Post-Mortem 2024; Populist Lessons

Prescott, AZ November 29, 2024… Let’s begin with the 2012 RNC “Post-Mortem” when they tried to understand —explain in their own minds— why Mitt Romney did not win. Stephen K. Bannon makes the case for why MAGA is resonating with so many Americans. Warroom.

While MSNBC talking heads preach to a rapidly dwindling audience their opinions about how Democrats are the “responsible adults,” and failed Republican “leaders” drone on about their own self-loathing and insecurities, they miss the lessons that critical thinkers are already examining through a practice known as “root cause analysis.” Described simply, root cause analysis (RCA) is the process of discovering the root causes of problems in order to identify appropriate solutions. RCA assumes that it is much more effective to systematically prevent and solve for underlying issues rather than just treating ad hoc symptoms and putting out fires.

Parsing out potential election fraud vectors, whether they exist by stealth or out in the open, is a major part of root cause analysis. Fraud vectors are the input pathways through which fraud may enter a system. When those responsible for operating a system knowingly subvert standards, that is a crime, most likely maladministration, if not one more serious under the law.

Election fraud denialism is the problem…

As with any addiction, recognizing you have a problem is the first step to recovery. There are many individuals who cling to the idea that we have a secure and transparent election system, they are addicted to the belief that there is nothing to see here. They cannot bring themselves to believe that there are bad actors in government running elections who do the bidding of the power brokers to make sure that the favored candidate is put into office, damn the votes and ignoring the will of the people. This is the work of not just the elite oligarchy but also of petit despots who prey on the weak-minded and gullible.

Take, for example, the malcontent band of Trump haters that have appeared on the scene led by none other than Stephen Richer, disgraced former Maricopa County Recorder. “Newly launched ‘conservative’ group seeks to undermine a Trump-led GOP…” Those aligning with Richer are a strange mix of individuals who refuse to acknowledge hard evidence and have a lot to say but not much based in fact. They want to make the populist movement about the man and not the issues, which is a fatal flaw for any political campaign.

There is a lot to unpack in the Arizona Daily Independent article that details what appears to be another deep-state attempt at blocking the move away from go-along-to-get-along politics that President Donald Trump represents and which so many Americans know is needed.

“A newly-launched group, Conservative Agenda for Arizona (“CAA”), hopes to steer Republicans away from a Donald Trump-led party.

Much of their messaging in this election focused on criticizing challenges to the recent past elections and fighting “election denialism.” The group put up billboards ahead of Election Day thanking election workers and pledging conservative support for them.

CAA’s former executive director, Jane Andersen, told NPR that she was a registered Republican but no longer aligned with the party due to election denialism. Anderson is also the “Arizona Protecting Democracy Specialist” for Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Andersen spoke at a McCain Institute panel back in September.

A founder and advisor to the group, Matt Kenney, also founded Echo Canyon Consulting earlier this summer. Kenney’s consultancy supported Donald Trump’s reelection through initiatives like canvassing for America PAC. And yet, Kenney told NPR in October that there’s a need to have “confidence restored in the election system and back in democracy.” (November 24, 2024, Staff Writer for the Arizona Daily Independent)

Clue #1… assuming a moniker that sounds appealing but runs tangential to that which the group is targeting is a tried and true Saul Alinsky tactic. I’ve never been one for a purity test for conservative values, all we need do is look at a person’s words, deeds, and associations, and their true objective is fairly easy to discern.

Clue #2… criticizing challenges to recent past elections

Clue #3… the group put up billboards ahead of Election Day thanking election workers and pledging conservative support for them. This is deflection. Most voters don’t even give a thought to the poll workers; they are just doing their job. The targets of criticism were not front-line election workers; they were the people in charge who allowed crimes of commission and omission to occur.

Clue #4… how can Jane Anderson be the “former executive director of CAA” when it is a “newly-launched group”?

Clue #5… use of the compromised and now coopted radical left National Public Radio (NPR) to get out their message concerning election denialism is not exactly a conservative association. Katherine Maher is the President and CEO of National Public Radio and recently came under fire for her remarks, “truth is a distraction.”

Clue #6… The term “election denier” was crafted by the extreme-left controlled media and added into what is known as the AP Style Guide. The Associated Press (AP) style guide is a writing guide that establishes rules for grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, and more for journalism and news writing. It's now considered to be the standardized rule book for editors and contains the words a writer must use when describing certain segments of society. A more accurate but less hyperbolic term would be election skeptics since nobody ever denied that there was an election.

Clue $7… what makes Jane Anderson the “Arizona Protecting Democracy Specialist” for Mormon Women for Ethical Government? Standing with individuals who refuse to be transparent about process and records, who commit perjury in court and who refuse to cooperate with subpoenas in a timely manner are suspect naturally. What do they have to hide? (I urge you to listen to JFK’s speech on government “secrets and secret societies” one more time.)