquiry
The Constitution says the House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. In the past, a majority of the House voted to approve an impeachment inquiry. Now, diktat by the Speaker of the House substitutes for the will of the majority.
The House did, however, hold a vote to change the rules to deny the Minority out of power any say over the proceedings. Members of the Minority need not be present when Adam Schiff’s committee interviews impeachment witnesses. So much for minority rights.
No Right to Face Accusers
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to confront one’s accusers. This fundamental right has fallen out of favor on the Left. Christine Blasey Ford was a reluctant witness, coyly toying with those who sought to explore her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. She apparently felt no obligation to allow the man she accused (or his proxies) to question her. And why should she? Under protocols promulgated by the Obama Education Department, (male) students could be expelled from college without ever facing those who accuse them of sex crimes. If not for President Trump, those rules would still be in place and serve as a precedent for bureaucrats across the government to apply to other walks of life.
Oh wait, that’s already happened.
On the basis of unproven accusations by an anonymous CIA agent, the president is facing impeachment. And we are supposed to just accept that he can’t face the spy making the accusations?
Denial of Due Process
The Fifth Amendment holds that no one shall be denied of rights, liberty, or property without due process. And due process traditionally has included the presumption of innocence.
No more. Rumor and allegation, not conviction, now are enough to disqualify one from holding a job or social media account. That brings us to another pillar of liberty that’s under assault.
Don’t Question the Cops
The enemies of President Trump have borrowed a page from J. Edgar Hoover and his counterparts in the CIA who regularly planted anonymously sourced rumors in the press to smear opponents. In those days the enemies were leftists and communists. Today it is the leftists doing the smearing.
There was a time when Congress would empanel a special committee to investigate the security services manipulating the political process. Now, Democrats cheer them on.
Chuck Schumer was positively jubilant at the prospect of intelligence agencies undermining our elected government. “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community—they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told Rachel Maddow.
This abuse of power is accepted as part of the landscape—just one of those facts of life that you’d better get used to—and act accordingly.
Democrats once questioned whether the very existence of secret intelligence agencies was unconstitutional; now, they call anyone who dares question those agencies’ tactics a traitor.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/10/01/while-claiming-to-fear-authoritarianism-the-left-actually-breeds-it/
