Electoral politics are not enough to ensure our liberty. We need bold action from the executive branch to head off the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 project before it is forced upon us all. That means, specifically, President Biden or whomever might ultimately step into his job in the next few weeks needs to be willing to use the force of law to set us right before liberty is destroyed forever. All options must be on the table, no matter how unseemly.
The NY Times quoted the leader of the 2025 project.
The president of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has developed a prominent series of policy plans to overhaul the federal government under a Republican president, said on Tuesday that the country was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
This confirms that between the US Supreme Court, Donald Trump, and certain circuit courts, we are in the middle of another coup attempt, this time leading with a significantly better organized coup operating under color of law and legal precedent.
Joe Biden’s promise to not abuse the authority recently granted to him by the US Supreme Court plays directly into the strategic intentions of this coup attempt. He is operating under the delusion that our election is somehow sacred, and that the Supreme Court doesn’t already have in place a plan to throw the election to Donald Trump by whatever means necessary.
The stakes could not be higher. Without direct law enforcement intervention before the election, intervention that re-calibrates the legal scales against the fascist MAGA movement, we risk this country suddenly finding itself in the circumstances suffered by other democracies like Belarus, Turkey, Russia, and Iran. In short, ideals and righteousness will not save us. The ballot box is very unlikely to save us. The enemy of our freedom is not following any rules, they are making the rules, and they can do so only so long as we let them.
We are currently in charge of the only branch of government that has the force of arms able to stop this madness. The executive branch has the authority to do a great many things to protect the constitution, and a sworn obligation to do so. The Insurrection Act exists so that the executive branch can, in moments of extreme danger, act to preserve our Constitution against domestic enemies.
This act should have been used in January of 2021 to cripple this second bite at the apple before it got back on its feet. It is not too late, as unseemly as it might be. We must, we *must* do this, or we will be playing craps with a pair of dice loaded by the very fascists we oppose.
Joe Biden should use the Insurrection Act. He should detain not only Donald Trump, but also the Supreme Court Justices who are operating corruptly and against the constitution. This detention can and should be permanent, if needs be, to protect our democracy. He should also round up House members who engaged in insurrection, and he should instruct law enforcement to dismantle and disperse armed state militias, even if it means violent clashes. He should freeze the assets of complicit billionaires and organizations like the Heritage foundation, and all of them should come under legal scrutiny if not also be detained.
When he is done, when the election is secure and the wrongdoers rounded up and detained, and when state governments who throw fits are also brought to heel, President Biden should then appoint new Supreme Court justices. Once that’s done, he should end the use of the insurrection act and resign.