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Brendan Jennings's avatar

The only acceptable option is the Constitutional one, to eliminate those departments and bureaucracies that go beyond those specified in the Constitution. Yes, that includes some federal “law enforcement” (sic) departments like the DOJ and the FBI. Federal marshals should be enough, and state prosecutors can bring cases themselves. The central government has gotten too full of itself and must be cut down to size.

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David Ziffer's avatar

Right but how are we going to do that? Obviously the president can't manage it. Trump, as effective as he was, couldn't do it in one term and he's not going to do it in another. Here's something that might actually work: Republicans must form a CONGRESS OF REPUBLICAN STATES: https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/republicans-must-form-a-congress

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George Dee's avatar

Suggest a look at the Convention of States movement. The people, via local and state governments must regain control of the federal government.

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Barry Rodgers's avatar

Great idea, the democrats can have their states and the republicans, as you proposed, will have their states thereby splitting the US into two pieces. Russia, China and Iran would love that. Is that what you want?

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David Ziffer's avatar

What we have now is a Democrat hegemony controlling federal agencies, the media, academia, and much of American industry, running a steamroller over us. It prosecutes conservatives and Republicans on totally fabricated charges while protecting leftists and Democrats from legitimate prosecution. It is indoctrinating our next generation against us. More than this, it flagrantly violates both the Constitution and other federal laws (e.g. our open border) with complete impunity. The idea that we have some sort of cohesive union at this point is preposterous. The only question is: will we leave our remaining Republican states to defend themselves and to be picked off one by one via Democrat election fraud and other infiltration, or will we stand as a group? History suggests that those who fight tyranny cohesively have better odds than those who needlessly tough it out alone.

If the Congress of Republican States works, then I suggest we expand the concept into a Congress of Republican Counties. The USA doesn't really have "red states" and "blue states". The USA is really an ocean of red counties, in the midst of which are some "blue" islands. Take for example New York State (see the end of my article "Republicans could be winning Biden's Immigration Game, at https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/republicans-could-be-winning-bidens): everyone imagines it as solid blue, when in fact there are 62 counties of which only 15 are Democrat controlled, five of which are New York City's boroughs. SO: with Republicans in control of probably 85% of the USA's land mass and probably 90% of its natural resources, it seems to me that we need our own informal organization that allows us to use what power and influence we have - first to resist the most insane and illegal initiatives of the Left, and then to start moving the nation back in our direction after decades of constant cultural and political retreat. https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/

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