'A [Banana] Republic, if You Can Keep it'

“Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”

“A republic, if you can keep it.” - Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin and the rest of the founders of our country gifted us a republic complete with a constitution that has served as the most effective tool for the creation and maintenance of human freedom and flourishing ever invented by mankind for more than two centuries. It was a republic, if we could keep it, he told Elizabeth Willing Powel when she asked what sort of government he and his fellow constitutional conventioneers had concocted, and it would prove enduring.

Franklin could have simply ended his answer at “A republic,” and a less thoughtful and insightful man likely would have done that. But Franklin was a student of history who knew that the maintenance of the unprecedented form of democratic republic this constitution envisioned would require constant vigilance by the public, politicians, and the press if it were to be kept in place for the ages.

We are in the process of losing this republic now, rapidly devolving into just another banana republic with a despotic central government, thanks to the power madness of the Democrat party and its enablers in its propaganda wing made up of about 98% of the legacy media. All you need to know about the perilous state of the US is that 30-35% of the country literally cheered the guilty verdict brought back by a hopelessly ignorant and biased jury in an unprecedented Soviet-style show trial put on in a Manhattan court.

The cheerleaders naturally included every talking head on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC, and every other legacy outlet outside Fox News and the New York Post. These newsrooms are populated almost exclusively now by people who haven’t a care in the world for the maintenance of the republic created in 1789. They see themselves as tools of a political movement whose goal is to actively destroy that republic and replace it with an authoritarian socialist form of central government that looks an awful lot like the Nazi form of government gifted to Germany by Adolph Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels 90 years ago.

I’ve written a thousand times over the years of the threat to our country’s survival represented by the media’s abandonment of its role as the public’s watchdog. Franklin understood more than most of his peers the vital importance a free press populated by Americans who loved their country must play to enable that republic to survive.

The media establishment long ago abandoned that role, and today’s press is sadly now populated by people who have been brainwashed by universities and their own profession to hate this country and everything it stands for, and to use their jobs to promote the political party that shares their views. With no check on their own abuses, knowing there will be no price to pay for any excess in which they engage in their mad obsession to obtain and maintain political power, Democrats are free to commit any atrocity they wish against the laws and constitution, even to the point of completely destroying the presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial that are the foundation of America’s justice system.

That all happened in this case, openly and blatantly, and Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan can rest assured they will both only be promoted upwards in their professions for carrying the water for the Biden campaign in this case. They know there will be no price to be paid because both the media and justice system are completely corrupted in their favor.

So, what does it all mean? Here are some thoughts:

• It means that Biden and his media agents get their wish, which is the ability to refer to Trump as a “convicted felon” in every public statement and story aired or written about him for the duration of the campaign.

• Whether that benefits or harms Biden’s prospects for re-election remains to be seen.

• Many believe Trump will actually benefit from the verdict. One indicator this could be right is the fact that his fundraising website crashed last night because it was so overwhelmed with traffic from supporters trying to make contributions to his campaign. The site literally crashed from too much support.

• Merchan chose to schedule the sentencing hearing in the case for July 11, five weeks away. That’s four days before the Republican National Convention convenes in Milwaukee. That timing is not accidental, obviously.

• Another reason for such a long delay is to give the Biden campaign and media time to conduct polls and focus groups to determine what the public’s reaction is and how Merchan should punish Trump for this non-crime that everyone involved knows is not a crime. You must remember that Democrats do everything based on polling data, and this entire charade has been run out of the White House. Merchan’s sentence will be dictated to him by Biden’s evil handlers, based on polls.

• It’s important to note here that Merchan avoided remanding Trump to custody at Riker’s Island, something he could have done in the wake of this verdict. That is very telling, because that was also dictated to him by the White House. Merchan’s avoidance of ever really enforcing his gag order by ordering Trump into custody for his dozens of violations of it was also dictated to him by the White House, based polling data.

If Trump is ever placed in handcuffs and taken into custody, even for one night, Biden can forget about a second term. There would be a massive electoral landslide in November. The Biden campaign and White House - which are really indistinguishable from one another, understand this, which is why you saw this story at reliable Democrat propaganda outlet Politico last night:

Going into this Stalinesque show trial, Democrats had assumed that low information independents would be reliably swayed by the legacy media coverage of the circus. The fact that Trump’s polling improved substantially during the course of the thing clearly shows that assumption was wildly wrong.

We saw and heard lots of talking heads on TV and radio talking about how “half the country is celebrating” in the wake of the verdict. This is wrong. The only people celebrating were the brainwashed base of the Democrat party, which constitutes 30-35% of the country.

While the similarly-sized GOP base was busy being depressed for the future of our republic, the third of the voters in the middle were doing what they always do, which is trying to figure out which way to jump, if they were paying attention at all, which we have to admit most of them weren’t. That’s why they’re always described as “undecided.”

Obviously, a bunch of those “undecideds” decided last night and tried to flood the Trump campaign site with contributions. You will note Biden’s fundraising site chugged along just fine. No traffic problems there.

Look, yesterday was a sad day for our republic. I can’t remember ever feeling such an overwhelming sense of sadness where any political event was concerned as I did when I heard this verdict on my car radio.

But for us, those of us who are awake and care about the survival of this country and its republican form of government, that means we must become more vigilant, more active, and do more to convince our low information friends and family to care more about this stuff, too.

For the Democrats, as they watch Biden’s polling numbers fall of even further in the wake of this judicial atrocity, it likely means they will resort to even more repugnant tactics that do active damage to the foundations of this country. I’ve repeatedly warned you that you cannot assume there is anything they will not do to maintain their political power. This collection of America haters no longer has any sidebars, so anything is possible. And I mean literally anything.

I’m tempted to end this piece by saying “this too shall pass.” But honestly, I’m no longer certain that’s the case. It’s a republic if we can keep it, but keeping it is going to be a long, hard, and extremely perilous slog.

Look after your loved ones, be prepared, and keep your heads on a swivel.

That is all.