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A List of Things Democrats Might Do If They Retake Power


The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.(Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

By John R. Puri

There are plenty of reasons to fear a Democratic trifecta in Washington, which next week’s midterms may very well set up for 2028. Below is a list of actions and policies that give conservatives cause for alarm:

1. Blowing out the national debt on a party-line vote that bypasses the Senate filibuster.
2. Threatening to eliminate the filibuster entirely to shove through partisan legislation.
3. Threatening to remove judges who rule against the party in power.
4. Openly circumventing Supreme Court decisions through extralegal executive actions.
5. Appointing partisan hacks to lifetime judicial positions.
6. Governing almost exclusively through executive orders to bypass the legislative process.
7. Targeting political enemies with selective and pretextual prosecutions.
8. Further turning the machinery of the administrative state against political enemies over their constitutionally protected associations.
9. Handing out taxpayer money to political allies.
10. Attempting to dominate civic institutions by having the government lean on them.
11. Arbitrarily restricting what consumers can buy.
12. Carving up the tax code to funnel money to special interests.
13. Cozying up to Putin and compromising our military effort against Russia.
14. Cozying up to China to bolster our commercial ties.
15. Diminishing our military preparedness to fight a major conflict.
16. Demanding that Israel cut short its just wars of self-defense.
17. Seizing control of private enterprisesand turning them into effective arms of the state.
18. Promising tohand out trillions of dollars in “free” benefits.
19. Pressuring the Federal Reserveto flood the economy with easy money.
20. Blocking energy projects on a whim.
21. Allowing criminal migrants into our country.
22. Punishing people without due process.
23. Favoring certain groups of people based on their race.
24. Reigniting a politics of identity and victimhood.
25. Attempting to stay in power permanently by assaulting America’s constitutional order.

Truly frightening stuff. Obviously, any party that would do such things should never be given complete political power.

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India's opposition parties are marching to the Supreme Court in Delhi to demand the resignation of the election chief over alleged voter fraud.


This will be the latest in a series of demonstrations in Delhi, with thousands of security forces deployed and roads barricaded in the capital.
Attempts to hold a protest by the Cockroach Janata Party pressure group over the weekend led to thousands of demonstrators being detained.
Opposition parties allege that under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, India's voter rolls are being manipulated to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Both the Election Commission and the BJP have rejected the charge.


The opposition lawmakers want to submit a memorandum to Chief Justice Surya Kant, but he has told reporters he declined the meeting citing "certain reasons".


He did not provide the reasons, but media reports citing the letter have said that he pointed out that some of the issues the opposition wanted to raise with him were also pending before the court. The BBC has not seen the letter.


"Every Indian citizen has the right to approach the court, and we will hear their concerns and grant whatever is due under the law," he told reporters.


Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, meanwhile, has called "all opposition parties, civil society groups [and] all those who believe in democracy" to join Monday's march.

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