John — I talk a lot about defending our democracy in this campaign. It’s the core issue that I believe we need to be fighting for as Democrats. Let me explain why.
It was only three years ago now that far-right insurrectionists stormed the Capitol and attempted to install Trump as an unelected dictator.
Now that that moment has passed, some want to explain it away as a mere fluke — that our democracy isn’t put in danger by an authoritarian like Trump.
But just look at what Trump and his followers have been up to since that fateful day:
Trump and other prominent Republicans have continued to push the Big Lie that the 2020 election was “stolen.”
Trump’s campaign has made plans to purge the federal government of detractors and use the Justice Department to go after his political rivals if he wins.
Red state governors are using the National Guard and local police units to do Trump’s bidding at the border, and red state legislators have continued to introduce legislation that makes it harder for people to exercise their right to vote.
And just recently Trump has said he’d let Putin do “whatever the hell” he wants in his quest to tear down democracy in Europe.
The decay of democracy is something that we’ve seen in nations throughout history — Germany, Turkey, Hungary, and many more — and every time there were those who stood on the sidelines because they believed “it can’t happen here.”
As an expert in national security and international affairs, I’m here to tell you that it absolutely can happen right here in the US, and we’re closer than perhaps ever before.
That’s why I’m running for Congress: to safeguard our precious democratic system, to improve on its flaws, and always fight back against the rising far-right.
But I can’t do it alone.
— Eugene Vindman
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Eugene Vindman served in the U.S. Army and the National Security Council. Use of his job titles and photographs during service does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Army or the National Security Council.
