It is obvious to anyone with eyes that the Democrats are terrified of what President Trump represents. He represents power that is taken away from the ruling class and given back to those that allow them to govern. Maintaining a national guard presence in the capitol is the most obvious sign.

There are other indicators as well. The overly dramatic presentations being given on the Senate floor, and the feigned outrage that those are generating from the MSM are tells. The hype and theater are to serve a purpose though. They need to sell the American people on this as much as they can. Even though they know already that they won’t get a conviction. They still need to provide the performance, so that it seems plausible.

The Democrats are already looking into back up plans when this one fails.

House and Senate Democrats may push ahead this week with a censure resolution to bar former President Donald Trump from holding future office over his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, anticipating acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, several sources familiar with the matter told McClatchy.

The effort to draft the resolution that would invoke a provision of the 14th Amendment began quietly in January and gained momentum over the weekend, as Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine gauge whether the measure could attract bipartisan support.

This effort is all smoke and mirrors as well. Congress does not have the authority to prevent anyone from running for office without due process. That means they need a conviction in the Senate. They will brush over that and make the attempt anyway.

They should be afraid though. Even though they managed to fix the presidential election, they weren’t able to push any real change into the state legislatures. That is where the rules of each state’s elections are made.  After the debacle of the 2020 election a lot of states will be looking at shoring up the process.

The democrats know that they have a huge weakness there. That is one of the reasons that George Soros has been throwing tons of money into Secretary of State elections. While the legislatures write the laws, most states have the SOS execute them. That has provided a wedge into state elections for the left. Many states have noticed and will want to remedy that.

So we can expect the Democrats to make an attempt to federalize state elections. That would quickly get into murky constitutional areas  and the states aren’t likely to cede power to Washington.

They have to take Mr. Trump out of the game at all costs. They know that he has the majority of the nation behind him.  He can put the power back where it belongs. The left can’t let him back in because they would never recover their control.