Republicans Can’t Beat Democrats’ Election-Industrial Complex By Adopting Its Strategies

In the past few months, Donald Trump has been joined by a growing number Republicans. Trump He seems to be having a change in heart about universal mail-in voter and ballot harvesting.

Few Republicans will abandon policies that promote transparency and election integrity, but they are willing to consider other options. Continue reading And Continue reading You are willing to accept the old adage “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” They suggest that Republicans will become much more dependent upon universal mail-in voting and ballot mining to win elections. There is no worse idea today in politics.

Conservatives are not likely to have the financial and institutional support needed to match Democrats’ efforts in election activism or ballot harvesting. The election manipulation advantages that Democrats have enjoyed over the past two decades are staggering. “lawfare” They are almost insurmountable.

This is not necessarily a sign of doom and gloom. A growing number of left-leaning Democratic candidates is deeply unpopular. They would not be able to elect anyone outside of deep-blue under the election norms in place prior to the Covid-19 lockdowns, and the 2020 presidential election.

The Democrats’ performance in 2020-2022 would have been much worse if they had to persuade voters to vote on Election Day. This was in contrast to relying on complex networks of wealthy nonprofits and army of election activists to produce mountains of mail-in ballots submitted by indifferent voters during extended early voting periods.

Raw Institutional Power

Republicans must be more aware of the enormous institutional power at their disposal on the left, in the form lavishly funded 501 (c)(3) non-profits and charitable foundations as well as legions of election lawyers and data analysts.

Think about the shadowy Arabella Advisors. This nonprofit consulting firm guides strategy, advocacy and impact investing for left-leaning, high-dollar nonprofits and individuals. Arabella offers these clients a range of services that allow them to adopt policies that focus on left-ofcenter issues like election administration. “voting rights.”

Arabella Advisors is also available Manages Five nonprofits serve as incubators or accelerators for a variety of left-of-center nonprofits, including the New Venture Fund and the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The New Venture Fund was founded in second-largest contributorBehind Mark Zuckerberg, to Center for Tech and Civic Life 2020. The Sixteen Thirty Fund Spend $410 Million During the 2020 electoral cycle, which was more that the Democratic National Committee spent.

Since the network’s inception, these non-profits have supported hundreds left-wing advocacy and policy groups. Arabella’s nonprofit network will be in 2020 Total revenues exceeded $1.67 billion and total expenses $1.26 billion. $896 million was paid in grants to left-leaning, politically active non-profits.

In the Republican world, there is no comparable organization that has this kind of financial power.

Below philanthropic foundations, holding companies like Arabella, is a world left-of-center nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations that are focused on elections. Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute identified at most ten 501 (c)(3). Nonprofits We believe that they played important roles in the 2020 election for the Democrat Party.

These groups were already ready to implement strategies to give Democrats an election advantage long before the state-by-state legal bartering revolutionized the norms for American voting systems.

These groups tend to be policy-oriented and are focused on increasing Democrat vote share by promoting voter-by-mail, voting via ballot drop boxes, extended early voting periods, voting by mail, and relaxing voting standards like voter ID. These groups included local efforts like the New Georgia Project and national projects such as Democracy Works, The Voter Project and the National Vote at Home Institute.

Another group of nonprofits was formed in 2020 to finance the Democrats’ election agenda. They include voter canvassing and ballot harvesting, hiring new staff, and financing new infrastructure such as ballot drop box, targeted public relations campaigns, high-priced ballots, and funding the implementation of the Democratic election agenda. “curing” efforts.

These OrganisationsThe Center for Tech and Civic Life, funded by Mark Zuckerberg, was a huge success, spending over $400 million in 2020. It also included the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, Center for Civic Life, and Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR). Again, the Republican world does not have a similar collection of institutions that are election-oriented.

Democrats’ ‘Election-Industrial Complex’

These are not political campaign armies. “dark money” Partisan advocacy organizations, which are both part of the traditional electoral process. They are not responsible for persuading voters. “getting out the vote” In the traditional sense of the word, they are not devoted to gaining an edge for Democrat candidates through changing election laws, manipulating elections, and promoting voting technologies.

This complex web of foundations and nonprofits that are richly funded is not only large but also extremely powerful.

Because the institutions that support left-leaning activism in elections are so large and powerful, it is possible to refer to them as an “anonymous institution”. “election-industrial complex.” The world of Democratic Party politics is a multibillion-dollar industry that deals with election activism.

With CTCL’s 2020, the Democrats’ election-industrial complex came to full display. $332 Million The Covid-19 Response Grant Project was almost entirely funded by Facebook founder Zuckerberg. It was designed to gain control over election offices in critical areas for Democrat campaigns in 2020. “strings attached” grants.

Most of the money was used to improve turnout among a particular voter profile in order to benefit Democrat candidate candidates. All large CTCL grant recipients were Required To “encourage and increase absentee voting” Providers are the main source of funding “assistance” In absentee ballot completion, the installation of ballot drop box boxes, and to “dramatically expand strategic voter education & outreach efforts, particularly to historically disenfranchised residents.”

Many Republicans have yet to grasp the fact that the CTCL and the many other election activist non-profits they partnered in 2020 to implement their plans represent a substantial challenge to Democrats spending more than Republicans on conventional election spending.

These institutions’ sudden prominence represents a paradigm shift in how elections are organized. Instead of persuading or motivating voters, they manipulate the election process and introduce new voting rules and support voting technologies that favor Democrats and those with disabilities.

This is the paradigm that many Republicans are now proposing to embrace with little institutional or financial support.

Conservatives must rebuild classic electoral Norms

Conservatives are expected to be involved with conserving things. The U.S. election system has been around for most of American history and is worth saving. The U.S. election system was once the envy of the entire world, even 10 years ago. But since then, a large and increasing number of people view elections results with suspicion.

To view the Covid-19-era electoral distortions as an unalterable fait accompli is to abandon our election system in favor of a vast institutional complex, which seeks to make Election Day obsolete and the voting booth a relic.

Worse, the left-leaning election-industrial system wants to turn voting into an individual activity. This is in direct opposition to the public activity that takes places in neutral public spaces and depends on the initiative of voters. The sanctity and secret ballot of the vote must be replaced by the collective intimacy and oversight of neighborhood political leaders in the liberal election utopia.

Republican activists should not commit to long-term strategies of universal mail in voting and ballot harvesting. It would be a loss proposition from a practical perspective and would lead to further transformation of our political systems away from control of civically engaged voter. Instead, it would consolidate control in the hands a small group of partisan activists, community organizers, and their many partners in non-profit and administrative states.

There is more to the argument that universal absentee and ballot harvesting should be opposed. This is not only from a practical point of view, but also from moral and philosophical perspectives.  There will be much more on how universal mail-in votes are an unbalanced and disorderly way to decide elections in the future.

Joseph Arlinghaus, the founder and president of Valor America is a conservative federal election SuperPAC. Valor America was founded in 2016 by Joseph Arlinghaus to make use of the most recent social science research. This experiment revolutionized the Democratic electoral world after 2005. He is a member of the Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute’s advisory board. William Doyle, Ph.D. is the research director at Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute. He is a specialist in American elections and private funding.