After the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama issued statements committing to a peaceful transfer of power. But we know that what they were really doing was launching Russiagate. So while the current statements urging everyone to respect the results of the election may seem heartening, they’re press releases, not actual policy statements.

But parse them and they reveal interesting things.

Obama’s statement has a curious turn of phrase in which he states that the economy “created headwinds for democratic incumbents around the world, and last night showed that America is not immune.”

Like a lot of Obama’s writing (which feels like a shallow person’s idea of a deep thinker), it’s easy to scan it without thinking about it because it reads like a tedious column in The Atlantic or The New Yorker which has nothing to say and takes too many words arranged in formulaic phrasing to say it.

But “democratic incumbents around the world” should raise a few red flags.

Democrats, to Obama, are not just a party, they’re a global movement. Leftist parties are, small d, democratic and they’re up against, obviously anti-democratic parties, like the Republicans in America, and conservative parties in Europe and elsewhere.

What is a non-democratic party? A totalitarian one.

Can one truly have a peaceful transfer of power to a totalitarian party? Obviously not. They must be resister. American leftists are part of an international ‘democratic’ movement united to stop Republicans, conservatives, and Trump.

Paranoia? That’s what the Obama-Biden administration did last time around. Why wouldn’t history repeat itself?