“Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.” – Dick Morris

They’ve yet to complete counting the 2024 election ballots, but the overwhelming result is unquestionable: America resoundingly rejected the Communist infiltration of its government.  “Hyperbole!” some may say, but I do not exaggerate when I tell you that my conversations were filled with fear and anxiety of this from around the world. 

In 2020, I received messages from a friend in Romania with whom I had cooperated during the first Trump Administration on a technology project.  This person had grown up under Communist rule by Nicolae Ceaușescu, and they feared for the direction of our country, seeing the inexplicable election results from the 2020 election. More than sixty percent of Republicans polled would agree; the results belied our eyes.  

Over the last four years, America has experienced an unprecedented illogical and divisive culture war, from Marxist race campaigns like corporate DEI, to transgender ideology in the schools and universities, imprisoning political speech like meme makers and peaceful abortion center protestors, kicking in the doors of the political opposition and a former POTUS, lawfare, and most seriously attempted assassinations.  Am I blaming the political left for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump?  To this day, the mockingbird press and Politburo’s accepted rhetoric have been as palpable as a knife. They inspire unreasonable people to do unconscionable things.  

This past Monday, I received a message from this same Romanian friend whom I hadn’t spoken to throughout the Biden Administration.  They had watched what transpired not only in the United States but worldwide in the past four years: inflation, war, instability, and they noted that the direction of the world hinged on our ability to beat back this Communist infiltration.  Knowing they couldn’t get an honest political temperature from the American corporate press, they sought a ground-level feel for what might transpire.  I assured them we had executed our best effort and felt confident we would emerge victorious.  

Though some results remain outstanding, Donald Trump will become the first President in over a hundred years to win non-consecutive terms in the American Presidency. He will also become the first Republican President to win the Electoral College and the Popular vote since George H.W. Bush in 1988. All told Donald Trump will have won 312 electoral college votes, the most of any President since Barrack Obama’s historic victory in 2008. 

What Trump will inherit, which Obama did not, is the key to the entire federal government apparatus.  He stands to enjoy a clean sweep of the legislature, the courts, and the Presidency.   While this induces great anxiety across the left spectrum of government, a rational review bodes well for the American Left.  When Donald Trump held every lever of government in the name of global plague, he voluntarily relinquished that authority to state executives.  This tangerine tyrant is far more moderate and tempered than the Pravda lets on.  So much so that the Heritage Foundation, the actual author of Project 2025, refused to endorse him.

The left spectrum of politics has yet to be this soundly rejected since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election bid.  In the coming days, we’ll hear soundbites about soul-searching and introspection. Still, it doesn’t take a psychoanalyst to uncover that their campaign was the most arrogant, out-of-touch, and disjointed in American history. Consider first and foremost that the voter’s intent was removed entirely from the equation when they replaced the top of their ticket with one of the least popular politicians in American history after suppressing the viability of their last installation.  One must question whether they had resigned themselves to a loss and chose to waste useless ammunition and save for another day.  

For those candidates on the right who had the foresight to get on the ballot with Donald Trump, victory was their reward.  I have said this from the beginning, but the most significant miscalculation of the proponents of Idaho’s Proposition 1 Ranked Choice Voting referendum was attempting their scheme with Donald Trump on the ballot.  In a state that went to Donald Trump by sixty-three percent in 2020, Prop 1 was a guaranteed loser if the opponents could tap into that demographic, and they did.  The result was that the electorate rejected Proposition 1 by a decisive seventy percent, the Idaho legislature will increase its Republican super majority by four seats, Republicans will gain seats up and down local races, and the legislature has received a mandate to enshrine citizenship as a requirement of voting in the Idaho Constitution.    

I have always admired the organization and commitment of Idaho’s Democrats. They show up, knowing full well that they’re going to get shellacked. That is why Republicans were so infuriated and offended that Democrats thought it a reasonable solution to steal our grassroots voice to advance their cause. The effect of Proposition 1 would have been to neuter the Republican trademark, and then pit Republicans against each other to dilute their support and eventually leapfrog them in the polls.  Given a short period of time, they could legislate themselves majorities and continue the progressive march toward one party dominance.  

Why did Proposition 1 fail? Believe it or not, the Idaho Republican Party is truly a grassroots organization. Despite the rhetoric from proponents that this measure was somehow a grassroots effort against party power brokers, the reality is that it was funded by deep out-of-state pockets, they outspent us by large margins, and they were dishonest about their motives. Assuming that your opposition are braindead or incapable of seeing what your objective is was a dire miscalculation.  The ability of the grassroots of the Republican Party to unify around voluntary association made all the difference.  GOP Chairwoman Dorothy Moon is owed a debt of gratitude.

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This post first appeared at the Withdraw Consent blog.