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Here’s How Rural And Small-Town America Can Resist Hostile Left-Wing Takeovers

Traction for the hostile invasion of rural America depends on conservative turnout.

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Whatever the midterms bode for America, conservatives should pay particular attention to the left’s aggressive “rural ground game” and plan for a hostile takeover of rural and small town America. Organized leftist activists seem to have been colonizing rural communities socially and culturally as well as having their candidates win in low-turnout local elections.

Rural areas have been losing population, yet President Trump won rural America by wide enough margins to overcome those losses. However, the ethnic demographics of rural areas are changing, in part through the intentional resettlement of foreign immigrants, as well as migrations of affluent white leftists into rural areas.

As a conservative who took refuge in red rural America, I’ve been pondering the presence of leftist invaders from the blue suburban America I happily left behind. So I’ve come up with a check-list of some ways conservatives might push back.

Downballot Races Trickle Up

Too few understand that capture of local offices at the bottom of the ballot trickles up to the capture of offices at the top of the ballot. Local offices represent the farm team for higher offices.

Local offices have a huge impact on your life, too. Few realize that the clerk of the circuit court is often the person signing their concealed-carry permits. The registrar of wills can appoint strangers to oversee your estate. Some rarely think how wokeness can infect law enforcement if they don’t vote for a good county sheriff. The county recorder generally manages the voter rolls, which can make or break any close election. And who are those judges on the ballot?

Too many voters yawn over supposedly non-partisan races for school board. They forget how county boards and council members can raise taxes and promote socialist agendas.

In some places, if you wish to be part of local party leadership, you must be elected, usually during the gubernatorial primary. (Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see how a primary ballot lists candidates running for their political party’s county central committees.) Most voters........

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