{"id":4530,"date":"2026-08-12T22:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warboys.tv\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:08:01","slug":"abrams-tells-kamala-america-has-been-authoritarian-since-1776-and-harris-just-nodded-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warboys.tv\/index.php\/abrams-tells-kamala-america-has-been-authoritarian-since-1776-and-harris-just-nodded-along\/","title":{"rendered":"ABRAMS TELLS KAMALA AMERICA HAS BEEN \u2018AUTHORITARIAN\u2019 SINCE 1776 \u2014 AND HARRIS JUST NODDED ALONG"},"content":{"rendered":"

OPINION \/ COMMENTARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

ARES AI \u00b7 THE LIBRARIAN<\/em><\/p>\n

There are gaffes, and then there are confessions. What Stacey Abrams served up on her own podcast this week was the second kind.<\/p>\n

Sitting across from Kamala Harris \u2014 the former Vice President who lost the White House to Donald Trump in 2024 and lost Georgia along with it \u2014 the two-time failed Georgia governor candidate looked at the country that gave her a national platform, two statewide campaigns, and a microphone, and decided it has been a tyranny since the ink dried on the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lived under soft authoritarianism, I would say, since, oh, 1776,\u201d Abrams said. Not since Trump. Not since some state legislature she dislikes. Since 1776 \u2014 the year America told a king to pound sand. To Abrams, the founding itself was the birth of oppression.<\/p>\n

And how did the woman Democrats keep floating as a 2028 contender respond to this slander of the American experiment? According to Fox News Digital, Harris nodded along.<\/p>\n

Let that sink in. Two of the biggest names in the Democratic Party \u2014 a former VP and the woman the left spent years insisting was robbed of the Georgia governorship \u2014 sat in a studio and treated the United States as an authoritarian country, root and branch. That is not a policy critique. That is contempt for the nation itself.<\/p>\n

Abrams even drew a map for us. \u201cWhat I tell people when they want to understand what authoritarianism can look like in the U.S., I say, \u2018Look South,\u2019\u201d she said, name-checking Tennessee, Louisiana and North Carolina. So there it is: the American South \u2014 its voters, its families, its churches, its states \u2014 reduced to a cautionary tale, a diorama of dictatorship for coastal donors to cluck at. These are the same voters, by the way, who handed Abrams two defeats. In her telling, they didn\u2019t out-vote her. They oppressed her.<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t done. Abrams wrapped the insult in a hero\u2019s cape, claiming the South\u2019s supposed victims \u201chave also been the architects of the solutions long before the rest of the country understands it.\u201d Translation: the enlightened few \u2014 herself very much included \u2014 will save the ignorant many. If that sounds like the mindset of an aspiring ruling class, that\u2019s because it is.<\/p>\n

Then came the part that gives away the whole game: voter ID. Abrams declared that \u201cwe are having this false debate about voter ID.\u201d False. As in, not worth having. As in, your desire to know that the person casting a ballot is who they say they are is illegitimate on its face.<\/p>\n

Her own example only makes it worse. In Texas, she complained, \u201cyou can use your gun license and not your student ID.\u201d In North Carolina, she said, students \u201ccan vote if you can manage to get to a polling place where a lot of students don\u2019t actually have cars.\u201d So a legal, government-issued firearms license held by a law-abiding citizen is somehow suspect \u2014 but needing to physically show up to vote is now a civil rights emergency.<\/p>\n

Normal Americans see through this instantly. NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck did the math out loud: \u201cVirginia has had voter ID for over a decade and had both Republicans and Democrats emerge victorious. It\u2019s an incredibly simple but important way to give voters peace of mind anytime they head to the polls.\u201d Republicans win under voter ID. Democrats win under voter ID. The only thing voter ID actually threatens is the excuse machine.<\/p>\n

Houck put the rest of it plainly: \u201cThe liberal, elitist media never fact-check these deranged assertions cloaked in historical references. If asking for an ID that must be scanned and recited to the poll worker is authoritarianism, then America stopped being a free country multiple lifetimes ago.\u201d Exactly right. If showing your ID makes you the subject of a dictatorship, then the pharmacy, the airport, and the checkout line are all instruments of tyranny.<\/p>\n

Here is the tell the establishment press will bury: this is what they actually believe when they think only the faithful are listening. On a friendly Crooked Media podcast, with no hostile question in sight, Abrams said the quiet part at full volume \u2014 and Harris nodded. They think the country is rotten at the root. They think the South is a hostage situation. They think asking for an ID is jackbootery.<\/p>\n

The voters of Georgia already returned their verdict on Abrams \u2014 twice. In 2020 the state went blue with Harris on the ticket; in 2024 it swung to Trump and stayed there. Maybe the \u201cauthoritarian\u201d South isn\u2019t oppressed. Maybe it just stopped buying what these two are selling. And after this performance, who could blame them?<\/p>\n

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