I also receive Imprimis and read the article as well!

McCain was a liberal not a conservative. He hid it under the "maverick" cover.

There are many more like him, enabling the other RINO McConnell to declare that the Senate will not vote to support the president's emergency regarding the building of the wall.

I get Hillsdale College's Imprimis. There was a recent article that you may find very interesting, on America's "Cold Civil War." How will it turn out? The author gives five scenarios. The last one is a real, shooting, civil war.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/americ...

Aiding and abetting a coup is called "Treason" - and the penalty for Treason is death. (Just ask Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - oh, sorry, they're dead: executed for espionage and treason.)

You mean like John McCain, who campaigned on promises to vote against Obamacare, only to be the deciding vote for NOT repealing the "ACA"? But then again, there are so many other examples...

14 days to go

Ultimately, all wars start out as a war over ideas. I was listening to something the other day and someone said something really interesting. What they basically asserted was that conservatives and modern-day liberals - the typical power structures of government up to about the 1980's - were still interested (generally) in the same outcomes for Americans: better lives, independence, liberty, etc. They just disagreed about the best way to get there. Leftists/progressives on the other hand have a totally different vision for America, which is why they just can't be reasoned with or compromised with.

I think that we actually have three parties now. We have the Freedom Caucus-types which I call traditional/conservative Republicans. These are the patriots who still hold to the values of the Founding Fathers. They comprise about half of the Republican elected representatives. Second are the "establishment" Republicans. These are typically the ones who have been in office so long and compromised on so many things in order to maintain power that they have lost a vision of where the Republic is headed. They drift with the political winds. Third are the Progressive Democrats/Leftists. These are the people who want to supercede the Constitution with various guaranteed "rights" which can only infringe on others' true rights, such as healthcare, education, and other services. Their vision of the United States is literally subversive, as they seek a one-world government and a return to elitism. They have a very clear vision.

And so our nation is reaching a critical juncture: which vision will we pursue? We can not continue to choose a middle road as we have for the past 30 years because it is bankrupting us. We have to commit to either freedom and a return to Founding principles or we have to commit to socialism and the slavery which goes with that. Will that lead to actual bloodshed? I hope not, but it is not outside the bounds of possibility. We could end up fighting another civil war between those who would seek to enslave us through socialism versus those who seek to maintain their freedom and individual rights. I hope it does not happen, but if it does, I know which side I will be on.

"Insist the GOP present a robust response..." There is the crux of the problem, we have "insisted" at the ballot box time after time only to sit quietly while our instructions, our very clear instructions, were simply ignored immediately following the votes being counted.

So, if there is further resistance, does the shooting war commence. It is beginning to look like there is no other alternative.

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." -- attributed to Joseph Stalin

First, let me say that Trump is not the first American President to be staring down the barrel of political rebellion, nor is it likely he will be the last. Andrew Jackson (another populist president) and Congress conducted open hostile relations even more virulent than the current flame wars. Lincoln had to deal with a real civil war. FDR dodged a bullet with the assassination of Huey P. Long, who proposed a very socialist path out of the depression, and who forced FDR into instituting Social Security. Harry Truman had to withstand the nametag of "accidental president," and a withering journalistic assault on him and his family. LBJ, the father of the Great Society, was run out of office (although his health was part of his decision) by the very same liberals who benefited from his efforts, motivated by antiwar sentiments.

Democrats are by nature passive-aggressive cry-bullies. A strong stance is the best defense against their "power whining." It is becoming evident that there is no "there" there with respect to impeachable offenses on the part of President Trump, but the Democrats are staking their hopes on a campaign of endless accusations from now until the 2020 election, thinking they can impeach the president in the minds of American voters by innuendo. I predict this will backfire, when it becomes obvious to the voters that this Democrat House has no interest in passing legislation,and the moderate Democrats who managed to scratch out a win in 2018 will suffer for it, either "primaried out" in favor of more radical candidates, or defeated by Republicans.

We are witnessing a party that is laying a minefield for its own candidates. Its leadership appears unable or unwilling to control its radical elements, out of fear that the effort could break up the party. A robust economy and near full employment makes it difficult for Democrats to claim they can make life better for the working man . . . who is already working and seeing his lot improve.

What can we do to help defend individual freedom? Insist the GOP present a robust response to the cry for Medicare for all, since a concern over health care is at the top of the list of issues that American voters have. Right now, the plan for a market driven solid health care market is fragmented and incoherent, and needs a credible spokesperson. This issue alone could plunge us further into socialism.

Rinos are one thing. They got into office many years ago and are content maintaining a status quo while getting fat and rich. But I'm concerned about the stealth Democrats occupying Republican seats. Some of the newly elected Republicans are actually stealth Democrats. They ran in predominantly Republican areas, said the right things and were elected as Republican. Then they start shedding their skins to side with the Democrat snake pit.

...prepare...it is coming...

You left out one of the most important facts in your list. House and Senate RINOs who have just as much to worry about if all their misdeeds are ever exposed. We keep reelecting these traitors and have only ourselves to blame for not being able to win the war we are surly in.

Hear! Hear! Mega dittos!

Not the first time the Dems have been hell bent to toss out the Electoral College. And I agree, exceller: the Founding Fathers knew what the hell they were doing, and the smaller states would never go along, and here's why.

Yeah, Hildabeast won the popular vote by about 2.8 million votes. But if you throw out one state--California--and Trump actually had about 600,000 more votes than she did. And if you also throw out New York, then among the other 48 states, Trump had a popular vote margin of about 2.1 million votes.

Trump won 60% of the states (30 out of 50), and he won an astounding 84% of all counties (2649 out of 3152).

While there are exceptions (Connecticut, maybe Massachusetts, and a few others), I just don't see the majority of the other 48 states voluntarily giving up that much influence.

This is in all respects a civil war, but without the military aspects. There is no way I am going to give an inch to the leftists, and they are not going to give an inch to me. I voted fro Trump and I will be behind him until the leftists find some way to toss him out. When they do that, they will be tossing me out at the same time. At that point, it will be very hard to continue to support the USA in any form. If others feel the same way, it could split the country in very substantial ways. The leftists might consider just what they will lose when the producers withdraw their support.

Trump has the Trump card .When does he play it?
Declass brings down the house.

Rep J, Nadler plans of having 60 [ep[le supenaed on Monday. This is in addition to what Mueller has already collected. He is not even remotely limited as to what he can request. If they have to they will ask for every Tax return for Trump and his companies to find something they can turn into an Impeaxhment charge. (I know they really don't need this, but even the Dims are not stupid enough [yet] to bring an impeachment bill without some bare modicum of a "High Crime of Misdemeanor")
This is nothing but a continuation of the DOJ/FBI attempt to defeat and destroy the President. Is is another shot in the civil war now raging in this country. It will not be the last or even the next to last. It is one of many lined up by the Doms in their quest to overturn and election and install their own part as supreme.
If Trump goes V: Pence will be the next to go. They will also refuse to cnfirm President Pence's nominee for VP just to keep Nancy as the next president when they get rid of President Pence. Don't think that is not the plan of the Dims.
Call it paranoia but I have heard that option discussed and debated by people I kow to be involved in Democrat politics.

Just food for thought for the Citizens of the Gulch.

With all of their contrived and idiotic rhetoric all they will accomplish is a clear path to a private cell in Gitmo.

Exactly.

Free elections may not do the job any more, especially if the conservative contingent stays home.

I also see danger in the way election "laws" are used in some states.

CA implemented the "ballot harvest" which means a large numbers of votes are "submitted and counted" a day before the election. So the GOP candidate who was ahead by 10 points the day before will wake to the shocking realization that he lost to his Dem opponent overnight, due to the "found" votes.

CA wants to make this a nationwide law.

Then there is the anti-Electoral College left who, after H Clinton's losing - is hell bent to scrap it to base the results entirely on the popular vote.

Not sure small States will accept that which was one of the superb example of the thinking of the Founding Fathers to have States of different headcount be a able to play on an even footing.

The left of course is not concerned of the consequences in their blind revenge for losing the election.

Yes, the RINO's are more dangerous than the Dems b/c they stay hidden most of the time.

They surface only when there are critical decisions to be made and they oppose the GOP position.

The problem is that depends on an educated electorate and what we have now is a brainwashed one. They aren't taught the Constitution in schools - they're taught political correctness. They aren't taught independence and self-reliance, they are taught victimhood and class warfare.

Have fair elections. That would about do it. This would help. Arresting the mass media who conspired to aid and abet a coup in the USA. Support fair and legal
Justice for all , with transparency.

What's the best way to stop a Democrat power grab?

Tell them no. If necessary, rest your hand on your sidearm to emphasize the point. Most power-hungry people are cowards who don't have the stomach for an actual confrontation. And those that do need to be dissuaded as soon as possible.