https://www.theepochtimes.com/what-is-to-be-done-see-the-adversary-clearly_3898947.html?utm_source=partner&fbclid=IwAR3nCM6JiR0KDmAyFXPB0OH453Qnx8cZBWMz-lUyU5LXrXpMSfwWO1a0OEwWhat Is to Be Done? See the Adversary Clearly(Fifth in a series)
by Michael Walsh
July 12, 2021
With Donald Trump’s reappearance on the political scene a few days ago at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, the former president has once again emerged as the activists’ choice for the 2024 nomination—if the election were held today. Trump won the votes of 70 percent of the attendees, followed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis at 21 percent; the others, including Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo, each collected less than one percent of the straw vote.
The presidential election, however, isn’t going to be held today or any other day except (nominally) Nov. 5, 2024. At least the Republicans had better hope that’s the case. Because in our ongoing discussion of What Is to Be Done, a crucial element of my prescriptions is regaining control of our electoral system—something, to its credit, the Republican Party actually seems to be trying to do following the bitter lesson of 2020.
As I’ve written many times in these pages, we no longer have an Election Day, but rather a rolling plebiscite that includes not only bogus “absentee” ballots for those in the country but too lazy or too stupid to get to the polls on the day designated by the U.S. Code, but now also “curated” ballots for those too dumb to correctly mark their choices; “harvested” ballots, those delivered by activists purporting to be from lawful voters; “early” ballots, in other words, illegal ballots; and even “late” ballots, in other words, double-plus illegal ballots.
As a result, the 2020 election was the first in American history in which the vote on Election Day itself was secondary. With the calm confidence of “a Christian holding four aces”—Mark Twain’s famous phrase—the Democrats knew going into the count on the night of Nov. 4 that the game was already rigged, and that they had enough “votes” in the bank they could trot out at 4 a.m. that it didn’t matter how far ahead Trump was as the polls closed.
This is a standard Democrat trick, having been tested successfully over the past few cycles in places like Washington state, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, where boxes of ballots suddenly fall off trucks, get found in the trunks of cars, or otherwise materialize, even as Democrat judges abruptly but predictably decide to order the polls in certain friendly precincts to stay open a few hours after they were supposed to have closed, the better to overcome however large a lead the Republicans might have.
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