Ron Collins
Aug 27, 2017 · 3 min read

On the evening of the election I, like virtually every other American, sat in my living room watching the election coverage on TV

I never took Donald Trump seriously, and I still don’t. What I took very seriously, was the tyrannical and anti-constitutional coup d’etat that the Obama presidency and the whole of the liberal agenda had come to represent, what with the attempt to nationalize the higher-education sector using young women as human shields and the even more cynical power grab over public education of children thinly veneered as having anything to do with a few dozen “transgender” students. And, the assurance that a Hilary presidency was certain to make the abuses of power and excesses of faked ideology of her predecessor look like child’s play.

Everything I had managed to find out about the career of this Hilary personage revealed to me a deeply amoral and even monstrous lack of character, and someone who has used the talking points of clueless social-justice cult-followers entirely for her own advantage and has obviously never believed in any of it, or in anything else but the amassing of personal power, influence and wealth to herself. Even (or perhaps especially) her marriage was revealed to me as a decades-long exercise in soulless opportunism, while the acts of her career itself showed me the ultimate manifestation of a no-show, make-work, entirely token model of the entrenched bureaucrat and influence-peddler such as I had never even thought possible.

It was early in the evening of Election Night, that I realized a powerful phenomenon was unfolding before our eyes, and one having little to do with this Trump character and his “supporters.” As one “blue wall” State after another turned red, and as the “in other news” results continued to pour in showing everything from US Senate races to elections of local dogcatchers were going against the Democratic Party, I knew full well that what was happening had little to do with Trump, or with the GOP, or even with conservatism as a political mindset.

I have said again and again, and still few seem to grasp my meaning, that in a constitutional republic where very little is actually decided by democratic means (by original design), the one truly democratic prerogative any electorate has is: TO MAINTAIN A BALANCE OF POWER.

It’s so astonishingly simple even a child could work out the arithmetic of “what happened”: the liberal faction had just got too damn big for its britches of late, and got itself fired by the voters. Donald Trump himself has very little to do with this, and will find out in short order in the next election or the one after that just how determined NOT to allow any one faction to assemble absolute power the American electorate can be.

The 2016 election is neither the ultimate end of liberalism nor the ultimate vindication of conservatism. No such simplistic and wishful thinking has any merit at all in analyzing this odd but thoroughly readable stack of nationwide results. As the life of this republic continues, and it will, both factions will continue to reign supreme or be handed their heads on a platter by turns, as they always have, and no part of this effect has anything at all to do with ideology.

There is only one relevant ideology in American electoral politics:

ABSOLUTE POWER IS DANGEROUS, AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Nixon learned that the hard way, for one, as the republic went on and merrily celebrated its bicentennial in 1976 while the first fully-appointed chief executive in its history sat in the Oval having been elected by precisely no one but nonetheless placed there by a continuing rule of law.

The very fact that Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, went on to win the election later that year, proved beyond measure that the constitutional system of governance was more powerful and self-sustaining than any faction or cult of power can ever be, because the one power delegated to the people as an electoral body, and to the States they dwell in as the self-governing entities only partially beholden to any national regime which they had been intended to be from the beginning (ponder what “united states” really means, why don’t you?), was to provide the final checks and balances in a system packed with them from top to bottom, to see that no one can ever assume absolute power.

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