It isn’t the governors who have the power to call a convention- it is the legislatures.

I think a convention is probably a good idea- it is time to reign in the federal government, or to at least try, by constitutional reinforcement and reminder.

Agree with this point. The challenge is how to do it via the government?

One place to examine are the laws that allow things like, for instance, the Houston mayor asking preachers for their sermon notes. Rather we eliminate them or box them in rather than add new laws.

Perhaps overall, radically reducing the size and scope of government can reduce the footprint in how the government funds or influences these organizations, and the potential for abusing the laws for political purposes (e.g. IRS targeting).

Outside of that, not sure where the government has many direct levers for changing campus culture, or media culture.

So, two cheers–but the long term challenge is cultural—challenging the suffocating PC monoculture in the schools, on campus and promoted by the brazenly corrupt and partisan major media.

A few legislative initiatives might help begin turn the tide….Political victories are great, but to sustain these long-term we need equally dramatic victories in the campus, public finance and media culture wars.
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Excellent essay.

Yiannopo whatever works for the tech writing wing of Breitbart, I’m not too sure how political it is. Breitbart himself started all kinds of Big websites like BigHollywood. But a lot of the news articles and political propaganda came up on TrumBart though, but I didn’t review the entire networks of websites.

I only heard about how they had taken over from people like Matt SE, Neo Neo, and various other Alt Right or Republicans who went there.

I would like to think that not all the websites started by Breitbart got that politically weak to propaganda.

As for the people that said Trum would get stabbed in the back by conservatives or GOP E, because of people voting for Hillary Clinton or other candidates…

Trum is a 70 yo Democrat from New York. He got so many Sanders voters, he didn’t need anybody else that voted for McMullin, Mormons from Utah, or whatever.

That’s why they put him into the RNC right, cause he’s a Democrat and anybody is better than Clinton, even another New York Democrat.

Trump didn’t show up until a year ago, moving from a functional liberal to pseudo-conservative. His campaign was a foolish gamble against hard odds. It happened to work, but Trump supporrters are deluding themselves if they believe Trump’s victory was inevitable.

If the election had been held earlier at any number of points, Trump would have lost and all the apocalyptic Hillary scenarios would have ensued.

The GOP won the House and Senate. Many (most?) won with a larger vote share than trump – IOW trump did not “carry” them.

trump won the WH – however, he received less votes than Romney in 2012. He effectively traded votes, with heavier concentration on white working class, while losing others, all in an electorate that grew by 10M eligible voters from 2012 (which means he ought to have ~5M more votes than he received).

clinton lost millions of votes vs obama in 2012. This allowed trump to win by small margins in the mid-west and get past 270 ecv, despite having fewer votes than clinton nationally.

trump does NOT have a clear “mandate”.

BUT, he and the GOP in Congress DO have the power, and there is plenty good that can be done with that.

The homosexual alt-right Breitbart (no longer Trumpbart?)
guy is Milo Yanopolis (check the spelling).