Editor’s Note: a guest post by Michael Weinberger.

Politically speaking, I love Jeff Landry.  I was so fed up with our Super Red, Super Maga state having a blue governor I was ecstatic as I watched him put together the voter coalition and money pool that allowed him to win the governorship without a run off in October of 2023.

After 8 years of blue torture I thought we would finally have a red governor for our red state.

And when he announced a special session of the legislature in early 2024 to get us closed primaries I was thrilled, elated and euphoric.

That would do it, I thought.  That would weaken the Rinos enough so that the Louisiana Maga Revolution could begin.  Just as Trump was chipping away at the Rino Assisted Uni-Party in DC, we too, in Louisiana, could start chipping away at our own Rino Assisted Louisiana Uni-Party.

And what benefits that would bring!  No more envious glances at Texas and Florida, not to mention the rest of the Red South, as their economies and population grow and they prosper.  We too would throw off the shackles of cronyism and rise.

Prosperity, jobs and population growth, here we come!

But a funny (tragic?) thing happened in that first Special Session.  Rinos in the State Senate gutted the closed primary bill so that it only applied to some federal offices.  Elections for state offices, most importantly the state legislature, would retain the jungle primary system that allows Rinos to thrive.  What a disappointment.

That disappointment was soon followed by several others that we all know about.  I don’t want to list them because I don’t want to beat up on the governor. I still think he is a good man with tremendous potential.  He may even have a future in Trump’s DC if he wants it (some think he does), if he could only right his Listing Maga Ship, which is his base.

How can he do it?  How can he get Louisiana Maga back on an even keel and stop the listing toward the left?

The answer is still this:  Get us closed primaries.  That one achievement would give Louisiana Maga the tools it needs to cure many of our problems.  But without closed primaries Louisiana Maga still goes to gun fights with armed with pocket knives, and we usually get shot up pretty bad.

So I ask Governor Landry to please even the playing field.  Let Maga Louisiana fight fire with fire.  If the Establishment Uni-Party has pistols, let us use pistols too.  No more going to gun fights with pocket knives and rolled up newspapers.

Use the tremendous power of the governor’s office to force the hold-outs in the Senate to give us a closed primary.  I believe you can do it, Mr. Governor, though I acknowledge some say Cameron Henry’s Senate will kill it.

I disagree on that point.  I believe Cameron is smart enough and politically astute enough to recognize the power of the Maga Movement in his home base in Jefferson Parish.  I also believe that he is a patriot at heart, and that if he is approached correctly, he will sit down with Maga Folks and work something out.  I know Cameron for many years and I know he is a good man.

But the Maga Movement can’t approach Cameron alone.  We need the governor’s office as a partner.

Governor Landry, won’t you please partner with the Maga Folks and at least try?  If you succeed your popularity with the base will rise tremendously and all our other concerns will be relegated to the rear view mirror.  Not only will Maga Louisiana love you, but DC Maga probably will as well.