Pete Riehm
Democrats scream democracy is dying, while Trump is saving the Republic
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By Pete Riehm
September 10, 2025

Continuing unabated their failed strategy of opposing every Trump policy and just plain hating on President Trump, Democrats and assorted leftists are apoplectic every day at Trump’s every utterance. It didn’t work in the 2024 election, still isn’t working, and quite frankly like the boy who cried wolf has just become annoying tiresome noise. Their unhinged nonsensical relentless opposition has become comical and acutely ironic. Delivering rapidly on his campaign promises, Trump is winning wildly in every realm with Democrats trying to nitpick every success; and then ironically trying to accuse Trump of doing exactly what Democrats have been doing for years.

Self-exiled and Trump obsessed comedian Rosie Odonnell daily takes to social media from Ireland to bemoan Trump. She claims she is “terrified at how Trump is ruining America and democracy is dying” at his hands. When questioned by 60 Minutes Australia if Trump has won by her self-imposed exile, she responded that she had to leave to preserve her mental health, and yet she constantly indulges her addiction to ridiculing Trump. Upon further questioning, she claims we are losing freedom and equality but offers no specifics.

How is Trump ruining America? He has restored our economy by reducing costs, reining in runaway inflation, and returning manufacturing jobs to America. What is more liberating than economic opportunity? That’s how average folks enjoy freedom. Is equality in jeopardy? Trump simply seeks blind justice by enforcing the law on everyone regardless of status. He sees no specially favored groups but rather demands all be held to the letter of the law. There is no minority crime, just crime. The cynical irony is that minorities are disproportionately affected by crime, but Democrats coddle and defend the criminals while their minority constituents suffer. That’s why minorities in blue cities largely welcome Trump’s help to make them safer while their elected leaders vehemently resist Trump’s help.

Unable to refute his string of successes, Democrats routinely insist he is incompetent, incapable, and in some way incapacitated. Texas Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett, among other rabid Democrats, advocates that the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Trump which is utterly laughable by the same people who never admitted Joe Biden’s obvious indisputable cognizant decline. They lied to cover for Biden for years but now claim an energizer bunny president running circles around the Washington establishment is not up to the job – what a joke.

Brazen idiot New York Times columnist Ezra Klein bloviates that Trump is now in the authoritarian phase, consolidating power, corrupting government, and persecuting political opponents. Really? The way Obama sicked the IRS on conservative grassroots groups? The way Obama and Biden aggressively tried to debank conservative businesses? The way Obama spied on journalists? The way Biden pressured social media to censor any dissent on draconian COVID measures, unproven vaccines, and illegal immigration? The way Democrats have gerrymandered Republican representation out of blue states? The way Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court, or abolish the Electoral College to deny small states on any voice? No, Mr. Klein, Trump is eviscerating the federal bureaucratic leviathan and returning power to the people.

Completely consumed and obsessed with smearing Trump, Democrats, leftists, and socialists are severely disconnected from average Americans and especially detached from traditional American values. Their incessant carping and sniping might seem simply obnoxious and petty, but the root of our differences is significant – their world view is a world away from America.

They constantly champion illegal immigrants and defend criminals over the welfare of Americans. It’s not just “America last;” it’s human rights last. Senator Tim Kaine (VA-D) recently said the quite part out loud. Responding to a comment by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that The United States will defend our “God given rights,” Kaine stated “the notion that rights don’t come from laws and government, but rather from a Creator is extremely troubling – that’s what the Iranian government believes.” Do what?!

Holy Buckets! Has Kaine never read the Declaration of Independence?! He has. That’s the problem, he and Democrats reject the fundamental axiom of American freedom that our rights come from God! Every American must understand this founding principle is immutable, indisputable, and non-negotiable; it is the linchpin of liberty and foundation of freedom.

Again, the fact of God given rights must be taught to every American citizen and repeated ad nauseum. If Democrats and leftists ever prevail, we will absolutely lose freedom and equality because if we ever accept that our rights are bestowed by government or granted by law, that means government can also deny your rights or legislatures can rescind your rights by law. That is the recipe for tyranny!

If our rights come from men, then those rights can be taken away by those men. That’s why the United States is unique in the world because we enshrined the fact that our rights come from God, so NO man can deny those rights. Sadly and sinisterly, that’s exactly why Democrats covet that power, so they can be the arbiter of who gets what rights.

Since they have no ideas, Democrats can only scream democracy is dying, but that is also a factual fallacy. The United States is NOT a democracy which in practice is mob rule; it is a Constitutional Republic based on democratic principles to protect minority rights.

Trump knows our rights come from God. He recently proclaimed, “we will never apologize for our faith” and “we need to bring back religion.” While Democrats and leftists are whining, Trump is busy saving our Constitutional Republic by renewing the American soul. He summed it up with “we are restoring our identity as a nation under God!”

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance” (Psalm 33:12).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.

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Pete Riehm

Born to German immigrants, Pete Riehm grew up in Texas as a first generation American. Working his way through college, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. After graduating from the University of Houston, Pete was commissioned into the United States Navy through Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He also earned a Master's Degree in National Security from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas... (more)

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