Terry A. Hurlbut

Yesterday Texit – the Texas Exit movement – got its most ringing manifesto yet. A Member of Congress stood before his colleagues to denounce – formally – the United States government for breach of contract. Though he did not say the word out loud, he clearly was making a preamble to any future Texas Declaration of Independence. No doubt Sam Houston, who wanted annexation as soon as he could negotiate it, would cry. But Thomas Jefferson would puff himself up with a just pride, were pride in his nature.

As every adult American should know by now, two diametrically opposing narratives compete in the trial of fact, in the jury of public opinion, concerning the Presidential Election of 2020. (And the Senate runoffs in Georgia.) One narrative says that an unconstitutional compact of six or seven State Secretaries of State colluded in election fraud. To be more specific, they allowed election fraud to continue without meaningful challenge. The other narrative says that about five million Republicans “put country before party” and voted for Biden instead of Trump. According to this narrative, they either split their ticket or cast no votes down-ticket. As CNAV has noted here, certain “fake conservatives” insist on the second option. (Sadly, some even avow that they split their own ticket, just to spite Trump.) CNAV will now analyze the two narratives, what evidence supports each, and what each predicts.