The Democrats promise higher taxes, nonstop wokeness, climate hysteria, more Mullah-coddling and China-appeasing.

Plus hordes of new Democratic voters hustled across our southern border.

They have promised to regulate coal, fracking and fossil fuels out of business in their attack on prosperity itself.

Remember John Holdren, Obama’s prophet of “a massive campaign to de-develop” the United States? He would be back in a Biden administration.

ALL OF THAT may occur in their desire for power – and I leave out what would happen should the Democrats flip the Senate

What about the presidency however it is finally decided? It will be important for what does not happen – and what does.

No doubt the Democrats were highly motivated to pursue their socialist, anti-American agenda. But they were also powerfully motivated by fear. Consider some of the things that will not happen should Joe Biden assume the presidency.

Remember John Durham, who investigates the investigators, looking into the cesspool of corruption that underwrote the greatest political scandal in American history.

The Russia Collusion Delusion, featured Robert Mueller and a host of supporting actors from James Comey, Christopher Steele, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, John Brennan and James Clapper on down.

The Durham investigation would be gone. Thanks for your service, John, but it’s time to think about spending more time with your family and we need that office space for some Title IX inquiries. Just leave your files next to the shredder on your way out.

REMEMBER THE Clinton Foundation. That was the siphon through which hundreds of millions of dollars passed from influence seekers into the pockets of the Clinton family. The DOJ was looking into that, too, but you can be sure they will be furloughed before being exiled entirely.

How about Hunter Biden and his China, Russia and Ukraine deals? Depending on where you get your news, you may not have heard much about Hunter’s laptop on the run-up to the election. It was one of the stories of the season, but the Media Industrial Complex closed ranks and put the story in a hermetically sealed container.

Only Fox’s Tucker Carlson, The New York Post and The Epoch Times brought this explosive story to public attention. Telling what Rudy Giuliani called the Biden Crime Family’s dealings with China, Ukraine, and Russia depends on a Trump victory.

FEAR AS WELL as greed has been a powerful motivating force to explain the desperate tactics employed by the left to secure the presidency for Joe Biden and his leftwing puppeteers. They desired to be free of scrutiny for their decades of corruption.

Many of them believe they can breathe easy now. Joe is almost president.

Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Who Rules? Human nature can have an odd way of looking at such failures, though. Check this discussion about risk from the Harvard Business Review which is a long quote, but worth it: