You see these maps again and again. The overwhelming majority of America, based on counties and towns, is Republican. Only cities — primarily huge cities — are Democratic (and are overwhelmingly so). The rest of the country is pretty decisively if not overwhelmingly Republican (or at least Independent, which means not Democrats).
Democrats disregard and belittle these maps. They only consider national majorities. Democrats argue that there’s strength in numbers — and therefore, they win. Of course, it’s still close when you only consider national numbers, and we have to assume Democrats never cheat (an absurd assumption). However, there’s another problem. Should people who live in huge cities get to decide everything for the whole country? Even when their policies go openly against the Constitution, as nearly everything Democrats support does? It makes no sense on any terms only to consider national figures. Nobody who’s not a tyrant or an emotionally immature brat could think or feel the way most Democrats do on this subject. Certainty America’s founders, who insisted on an Electoral College over direct national elections, didn’t feel this way.
Democrats are not going to give up. Two terms of Trump have only caused them to double and triple down on dystopian policies straight out of Orwell and Ayn Rand. Even if they don’t mean any of their threats of future prosecution against Trump officials and even his supporters (and of course they mean it), how can Republicans in all these red counties be expected to put up with even one more Obama or Biden presidency — or even worse? And, if we’re really objective about it, how can you expect these ruthlessly leftist “progressives” in these deep blue cities and wealthy suburbs (California, northern Virginia) to put up with a string of MAGA policies for years to come? They will not do it. It’s simply not going to happen. They will secede first, but Democrats are violent. I foresee violence and even war.
America was originally a loose federation of states before the present Constitution gave us a strong central federal government. Whatever you might think of that system and how well it worked out through World War II and the Cold War, how sustainable do you think it is now? In my view, the differences between Republicans and Democrats are more opposed now than the differences between North and South in 1861. At some point we have to consider the value of letting the blue states or cities go into their totalitarian sunset, and dispense with the national government that — let’s face it — sooner or later, by hook or by crook, they’re going to get control of again anyway.