I believe Frederick is precisely correct. I assume your refutation is based on the Constitution and its adoption by the Colonies to form the national government? That doesn’t matter. We are WAY past that.

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” – Oscar Wilde

No, that is not why the national government exists. That is a byproduct of the machinations of politicians. (It’s actually a modest though disgusting share of federal expenditure that goes to said purposes).

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/coriolanus-and-the-conservatives

I can’t think of any historical precedent for a peaceful within-the-guiderails recovery from where we find ourselves today. This goes for The Rest of the West too, only difference being that the rest of us are more broken to the yoke and slower to see it and less likely to put up a fight.

TJ like many is a GoodThinker / Boy Scout.. Sorry TJ and pls understand that I don’t mean this in a disparaging way; in normal times folks like you are the backbone of civilization. But right now your thinking is anachronistic. Not sure I even want the collective TJs to adopt my thought patterns hehe — after the interregnum will need plenty of his sort and will instead be experiencing a Surfeit of Shanes.

The above notwithstanding, per Cromwell to ye Hairy Scots:

“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.”

IF reelected in 2024, what will Trump do then, that he didn’t do in 2020? What would de Santis, Noem, Cruz or Hawley do that Trump did not?

I say IF because what will prevent the dems from committing fraud again and to whatever degree needed?

What will prevent SCOTUS, now with the judicial ‘cover’ that “precedent” has been set… from again ruling that red states have no standing and then refusing to hear cases after the fact, as now “moot”?

Explain exactly how you win, while playing within the rules of a rigged system?

Tell us how to win, when one side plays by the rules because to do otherwise is to destroy the very thing being sought to be preserved, i.e. consent of the governed…

While the other side, which wants to end it, gets to cheat as much as needed to ‘win’ because the prosecutors and judges are on the side of the cheaters?

How do you win in a system where “the rule of law” only works for the criminals and where “redress of grievance” is nonexistent?

That’s how he got to be The People’s President against the corrupt establishment.

Repeatedly, people here advise Trump not to be Trump. That’s not the path to victory, compromising.

He says out loud what people are thinking. The People love him for that. The evil and corrupt establishment hate him for that. Truth is their enemy

Too many here are weak-kneed Sasse-ites.

“Already the Biden Administration has proven that they are anti-jobs, anti-family, anti borders, anti-energy, anti-women, and anti-science.
In one short month, we have gone from America first to America last. Think about it, right? America last.”
The Frustrated Indian puts this well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re_2QapsPQM&t=157s

To defend America, it must be fought for and the enemies within must be defeated. If you’re against that, go home and stand aside. You are in the way.

His 78, if he continues as now, is at least 10 years younger than everyone else’s 78.

The national government exists to divert tax money into the pockets of favored clients of Senators and Congressmen of both parties, and Trump was a threat to that system.

To be seen openly disagreeing with Trump hurt the Republicans with their voters, but they did sweet F. A. to implement Trump’s agenda when they controlled Congress. Because Trump’s agenda threatened their clients.

I still have a honking great can of Confit de Canard left over from the Great Plague Prepping Supermarket Shelves Stripping of February 2020. Desperate Times!