America’s real insurrection is a long-term project of the country’s Democrats. It appears to have hit some snags, however. Maybe, as their carefully constructed facade begins to crumble, we’ll be able to save our republic after all.

The power and influence of the Democratic Party over the past two to three decades has been built on appearances. The legacy media, of course, are committed comrades and make it appear as if today’s party of the left is no different than it was in the days of John F. Kennedy. In truth, though, it is far more radical, blatantly anti-American, and outright corrupt.

We began to see how a party that’s disconnected from normal Americans has been able to stay in or close to power when the Department of Government Efficiency discovered last year that Washington created a taxpayer-financed slush fund in which nongovernmental organizations are lavishly subsidized for the welfare of insiders. Not all NGOs are profligate, but far too many have been “fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly,” says University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds.

These activities line up snugly with the Democrats’ agenda, which is why they protest too much — their means for virtually printing money and consolidating political power was in danger.

Just under the surface of the fetid swamp, the NGO shell game funnels taxpayers’ dollars “through multiple layers, with various entities handling and redistributing it” to the favored “groups and people who back those who are directing the funds. It’s a virtuous rather than vicious cycle – or virtuous at least to its participants who reap the benefits.”

Media outlets, the ones that “report” and “analyze” the news as if they’re the marketing and communications wing of the Democratic Party, have also benefited from taxpayers’ “contributions” to the federal leviathan.

More recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury for wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and “knowingly” combining, conspiring, confederating, and agreeing “with persons known and unknown to the grand jury to commit concealment money laundering.”

According to the indictment, the SPLC’s “stated mission included the dismantling of
white supremacy and confronting hate across the country.” But behind this charade, donor “money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance.” Apparently, the group paid informants who were “engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.”

One informant “was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia.” This “field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.”

Maybe the SPLC at one time provided a valuable public service. If so, it eventually rotted from within, following the progression observed by “longshoreman philosopher” Eric Hoffer, who said in the 1960s that “every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

(Wikiquote says that he’s been misquoted and instead said “What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation,” which is still an apt description of the SPLC’s moment.)

The Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was variously described by the media as a white nationalist march, “a day of rage, hate, violence and death,” and the gathering of “a motley crew of militia, racists, and neo-Nazis.” Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont called it “a provocative effort by Neo-Nazis to foment racism and hatred and create violence.” New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said the march went “against everything the American flag stands for.”

Curiously, the SPLC more than doubled its revenue in the months that followed the 2017 Charlottesville incident. Did the group manufacture a racial conflict to keep the dollars flowing? It wouldn’t be foolish to believe it did exactly that.

Naturally, Democrats are screeching about the indictment. They know that a powerful ally that is happy to fraudulently increase the depleted supply of racism and white supremacy that they need to raise money and sow division is about to be cut off. Their grumbling confirms they’ve been complicit in the ruse for years.

And don’t forget: Joe Biden said he “ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville.” Everything about his time in the White House was based on a fabrication.

To get a taste of just how nasty, depraved, and shameless the SPLC is, read this 2016 New York Post piece from our Investor’s Business Daily colleague Paul Sperry, who reported that the group “deliberately omitted from hate crimes report more than 2,000 instances of teachers reporting anti-white hate incidents.”

Democrats are also having to deal with a brewing scandal at ActBlue, their primary fundraising platform, which raked in $568 million in the first quarter of this year, a record for the first three months of a midterm election cycle. Three House committees released a report this week that alleges fraud in connection with illicit foreign donations. It also cites “an internal ‘meltdown'” of resignations, firings, and extended leave among the entire “legal and compliance staff” of the platform.

The report further indicates illegal foreign political donations were knowingly and willfully accepted, and not only did ActBlue collect “illegal foreign donations en masse,” it tried to cover its tracks “by misleading and withholding documents from Congress.”

It’s clear that ActBlue is in legal trouble so deep that Democratic Party fundraising is at risk. If it can’t take foreign money, it’s in for hard times, because Democratic voters don’t even like their own party.

There’s no question that the Democratic Party has become a lawless and unethical enterprise run by, and maintained for the benefit of, the most rotten people in the country.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board