https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/israel_faces_existential_threats_from_hamas_and_hezbollah.html
For years, the Democrats (Obama, Biden, Hillary, Kamala, etc.), Big Media, Hollywood elites, Big Tech, and even the military have called President Donald Trump an “existential threat” to America and to our democracy.
First, the U.S. is not a democracy; we’re a constitutional republic. A true democracy is simple majority rule, best understood as Hillary, Pelosi, and Trump voting on who to throw in prison, or two wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu — meaning the simple majority become dictators over the minority. However, a constitutional republic is based on a constitution with checks and balances that prevent the majority from becoming authoritarians.
Second, Trump is clearly not an existential threat. The Dems, along with all their minions of voters, and the media, knows that fact. How do we know they know? Simple, we already had four years of a Trump presidency. He never was a threat to “our democracy.” (The FBI said that January 6th was not an insurrection despite what Pelosi and Liz Cheney claimed.) Additionally, if the Dems truly believed he were the threat they claim he is, Biden, Kamala, and all the others would be cheering for those who tried to assassinate him. They didn’t do that. Instead, they called him and expressed concern for his safety and promised more protection. So, their claim of “existential threat” is further proof that the media and the Dems (especially their politicians) are dishonest.
That said, an existential threat (ET) is defined as “a threat to the survival of a people or the long-term potential of humanity.” Basically, an ET is a threat to a people’s/nation’s existence and/or survival. A couple of historical examples will help understand the definition. The white man was an ET to the native/indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. Within decades of Columbus discovering the island of Hispaniola, 95% of the natives were gone. It took several centuries, but the same result happened to the indigenous peoples of North, South, and Central America who were wiped out by the new inhabitants, mostly from Europe. One could argue that the European discoverers didn’t intend to kill off the native peoples, but whether they intended to or not, the result was the same. A much more recent example of an intended existential threat was Nazi Germany and European Jews. The Nazis used an organized, systematic effort (called the Final Solution) to exterminate the Jews in countries and areas they occupied. They were hugely successful, killing roughly 70% of the Jews in Europe. If they had had a few more years, that figure would have approached 95% or higher.
You would hope the world would have been so appalled at the Nazis’ genocide directed at Jews, that we would demand “never again.” And for a short period of time, the world was appalled. Sadly, that short period lasted about 20 to 25 years.
