In November 2020, this commentator declared the United States of America “over,” because the nation “ceased to exist the moment the vote tally crossed the threshold allowing Team Biden to claim ‘victory’ – as the Democrats nullified its existential principle: ‘consent of the governed.’”

And predicted that “(t)he certain fruits of Dems’ multi-state, multi-step larceny of the White House” would be “the full ‘Californication’ of America … cautioned about on the (Issues & Insights) site” the previous week. On cue, nearly every element of the Left Coast’s insane environmental, social, judicial, fiscal and regulatory policies has been transported east.

Twenty-one months later, your correspondent doubled down, insisting that with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, “this nation is no longer the United States. It is die Deutsche Demokratische Republik, and the Justice Department and FBI are the Stasi, KGB and Chinese Ministry of State Security rolled into one.”

And that “(a)s we’ve seen with the Jan. 6 defendants, it is only a hop, skip and a jump from illegitimate election to political persecution to unlawful arrest to politicized prosecution to unlawful imprisonment – and worse.” 

The Bidenites and their allies have since taken the hop and the skip, with equally unimaginable indictments of the same former president based on:

• A records dispute
• Victimless differences over property valuations 
• Wild theories that he operated a nationwide racketeering organization trafficking in alleged election falsehoods and engaged in conspiracies to “defraud the United States” (whatever that means).

Now the topper: State officials displaying the hubris and chutzpah to bypass legal processes altogether. In Colorado, at least it was duly appointed judges who took on the additional roles of jury and executioner in declaring The Donald an “insurrectionist” disqualified from appearing on the state’s ballot under the 14th amendment.

In Maine, it was a bureaucrat, not even a lawyer, who unilaterally pronounced former President Donald Trump a traitor and unceremoniously sentenced him to election oblivion.

Yeah, the rulings have been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But even if the justices strike down these rulings 9-zip, so what?

As this scribe opined way back in the “aughts” of the campaign for same-sex marriage (which was laughed out of the Supreme Court the first time it turned up there):

The … agenda isn’t to win the debate. It’s to extend it ad infinitum (not to mention ad absurdum and ad nauseam) … alongside extortion and intimidation (protests, vandalism, economic pressure…) – until opponents lose their grip on certainty and collapse in confusion, exhaustion and disarray.

Just to have these nonsense rulings go all the way to the highest court in the land – alongside other inane rulings in the various Trump prosecutions – to tie up campaign resources, and most important, to have a semi-serious national debate on the issue represents a further milestone in the Biden regime’s and elitist “cabal’s” efforts to hassle, harass, hinder, dishearten, deplete and ultimately destroy Trump and anyone who dares stand with him.

In particular, even if the 14th amendment gambit won’t fly legally, the quasi-official establishment by a high-ranking judicial body, a statewide official and previously, a congressional committee of the former president as an “insurrectionist” lays another brick in the narrative and accompanying intimidation campaign that will come to a head after Nov. 5.

Count on the 2024 election featuring the Democrats’ entire anti-democratic “ploybook”: unlawful changes in rules and procedures; voting machines mysteriously malfunctioning only in Republican precincts; extended vote counts always ending in pro-Democrat reversals of Election Day results; unmanned dropboxes; widespread ballot-curing and harvesting; Zuckerbucks financing of progressive election staffers; and so on, and so on, and so on.

And then seeing legitimate efforts to question these irregularities labeled a continuation of Trump’s “Big Lie” and a renewed “insurrection” (whether or not he is actual candidate).

Campaign staffers, volunteers and surrogates will find themselves rousted out of bed in their underwear by FBI SWAT teams still under the weaponized control of neutered Christopher Wray and facing investigations by a Justice Department headed by Biden hack Merrick Garland – last seen unleashing his forces on abortion-clinic prayer warriors and parents daring to appear at school board meetings.

Or led off commercial air flights in shackles or having their cellphones confiscated in public parking lots.

Fabulist Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will certainly be delighted to concoct new counts and fold new defendants into her ridiculous RICO case. State bar associations will repeat – against new legal teams engaging in sincere, fact-backed challenges – their shameful efforts to strip esteemed constitutional lawyer and professor John Eastman of his right to practice.

New plaintiffs will arise to pursue defamation claims like those that forced Rudy Giuliani, known as “America’s Mayor” in the wake of 9-11, into bankruptcy.

Who will risk such costs and dangers to life, limb and property to stand up to election fraud?

And if no one and nothing can stop the Democrats from election domination, who will be left standing athwart history to foil the completion of America’s transformation to the United States of California: the ultimate confiscation of citizens’ gas-powered cars, forced march to intermittent renewables, immigration-fueled replacement of the electorate, long-term decimation of the dollar and earning power, further unleashing of criminals to terrorize innocent civilians, oppression of working families by the DEI and ESG complexes, and more?

No one.

The only way to halt this accelerating erosions of the rights and electoral might of everyday Americans is to make official what is happening in practice: the end of the United States as we know it.

Sadly, the handwriting will be on the wall and evidence trail clear for all to see of another election steal long before Election Day arrives. Which means that just as the Democratic-elitist “cabal” has been war-gaming just such thefts since the summer of 2020, a leader must step forward to run through the scenarios for the Free State Opt-Out after Nov. 5.

Ron DeSantis, it may be time to call off your campaign. And call your office.

Bob Maistros is a messaging and communications strategist, crisis specialist, and former political speechwriter. He can be reached at bob@rpmexecutive.com.