“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.”
- Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, 1884
Many Americans, if they have ever heard the quote about “rum, Romanism and rebellion,” have little or no idea about the context in which it was said or the object to which it was applied. It had something to do with someone at some time way back when.
Those who know of the origin of the quote and the object at which it was directed – it was the Democrats that Burchard, a Presbyterian minister, tagged as the party of rum, Romanism and rebellion – mostly consider it to have been an impolitic gaffe that cost Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine the 1884 election in which he was running against Democrat Grover Cleveland.
When reading contemporary commentary on Burchard’s famous alliterative triad, what one finds universal condemnation of it. No one, at least no one that this author has read, seems to consider the possibility that Burchard was right.
But he was right in 1884 and he is right today.
The Democrats have been and are the party of rum, Romanism and rebellion. In the opinion of this author, they proved it once again earlier this month with massive election rigging that, when the dust has all settled, may leave them in control of the House, the Senate and the White House.
Over the past few weeks, there has been a great deal of commentary on various ways the Democrats may have cheated. On the other hand, there are those, not all of them Democrats, who claim that there was no cheating, or at least no cheating that made any real difference, in the 2020 election results, that Joe Biden is the legitimate winner, and that those who say otherwise are making baseless claims and are peddling conspiracy theories.
It is the aim of this and subsequent posts to lay out the reasons this author believes that the 2020 presidential election was rigged by the Democrats, that Joe Biden is not the winner, and that Donald Trump rightfully won the White House.
Lux Lucet 
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