Democrats and their activist allies are quietly rehearsing elaborate wargames ahead of the midterm elections, assigning themselves roles as government officials, media outlets, and even foreign adversaries in a bid to shape outcomes and narratives before a single ballot is cast.
According to The Gateway Pundit, far-left operative Ian Bassin appeared this week on a program titled The Court of History to describe how Democrats and their legal strategists are conducting role-playing simulations to prepare for potential election disputes and political crises. Bassin, a former Obama White House lawyer, openly detailed how these exercises are designed to coordinate responses among Democrat leaders, left-wing nonprofits, and media allies, all under the banner of protecting democracy while in practice building a sophisticated political war room.
Bassin is not a fringe figure but the co-founder and executive director of Protect Democracy, a multimillion-dollar nonprofit he says he launched in 2017 to safeguard U.S. elections and counter disinformation. In reality, this organization has become a legal battering ram against conservatives, targeting right-leaning figures and outlets with aggressive litigation, and The Gateway Pundit itself has previously been sued by this same group.
In the video shared by attorney Jeff Clark, Bassin calmly walks viewers through the mechanics of these simulations, making clear that the left is not leaving anything to chance. So thats kind of what these are designed to do. And so everybody got assigned a role, right? Some people played themselves, some people played other actors in the system, the Attorney General, et cetera. And then we walked through a set of scenarios. And look, the scenarios we do he explained, before being pressed for more detail.
Interviewer Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton confidant, interrupted to drill down on the cast of characters involved in these political war games. Who are the actors? What are the roles? Tell us what the roles are as you remember them, Blumenthal asked, prompting Bassin to reveal just how expansive and coordinated the operation has become.
Yeah. So you have people playing roles as the leadership in the Congress, right? You have people playing roles as the leadership in the administration, right, the Attorney General, Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Bassin replied, describing a simulation that mirrors the highest levels of federal power. You have people playing roles of whos out in the civil society ecosystem, the nonprofit litigators who are going to litigate, the governors and secretaries of state of key states, maybe the people who spread conspiracy theories online, sort of big influencers online. What are they going to do? Foreign actors, right? Someone could play a nefarious foreign actor. What is Russia going to do in the middle of all this? What is Iran going to to do, right? And so you create all of those roles.
Blumenthal then pressed whether sitting lawmakers themselves were taking part in these simulations, underscoring how closely the activist class is intertwined with elected Democrats. And the roles are taken by the senators themselves? he asked, inviting Bassin to name names and reveal the legal and political heavyweights involved.
Yeah, and we had a couple of other people participate who work on election protection or experts on it. Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, Vanita Gupta, Sky Perryman. There were some other people participating, Bassin admitted, listing some of the most prominent Democrat-aligned lawyers in the country. He went on to describe how participants are encouraged to fully inhabit their assigned personas, adding, And we give people a little bit of of, you know, how to get into character, right? I would encourage people, you know, this is your chance to do method acting. So, you know, if youre gonna be playing a conspiracy-minded online influencer, Get into the mindset of that person. If youre going to be playing the acting director of national intelligence, get into the mindset of that person. We had people playing the FCC or ABC News just to see how everything interacted.
For conservatives, the implications are obvious: while the left publicly rails against election denial and disinformation, its own operatives are meticulously scripting how bureaucrats, judges, media outlets, and activist groups should respond to any challenge that might threaten Democratic power. With the corporate press already inclined to echo their talking points, there is little doubt that, as The Gateway Pundit notes, the mainstream media will amplify this narrative machinery for weeks leading up to the midterms, treating these partisan war games as noble defense of democracy rather than the coordinated political campaign they plainly are.
The segment, aired on the JournolLawfareTM program The Court of History, offers a rare, unguarded look at how deeply institutionalized this effort has become, from the Senate to the nonprofit world to the newsrooms that shape public opinion. As Democrats rehearse their roles and refine their scripts, voters who still believe in genuine checks and balances, limited government, and honest elections are left to wonder how much of what they will see this fall is organic political debateand how much has already been war-gamed in back rooms by the same operatives now claiming to protect democracy.
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