“Boomer, all too Boomer. President Donald Trump mastered not the Art of the Deal, but the art of public relations. He was a media hero for decades, but I suspect he never quite learned that a single man can’t take on the entire Main Stream Media. Instead, he’s still playing by the old rules, and seems stunned that his side isn’t getting a fair hearing.
Thus, recently pardoned Michael Flynn’s call for President Trump to use Lincoln-like tactics to save the country and re-do the presidential election seems wildly unrealistic [Freshly pardoned Michael Flynn shares message telling Trump to ‘suspend the Constitution’ to hold a new presidential election, by Kathryn Krawczyk, The Week, December 2, 2020]. If President Trump was the type of man who could metaphorically “cross the Rubicon” and declare martial law, he wouldn’t be in this position to begin with.
In any case, action against media monopolies and ensuring social media access for his supporters would have been a far more effective tactic than legal maneuvering anyway–and this should have been prioritized day one.
I have no doubt the Supreme Court will simply duck the Texas case. Chief Justice John Roberts is yet another “conservative” appointee who has shifted left once taking the big chair, and most other justices are similarly unimpressive. Even proven fraud is being ignored and, without free speech online, the evidence can be censored.
However, that doesn’t mean the Sorelian Myth of a nationalist march on Washington, or Trump crossing the Potomac in lieu of the Rubicon, isn’t useful. After all, we already know the outright tyrannical measures that the Democrats are openly planning to impose on the American people. It is important that ordinary Americans recognize the coming Regime is illegitimate, that the GOP failed them and that, if President Trump lost, it was because he was too cautious and compromising, rather than audacious and bold.
Before even discussing breaking up the boundaries within states, forming a Third Party, taking over the GOP, or even the extreme solution of secession, people need to believe that resistance is at least possible.
And, as Peter Brimelow always reminds me, we just don’t know what Trump will do. The former casino owner might, out of sheer self-preservation, decide to throw it to the wind and declare alea iacta est—or at least give the Ruling Class one more hysterical fit.”
James Kirkpatrick at VDare.com
--Samuel Adams