I would argue that aside from 1860, 1984 was the most important election in American history thus far. Ronald Reagan was running against Jimmy Carter’s vice president Walter Mondale. America, at the end of the Carter administration was beleaguered, both emotionally and economically. The Iranian Hostage countdown had Americans glued to their television sets and the combination of double digit inflation and interest rates would knock them for a loop through the first couple of Reagan’s years.
But then Reagan’s policies began to kick in. Lower taxes,
less regulation and increased energy output put the country on a path that
would generate GDP
growth of 7.2% in 1984, a number not seen since 1951 and one we’ve not seen
since. At the same time, Reagan’s rebuilding of the American military and his
unwavering support of freedom in the face of Communism made Americans feel
confident on the world stage for the first time in two decades.
All of this translated into something unprecedented in
American history.
In 1788 and 1792 George Washington won both elections by unanimous
Electoral College votes. Following
that, in 1820 James Monroe won every state and every Elector except for one.
From that point forward no president ever won every state or
the Electoral College by a unanimous vote.
A couple came close, including FDR winning all states but two in 1936
and Nixon winning 49 states in 1972, losing one state, Massachusetts, and
DC.
In 1984 Reagan equaled Nixon’s feat and won
every single state other than one, Minnesota, Mondale’s home state, and DC.
So, since 1968 the GOP had triumphed in 4 out of 5 elections and in only 12
years had twice won with 49 of 50 states. For Democrats, that could not stand…
They knew that if they didn’t do something, they’d find
themselves in a wilderness like they’d never seen before. And do something they did. The first thing they did was to dupe Ronald
Reagan into signing the 1986
Immigration and Border Control Act into law. In “exchange” for making 2.7 million illegals
citizens, the Democrats (assisted by worthless Republicans led by the feckless Alan
Simpson) promised to build a wall on the southern border.
But lying to Reagan wasn’t the only thing Democrats did. Always
keeping their eyes on the long game, they recognized that having millions of
new illegals doesn’t help them a lot if they can’t vote. (Although they skew
Congressional apportionment, typically towards Democrats.) So they set in place a plan that would
eventually allow them to register to vote.
That plan was the 1993 Motor Voter Act, signed by Bill Clinton and ostensibly
sold as a law make it easier to register “underrepresented” voters.
At the time illegals weren’t allowed to get licenses in the
United States, but again, Democrats were playing the long game and today 19
states and the District of Columbia do provide them. And to no one’s surprise, almost
every one of those states is blue.
Together these states represent 230 of the 270 Electoral College votes
necessary to win the White House and eventually the law morphed into a vehicle
facilitating immigrants and illegals registering to vote.
But like any good insurgency, the Democrats had multiple
areas of attack. Beyond flooding the country with new Democrats, they were
doing other things as well.
One of those was extending
the voting window. This one would seem like it’s bipartisan as it applies
equally to everyone. But not so much.
There’s a reason most negotiators will tell you to let the other person make
the first offer in a negotiation. Aside
from the power dynamic, it gives you insight into what cards your opponent is holding. The same holds true here. It’s much easier to understand how many votes
you need to manufacture if you know in advance what the numbers against you
are. That’s exactly what we saw in 2020
when as the 3rd of November closed out Donald Trump was ahead in a
handful of states that flipped
to Joe Biden by just enough votes to win. Georgia
with 4.9 million votes was decided by 11,800 votes or less than .2% of the
total votes. Arizona,
with 3.3 million votes was decided by 10,400, or .3% of the total. Similarly Wisconsin, with 3.2 million votes cast
was decided by 20,000 votes, or .6%. Together those three
states represent 37 Electoral College votes, which are exactly the number
necessary to flip the election from Trump to Biden. (A 269 tie would have sent
the election to the House, where states vote by delegation and where the GOP
had a majority.) To understand how they pulled this off, read Mollie
Hemingway’s Rigged.
Then of course there’s machine voting. Although the two
parties have gone back and forth over this for years, the reality is, and
always has been that they are simply computers which are easily hackable. Despite years of Democrats claiming machine voting was unsafe,
immediately after Trump “lost” we were told 2020 was the most secure election ever,
this despite overwhelming proof that Dominion
and other machines are not,
in fact, even remotely secure.
The Holy Grail of Democrat cheating is mail in voting. Like computer voting, mail in voting provides
endless opportunities for cheating, such as retirement
home and homeless
vote harvesting, as well as eliminating signature
verification. Indeed, in 2020 Democrats used the COVID hysteria to change
voting laws and balloon
mail in voting across the country so that by election day over
65 million people or 1/3 of the electorate had already voted via mail.
And even for those who actually turn up to vote in person,
Democrats make it easy to cheat.
Democrats have fought voter ID laws for decades. If a picture is worth a
thousand words a picture of a Voter ID map is worth countless elections. As one
can see, almost every Democrat state has no Voter ID while almost every solidly
GOP state requires photo ID. This, despite the fact that 80% of Americans support
Voter ID laws. (In Europe, which Democrats aspire to emulate, 46
out of 47 countries require photo ID to vote.)
There’s more of course, from fighting
efforts to clean up voter rolls to using lawfare to harm opponents, to
using government agencies to quash free speech, but the bottom line is,
Democrats cheat every opportunity they get, because they simply can’t win
otherwise.
As America careens towards the most consequential election in
our history, one that presents a stark choice between an imperfect but
competent patriot and a Communist imbecile in Democrat clothing, Republicans need
to understand what they are up against. A Democrat party that will sacrifice
everything, from children to communities to the lives of citizens in their
quest for power will eliminate the Constitution and the Republic without
hesitation. They’ve told us as much. We
should believe them and act accordingly. Now is not the time for timidity. As IKE said:
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or
the timid."