Completely deluded Democrats and statists continue to double down on their stupid attempts to prevent Donald Trump from being on the ballot in 2024, as they've still not realized that their derision and hysterical overreactions to his every breath have the effect of making him more popular and increasing his support. Americans as a people do not like being told what to do; it's essentially part of our DNA at this point since our ancestors came from all across the globe to this place precisely because they didn't like being told what they could and couldn't do in their native lands.

Unsurprisingly, Tuesday's absolutely bats**t crazy and unconstitutional ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Donald Trump from that state's primary ballot -- because liberals cannot trust us to make a reasoned decision about which candidate to vote for before casting a ballot, so they have to take away the "unwise" choices -- is already having the effect of galvanizing the support of his base and adding spite votes from undecideds. And it's all for nothing since he's going to be on the ballot anyway (the ruling is stayed until January 4 and even further if Trump appeals before that time, and he's vowed that he will).

As I predicted to my oldest son when the decision dropped Tuesday night, there's one remedy the Republican Party can use to avoid all of this expensive and time-consuming lawfare completely. To its credit, the Colorado Republican Party almost immediately said that they would invoke it.

That remedy: Switch to a caucus to determine the party's nominee.

As we reported, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced after the ruling dropped that he would withdraw his name from the ballot in Colorado unless Trump is allowed on the ballot and urged the other candidates to do the same. (Since the court stayed its own ruling until January 4 to give Trump's legal team the opportunity to appeal to SCOTUS, the ruling has no practical effect and Ramaswamy's actions are basically a publicity stunt since Trump's vowed to appeal so will be on the ballot, but that's another story.) In response, the Colorado Republican Party said:

You won't have to because we will withdraw from the Primary as a Party and convert to a pure caucus system if this is allowed to stand.

— Colorado Republican Party (@cologop) December 20, 2023

Chair Dave Williams then appeared on CNN to further explain.

Colorado GOP chairman @RepDaveWilliams says the state’s party will move to a caucus system if the courts try to keep Trump off the ballot. pic.twitter.com/OuEZL5AH65

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) December 20, 2023

If you have a stiff drink or tranquilizers available, watch the entire clip; Abby Phillip is a bit unhinged and showcases her lack of legal knowledge by asserting that since the Colorado Supreme Court justices determined that Trump engaged in insurrection, something with which he's never been charged or convicted, clearly he shouldn't be allowed on the ballot.

Williams' strategy is a solid one, though, and one that state parties across the country might be forced to utilize since these rulings don't affect caucuses, because the disease is spreading. Wednesday afternoon, California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis asked the state Secretary of State to look into ways to keep Trump off that state's primary ballot, citing the Colorado decision. With Trump's continued rise in the polls, increasingly desperate maneuvers by Democrats in state government are to be expected, and nobody would be shocked if CA Secretary of State Shirley Webber suddenly found that she agreed that Trump should be disqualified.

State parties absolutely have the right to determine how their delegates to the national convention will be awarded and selected without interference from the government. Even though the time frame for state parties to change how their delegates are selected/awarded for the 2024 RNC Convention has passed, it's hard to believe that the RNC wouldn't institute some kind of emergency action to allow states to quickly shift from a primary election to a caucus given this extraordinary attack.

For Republicans, especially in California, where all primaries except for president are open, switching to a presidential caucus would add an extra step to the primary election process since voters would still have to vote at the polling place for every other office. But if that's the only way to keep the destroyers of democracy out of our primary election process, then so be it.