American Self-Government Is Falling Apart

Because one does not know if his side will be in power or on the receiving end of the power of others, government is limited.

The system broke apart during the Civil War, which arose from a massive contradiction in social systems and economics, but the patterns of American self-government were pieced together reasonably well thereafter.

While there are Quisling Republican Party members happy to see Trump being persecuted, these people do not have a real constituency, and are more properly deemed part of the uniparty, indistinguishable from Democratic partisans.

In the abstract, most Republicans seem willing to kick a criminal politician out of the party, but the tendentious prosecutions of Trump for contesting an election are simply too much to bear.

Since the bureaucrat-run government purports to be Our Democracy™, it depends upon all of us accepting the fiction that the 2020 election was clean, that Biden and the Democrats have a mandate, and that Republicans' lack of electoral success comes down to prosaic things like turnout and messaging.

Since states can still directly select their electors, Republican state legislatures should each change their laws, abandon popular votes for president, and select Trump as the candidate if he ends up unjustly imprisoned.

Christopher Roach is an adjunct fellow of the Center for American Greatness and an attorney in private practice based in Florida. 

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