Renewed Justice Thomas attacks will fuel voter distrust of Democrats despite media narrative: expert

The recent push to remove Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court represents the latest example why polls show Democrats, not Republicans, are the biggest threat to democracy.

"The ongoing Thomas smear campaign is one of many reasons why polling consistently finds that Americans are more prone to view Democrats than Republicans as a threat to democracy, despite a decade of Democratic campaigning on the claim," Smith recently tweeted. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.

Thomas has been under scrutiny and even facing calls to resign after a report outlined allegedly gifts and benefits he accepted while on the highest court in the land, but they are just the latest push to delegitimize Thomas or seek to upend the Supreme Court. The justice has long been a target of the left over the decades, though one ethics compliance expert characterized the current scrutiny as "grasping at straws."

"I began to notice, you know, some time ago, a series of polls by different pollsters, generally respected pollsters, asking some variation of the question, ‘Which party do you think is a greater threat to democracy?’" Smith told Fox News Digital.