Victor Davis Hanson
In 2024, the Left will spend $4-5 billion on the presidential and congressional races, with another $4-5 billion in free advertising in propaganda from network news, PBS, NPR, and the Silicon Valley mob. The latter again will do their leftist best, from rigging the order of Google searches, to banning supposed “misinformation” and “disinformation” from non-Twitter social media, to blacklisting traffickers in “hate speech” who might critique Democratic candidates.
The only remedy would be millions of poll watchers to turn out on Election Day 2024. The Right must draft legions of lawyers right now to ensure balloting laws are not massaged by leftist activist lawyers and judges.
There must be a rare conservative mass get-out-the-vote effort (i.e., mail-in and early balloting), targeted at rest homes and retirement communities. Republicans, until they restore integrity to balloting, must bring Barack Obama’s proverbial “gun to a knife fight” (a phrase Obama stole from David Mamet’s screenplay of The Untouchables) determination not to keep losing, and master third-party vote harvesting and ballot curing.
The Left does not have the numbers (look at the poor poll numbers on every of Joe Biden’s current policies), but neither do conservatives—unless they organize and trump the tactics of the Left. (No, I am not suggesting protestors mass outside Hunter Biden’s house in the fashion leftists swarm with impunity the homes of Supreme Court justices in felonious, but exempt, efforts to intimidate them into rendering more favorable opinions.)
But there are things the Right can do, if it wishes to stop losing the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections (George W. Bush’s razor-thin 2004 being the outlier)—and finally for the first time in 36 years win 51% of the popular vote, as George H.W. Bush last managed in 1988 against a weak Mike Dukakis.
So what would an aroused dragon do?
1. Start focusing on local and state prosecutor races to stop George Soros’s stealthy efforts to destroy American jurisprudence and render existing laws null and void. Nullifying the law is eroding the major American cities as we once knew them, and empowering thousands of career criminals to hurt, maim, and kill the innocent, and in general wreck the civilization of our now medieval urban centers.
Future historians will ponder how San Franciscans destroyed their once beautiful city in about three years, by defunding the police, decriminalizing theft and assault, transmogrifying the homeless into blameless victims, and creating a climate overtly hostile to the old two-parent, three-child nuclear family.
The only mystery is to what degree a San Franciscan—mugged, his house robbed, his shoe bottoms stained with human feces, his car window smashed, his beloved Whole Foods locked and shuttered, his Walgreen’s shelves caged like a prison infirmary, and his taxes and fees astronomical—finally cannot take it anymore and either leaves en masse or votes for adults of the real world?
2. Match lawsuit for lawsuit to ensure balloting in key states returns to majority vote casting on Election Day. Require identification to vote. Note the Left believes in process, or rather changing any rules and traditions deemed not useful.
When they are in the Senate minority, they praise the filibuster, when not, they would junk it as a “Jim Crow relic.” They worshiped the “blue wall” of the Electoral College. When it crumbled, it became a fossilized relic of old white-male Founders.
They loved the 9-person Warren Court that created new laws faster than the Congress. And they reveled in flipping to the left Republican appointees like Harry Blackman, William Brennan, Lewis Powell, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, and Earl Warren, as well as Sandra Day O’Connor and John Roberts. And when the court went rightward, then they blasted it as a racist clique and pushed for a 15-justice court, to be packed by the Left.
Remember, the Left will try to ensure that no more than 30 percent of the voters in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin cast ballots on Election Day 2024. They know the error rate on tens of millions of mail-in ballots is a fraction of what it is on millions of in-person, Election-Day cast ballots. Leftist logic: swarm registrars with hordes of mail-in ballots that they do not dare reject or do not have the time and resources to check for full names, proper addresses, valid signatures, or matches with registrar rolls.
In 2022, California sent out 21.9 million ballots. But only 11.1 million people supposedly voted.
That left about 10.8 million ghost ballots floating about and supposedly never cast and thus unaccounted for. The Left claims that the fact nearly 11 million ballots were mass mailed but never claimed or used, is no indication that the state simply sends out ballots to anyone who breathes or that many of the 11 million who voted were not eligible but simply got one of the 21.9 million ballots and sighed, “Well, why not then?”
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You hit the nail on the head!
Victor, you bring up “Ghost Ballots”... Steve Bannon recently had a guest on his show named Jay Valentine. He wrote a very convincing piece (I’m attaching below) for American Thinker on this very topic. With all the problems in our elections, no honest person believes, “we have the most safe and secure elections”. Out of everyone “elected” we can probably count on 2 hands the ones that were actually chosen by the people (if it’s even that many). https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/2024_how_to_outcompute_the_left.html
Roger.... Professor Hanson.... Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the leader of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, is attributed as saying words to the effect... "I am afraid we have only awakened a sleeping tiger". Indeed he was correct in 1941. I hope and pray in 2023 after the Democrats finish their destruction of our military that our Snoring Dragon has the remanets of a military that can save America from the Evil forces marshaling around us.
Dr. Hanson: Seems that the concern for free and fair elections, and a heightened sense to prevent election fraud is found in the electorate ranks, but not in the ranks of the RNC and our Republican betters. At The American Thinker, there is a contributor , Jay Valentine, who has shown how to stop election fraud using high tech approaches. He offered this technology to the RNC for the 2022 mid-terms. He was flatly turned down. He showed how the left did it, how they committed voter/election/ballot fraud. And how they will do it again. It can be stopped!
If the same election "irregularities" happen in 2024 as in 2020 (even with the admission that there is no firm evidence to prove fraud in 2020), I think that all hell may break loose leading to the demise of the republic. I sincerely hope this does not happen but I'm not holding my breath. Be prepared. Pray for the best. Expect the worse.
I was at the California DMV 3 years ago and they have a "motor voter Program", which means that anyone obtaining a driver's license, is automatically sent a mail in ballot. I asked the clerk if the illegal aliens got ballots and she said yes. The clerk said she was not supposed to talk to the public about that.
I wholeheartedly agree that we, as conservatives, must play the long game. As a citizen of the State of Georgia, I can attest to the fact that a large percentage of the votes cast in the last election were bought. I can also say, with a straight face, that it did not help defeat Warnock when the former President told conservatives to stay home and not vote because the system was rigged. Conservatives had a chance to elect a Republican senator, which would have greatly helped, but were put off track by a bruised super ego. Hopefully we can move forward and play the long game.
Dear Dr. Hanson: Part of being a good citizen is (should be) to get your voting credentials set up well in advance to any election. If one fails to do so, one should not be allowed to vote. If voting is important to the citizen, they will comply so they can vote. If a state wishes to allow election day registration, the citizen should be registered but unable to vote until the next election. Not allowed to vote in the election that is in process. We as citizens have the responsibility to follow reasonable rules to ensure that we can vote and that confusion, last minute hi jinks, and outright fraud are prevented. After all, people died for our right to do so. We should be able and willing to endure the inconvenience of pre-registering based on rules established by our elected state legislatures. Oh, I think SCOTUS overruled the constitution on that state legislature thing recently. Election rules should not be able to be changed by any method without a six-month waiting period prior to the election they become effective.
Elections to create representative governments are a measure of how civilized a society is. As for the supreme battle to win a national presidential election, let us not ignore the lessons learned by that Mr. Pillow guy. Democracy dies in the darkness within the electronic voting machines. Trust in God, but demand verification from all others If I may pick at a nit: the political word ‘conservative’. On one hand there are those who wish to conserve their country, their way of life, their identity from generations who called this home. On the other hand, there are those whose main concern is conserving their wealth. The latter run the RNC.
How can a great democracy exist without honest elections? Oh!