“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Facing a desperately uphill fight to keep control of the White House in 2024, the Democratic Party and its allies are looking for ways to keep their claws sunk into power…and they may have found it.
The new plan is unheard of and is unprecedented in U.S. history. Since so many people are working remotely, what if the megadonors who run major corporations gave their Democratic employees a check to move into Republican swing states?
That sounds outlandish — but not only did a major magazine already propose it, but it also followed up with a study that finds it could work.
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The idea came from a magazine that has basically disappeared: Newsweek.
In May, Newsweek‘s editor-at-large Tom Rogers complained that Republican-controlled state legislatures are insisting on voter ID laws. Democrats can’t beat them at the ballot box, and CEOs threatening to move big-ticket events like the MLB All-Star Game out of states backfired.
So, Rogers got creative. He’s calling for “a new Corporate Great Migration.”
The big corporations will drown red states in a flood of pampered work-at-home Democrats until all the swing states turn blue.
Sound crazy? He’s run the numbers—and they don’t look good for Republicans.
“There are some 24 million United States employees of the S&P 500 companies alone, some significant portion of which could easily work from a residence far from their previous corporate location,” he wrote.
In fact, many employees “would potentially welcome the opportunity” to move out of New York or California to “states with better weather, lower taxes, and lower cost of living,” like Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, or North Carolina.
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What about people who don’t want to move? They “would certainly respond to financial incentives to move to such locations if their companies offered them.”
He said CEOs should offer employees $10,000 to move to a Republican or swing state.
If corporate America shipped enough “women, young and diverse employees” to Republican states, “this could reshape the voter demography of those states in a short period of time,” he wrote in May.
“Essentially, I am proposing creating a corporate initiative to turn demography into political destiny for key swing states,” he added.
That’s a radical enough idea on its own. But Rogers didn’t just leave the idea alone over the last few months. He ran a full-blown research project—and found it would work.
He revealed on Monday that he teamed up with the pollsters at Morning Consult to ask remote employees about his idea.
Guess how many employees said they’re interested in working remotely from swing states:
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“Democratic remote workers desirous of moving to another state outnumber Republicans 2 to 1,” Rogers wrote.
They would add hundreds of thousands of new Democratic voters to every state on the list.
In one move, the states flipped from GOP to DNC.
For instance, in Florida, the “margin of 533,000 voters would more than offset the 2020 Trump margin of 371,000 voters in that state,” he said.
His plan adds 661,000 new Democratic voters to Arizona, 988,000 Democrats to Georgia, and 454,000 to Wisconsin.
North Carolina and Ohio would swing from red to blue, as well.
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Only Texas would keep its Republican majority—but with almost half a million more Democrats in the voting mix.
Rogers said the corporate titans and billionaires should move the employees around like chess pieces to crush the will of people who actually live and vote in red states.
The problem with his plan is that some Democrats said they would move to several different states if given the chance—I guess a lot of places look appealing compared to New York City or San Francisco.
So, the CEOs should make sure they’re put in the right place, at the right time. “If there was some direction or guidance given as to where workers were permitted to move among multiple states they found appealing, the increase in Democratic voters in each of the swing states could be allocated to have extremely substantial impact,” Rogers wrote.
Rogers said not only does he want big city Democrats changing the voting patterns of red state America, but it would give billionaire CEOs even more power over the whole country—which he seems to think is a good thing.
A mass migration of employees to Republican-controlled and swing states would “enhance corporate political capital in those very areas,” Rogers wrote.
“Our democracy and our flourishing economy based on being a country anchored in the rule of law, require CEOs to find a path around the political process in a way which costs them and their shareholders nothing,” Rogers wrote. “This plan is eminently doable.”
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These two columns show that Democrats are so committed to keeping power that they’re willing to crush the will of people who live in red states; they’re thinking deeply about how to change the electorate so it’s more favorable to them; and they’re willing to give corporate billionaires more and more power as long as they play along.
This is a plan for autocracy, for oligarchy. It’s as anti-American as it comes. And now, it’s down in writing, so no one can deny just how extreme the Democratic Party has become.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”