If This Were the Last Election, Would It Change How You Vote?
If Reforms Are Not Enacted, This May Be The Last Free American Election
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All over social media, I’m seeing conservatives openly admitting that they’re unwilling to vote for Trump.
If you’re paying attention at all, you’ve no doubt seen the same thing. Maybe you’re one of the people writing someone in, voting third party, or abstaining.
This is my appeal to you to reconsider. Please, I hope you’ll hear me out.
Look, I get it. I’ve done it. I’ve voted third party, knowing that my candidate can’t win, thinking I was “sending a message.” I’ve argued that forcing a political party to lose elections because the candidate they put up is simply unacceptable is the only way to get them to change. I’ve seriously considered abstaining from voting altogether, wondering if it’s all just a farce and our participation doesn’t truly affect outcomes. I’ve felt that my vote is nothing more than a rounding error in a system where millions of votes are supposedly counted and outcomes increasingly seem rigged.
But here’s the thing:
We live, for now at least, under at least the pretense that this is still a government of, by, and for the people. We don’t know for certain how true that is. We don’t know how much cheating they’re doing, or how much they can get away with without being caught.
At a recent Trump rally, Elon Musk, who has been becoming increasingly involved in and concerned about this election, spoke about the recent election in Venezuela, and how that country should serve as a wake-up call to Americans:
We aren’t Venezuela yet, but how much time do we have?
There May Not Be Another Election After This - And We Really Mean It This Time
I’ll be 47 next month. For as long as I can remember, every election was billed as “the most important election of your lifetime.” The fear of what will happen if we don’t vote for the “anointed one” on the ticket has been used to manipulate us into voting for guys like John McCain and Mitt Romney — men I wouldn’t even want to have a beer with, let alone run the country.
Admittedly, McCain was one I could not pull the lever for. Sadly, I sold out and voted for Mitt. Fat lot of good it did. Watching Obama get re-elected over Romney in 2012 was a bit of a black pill moment for me. It was when my opinion on elections began to sour.
Which is why, as a former card-carrying idealist, I never thought I would become the guy making arguments for holding your nose and voting, but here we are.
Why?
Well, the boy may have been caught crying wolf before, but remember the story: when the real wolf came, nobody listened.
This may actually be the last election.
I think the warnings and the rhetoric of the past may not have been wrong, it may simply have been early. The bad thing you hope isn’t going to happen may, in fact, not happen when you expect it to.
Until suddenly it does.
We are on a precipice. Many of you can feel it. Something is about to break.
79% of the country, Bret Baier told Kamala Harris in their recent interview, thinks the country is going in the wrong direction.
She deflected the blame to Trump, and refused to answer the question.
79% of the country is a lot of people. With a population of just under 346 million, if the polling data is right, that amount to over 273 million Americans who are deeply concerned.
Immigration and Border Security are THE Defining Issues of This Election
The importance of the Second Amendment in defense of the First isn’t the only warning Musk has been sounding. The Tesla and SpaceX founder, who bought Twitter (now “X”) for the express purpose of preserving free speech online, is not now, and has never been, a Republican. He has admitted to previously voting Democrat and is not known holding particularly conservative views.
Nevertheless, Musk sees an existential threat to the future of our nation if Trump doesn’t win. It isn’t about the man himself, but the policies and freedoms he represents, which will be taken away or changed for the worse if he loses.
And the most important of these is immigration, and the ways it will be used to undermine our electoral system and flood our cities and towns with foreigners, many of whom are criminals.
In a recent tweet, Musk explained his well-grounded fear:
Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!
Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years.
The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the “Democratic” Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!
Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying “asylum seekers”, who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election.
America then becomes a one-party state and Democracy is over. The only “elections” will be the Democratic Party primaries. This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.
The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. Once the whole country is controlled by one party, there will be no escape.
Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.
If you haven’t been to California recently, you should go. It is arguably one of the most beautiful pieces of land on the planet, California has become a mess of over-regulation, high taxes, high prices for houses and goods, the heftiest price at the pump of any of the continental states, a massive crisis of homelessness and drug abuse, and crumbling infrastructure. Every month, thousands of people leave California to move to other states.
It wasn’t so long ago that California was seen as the embodiment of the American Dream.
So what happened? Leftist policies. And one of the biggest of those policies is the utilization of immigration to re-structure voting demographics in favor of the Democratic party.
If you think Musk is being hyperbolic about the plan to make immigrants into voting citizens as quickly as possible, here’s Nancy Pelosi admitting it on national television, under guise of giving them that same “American Dream” that California no longer seems to care about providing to its own people:
California may love illegal immigrants, but it has become so petty, so overbearing to its most productive citizens — like Musk — that its Coastal Commission wants to scrap future SpaceX launches from the state because they don’t like Musk’s Tweets.
Imagine that at a national level. Imagine the people saying that Free Speech and the Constitution are too dangerous and need to be curtailed being in power, forever.
As I mentioned in a recent post, when I was a kid, I was exposed primarily to the talk radio-driven, neoconservative version of Republican politics. As a young man, only two years out of college, I livestreamed (which was still a pretty unusual thing to be able to do) footage of the “Shock and Awe” campaign that began the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and I cheered it on.
But something in me changed. I started listening to alternative voices. Glenn Beck was just hitting his stride in his transition from Top 40 DJ to political commentator. I had recently moved to the DC metro area, and Beck’s show was on a local AM radio station. His voice was new to me. And unlike Limbaugh, Hannity, and the other conservative voices that dominated the airwaves in those days, he was questioning the official narrative.
Soon, I wound up subscribing to The American Conservative for an alternative view. My politics began to change. I started reading the books of Pat Buchanan, one of the magazine’s founders. And it was in his perhaps most seminal work, The Death of the West, that I first encountered — nearly 20 years ago — the notion that Musk is now warning us is about to come to pass. Please allow me this extended excerpt, because I believe it’s critically important:
For a quarter century, Democrats were unable to pick the GOP lock on the presidency, because they could not shake loose the Republican grip on the white vote. With the exception of Lyndon Johnson’s landslide of 1964, no Democrat since Truman in 1948 had won the white vote. What broke the GOP lock on the presidency was the Immigration Act of 1965.
During the anti-Soviet riots in East Berlin in 1953, Bertolt Brecht, the Communist playwright, quipped, “Would it not be easier … for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?” In the last thirty years, America has begun to import a new electorate, as Republicans cheerfully backed an immigration policy tilted to the Third World that enlarged the Democratic base and loosened the grip that Nixon and Reagan had given them on the presidency of the United States.
In 1996, the GOP was rewarded. Six of the 7 states with the largest numbers of immigrants—California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas—went for Clinton. In 2000, 5 went for Gore, and Florida was a dead heat. Of the 15 states with the most foreign-born, Bush lost 10. But of the 10 states with the smallest shares of foreign-born-Montana, Mississippi, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Dakota, North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas—Bush swept all 10.
Among the states with the most immigrants, only Texas has been reliably Republican, but now it is going the way of California. In the 1990s, Texas took in 3.2 million new residents as the Hispanic share of Texas’s population shot from 25 percent to 33 percent. Hispanics are now the major ethnic group in four of Texas’s five biggest cities: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso. “Non-Hispanic Whites May Soon Be a Minority in Texas” said a recent headline in the New York Times.48 With the Anglo population down from 60 percent in 1990 to 53 percent, the day when whites are a minority in Texas for the first time since before the Alamo is coming soon. “Projections show that by 2005,” says the Dallas Morning News, “fewer than half of Texans will be white.”
AMERICA IS GOING the way of California and Texas. “In 1960, the U.S. population was 88.6 percent white; in 1990, it was only 75.6 percent—a drop of 13 percentage points in thirty years … . [By 2020] the proportion of whites could fall as low as 61 percent.” So writes Peter Brimelow of Forbes. By 2050, Euro-Americans, the largest and most loyal share of the electorate the GOP has, will be a minority, due to an immigration policy that is championed by Republicans. John Stuart Mill was not altogether wrong when he branded the Tories “the Stupid Party.”
HISPANICS ARE THE fastest-growing segment of America’s population. They were 6.4 percent of the U.S. population in 1980, 9 percent by 1990, and in 2000 over 12 percent. “The Hispanic fertility rates are quite a bit higher than the white or black population. They are at the levels of the baby boom era of the 1950s,” says Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Urban Institute. At 35.4 million, Hispanics now equal African Americans in numbers and are becoming as Democratic in voting preferences. [Emphasis added]
Buchanan, Patrick J.. The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (pp. 135-136). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (
Again, this book was written in 2002. The handwriting has been on the wall for quite a long time.
Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?
Everyone I know is struggling. The cost of everything is out of control. For large families like mine, making ends meet requires incomes well above $100,000 in most metro areas — far higher than the national average income. Homes have doubled in price almost everywhere worth living. We just moved from outrageously overpriced Phoenix to much more affordable North Carolina, and yet the reduction in expenses is not enough to allow us to breathe easy. Every month, we’ve been coming up short. Every trip to the regular grocery store is $150. Every trip to Costco is more like $500-600. Our car insurance is $700 a month after extensive shopping around. Our health insurance is nearly double that. We almost never eat out, we make all our meals at home, we drive two cars that each have over 80,000 miles, and we don’t go on vacation.
Just the basics are expensive enough.
We are involved in foreign wars that could easily escalate into global ones. I have five sons, three of whom are teenagers. By the end of the next presidential term, they will be 22, 19, and 18, respectively. All of draft age. I not only don’t want the wars in the Middle East and Asia to come home to America, I don’t want my sons being sent to go die in them. I don’t even know why we’re involved. The pretense that we’re “making the world safe for democracy” isn’t even mentioned anymore.
Nobody would believe it if it were.
And then there’s the border. An open border is hard enough on economics, and it certainly is affecting elections, but there’s the additional matter that actual hardened criminals are flooding in. Here’s a video of Dr. Phil talking to Victor Avila, a retired US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, about what’s happening with criminal migration. He doesn’t mince words:
In an article at City Journal, investigative journalist Christopher Rufo explains how immigrants from places like Haiti aren’t just organically showing up in small-town American communities, but are actively being sent there by the US Government. Specifically, he details the travails of former Chartleroi, a former steel town of approximately 4,000 residents just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
The town’s population had steadily declined since the middle of the twentieth century, with the most recent Census reporting slightly more than 4,000 residents. Then, suddenly, things changed. Local officials estimate that approximately 2,000 predominantly Haitian migrants have moved in. The town’s Belgium Club and Slovak Club are mostly quiet nowadays, while the Haitians and other recent immigrants have quickly established their presence, even dominance, in a dilapidated corridor downtown.
This change—the replacement of the old ethnics with the new ethnics—is an archetypal American story. And, as in the past, it has caused anxieties and, at times, conflict.
The municipal government has felt the strain. The town, already struggling with high rates of poverty and unemployment, has been forced to assimilate thousands of new arrivals. The schools now crowd with new Haitian pupils, and have had to hire translators and English teachers. Some of the old pipes downtown have started releasing the smell of sewage. And, according to a town councilman, there is a growing sense of trepidation about the alarming number of car crashes, with some vehicles reportedly slamming into buildings.
Among the city’s old guard, frustrations are starting to boil over. Instead of being used to revitalize these communities, these residents argue, resources get redirected to the new arrivals, who undercut wages, drive rents up, and, so far, have failed to assimilate. Worst of all, these residents say, they had no choice—there was never a vote on the question of migration; it simply materialized.
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The basic pattern in Charleroi has been replicated in thousands of cities and towns across America: the federal government has opened the borders to all comers; a web of publicly funded NGOs has facilitated the flow of migrants within the country; local industries have welcomed the arrival of cheap, pliant labor. And, under these enormous pressures, places like Charleroi often revert to an older form: that of the company town, in which an open conspiracy of government, charity, and industry reshapes the society to its advantage—whether the citizens want it or not.
Perhaps this all sounds like a bunch of vague and unfounded accusations, but it isn’t. Rufo details how the federal government under the Biden administration has “admitted more than 210,000 Haitians through its controversial Humanitarian Parole Program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), which it paused in early August and has since relaunched.”
And then there are the NGOs, dubbed “national resettlement agencies,” who work to facilitate placement of these migrants.
“The scale of this effort,” writes Rufo, “is astounding. These agencies are affiliated with more than 340 local offices nationwide and have received some $5.5 billion in new awards since 2021. And, because they are technically non-governmental institutions, they are not required to disclose detailed information about their operations.”
More:
In Charleroi, one of the most active resettlement agencies is Jewish Family and Community Services Pittsburgh. According to a September Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report, JFCS staff have been traveling to Charleroi weekly for the past year and a half to resettle many of the migrants. The organization has offered to help migrants sign up for welfare programs, including SNAP, Medicaid, and direct financial assistance. While JFCS Pittsburgh offers “employment services” to migrants, it denies any involvement with the employer and staffing agencies that were the focus of our investigation.
While local businesses struggle and fail, those who hire or cater to immigrants are flush with cash. Staffing agencies place migrants in factories and other low-skilled labor positions, while NGOs sign them up for government benefits like food stamps, healthcare, and direct financial assistance. Some businesses are actually buying up houses to provide accommodations to their new migrant workforce — removing housing inventory and driving up prices for locals.
Rufo lays out the dilemma:
The key question in Charleroi is the fundamental question of politics: Who decides? The citizens of the United States, and of Charleroi, have been assured since birth that they are the ultimate sovereign. The government, they were told, must earn the consent of the governed. But the people of Charleroi were never asked if they wanted to submit their borough to an experiment in mass migration. Others chose for them—and slandered them when they objected.
Places like Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and Springfield, Ohio, are just the bellwethers here. Countless American communities are being forced to absorb immigrants at a pace that is disruptive to native populations and local economies and resources. In towns like Aurora, Colorado, gangs of Venezuelan immigrants are taking over apartment complexes, and are allegedly extorting, committing violence, and forcing young women into prostitution. CBZ Management, which claims to run some of the properties in question, posted recently about what happened to one of their employees when he tried to put a stop to the takeover of one of their apartment buildings:
The story was picked up by the New York Post. The video is chilling:
Standing on Principle Is a Noble Thing, But It Only Makes a Difference If You’re Free
I’ve supported third party candidates like Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin. I’ve been a single-issue voter for most of my life, putting abortion before all else, since I think it’s the greatest evil that we as a nation are guilty of. Even after stepping away from religion, which was a driving force in my views, I remain steadfast in my belief — based on science, not faith — that abortion is nothing less than the murder of an innocent human being.
But voting for a write-in candidate, or abstaining, isn’t going to do the trick this time. It not only won’t save any babies, it won’t leave us with the kind of nation where babies even can be saved.
We have to operate within a functional legal and electoral framework in order to have a say in anything that happens. If we are set up to lose every election for the foreseeable future, our opinions on issues as fundamental as abortion or as important as immigration or economic or foreign policy may as well not exist at all.
If the Left gets their way, we will be rendered legally powerless, forever.
Right now, this election is much less about any individual candidate, and much more about the future of the democratic process in America.
Some of you no doubt hate Trump. He is unquestionably a polarizing figure. While I have come to like and appreciate him in general, there are times when he drives me crazy. I do not know that he is the best representation of Americans, but I have come to believe he is the solution we need right now.
Given the chance, I would have had no problem voting for Ron DeSantis or Vivek Ramaswamy or JD Vance at the top of a ticket. I think they’re all more articulate, less controversial, and probably more competent at governance than Trump.
But Trump is a force of nature.
He has continued to prove that he stands alone in our current moment of conservative politics. Republican voters in this country are overwhelmingly drawn to him, and he effortlessly secured the nomination, even in a field of worthy candidates.
The Left despises him on a level that looks like a kind of politically-induced mental illness. He is as repulsive a figure to one side as he is attractive to the other.
And they have done everything they can to try to destroy him.
They refer to him as “Hitler.” They call him a “fascist.” They are convinced, despite his peaceful handover of the presidency even as he loudly contested the 2020 election results, that he has aims on being a tyrannical dictator who will never give up power. They insist, on the basis of the most frivolous and absurd of civil cases, with no witnesses and a mentally questionable accuser who can’t even recall specific details about her allegations, that he is a “rapist” as well.
Lawsuit after lawsuit has been brought against him, many of them clearly frivolous. The recent bank loan fraud case against Trump in New York, at the conclusion of which the real estate billionaire was issued a staggering judgment of nearly $500 million, looks as though it’s about to be overturned. In fact, the arguments by the prosecution were so specious, the appellate court appeared to find no merit in the case. According to multiple reports, the prosecution all but begged in their closing arguments not to be censured by the panel of five appellate judges for bringing a politically motivated case:
And the hatred of Trump is not just limited to our courts or political discourse. They are actively trying to kill him.
Multiple assassination attempts have already been staged against Trump in the past few months, and more will no doubt be coming. Congressman Matt Gaetz has warned of John Wick-style professional assassination teams in the US right now, looking to take the former president out:
"I had a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security in my office before the second assassination attempt, saying that what he has assessed is that there are five known assassination teams in the United States, three inspired by other governments, two that are here, that are known domestic assassination teams," Gaetz said on "Human Events Daily."
"And with that, this individual was coming to me, concerned that the force protection around President Trump, even prior to that second assassination attempt, was not sufficient for what it needed to be, and the coordination at that level, at the dignitary protection level is like the bare minimum that we have to do to keep our presidents, our presidential candidates, safe while they're on the trail," he went on.
"Five teams that we know are targeting Trump," he clarified.
The threats have gotten so bad, Trump has had to request military-level security and transport, “including military aircraft capable of shooting down surface-to-air missiles”.
What is it about Trump that drives people so insane? Why are so many powerful people trying to destroy him — if not outright kill him?
These are the same people who gave you extended COVID lockdowns, vaccine passports, and the Great Reset. They are the believers in “build back better,” a euphemism for “never letting a crisis go to waste.” They want to curtail your speech, repeal your fundamental freedoms, and cancel or even imprison you if you disagree. And they are vying for control of the most powerful nation in the world, and willing to move heaven and earth to get what they want.
We have to pick a side. We do not get to sit out this conflict.
We have already lived through nearly four years of a puppet presidency. I don’t think there’s any question I’ve seen asked more frequently in the past few months than, “Who is actually running the country?” Kamala Harris offers no indication that she would be doing so, in the event of an electoral victory, nor even that she is capable of doing the job if she wanted to. Her own party didn’t even risk allowing their own constituents to vote for her in a primary, after how poorly she did back in the primaries in 2019. Plenty of lifelong Democrats are questioning why their votes don’t matter.
The answer to who is running things, of course, is at least superficially obvious: the Left has been putting a Potemkin Village in place. They have been supplanting our Constitutional Republic with something that only offers the appearance of voter participation, while all the power and money is concentrated in the hands of puppet masters behind the scenes. Who exactly those puppet masters are is a deeper question, but we see some of them slithering effortlessly through the usually restrictive confines of our typically bureaucratically-ossified state.
For example, under Biden’s FCC, the Soros family — long known for using their wealth to manipulate US politics — were allowed an expedited purchase of over 220 radio stations with a total audience of nearly half the American Population. This fast-tracking of what amounts to a nakedly political propagandist purchase is unprecedented in US history. (The purchase is being investigated by the House Oversight committee, but even if they can do something, they won’t get it done before November. Sometimes cheating is just about running out the clock.)
Which brings us back to Trump.
When it comes to the executive we need running the country, we don’t just need a smart guy. We need a guy who can break things. Who can take an endless pounding and keep coming back. Who doesn’t care what anyone thinks about him or does to him.
We need a man who can stand up and tell his fellow citizens to fight when everything they care about is under threat.
Trump has captured the heart of the Everyman. He is extremely wealthy and lives an ostentatiously lavish life, and yet he is loved by low-income wage earners and the working class. People don’t just like him, they love him.
This phenomenon will be studied for years to come.
The last time I can think of a political figure so riveting the masses was Napoleon. When I studied history in college, I was mystified that a man could give a speech to an opposing army and turn the forces arrayed against him to his side. But now I am witnessing something similar.
Trump has turned voters and built coalitions nobody else could have. His resilience in the face of everything they’ve thrown at him is the stuff of legend. And it may be, more than anything else, the thing that connects him to people.
In Asheville, North Carolina today, where Hurricane Helene recovery efforts are ongoing almost a week later, a local business owner who lost everything said this to Trump, and I believe it’s arguably the most succinct explanation as to why so much of the nation has rallied behind him:
For those who can’t listen to the audio, here’s what he said:
I believe that you can serve as a great inspiration to this community right now. And the reason being is, I believe God has given you an indominable spirit. No matter what gets thrown at you, you find a way to press through. And I think that’ll serve as an inspiration to this community, to press on, and move forward. I can’t think of anything I’d rather have than a warrior leading our country. A warrior who with the help of God, and faith and prayer, will lead this community, these communities, and this country, to greatness.
He may not be the most rational, obvious choice. But he is indisputably the best choice for the country at this time.
For the sake of thwarting those who want to take away our freedoms, and even in service of future conscience voting, please consider voting for Trump.
He’s the best, and only, chance we’ve got.