Bouts of extreme Leftism are frequent in history. Plato’s Apology, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? — all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left.

America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the late 19th century, amid the Great Depression, during the Soviet-American alliance of World War II and afterward, and in the 1960s.

But rarely have these radical movements openly and without apologies made such inroads into and inside government and the establishment as during the past decade

Where and how did radical ideas such as the non-enforcement of laws, the Green New Deal, open borders, the -studies curricula of the university, or the political weaponization of professional sports come from?

While there are a few exceptions who need to be celebrated — Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, and Jim Jordan, to name the most prominent of the heroes — the rest of the Republicans in Congress are abject cowards.

So anxious to go along to get along with the establishment they were oh, so comfortable with, they have been and are willing to betray their constituents to regain their access to power and money.  Forget representing the people; they represent themselves.

President Trump is the best man for the party to come along since Reagan, and they are nearly all ready to throw him under the bus.  It is disgusting.  No conservative should ever again donate a dime to any of the traitors who claim to hold conservative values.

In his December 23 video, Dr. Steve Turley summed up two possible roads to victory for President Trump in Congress on Jan. 6, starting with a congressional challenge to disputed Biden electors:

“First, you have to have an objection filed and endorsed by at least one US senator and one US representative.  And once filed and endorsed, both chambers of Congress...have to have a debate – I believe it's stated to be a two-hour debate – over the merits and demerits of the objection, and then a simple majority is enough to overturn the electors. 

Or second, you've got Vice President Mike Pence poised to make the final decision as to whether to certify the electors after the debate.”

Millions of patriots have fight in them as the country confronts the greatest threat to the Republic since the Civil War.  Historic elections fraud, centered on the presidential contests, involving gross criminality make it so.

Whereas many patriots are ready to fight to restore the rule of law and our liberties, others express gloom and defeat.  The fix is in, they claim.  If Trump doesn’t secure a second term, then all is lost, they bemoan.  The powerful cabal that Biden fronts will run the board over 48 months.  A long, dark night will descend on America.

Here’s a modest proposal: Wars aren’t over until they’re fought.

Here is an outstanding year-in-review of 2020.  Lots here for both investors and historians alike.  It was written by a tenured 60-something conservative/libertarian chemistry professor, so the BS content is remarkably low.  This is fascinating stuff from someone who works within the belly of the beast:

Dave Collum's 2020 Year In Review, Part 1: "Willfully Ignorant"

An interesting review of the past year and the shape of things to come for international investors:

The 10 Most Important Changes Of The Past Year

A 2021 wise warning for everyone:

Delingpole: Economist 'Great Reset Will Cause a Crash Worse than 1930s'

Goodbye 2020 – hello 2021!

“To defeat Trump,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “many of our institutions were deformed.”

Indeed, we have witnessed a flagrant burlesque of electoral procedure, including the specter of foreign interference by China, Iran and Russia via Dominion Voting Systems in gerrymandering electoral results, as Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has confirmed.

And there will be lasting consequences. The effect of installing a parodic figure like Joe Biden, straight out of the Commedia dell’Arte, as the next president of the United States will result in three extremely destabilizing factors. They are:

Yes, he’s Mike Pence.  Here’s why and how.

As we all know, the President of the United States isn’t actually elected by the popular vote. He’s elected by the college of presidential electors from each US state. The important question then is: Who counts the votes cast by the presidential electors?

That is clearly specified by the 12^th Amendment of the Constitution:

“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”

And who, then, is the President of the Senate?  Article 1, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution answers it clearly:

Yesterday (12/23), President Trump played “The Pence Card” with this tweet.  Attached to it is a memorandum appended below.

For the most part, Americans assume that the Vice President lacks power. The President may assign him responsibilities, but the Constitution does not. Instead, he’s the understudy, there just in case something happens to the president.

Except that, in this strange year of 2020, we may learn that the Vice President is the most powerful man in America. Ivan Raiklin, a constitutional lawyer, claims that the Constitution grants Mike Pence the power to overturn a manifestly fraudulent election.

Here is what POTUS is asking Pence to do.

[Newt speaks for me, and every patriot in America – JW]

A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s alleged victory.

The friend made the case that Mr. Biden had gotten more (electoral) votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most. Normally, we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting events.

So, my friend asked why was 2020 different?