Or third parties, plural. Competition is good. But consider a third party that picks up where traditional patriots have gotten left in the lurch.
It is still unclear how Donald Trump got sucked into the production of the new reality show “Dystopia” starring Mephistopheles as Lindsey Graham, but there he is, swinging sticks with Putin and slowly backing off other MAGA priorities.
Meanwhile a host of formerly independent thinkers from Tulsi Gabbard to Robert Malone who formed the bulk of the Biden opposition have been brought into Trump’s government and now face the agonizing decision: Finally in a place where I can make the greatest difference with my talents, do I follow the Commander in Chief like a good soldier, or resign as a conscientious objector? Do I stay on as the face of the modern regime of pestilence, perversion, and warfare while trying to work against it?
It is also unclear what Elon Musk’s recently announced America Party has as its goals other than to unseat legislators who voted for the Big Beautiful Bill. That’s rather narrow and negative and it arouses no great passion, but it does at least reflect dissatisfaction with the traditional two party system.
But disaffected Americans with the values that made America the shining light to the world now have to seek another path.
Third party efforts in the past have tended to center around strong personalities who were shooting for the presidency like Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan. History has shown that is not a winning approach.
To have a chance to succeed, and make a difference, a third party should orient itself instead toward Congress. It should be formed by Congressional candidates – Reps and Senators – who are principled, independent, and idealogically speaking, strict Constitutional contructionists.
And it would not take a great number of these third party Legislators and Senators to hold great sway in the political process. After all, the electorate and Congress itself are fairly evenly divided between red and blue. A relatively small number of idealogically aligned third party Congressmen and Senators would hold the deciding bloc of votes on nearly every major issue, from impeachment to spending bills to investigations of corruption, bloat, and the surveillance state.
We know who these people are who are already in Congress: Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, and Tim Burchett come immediately to mind. Maybe even on the blue side John Fetterman. There are several others, of course.
To qualify as members of this third party – let’s call it the Homeland Party for a working title – anyone running under its banner should sign an oath to commit to certain common standards. For examples: Paper ballots and Voter I.D.; regular order; a line item veto; strong defense but declaration of war for all major military engagement; tight borders but streamlined legal immigration; preeminence of local rule and allegiance to the Bill of Rights; strict campaign funding standards; vigorous anti-trust enforcement; a balanced budget; restriction of federal police and the spooks; and so on.
Whoever the president is, of whichever of the traditional two parties, would have to convince this bloc of Homeland Party office holders to pass legislation. It would help keep the major parties honest and force them to root out the shadow government. It would temper the cult of personality.
There is no doubt that candidates who commit to the Homeland Party will receive support from both Democratic and Republican voters. Everybody is sick of the Uniparty. Everybody abhors the Deep State. MAGA voters in particular are totally disillusioned by the turn that the Trump administration has taken of late. And traditional Democrat voters feel their party had abandoned them for far left wacko tangents like LGBTQETC and the like.
There is still over a year to the midterms. Plenty of time to gitter going. Anybody game?
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