What Happens If 2024 is Rigged Too?

Suppose 2024 is a carbon copy of 2020.  At 11:30 pm, with Donald Trump ahead by comfortable margins, the counting stops in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia and after several days of slow-motion vote counting, Biden wins these states and the presidency.

This is the Dissident Right’s checkmate scenario; a permanent Democrat lock on the federal government.  No matter how lousy the Left’s handling of the economy and the border and foreign affairs Republicans will be shut out of the White House and Congress and eventually through attrition the Supreme Court too.  Checkmate.

The question to answer is what, if anything, will the Right do about it?

And here is another case of no one knows for sure.  Could it all just go forward, not with a bang but a whimper?  Certainly, it could.  Maybe even, it’s likely it would.  And that would seal the fate of the “constitutional republic” for at least a generation and maybe for good.  So that’s the worst case.  What else is there?

I think the best-case scenario is a Conservative Convention.  I don’t mean a Republican convention.  In fact, I would hope the attendees would studiously ignore their party affiliation and concentrate on their status as normal Americans.  I think every state should select delegates and these men should open up negotiations on forming a Red State Council.  This would be an organization to allow the Red States to coordinate, integrate and amplify the efforts of these states to neutralize the deleterious effects of the federal government and at the same time build alternative institutions both private and public to advance the interests and nurture the citizens they represent.

For the normal Americans trapped in the Blue States this Council would provide an indirect leadership.  Commercial support by these Blue State inhabitants for any businesses fostered by the Council would be mutually beneficial for both consumers and corporations.  And these refugees can benefit from such resources as conservative colleges where their children can get a sane education.

None of these things will happen easily or quickly, which is an even more important reason that they need to begin immediately after the futility of federal elections has been proven once and for all.  It will only be by beginning the process of forging a separate identity that any sense of hope will appear.  This identity should be based on a refusal to surrender our rights to freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, freedom of association, freedom of religion and the rest of the Bill of Rights.  By choosing these rights as the basis for our identity we demonstrate that we are the direct successors of the American republic and therefore the legitimate heirs to its heritage.  This will provide us with the basis for our efforts to form new institutions.

For instance, we should sponsor the creation of communication and media companies that will respect freedom of speech and the fourth amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

We can’t have phone companies and e-mail services allowing the government to spy on Americans anymore.  The only way this can be enforced is if the Red States enforce these restrictions themselves.

And the Red States will have to police illegal immigration themselves.  Expelling the immigrants either back to their countries of origin or else to “sanctuary” blue states could be part of this policy.

And there are a thousand things from affirmative action to sexual deviancy that needs to be addressed by a conservative coalition.  But the only way anything will be achieved is by making a start.  Until we hear that such a gathering has been arranged, we live without hope of regaining our rights and freedoms.  And the day that should begin is the day after the 2024 election is stolen.