David R. Irvine: Mike Lee claims to believe in the Constitution but does nothing to defend our democracy.
In this image from video, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks as the Senate reconvenes after protesters stormed into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.Bountiful is a reliably red political sea, but my neighbors are not extremists. For the past 50 years, Bountiful’s state legislators have mostly been Republican moderates, to the frustration of our vocal far-right activists who were trounced in this year’s primaries. Our mayors and city councils have been consistently wise and reasonable.
I get two strident emails every day from our senior senator warning me that his opponent is a bad person who cannot be trusted — a fake conservative and “a Democratic puppet.” In contrast, Lee says his commitment has always been to “the Constitution and principles of limited government.” Lee had been working with Trump lawyers Sydney Powell and then closely with John Eastman to promote Eastman’s cockamamie constitutional theory about “independent state legislatures having sole authority to regulate federal elections, to include authority to set aside election results and certify alternate electors.”
Although Mike Lee shares Utah’s dominant religious faith and its belief in an inspired Constitution, he has little use for universal suffrage. On October 8, 2020, Lee tweeted, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prosperity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”
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