“Between the coasts” is a bloody great chunk of the country. Did you take a look at the Trumpland map? Does that look like “a very narrow ledge” to you? Looks like seven-eighths of the country to me. At least.

Don’t like “Constitutional Republic”? Too C18-fusty for you? OK, call it “a normal country where normal people can live freely and without excessive molestation from the State”. Normieland, as Kurt Schlichter might put it. The last two elections have shown that there is strong market demand for such a place. There are a lot of normal people living in the blue blots and crusts. Give them someplace decent to move to, and they’ll move. I’m confident that our side will be the beneficiaries of the Great Sorting.

“Very different stock”. Ah. I think I see the problem. Not a Yank, then? This country was built by and with the Wrong Sort of Stock. My grandparents were very much the Wrong Sort of Stock, especially in your book (I’m a member of that tribe of congenital subversives, or however you put it). A few posts ago we saw video of a woman from the Wrong Sort of Stock with a funny name and accent deliver a civics lesson to a panel in Michigan. She also faced down a member of the feral Left. More like her, please. An American is anybody who values liberty above all else and pledges allegiance to the principles embodied in that fusty piece of C18 parchment. Stock don’t come into it.

“But we can agree to differ on this without resorting to clubs and knives, so I guess that puts us both inside a very broad church with the devil worshipers banging on the door. First order of business is for all men of good will is to slay the devils. The Details Schmetails finer print can abide for now.”

F**king A. We’re on the same side. Let’s stop squabbling over semantics and start talking practicalities. And props for the Trifonov reference, by the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_the_Embankment

I worked with people who grew up in that world. That’s how I can recognize the smell. The American equivalent would be the Watergate complex on the banks of the Potomac.

AesopF:

Thanks for the links. The Selwyn Duke piece is spot-on.

I had to look up the REDACTED reference; evidently, 7 & 2 is the worst hand you can possibly be dealt, and if you win with it, you are totally awesome.

https://www.liveabout.com/worst-starting-hands-in-texas-holdem-2728435

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In REDACTED parlance, the D.C. crowd is bluffing that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and it’s daring the American people to call it out. It’s a dangerous gamble. If these people get away with it, there’s really nothing holding them back from here on out. If they can institute a system where the importance of the voter disappears and the only question is whether battleground state officials are corrupt enough to certify fraudulent election totals, then those darned rubes who value their individual rights cease to matter at all. But if enough Americans call their bluff, well, then the D.C. corruptocrats lose everything.
If there were ever a political equivalent of 7-2 pocket cards, Joe Biden is it. It’s time to push our chips in and see what happens.

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Outside D.C., Americans have common sense, and their common sense tells them that the 2020 election for president was a sham. By hook or by crook, and without changing current election laws through the state legislatures, Democrats transformed the 2020 election into a contest of which side could manufacture more fraudulent mail-in ballots. Since only the Democrats were manufacturing ballots, they won by default, but only after working well past double overtime to overcome the historic turnout for Donald Trump’s re-election.
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When nearly half of America’s voters believe that the fix was in to steal victory from President Trump, you don’t have a conspiracy theory. You have something approaching a general consensus.

So here we are in an American stalemate.
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Outside D.C., Americans have common sense, and their common sense tells them that the 2020 election for president was a sham. By hook or by crook, and without changing current election laws through the state legislatures, Democrats transformed the 2020 election into a contest of which side could manufacture more fraudulent mail-in ballots. Since only the Democrats were manufacturing ballots, they won by default, but only after working well past double overtime to overcome the historic turnout for Donald Trump’s re-election.
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When nearly half of America’s voters believe that the fix was in to steal victory from President Trump, you don’t have a conspiracy theory. You have something approaching a general consensus.

So here we are in an American stalemate.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_district_of_corruption_has_overplayed_its_hand.html

By J.B. Shurk
This is just an observation (because I’m not looking forward to gulag life), but I think the only thing keeping Trump voters from burning the whole corrupt system down right now is that nobody knows whom or what to attack. That should be a pretty sobering consideration for an establishment class that thinks it just stole the 2020 presidential election fair and square.
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If there were a field of battle to defend or clearly demarcated enemy zones on the map, I’m guessing the powder keg ignited from mail-in ballot fraud this election cycle would have already gone boom!
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We have a tinderbox right now, and about the only miracle saving the Establishment Club in D.C. from the impending inferno is that the Americans most fired up to tear the whole thing down are the same Americans who have spent their lives respecting the rule of law and American institutions. Drink that irony in!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_time_for_talking_with_the_left_is_long_long_past.html

https://selwynduke.typepad.com/selwyndukecom/2020/12/the-time-for-talking-with-the-left-is-long-long-past.html

Neo’s readers will probably enjoy more of his musings.
Except Montage, of course.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/12/10/so-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-real-after-all-huh-n1202565

There was a very interesting post at Politico that some of you may have read, as it was one of Power Line’s Picks. It doesn’t have the usual relentless knee-jerk leftist spin (although it’s still clearly written by a Democrat), and illustrates a trend in North Carolina which, combined with the testimonies of the Tejanos who voted for Trump despite being “Hispanic” (they say they are just Americans), bodes well.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/10/robeson-county-rural-rainbow-coalition-north-carolina-trump-republicans-443978

It’s a long read, of the anecdote plus analysis genre familiar from dead tree publications, but well worth the time.

Here are two choices for the Texas trend. I think Politico is trying to do a not too subtle nudging of the Democrats about where they are failing. Now if only some honest conservative Republicans in DC will also read them….

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/17/trump-latinos-south-texas-tejanos-437027

https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/11/19/tejano-vote-not-latino-key-to-trumps-gains-in-south-texas-n1160393

I’m of the opinion that a C18 Enlightenment Collection of Words is hardly a basis for re-founding society in C21 with very different stock. Unless, of course you hold that it’s a ‘Living Document’ 😛

I get that it’s different between the Coasts.

But reverting to Whigism Lite (Muh Constitutional Republic) just means that one climbs arduously back up the slippery slope and perches on a very narrow ledge until the first person pokes us in the back with a feather or a butterfly flaps its wings behind us… and then slowly at first we begin to slide back down.

But we can agree to differ on this without resorting to clubs and knives, so I guess that puts us both inside a very broad church with the devil worshipers banging on the door. First order of business is for all men of good will is to slay the devils. The Details Schmetails finer print can abide for now.