Founder of LP Mises Caucus, Disciple of Ron Paul
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I’ll be on with @ComicDaveSmith sometime next week to discuss the merits of the @ALPNational strategy
Go Rand, Go!
BREAKING: Rand Paul projected to launch a 2028 presidential bid after previously saying he'd decide following the midterms.
62% chance.
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Michael Heise retweeted
🚨This morning we reached the required 218 signatures on my discharge petition for Epstein Files Transparency Act II !
I’m working closely with @RepJayapal, @RepTeresaLF and @RepRoKhanna to get this to the floor for a vote soon.
Has anybody who thinks Massie will win the GOP nomination paid attention to the fact that he keeps steadfastly saying he does not want to return to DC?
Why is it that nobody is even attempting to address these issues with a GOP run?
I think its because they know they are true but want to keep selling the hope that we can change everything in 1 election cycle instead of the slow grind of building our own weapon.
And so nothing gets built, the establishment that controls the primaries always wins and we repeat the cycle over and over again from scratch.
. @ComicDaveSmith I understand the appeal of the “easy path” running through the GOP in this moment. No matter what theres no easy path here. That said, I do think that the adherents to the lets take over the GOP idea need to address several issues with the ideas:
1. Why did all of the America First candidates lose their primary elections in the same political environment that delivered the GOP Bloodbath? It wasnt just Massie. Its Casey Putch, its Fishbeck, who had real grassroots support. Brandon Herrera just lost. All of them. And why were they such a minority of the candidates in the primaries?
2. Would anybody that we want to win the primary get the boomer vote, who is by far the biggest primary voter base? If not, whats the pathway? Massie’s race showed that you can win every other age demographic but if you don’t get boomers, it becomes extremely uphill.
3. Has the donor base of the GOP changed? Wouldnt the kind of sweeping reformation of the GOP run directly counter to the donor class? How do you defeat that machine? I mean real logistics; what exactly does that look like? Whose the new donor class thats going to sustain this new GOP and America First candidates against the lobby and the tech-bros?
4. Given the entrenchment how do you get around the kind of fuckery and rule changes that we already have seen done to Ron Paul? Whats the delegate strategy? Its not as simple as pulling a lever when you start accounting for boomer-led local and state level GOPs.
5. Despite the national unpopularity, Trump remains very popular within the GOP and Trump has been very willing to empower neocons and establishment goons. His primary endorsements hsve done quite well.
Part of what enabled Trump to do what he did in 2016 was his billionaire status and his extreme fame. That will be working against us. Maga hates us. How is that penetrated?
6. Nick Fuentes, who has himself a huge America First audience, can admit that this movement does not have the numbers to straight up win major elections. He fully embraces the need for insurgent tactics and the need for Joker energy to break out of the henpecking thats animates “but the democrats will win”. I just dont see how the same old thinking will win the day.
7. 2 Years ago, what just happened would have been considered impossible. The Ds were utterly destroyed and repudiated. In the first 100 days Trump was at peak popularity and vibes were high.
In order to achieve this, have the Ds undergone radical change? Or did they just adjust rhetoric to the moment to placate the base while keeping the same goals and direction? What makes you think that something like that cant or wont happen on the right after we get back to how awful they are?
8. You are shooting for victory. Whats the plan to build something durable for this movement in the event that it goes the way all the other America First primaries have gone? Is it win or bust? If not, whats the logistics for having a weapon of our own in the general? Because the inertia will be to just fall back to lesser of 2 evils with nothing to show for it and run this game from scratch over and over again. Building our own ecosystem ought to be the goal whether its GOP or 3rd party.
9. Would you back Desantis if thats who the estsblishment gets behind because he has both conservative and nationalist bonefides while also being a zionist?
10. How do you account for the fact that the GOP was in fact just reformed yet here we stand?
11. Whats the long term plan, even if we win? We just saw pretty much everything good that we had in the govt wiped out. Massie was very popular; gone. Free state house reps, 20 years of work just devastated. At what point do we pick up our balls and form our own army, smaller though it may be, and fight assymettrically, guerrilla-style? Such tactics have faired quite well against traditionally overwhelming opponents.
The genius of Massie’s impeachment effort of Hegs is that its going to put the Republicans in a position to put up or shut up about if they’ve learned a damn thing about what caused the blue wave and whether or not they care about how hard the people are against the war
Michael Heise retweeted
At approximately 3:30 PM ET, immediately following my reading of the Articles of Impeachment, I will hold a press conference at the House Triangle.
Does anybody remember (and find the news story if you do) back when Ron Paul was running and he was a top performer in the early primaries, there were these behind the scenes moves to show up to county and state GOP conventions to win the delegates (because its not as simple as pulling an R lever in the primaries) that shit was going on like convention halls being locked?
Physical tussles resulting in broken bones?
Lights being shut off
Elected delegates not being sat? (Remember the Maine, anyone?)
Conventions being cancelled for “snowstorms” on like 60 degree days?
Probly worth remembering.
For context of how realistic it is to radically change the LP:
The @ALPNational Got signups this week equaling half of the entire membership of the LP.
We can do it. We can #DraftMassie
If you havent signed up yet go to AmericanLibertyParty.com
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Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay.
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What people don’t realize is you don’t have to win to be powerful. The political arrangement in the country makes it so that the interests of younger people never get a voice because they can’t win primary elections.
Outside the uniparty though, you only need 5% to blow a hole through the system, create a durable new lane in American politics and decide who does win.
Thats a lot of power. Think outside the box. The GOP is not going to let a serious threat to their interests through their primary sausage factory.
Michael Heise retweeted
BREAKING: Anti-Trump conservatives are reportedly pushing for Thomas Massie to launch a 2028 presidential bid as a Libertarian. — Axios
If the reformation on the right ends up being Desantis and the package is something like we’ll give you some fiscal conservatism / populism BUT, maybe with some concessions, you have to swallow the continuation of the lobby, the support for Israel and some version of this foreign policy
Is that enough for you? You settling for that?
Michael Heise retweeted
Like @ComicDaveSmith, my wife and I joined the GOP at Dr. Paul's behest in 2008 to reform it from within, and stayed involved until roughly 2015. Our efforts culminated in a massive battle at the June 2015 North Carolina Republican Convention, at which we defeated Governor McCrory's handpicked candidate for State Chair and elected a grassroots candidate (who was also the first African American ever elected NCGOP Chairman).
In response, the GOP-controlled NC General Assembly passed legislation creating "Party-Affiliated Committees" which set up "shadow parties" (really, just bank accounts) that the House Speaker and Senate Pro Tem President controlled. They yanked all their caucus money out of the NCGOP's bank accounts and funneled it into their shadow party accounts. They they conducted a whisper campaign against the new chair accusing him of being unable to fundraise, and he was forcibly removed by the State Party Central Committee within 6 months.
That's what happens when you take over only a portion of a state or national party. Unless you can take over the entire thing, all at once, the people who control the money change the rules, kick the legs out from under you, and burn the entire thing to the ground until they can win back control. I've seen it happen firsthand.