The ‘Corrupt Bargain’ of 2020
Commentary
Today, the U.S. Congress will vote to certify the Electoral College vote for the 2020 presidential election, certifying Joe Biden as the next president … or not. However unlikely, it’s constitutionally possible for Congress to nullify the Electoral College vote and to force the decision onto the members of the House of Representatives, voting
en bloc state by state, in a contingent election.
We’ve been told that such a move is “manifest nonsense” and even “a threat to the republic,” as if 2020 were any normal election year, and more importantly as if a contingent election were unprecedented and contrary to American principles of government. Likewise, a growing number of Republican election dissenters hold that the general election was befouled with sufficient illegal skulduggery to reject outright, and that that fraud is in fact the
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Let me start this with a bold statement: Donald Trump was the greatest thing for conservatism since William F. Buckley. That includes Ronald Reagan and all the intellectuals of conservatism like William Sowell and others. Whereas Buckley was primarily motivated by a hatred of Communism, Trump was motivated primarily by a love of America. That is not to suggest that Buckley did not love America, but the conservatism he extolled occurred in a different time and era- the Cold War. Trump had no Cold War to wage- just the progeny of those on the losing side of Buckley’s war, the Left. In many ways, they are more insidious than the Soviets ever were.