The REAL threat to democracy? Read Kamala’s plot to change America forever, writes DAN MCLAUGHLIN

And for her final act, Kamala Harris poses as a champion of democracy.

“It’s time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and the division,” the vice president declared in her closing arguments Tuesday evening, standing at the scene of Donald Trump’s infamous Jan. 6 speech .

Well, fair enough. You will not get an argument from me that Trump has acted admirably.

The former president may not have committed a crime or deliberately incited the January 6 mob, but his reckless “stolen election” theories were a dry fire for the flaming passions burning around the Capitol that day. Trump has no satisfactory excuse for that.

But as America faces a binary choice, it is necessary to ask the question: Is the country better off with Harris and the Democratic Party?

After all, when it comes to the ‘stolen election game’, the Democrats have been at it for years.

After the 2000 presidential election was decided by a Florida recount and a Supreme Court decision, Hillary Clinton declared that George W. Bush was “merely ‘elected’ president, not elected.”

Former President Jimmy Carter agreed: “I don’t think George W. Bush won the election.”

Four years later they repeated that lie.

“They stole the last presidential election,” Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe declared in 2004.

More than a decade later, Hillary Clinton labeled Trump “an illegitimate president” in 2016 as Democrats fueled the lie that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the election.

Hakeem Jeffries, now the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, predicted that ‘history will never accept this’ [Trump] as a legitimate president.” And in 2019, a poll found that two-thirds of Democrats agreed that “Russia tampered with the voting numbers to get Donald Trump president.”

And the Russian collusion hysteria wasn’t just about words. The now infamous “Steele Dossier,” funded and systematically leaked to the mainstream media by Hillary’s campaign, sparked a 22-month investigation into a fabricated crime that seriously hampered Trump’s administration.

Putin himself could not have done better.

Democrats have been institutionally bad for democracy. And the woman they named leader of their party this summer — despite not having won a single presidential primary — is among the worst of them.

After the 2000 presidential election was decided by a Florida recount and a Supreme Court decision, Hillary Clinton declared that George W. Bush was “merely ‘elected’ president, not elected.” (Above) Protest outside the Texas Governor’s mansion on November 11, 2000 in Austin, Texas

During her 2019 presidential campaign, Harris promised all kinds of extra-constitutional executive diktats, including mass gun confiscations. That proposal was so blatantly illegal that Biden told her during the Democratic primary debate that this would be impossible in America.

She laughed at him, “Hey Joe, instead of saying no, you can’t, let’s say yes, you can.”

That dictatorial impulse has persisted.

As vice president, Harris participated because the White House has systematically flouted the rule of law.

The Biden administration has tried to forgive half a trillion dollars in student loans, make vaccination mandatory as a condition of employment and unilaterally halt evictions across the country.

Presidents do not have these powers. That won’t stop this White House from trying.

Harris also recently pushed for an end to the Senate filibuster — a centuries-old tradition that requires a three-fifths vote from senators to end debate and allow a vote. Without the filibuster, the world’s largest deliberative body would become yet another instrument of majority rule, like the House of Representatives.

That is certainly not what the Founders had in mind.

More than a decade later, Hillary Clinton labeled Trump “an illegitimate president” in 2016 as Democrats fueled the lie that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the election. (Above) Protesters outside the Trump campaign rally on June 18, 2019 in Orlando, Florida

But perhaps nothing on Harris’ menu of anti-democratic monstrosities is as dangerous as blowing up the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Her failed 2019 presidential campaign was packed with promises to destroy the Constitution and the American system of government.

She promised to fill the nine-person Supreme Court with additional justices — a plot last attempted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. Senators from his party rebelled, saying that filling the court “must be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be rejected. presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”

Harris has refused to rule out the court if she is elected next week.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, she has done everything she can to undermine the Court’s authority.

When Judge Brett Kavanaugh sat before a committee for his nomination hearing, Harris read into the congressional record the most bizarre claims (put forward by a lawyer now in prison) that the esteemed judge was involved in a serial gang rape conspiracy.

Is it any surprise that a record four in ten Americans approve of the Supreme Court? There is no denying that Democrats have time and again eroded the rule of law, respect for elections, and trust in the institutions of government.

If we really hope to save American democracy and the Constitution, Kamala Harris and the Democrats are the last people we should elect.