Two recent articles in the Kennebec Journal demonstrate that today’s Democrats are good at one thing: projection.

Alan Toth’s Maine Compass article (“Why are Republican voters putting up with this?,” Aug. 15), chides Republicans for putting aside Trump’s peccadilloes. Apparently, though, he sees nothing wrong with putting aside all of the evidence of Biden influence peddling, nor the subversion of our intelligence agencies to cover it up (such as implying that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian forgery). And let’s not forget the entire Democratic Party smearing the IRS whistleblowers in the congressional hearings last year.

Most egregiously, he blames Trump for the border crisis because the Democrats and Chamber of Commerce Republicans were able to block so much of his agenda during his first term. He also argues that Trump is bad for the border because he joined the majority of Republicans in rejecting the “bipartisan border deal” earlier this year. Of course, like all “immigration reform” offered by Democrats, it actually increased immigration and made it easier to rubber-stamp fraudulent asylum claims, with only a fig leaf of enforcement, which is why all of the enforcement hardliners opposed it (the border patrol union on the other hand, was paid off with a massive budget increase to support it) before Trump had said anything.

Likewise, Adam Cote’s Maine Compass article Aug. 16 warns us about how fragile “democracy” is and of the danger that Trump poses to it (“Deployment to Bosnia taught me that democracies are very fragile”).

So we should vote for the party that lied about Biden’s mental decline through the primaries and then installed a new nominee at the last minute? That pushed big tech to censor opposing views? That wants to pack the Supreme Court? That surveils concerned parents as terrorists?

To Democrats, “democracy,” “country above party,” and “American principles” are simply code words for “Democratic Party power.”

Michael Jose

Augusta