Yesterday, Rep. Mark Green announced his resignation from Congress, which will shrink the current Republican House Majority from 220 to 219, leaving Republicans a razor-thin two vote majority. Meanwhile, the left is currently instigating riots in Los Angeles and Atlanta in an effort to eliminate that majority for good.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that there are 18,600,000 illegal immigrants in the United States today. The battle to keep them here is now being waged visibly on the streets of Los Angeles, and is projected to spread elsewhere by the time you are reading this.

Under the Biden administration, Democrats welcomed more than 4 million illegal immigrants into the United States. At this point it is simply a question of math. How many of these 18 million remain in the US in sanctuary states will determine whether the Democratic Party takes control of Congress indefinitely, following the next census.

If you divide 18,600,000 illegal immigrants by the amount of population needed for a state to gain a new seat in Congress, you find that this number reflects over two dozen seats in Congress, more than enough to grant perpetual control of Congress to the Democratic Party, even if none of the 18.6 million ever attempt to vote.

That’s what Marxist revolutions are designed to do. If they can’t supplant the Constitution and the rule of law directly through insurrection, they aim to supplant it indirectly through the government’s response to the insurrection.

Also, because the number of seats in Congress doesn’t change, for one state to gain a seat, it must be taken from another state. This means that the number of seats actually impacted by illegal immigration will be a great deal larger than two dozen. In the last census, New York lost a congressional seat because it was short by only 89 bodies. If 89 more bodies had shown up in the New York census, New York would now have 29 seats in Congress instead of only 28.

Likewise, Oregon gained a congressional seat in the last census even though the state itself (even counting illegal immigrants) was still over 325,000 bodies short of completely filling an additional seat. Essentially, its status as a sanctuary state gave Oregon just enough bodies for the extra congressional seat, and gave the Democratic Party one extra vote for president, for the next ten years.

There are currently 11 officially designated sanctuary states (e.g. California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New York, etc.). While many sanctuary jurisdictions have seen crime increase dramatically, there is a method to the madness in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver, and elsewhere.

Yes, politicians in Los Angeles are witnessing the standard of living in their communities fall, but the ultimate outcome of all this will be perpetual power to the left at the national level. For many on the left, that incentive is worth the riots, the looting, the arson, the bad publicity, and for some, even the risk of a little jail time.

If the riots in Los Angeles are successful in delaying deportations, New York (and other sanctuary jurisdictions) will have no trouble finding the bodies needed to gain those extra Democrat seats in Congress, and those extra electoral votes for future Democrat presidents. This is why sanctuary status has become a religious dogma for Democrat politicians in Democrat states.

While Alaska isn’t at risk of losing a congressional seat (we already have the bare minimum our state is guaranteed under the Constitution), the outcome of the war being waged in Los Angeles will impact the degree to which we remain a nation dedicated to the rule of law. If those perpetuating the insurrection in Los Angeles are able to succeed in overthrowing the rule of law in California, that victory will not only impact future elections but will also impact our efforts to defend the rule of law here in Alaska as well as every other part of the country.

Likewise, if the federal government abandons the rule of law in its effort to quell the insurrection and protect the integrity of future elections, any missteps now will almost certainly be capitalized upon by future administrations, which will also impact our efforts to defend the rule of law here in Alaska as well as every other part of the country.

That’s what Marxist revolutions are designed to do. If they can’t supplant the Constitution and the rule of law directly through insurrection, they aim to supplant it indirectly through the government’s response to the insurrection.

It is for this reason that patriotic Americans must never succumb to the temptation to support one party or administration circumventing the rule of law in their efforts to defeat the other. Our nation faces a true crisis. Let us be earnest in our prayers that, by God’s grace, we come through it intact and are more resilient as a nation for having done so.

The views expressed here are those of the author.

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