An extra-constitutional response is necessary
Is anyone on the Right willing to do what it takes to stop the Left from behaving unconstitutionally?
I have written before that when one side acts unconstitutionally, the other cannot hope to win by adhering to the Constitution. You may retain the moral high ground, but what does that gain you? You think dictators care about the moral high ground? No, they only care about power.
In the United States today, the situation is this. The Democrats will do anything they can get away with to retain power. Not anything constitutional. Anything they can get away with. And it is worth noticing how genuinely and smugly gleeful they are about it.
Will anyone stop them?
I have no faith that anyone will. By the end of 2024, the United States will officially have become a one party state. How long after that will it take to become fully Soviet?
They want to put Donald Trump in the gulag. You think he will be the last? No, no, they will find a way to imprison any serious opposition candidate. Now that they know they can get away with it, this will become their go to strategy.
But what could be done?
Well, firstly, other states, other red states, could simply refuse to extradite Donald Trump to New York. Nope, we are not going to honor our constitutional responsibilities simply to fulfill your unconstitutional kangaroo court orders.
Further, red states simply must be willing to not comply with US government policies and any court orders to enforce them. For instance, red states should militarize the southern border. That's what any other sovereign nation would have done already.
But these are really just intermediate steps that could eventually lead to civil war. Sure one can hope to avoid war. But we simply must not allow the possibility of war to deter us from appropriate (necessarily extra-constitutional) responses. And I just don't think we have the moral leadership on the Right to act in this principled manner.
Could someone emerge? I guess it's possible. But it will not be Donald Trump. How do we know this? Because he was in power for four years, and did not really put up much of a fight. He is a man who simply enjoys the trappings of power. And like most people on the Right, he is under the misconception that the Constitution still matters.
That's what they all think.
In fact, the Right is so deluded that we still live in a constitutional republic that they will allow Trump to be jailed. I guess as some kind of martyr who will eventually, constitutionally, prevail. But even if he is not immediately jailed, Trump's appeals process must work its way through the New York courts before the US Supreme Court will consider it. How many years will that take? It's a game for suckers. Even if Trump does ultimately prevail, it will be late in Michelle Obama's first term. And by then, he will be too old to be a threat. And even if there are aspects of this case that can be immediately appealed to federal court, they are not going to be resolved before Michelle takes office in January.
But if the constitutional process is over, just for fun let's imagine what could be done? Well, Trump could go home to Florida and pick a fight with the New York judge (really the whole state of New York). Campaign on the fact that the New York legal system has gone full Blue Kangaroo. Disregard any gag orders. DeSantis would have to reject any extradition request. Same for other red states.
In other words, a unified Right must start fighting the Left under the new rules, the extra-constitutional rules, set by the Left. Otherwise, the Left will happily put Trump in jail. Like any other banana republic. If this scenario sounds ridiculous or unlikely to you, it is. But it is where we are today; the ridiculous has become reality.
I don't really think Trump has it in him. And even if he could find the moral courage, I think he still loses the election. The Democrats control the election process (the machinery and logistics) and they will not and cannot allow any Republican to win.
As I have written previously, I just cannot see the Right engaging in civil war. Even if it becomes necessary. That is, even if it becomes the only option available.
Even if it becomes the only moral option.
So we either live under Democrat one-party rule, or we leave the country.