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The Democrat Party has run out of ideas, so it’s selling you fear, lawsuits, and contempt instead. That isn’t a campaign slogan. It’s the actual strategy on display as the midterms approach.
Democrat candidates have offered no serious plan to lower grocery prices, make our streets safer, or maintain a border that actually works. Instead, they’re asking voters to accept a campaign built on division, lawfare, and hatred.
Start with the lawfare, because that is how they plan to handle results they don’t like. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already paid Marc Elias more than $12.7 million for recount-related legal services this cycle. Federal Election Commission records show at least 218 separate payments.
Elias is the lawyer who connected Hillary Clinton’s campaign with the opposition research firm behind the Steele dossier. President Trump once called him the Democrats’ best election-stealing lawyer. The checks keep coming because the label still fits. This isn’t about making sure every legitimate vote is counted. It’s about having a fully funded legal team ready to challenge an outcome the moment it doesn’t match the party’s preferred result.
Elias isn’t working alone. Mary McCord, a former senior Justice Department official, has spent years promoting legal arguments that treat political opponents as problems to restrain rather than fellow citizens with views worth debating. Norm Eisen has played a central role in impeachment efforts and in the broader push to turn ordinary election disputes into drawn-out courtroom battles. Together, Elias, McCord, and Eisen have helped build a permanent legal machine. When voters reject their candidates at the ballot box, the lawsuits are already prepared, funded, and waiting. The goal isn’t persuasion. It’s nullification.
While the lawyers prepare their filings, another group is discussing steps that go far beyond the courts.
Former USAID officials, along with retired military officers and intelligence personnel, have reportedly discussed extra-constitutional plans for the country. Organizations including Renew to Thrive and National Security Leaders for America have examined scenarios involving military intervention during the midterms and debated when the federal government might be declared illegitimate.
A former USAID democracy officer has even described a legitimacy crisis as a possible opening for a “refounding moment.” It echoes Barack Obama’s promise of a fundamental transformation of the United States of America. When the ballot box doesn’t deliver that transformation, some of these individuals appear willing to set aside the Constitution to seize and hold power. They spent years exporting color-revolution tactics abroad. Now, they seem prepared to consider using those same tactics here at home.
Democrats have also spent more than $36 million on Epstein-related advertisements, with Senate Majority PAC alone contributing more than $20 million. Hundreds of ads have aired, and the vast majority have come from Democrat sources.
When a party doesn’t have a platform that addresses the problems people face every day, it falls back on exploiting a perceived sex scandal. Epstein has become the latest vehicle for that strategy. The files were released, but the most sensational claims didn’t materialize in the way the ads suggest. Still, the spending continues because the spots might generate enough outrage to move the polls by a few points.
This constant cultivation of division has real-world consequences.
In Utah, members of an anti-ICE group called People of Provo Against ICE were recorded discussing the need to kill the wealthiest one percent, President Trump, other right-wing politicians, and even their children. They also circulated images containing the phrase “shoot Trump.” After the recordings became public, the group claimed the FBI had come knocking.
Whether those visits happened or not, the conversations show what years of Democrat rhetoric can produce. When party leaders and aligned media outlets spend years calling half the country fascists and existential threats, some people will inevitably decide that violence—not debate—is the answer. That’s the direct result of the division Democrats deliberately manufacture to win elections.
Most Americans want no part of this project. They want their children to be safe, their household costs to be manageable, and their government to stop treating them like adversaries. They have far more in common with neighbors who vote differently than with the lawyers and activists who profit from constant hostility. The people driving the lawfare, the extra-constitutional discussions, and the scandal-driven advertising are concentrated among Democrats and the far-Left. They depend on division because, without it, they have nothing meaningful left to offer.
It’s time for Americans to recognize what’s happening and reject it. We have far more in common than opportunistic politicians would have us believe. We must stop letting politicians—especially those hungry for influence and power among Democrats and the far Left—divide the country any further.
Voters, not pre-positioned legal teams, should decide elections. Disagreements should be settled with evidence, reason, and honest argument—not smears or suggestions of violence. And no temporary majority or activist network has the right to discard the Constitution simply because it stands in the way of a preferred political outcome.
Americans—of all political and ideological persuasions—must reject the politics of division, lawfare, and hatred before they cause lasting damage to the country.
