The difference between the Democrat and Republican parties - the biggest reason why Dems win when they shouldn't
Republicans desperately need to learn this lesson from the Democrats before it's too late.
The Michigan Republican Party (MIGOP) will have a state convention tomorrow in Flint. An insurgent group led by shadow operator Mike Labadie, a self-professed “former” member of the intelligence community, is planning to attempt a coup to remove Trump’s friend and endorsed state party chair, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, and replace him with Kristina Karamo, whose 11 month MIGOP chair administration was a train wreck of a failure. The convention is expected to last 10-14 hours. There will undoubtedly be national media present.
The Michigan Democrat Party (MIDEM) is also having their state convention tomorrow, in Lansing. It will be a harmonious and productive affair. They’ll be done by 1pm so everyone can go back to knocking doors on this precious 10th Saturday before the election. No press is expected.
Republicans have far superior ideas. They have a greater number of registered voters nationwide. The election in November shouldn’t be close. But we might lose, and the biggest reason will not be election fraud. I’m going to propose that the biggest reason for our undeserved losses will be party bylaws. I know this sounds crazy, please track with me.
The MIGOP coup attempt will fail to remove Hoekstra but will succeed in fostering chaos and bitter conflict. The coup plotters just don’t have enough support within the party. A statewide candidate who has been polling and whipping support for his nomination at the convention told me, “35% of the delegates are Libertarians, Democrats, or unaffiliated anarchists who want to burn the party down.” That is the group that supports the coup.
While it might sound terrible that 35% of the Republican precinct delegates are not even Republicans, I have friends and sources in many other states who would be envious of that number. I have sources that report that Oklahoma is nearing 50%. Maricopa County, Arizona (which houses 2/3 of Arizona’s voters) is definitely over 50%. Several from these camps were just elected to the Florida Republican Assembly state committee last week. I can’t prove it with data, but I have been told by Republican operatives in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Hawaii that the number of Republican precinct delegates/committeemen (I’ll refer to them as PCs) who reject the Republican Party exceeds one third.
These PCs overwhelmingly call themselves Christian Nationalists and believe they are on a holy war against what they call RINOs, which stands for Republicans in Name Only but includes everyone who does not agree with their efforts to purge the party of its diversity of viewpoint, talent and treasure. Ronald Reagan said, “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.” The anti-Republican PCs wholeheartedly reject this Reagan maxim.
This is clearly an infiltration - and a highly coordinated one. I have written and spoken extensively about the methods, actors and organizations that are involved in this coordinated infiltration. For more information on that, please subscribe and support my continued research.
The intended effect of this coordinated infiltration is evidently to drain state parties of their talent and treasure heading into this pivotal election, thereby aiding the Democrats. To understand how we let this happen, we need to look at how our party bylaws differ from the Democrats’. I recently spoke to an attorney who has studied bylaws for both parties and it was eye-opening.
How Democrat bylaws define a PC
The Michigan Democrat party bylaws give no automatic rights to elected precinct delegates. To the Democrat party, precinct delegates have responsibilities, not rights. When they fulfill their responsibilities, they are rewarded with higher positions within the party. Elected precinct delegates do not have an automatic right to vote or even belong to the party. The party has the full right to vet and determine whether a PC is actually a Democrat before they are included into the party.
All Democrat PCs recognize that the purpose of the PC is to know which doors in their precinct are Dems, which are swayable independents, and which are Republicans. They are the precinct-level operative to get out the vote. They don't see the PC as simply a voting role.
Republican bylaws, on the other hand
The Republican Party has a structure that varies significantly state to state, but generally it is a network of smaller county or district parties that are contained within larger district or county parties, which come together under the state party. In Michigan, there are 83 county parties, 13 district parties, and the state party. Each party has its own bylaws. Every county in Michigan has their own bylaws.
Generally, the county party bylaws grant instant voting rights to all elected and appointed PCs. There is almost never a separate membership application or vetting process to ensure that the PC is a Republican. There is no standardized training. There are no participation are work requirements for membership. There is rarely any lookback period to see if they recently belonged to a different party. And there is rarely a mechanism for removing or banning a PC who acts in a hostile way towards the party.
On February 6, 2021, Steve Bannon had Dan Schultz with The Precinct Strategy on his show. Dan Schultz has a military intelligence background and has used his organization even to this day to capitalize on the weak GOP bylaws and recruit low information PCs into state parties. The marketing effort that Bannon and others engaged in after the 2020 election was targeting specifically angry and low information PCs.
Perhaps Bannon had the best of intentions, and perhaps he wasn’t involved in what was happening in state parties, but in state parties across the country, organizations like Michigan Precinct First simultaneously sprung up to receive the leads generated by Bannon and Schultz and become the gatekeepers for the incoming PCs. These organizations restricted their recruits’ access to information so they could use narrative control and military intelligence psyops to manipulate and indoctrinate their followers into cult-like allegiance.
They continue to lead their cult followings in the belief that they are the only “America First” patriots in the party and everyone who doesn’t bend the knee to their cult is a globalist RINO that is worthy of hatred and deserving of destruction.
The best county bylaws to prevent a hostile takeover
I hosted Kalamazoo County GOP Chair yesterday and we discussed how she was the object of a hostile takeover attempt and how she, Matt DePerno, and others led an effort to prevent the insurgents from taking over and destroying the county party. You can find that podcast episode here.
The Kalamazoo bylaws can be found here. They have more in common with the Democrat bylaws than any other Republican party I have seen, and they continue to protect the party from insurgent attacks, as we discussed at length yesterday.
I have come to the conclusion that if Republican parties don’t start identifying and permanently banning the insurgent leaders from their party and adopt bylaws that resemble Kalamazoo’s we will see completely dysfunctional parties like Arizona’s nationwide and we will become a one party state. The RNC needs to get involved in states that have been overrun by the insurgents to restore actual Republican leadership and promote a functional and productive party that recognizes its true reason for existence: to get Republicans elected.