Open Letter to Donald Trump and Ronald DeSantis

May 25, 2023

Dear Messrs. Trump and DeSantis –

Your humble servant has for many years offered comments here at The P&E on various issues, most relating to the “natural born Citizen” presidential eligibility question (no, I am not a “birther” or a “conspiracy theorist,” but instead a “constitutionalist”), as well as on a wide variety of other matters.  Those “other matters” have included commenting on the ominous trajectory of the nation beginning with, continuing through and following the “presidency” of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.  Excepting the four-year interregnum of President Trump, that curve has become inverted…, and ugly.  And it has grown exponentially worse since Jan. 20, 2021.

The presidential eligibility issue is mentioned at the outset as a test to see if you (or your aides) are already so entrenched in and accepting of the Left’s narratives regarding Mr. Obama’s purported eligibility that you will immediately lose interest in reading further.  Fine…, go back to campaigning, lobbing verbal grenades at one another and playing into the Democrats’ hands.

Still here?  Good.

The remainder of this message is directed to both of you, as one or the other will very likely – barring an unfortunate intervening “Clinton event” – become the GOP nominee for the presidency to be voted on in November (or thereabouts), 2024.  The term “thereabouts” is used in recognition that actual “voting” – and, more importantly, the counting of the ballots, presumably corresponding to the lawful “votes,”  – will likely span several days or even weeks, hopefully not months, if history is any guide. 

The bottom-line of the message is short: as posited here, a 2024 Trump-DeSantis ticket may be the last safety net available to the Republic to avoid the warning issued by Benjamin Franklin in 1787.  When he was departing the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, he was asked whether the convention had produced a republic or a monarchy, to which he replied: “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Under Democrat policies, we are now perilously close to losing – if not actually forfeiting – the Republic.  To quote Joseph Robinette Biden: “Not joking; not hyperbole.”  And although the jury is still out on whether he even knows what “hyperbole” means – after all, the term has four syllables – as the Clown at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he clearly understands what a “joke” is.

But I digress.

Your humble servant’s 2022 above post referenced another article by the intrepid P&E Editor quoting Mr. Trump’s former trade advisor, Peter Navarro, as predicting that a Trump-DeSantis 2024 ticket would be an “unstoppable juggernaut” that could win the 2024 contest “by a country mile.” One hopes that Navarro is right. 

But given the current “lay of the land” and all of the perils looming on the Republic’s horizon, “hope” alone is no longer an acceptable mindset.  Recall that Mr. Obama promised “hope and change,” and the result has been nothing short of catastrophic.  Recall that Obama selected Mr. Biden as his running mate, arguably only to groom him as the marionette he and his like-minded sycophants still manipulate from, among other places, Martha’s Vineyard.

Stated otherwise, whatever jousting the two of you believe you must engage in as the GOP primaries approach, please bear in mind that you both, in a sense, are in a position to fulfill Ben Franklin’s wish that the Republic the Founders had just created in Philadelphia 236 years ago would survive rather than perish via hara kiri.  

The Republic is close…, dangerously close…, to teetering on the abyss into which it has been staring since Jan. 20, 2021, when Mr. Biden was sworn in as president.  An argument can be made that, like Dec. 7, 1941, that will be a day that will live infamy.

Meanwhile, do what each of you thinks you must do to secure what you hope will be your nomination, keeping in mind that the real enemy is not either of you.  But once that task is completed, and with all sincerity, please mend whatever fences need to be mended, lock arms in unity against the common enemy and defeat whoever the Democrats offer up in opposition. 

If Mr. Trump wins the nomination, Mr. DeSantis must support him…, and vice versa.  And if Mr. Trump wins the GOP nomination, recall what Mr. Navarro had to say about juggernauts.  The stakes are far too high to allow the Democrats one more nanosecond in power, let alone another four years.  Look no farther than the metastasizing of the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland “Security” for validation of that reality.

There is a trite saying in the law: “The advice is free, and therefore worthless.”  Your servant hopes that both of you will consider these thoughts to be something other than worthless.

J. DeMaio