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The Road to 2028 blog
Comebacks Start the Morning After, Lessons From the Defeats of 1964, 1974, 2008 Three crushing Republican losses were followed by organizing, new arguments and new candidates; some responses paid quickly and some habits slowed recovery. Tocqueville Saw It in 1831, Comebacks Are Built in Associations, Not Ads A French visitor found that Americans solve public problems by forming groups, and the durable conservative comebacks were built the same way. The Road to 2028 Is a Platform Before It Is a Primary, and the Order Matters With no incumbent to renominate in 2028, the right should settle what it believes before it argues about who should carry it. Read Your Representative's Voting Record Before You Pick Up the Phone A step-by-step guide to using a member's own public votes and cosponsorships to make a call or letter that a congressional office has to take seriously. Should Conservatives Call a Convention of States? Both Sides of Article V Conservatives split over Article V's second route, a convention called by the states. Both sides get a fair hearing, then I argue for using it with guardrails. The National Popular Vote Compact Is an End Run Around Article II The popular vote compact would abolish the Electoral College in practice without an amendment. Here is its best case, and six numbered answers to it. Federalist 68 Read Closely, Hamilton's Defense of How America Picks a President Hamilton's Federalist 68 read passage by passage against Article II and the Twelfth Amendment, with a verdict on what he got right and what the parties changed. When the House Read the Constitution Aloud, and the Rule That Stayed After 2011 In January 2011 the House read the Constitution aloud and adopted a rule making every bill cite its constitutional authority. Here is what it does.