March 28, 2026
Daniel Horowitz of Blaze Media recently called 2026 and 2028 the real Flight 93 elections. He explained many ways that Trump is making the Republican Party crash, and said that conservatives need to parachute out of the party and take their chances elsewhere.
Two days earlier, Horowitz had called for government health tyranny and economic tyranny to be overcome by moving to natural living and natural markets, using a new party.
It's absolutely true that our current parties are our key problem. Parties control governments; they're the tails that wag the dog. In the Progressives' century-plus since 1894, we haven't had at least one small-government party.
But it's not enough to simply know that we're in trouble, or to also know which people we want, or to even know what policies we want. We have the systemic problem that we don't have at least one major party whose people use their constitutional powers against others in governments to limit them.
Our party problem goes back to an original sin. Since the founding, we haven't had a party that itself is limited the same ways that governments under the Constitution are designed to be limited. We need to build the best-available solution, and build it to last.
Making a Party Good
A good party must make use of the best practices that were put into place in the design of our governments:
- Our national government has a specific, meaningful name.
- The national government was started with the Declaration of Independence, which states what governments exist for and which spelled out specific strong grievances against the English government that was the supreme power.
- Our governments were solidified using a Constitution that enumerates limited national-government powers, and that provides a structure that creates multiple layers of protection, together designed to severely limit governments.
A good party must follow these best practices. It should have a specific, meaningful name. It must have a declaration of independence from prior parties. And it must have a party constitution, along with party laws, that will severely limit the party's power.
This will create a party that's of republican form. Republican form has as a key feature that it will leave the party's grassroots in ultimate control.
Getting the Party Started
A good party can be started at least seven ways (and more than one way at a time):
- A donor can underwrite ballot access.
- A politician can start out elected as a Republican, then run for president as an independent as many times as it takes.
- Freedom caucuses can start in state legislatures and spread from there.
- Voters can vote strategically to never elect Republican Progressives, so these Progressives can't return in future elections as hard-to-dislodge incumbents.
- Street-level activists can start voter-information meetings.
- Partial secessions can enable control of county regions or city neighborhoods, and control can spread from there.
- Republican-insider activists could revamp their party.
The key will be to start out with a good party design in mind, and to explain clearly that this design is the step up in freedom that we've been needing all along, that we've waiting for ever since the founding. To get a government not of men but of laws, we need a party not of personalities (or slogans or promises or even policies) but of good party laws.
This design that builds on the Constitution will create a whole new value proposition. This won't be just one more party of politicians, which starts out with good people and good messaging and even good policies but then gets captured by cronies.
Instead, this will be a party that has a purpose, and a spine: A structure that incorporates all the best practices for limiting government people. A structure that we understand very well by now. A structure that will limit party members and that will incentivize them to use their powers to severely limit governments. A structure that has already been proven to last.
Party members and officials will practice separating and offsetting powers when carrying out the radically-simpler scope of a good party, which will be solely to help select good candidates. The lessons we all learn at small scale will help us succeed at the much-larger-scale but similar tasks of limiting governments and of otherwise helping secure people's life, liberty, and property.
Building at least one good major party is the key to greatly increasing freedom. Voters strongly support greater freedom every time they think that greater freedom is being offered.
A good party will genuinely deliver greatly-increased freedom, long-term, by design. If we build it, voters will come.