Michigan might have the most sinister and anti-American Democratic Party of all. It’s certainly a tough competition, with New York, Minnesota, Washington, California, D.C. and a few others in the race, but Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is special (she was a particularly heinous enemy of civil rights during the pandemic) and any party that would allow someone like anti-Semitic Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to run under its banner has decency and integrity issues.

The state just threw independent presidential candidate Cornel West off its ballot, and many conservatives and Republicans see evidence of a conspiracy to rig the election for KAmala Harris. “Call me paranoid if you wish, but it’s almost as if the Democrats don’t want voters to show up at the polls on November 5 and see the name of anyone from any party or no party at all on their ballots except for Kamala Harris,” writes P.J. Media pundit Jazz Shaw.

Michigan elections director Mark Brewer sent a letter to West’s campaign saying that his affidavit of identity submitted with his ballot application was “not properly notarized.” The affidavit was notarized in Colorado and had to be valid in that state to be valid in Michigan as well. “There were apparently a couple of boxes left blank and the notary public stamp for the affidavit was attached on a separate piece of paper rather than on the document itself,” Shaw reveals. More from Jazz, who concludes in part:

Yes, that was it. That was the entirety of the complaint. In fairness to the Michigan elections director, they did send West’s campaign a letter in late July giving him a couple of weeks to respond and West never responded. This should have all been able to be cleaned up easily, but it wasn’t so the Democrats pounced. The original complaint was filed by former Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer in case you’re wondering why I’m generically blaming “the Democrats” here.

So what’s the real reason behind all of this and why would the Democrats care about Cornel West? He wasn’t going to carry any states or win the White House. …But that doesn’t mean that Cornel West’s presence or absence might not have a significant impact on the final results. This would be particularly true in Michigan where the presidential race is tighter than razor wire…That’s the reality of what is going on behind the scenes….West was identified as a potential threat to Biden and now to Harris. So he had to go. They scraped up Mark Brewer to have someone pore over West’s ballot application documents with a magnifying glass and find some sort of flaw to use as a basis for their complaint….They found a compliant judge to go along with a trivial complaint over what amounted to a technicality and West was unceremoniously kicked to the curb. Welcome to the rough and tumble world of modern Democratic politics as they desperately scramble to maintain their hold on power at any cost.

The Democrats cheat, as we have seen repeatedly this year and before. That party, as it has mutated in the 21st century, indeed will do anything and take actions that once were regarded as unthinkable in the American political culture to continue its slow eradication of Constitutional government. This episode, however, is not an example of that.

Every time I hear someone complain about “technicalities,” the little lawyer in my brain starts screaming. Laws are technicalities, and those who want to brush aside so-called technicalities when they prevent the kind of result they long for cannot be trusted. The compliant judge Shaw mentions could also be called “a judge who follows the law.” “The notary public stamp for the affidavit was attached on a separate piece of paper rather than on the document itself”? Are you kidding me? That means that the document itself wasn’t notarized, period, exclamation point. Any lawyer who would submit such an obviously inadequately certified document for an official purpose should be send back to law correspondence school. Shaw writes, “In fairness to the Michigan elections director, they did send West’s campaign a letter in late July giving him a couple of weeks to respond and West never responded.” Then in fairness, this was 100% the West’s campaign’s fault.

The one ethical breach I can fairly assign to the Michigan Democrats here is hypocrisy. The national party proved with its Soviet-style removal of Joe Biden from the ballot and the installment of Harris without any of those inconvenient nomination procedure thingies that we call “democratic institutions”—you know, like the ones Trump, according to Democrats, proved he was Hitler by ignoring occasionally?—that it won’t allow “technicalities” like rules, traditions, due process and details get in the way of its objectives. But that only means that what Michigan did to West’s lazy, incompetent campaign could be a good sign. In the competition between following the letter and spirit of rules and laws and ignoring them whenever they get in the way, clearly Michigan’s action is the most admirable one by far. Who knows, maybe it will catch on with the Democrats, though this seems like a faint hope: after all, the entire 2000 hanging chad election mess in Florida occurred because the Democratic Party and a bunch of its judges decided to ditch inconvenient “technicalities,” like having to submit a valid ballot to have your vote for Al Gore count.

The bottom line here is that one can’t criticize Democrats for doing one thing and its opposite simultaneously. Well, one can, but then one ends up looking as hypocritical as the Democrats, like conservative critics in this instance.