(The piece below appeared in the latest issue of our CORAC National Newsletter. If you don’t already read the CORAC site, you should. If you miss an issue, you miss a lot. I am convinced that this election is not going to be a resolution of the battle that has been simmering in American society for 24 years – and boiling for eight years. It will open up the final confrontation between irreconcilable forces. That could take several forms, but our cold, cultural war could turn hot. I have said that we have passed the time of revelation and entered into the time of choosing. The once honorable Democratic Party has been hijacked by leftist ideologues determined to make America into a bleak command state, an authoritarian nightmare. Already, prominent Democrats such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Alan Dershowitz have left the Democratic Party. Most have not become Republicans, but independents. They have been made homeless by the hostile forces that have made the Democratic Party into an anti-freedom, anti-American Party. So, these former Democrats have chosen to stand with freedom and Americanism. Authoritarians rarely, if ever, surrender power because a vote did not go their way. Leftists have gone so far afield of law and American tradition to hold power these last eight years that they have to fear jail cells if they surrender power – to face justice on real crimes rather than manufactured crimes. So when I say the time of choosing has begun, I do not just mean choosing who to vote for. -CJ)
There is a rhythm to most election cycles, one that a practitioner can discern and use to his advantage if he is canny enough – and disciplined enough to ignore the frightened chirpings of all the nervous Nellies on his own side. This year, there is less the ebb and flow of a discernable rhythm than the throbbing of an acute ache of a tooth, ear or head. Sometimes it is so bad it makes your eyes hurt.
There is always a fundamental dynamic to any cycle. That is the thing I search for relentlessly. When I am confident I have accurately discerned it, that is what I then doggedly pound on. Others, even among my colleagues, may not realize it, but everything I do is single-mindedly built on my discernment of that fundamental dynamic. I am convinced that the fundamental dynamic this year is that the election will not lead to resolution, but to stark confrontation.
That has been the trajectory of the last eight years, though there were border skirmishes for a good 16 years before that, over election integrity. The night before the election in 2016, I told a Catholic broadcaster at dinner that I had seen more red flags of national vote fraud than I ever had in my life that year, but that the shock of the night was that it would not be enough. Trump would win.
This was a seminal moment for Democrats, a time to take stock. They could have reasoned that, even in the aftermath of their sainted salesman, Barack Obama, ordinary Americans were not sold by their policies or their competence – even with massive vote fraud to bolster them. Instead, they chose to expand their retail vote fraud operation to a wholesale operation and start perverting the legal system to harass and intimidate those who complained about it. They were not interested in the opportunity to persuade; only the power to dictate.
I’ve got news for you: suburbs across the nation did NOT suddenly flip from red to blue in 2018; Joe Biden did not win in 2020; and there WAS a red wave in 2022. Because Republicans did not meaningfully stop election fraud – intimidated both by the mendacity of the fraudsters and the unified chorus of the fraudsters’ palace guard, the gutter press. We have had to live with the consequences of both the left’s mendacity and the right’s timidity.
After the decision to mount an administrative coup against Trump with the eager participation of the FBI, CIA, and other denizens of the deep state, there were only three ways this could end: the left would have to back off and reembrace honor; the right would have to submit to be ruled; or there would have to be a definitive confrontation between these fractured factions – war, whether cold or hot.
The left has only advanced. They redefined contesting an election as “insurrection,” but only when a Republican does it. They redefined a slate of alternate electors, routine in a contested presidential election, as illegal “fake” electors. They focused indictments on groups that were likely to dissent from their ideological imperative, such as pro-lifers, concerned parents at school board meetings, and traditional Catholics. Throughout, what they have been doing is probing to see how far they can go into illegal intimidation and, yes, terror tactics before getting serious pushback. The deeper they get into this probing, the more objective serious crimes they have committed, so the more desperate they are to hold onto the power they have illegitimately seized.
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland, who has morphed into the head of the American Gestapo, recently bragged about how many J6 protestors he has jailed. He made clear that he will vigorously go after anyone who criticizes or protests the integrity of future election results.
The left constantly works to decimate election integrity procedures, claiming they limit ballot access. Let’s be blunt, when you work to destroy ballot integrity laws, it is because you are going to cheat and you want to make it harder to prove. It amazes me that their argument for this is that minorities are too stupid, incompetent, and lazy to get valid IDs. It is even more amazing that so many of the minorities they insult so contemptuously buy into this.
Now they push to allow illegal aliens to vote. Ah, but only illegal aliens from south of our border. For Russians and Eastern Europeans, they claim that even discussing American politics is illegal interference. They are utterly incoherent in their will to power.
The right has tried to make nice most of these last eight years, hoping that by showing some give it might bring the left back down to earth. The right also has a much better grasp of how stark and horrifying it will be if we have to fight to sustain the most basic of rights. So it has responded with a mixture of temperance, timidity, and stunned disbelief at how vicious the left has become – and how quickly.
Meantime, hundreds – maybe over a thousand – innocent people have been imprisoned on trumped-up charges which are really just a proxy for publicly defying the left. And our erstwhile American Gestapo head promises to crack down harder than ever.
We will not escape the existential confrontation that looms before us. If the Dems cheat effectively enough for Harris to prevail, the occupying regime will think it has secured enough power to subdue us all. It will begin stripping constitutional rights wholesale and jailing all those who complain or protest. They will do this, of course, in the name of “saving democracy.” If Trump prevails despite the fraudulent shenanigans and the open, shameless perversion of law, the left will release the hounds; they will set their paramilitary forces among Antifa, BLM, and Hamas supporters to set our cities to burn. If rioters (not protestors) are not arrested en masse with alacrity and then held, we will lose the country even after winning the election.
Over and over, the left has suffered setbacks in which it could have corrected course and come back to American principles of fair play and honor. Over and over, it has doubled down on mendacity. Each time, normal people have let it up easy, hoping it would moderate its tactics.
When people abandon God, the only hope they have for any sort of immortality is to hold power and dominance over others. Yes, it is a Dollar General form of immortality, but it becomes their whole reason for being, the only meaning (however impoverished) they know. It is their religion. It is most unlikely they will relinquish it now that they have reached a frenzy about it because an election says they must. Perhaps, finally, after 24 years of steadily ratcheting up the deceit and violence, the left will finally stand down if they can’t game the election into victory. I wouldn’t count on it, though.
In your community groups and other associations, it would be prudent to learn about military tactics, including asymmetrical warfare. I think that whatever happens in the next two months, this growing cold war we have been in for over a generation is going to turn hot. I stand on behalf of FREEDOM! (And not the freedom to get as many abortions as you like.)
What will you do; where will you stand if our cultural cold war turns hot –– and the bullets start flying?
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