I’m another Trump supporter who finds it difficult to accept that his response will not include any attempt to overcome the coup. That being said, I recognize the difficulty involved if the military have told him flat out that they won’t support the Insurrection Act.
It’s one thing to say that philosophically that should happen, another to say that it could effectually work as intended and not become an empty and meaningless directive that the necessary military (and judicial) supporters would not move to enforce.
The situation is one of potential rather than actual in terms of a dictatorship replacing the elected government. There are no trains waiting to take dissidents to camps, as far as anyone knows, but how long until that happens? That may depend on the degree of public resistance to the regime.
My suggestion at this point is for President Trump to declare very soon that he is leaving the Republican Party, and seeking to form a third party, my suggested names for it would be
American Freedom Party
American Eagle Party
Conservative-Republican Party
whatever resonates with the base would be great, and then work non-stop on building this party up, with a view towards attracting all of the potential voter base and whatever Republican elected members of Congress or state politicians to join the party. Down the road, if some won’t come over, they could be endorsed by the party and not be faced with a candidate in their specific district or state. This would hopefully hollow out the GOP and make it the third party rather than the Trump party.
This new party should have more specific swamp-draining policies, beyond just a declaration of intent. There should be mandatory forensic audits of all politicians’ finances and the finances of anyone directly related to them. These audits should form the basis of legal actions on the principle of one justice system for all, no exceptions for those who consider themselves too big to fail.
There should also be a policy of non-interaction with China and laws beefed up (they already exist) to prevent elected politicians from taking favors from China.
The party should also be committed to voting reform and strict oversight, wherever possible a return to traditional paper ballots and observed counting at specified times, with any counts made outside the specified times invalidated. There should be very severe legal penalties for voter fraud, up to and including 25 years to life sentences for collusion in multiple cases (100 fraudulent votes should be the threshhold, 50 gets you 15 to 25 years, 10 gets you 5 to 10 etc). One good idea that could be adopted from other parliamentary democracies would be a national election commission with state election commissions required to conform to its general standards, so there could not be locally overseen rogue voting systems as we see in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta.
Another policy I think might resonate with many is that residents of large urban areas already have two highly organized and funded levels of government (city and state) so they should perhaps have a lower ratio of federal reps in the House, so that the House of Representatives is less dominated by big city members (who will almost always be far to the left of the rest of the nation). The interests of the twelve largest cities are not often the interests of the whole nation. They are instead very specific to those cities and the governments of those cities have the resources to deal with those policies directly. They have less need for the federal government than most people across the country (albeit the foundation of this party should also be self-reliance and small government).
The rest of the platform would be basically what Trump has been doing or fighting for, less immigration, an end to illegal immigration, tighter border controls, more support for American business, better roads, no climate hysteria.
If we had that project, to build a better political alternative, it would be something positive to be doing in the next two years, with the plan to wheel it out for the 2022 mid-terms and build it up to the 2024 general election.