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The former president's political spectacle regularly appears to turn even opposition as part of the performance. We become like extras reacting while he energizes his base by disregarding long-standing standards. However why not we staged an independent political theatre excluding the former president aside – or at least with a distinct focus?

Earlier Examples of Political Movement

Americans from 1768 to 1776 created innovative methods of protest against England's crackdown. Instead of employing existing governmental bodies, they chose non-importation committees including an initial intercolonial assembly without any apparent official status or precedent.

Those measures of public demonstration, however weak, eventually culminated in a new nation. After the conflict, American leaders convened a delegates' meeting – nominally to modify the first national framework requiring complete agreement from all states. However, delegates worked in secret, substituted the document completely, and revised the procedure to amend the updated system to a supermajority requirement.

A Modern Chance for Reform

That political era constitutes a significant decline to constitutional norms, however it offers a possibility to reform those norms positively. Following the example of the founders, we could create a limited, invitation-only group – an embryonic constitutional convention – which anti-Trump Democratic states specifically set up for themselves, confine among themselves, and control.

The national framework contains certain provisions to support this approach.

Proposing an Regional Agreement

The involved states might assemble to propose a regional agreement by and between themselves, in the spirit though not necessarily the letter of the compacts that the national charter's interstate agreement clause references. These states could submit formally to Congress for approval as federal law. Of course ratification appears improbable under present circumstances, given the federal government in its present gridlocked state cannot function regarding significant systemic change, embryonic or not.

However the goal is to present a model for an alternative form of American government, for a post-Trump country, that carries forward part of the present governmental structure with enduring value, combined with significant reform in response to current challenges.

A Specific Proposal

As an illustration: Several progressive states might announce a national emergency. Regional leaders would invite a limited group of similar-minded opposing regions to appoint representatives chosen either by the people or governmental bodies. The delegates’ job would be to draw up an inter-state compact, a statement of protections for residents and obligations of involved regions.

The partnership would distribute resources for these responsibilities among participating regions and national authorities, if it were eventually approved by the legislature. It would implement obligations that Washington would support financially – specifically for participating regions and future that thereafter choose to participate the agreement.

A Forward-looking Preamble

This agreement might begin with a statement in which The citizens of participating regions affirm not just our rights but our obligations to treat one another with respect. The statement would affirm our duties to provide each person obtains sufficient nutrition, social security, health services, productive jobs as safeguards in an age of technological change. It should be explicit regarding the threats automated systems and a warming planet. It should insist on national responsibility in medical research and research-informed healthcare policy to ensure our quality improves with extended healthspans.

Addressing Past Violations

Furthermore there should follow a comprehensive catalog of abuses from the previous government, damaging actions, that deserve penalized and corrected, and violations from the judicial branch, including the political spending ruling, that should be voided via regional measures adopting this agreement.

From the beginning, participating governments should also incorporate DC and the territory to participate as states with equivalent rights and sign on to the compact.

The Most Difficult Component – Finances

Then comes the most difficult aspect – finances. This agreement would outline particular initiatives that member states should fund and initiatives which national authorities ought to support – at least for the states that join this agreement. This agreement would function as a governing framework for the ages, and a funding proposal for short-term action. It needs to incorporate a restoration of funding for healthcare programs, and decreasing of payments for other forms of healthcare.

A Welcoming Opportunity

Lastly, this agreement should include a call to Republican-leaning regions, and every other non-signatory government to enter too, even if they hadn't been first approached.

Symbolic Significance

Regardless of what could be argued criticizing this approach, it might shift the former president from prominence and display a particular convention-challenging nerve from a status-quo left. It would give Democratic governments acknowledgment for autonomous symbolic breaking of the pottery. Even better if conservative governments choose not to join. {In