Anton Krizmanic

## President of the United States of America

Crazy Croat Krizmanic (by Donald Trump)

**Anton Roman Krizmanic** (Croatian: *Anton Roman Krizmanić*; born 5 October 1975) is an Ameircan politician and current President of the United States. Krizmanic is one of the founders of the Distributist Party, a populist splinter party from the Christian Democratic Party. Krizmanic founded the Distributist Party in 2017 following the inauguration of Jeb Bush. Previously, Krizmanic served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2019. During his term as Pennsylvania's governor, Krizmanic attempted to create a national distributist currency based on gold and silver bullion, though it never came to fruition.

Krizmanic first began his career in politics with the Christian Democratic Party in 2004. In 2009, Krizmanic founded a political think tank called The Institute for Liberty, whose primary objective was to formulate a new economic theory based on distributism. In 2010, he published a book called *The New Constitution*, which detailed his proposed constitution for the United States. Krizmanic ran for Governor of Pennsylvania in the 2010 gubernatorial election, beating the Federalist, Liberal, and Labor candidates including incumbent Liberal governor Ed Rendell. His campaign was heavily focused on his support of distributism, stating that it would help Pennsylvania "rediscover its roots".

Upon winning the governorship, Krizmanic immediately implemented his distributist reforms. These the creation of the state's first ever land trust system for poor families as well as the Pennsylvania Land Exchange System (PLEXSYS), which would trade public land for private land in return for gold bullion, allowing farmers to own their property free and clear of government control. The reforms also included the creation of a distributist agricultural bank for impoverished farmers called the National Farmers' Cooperative, which would provide loans for small and medium-sized farms at low interest rates. In 2013, Krizmanic proposed legislation in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania calling for the establishment of a state distributist currency based on gold and silver bullion called the Pennsylvania Dollar; this proposal never came to fruition however. Krizmanic's administration also saw the passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to mint gold and silver bullion coins, allowing for the production of these currencies to be done entirely by state authority.

During his term as governor, Krizmanic's distributist policies gained the ire of big business organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). In 2015, a number of conservative politicians were caught using ALEC's "model legislation" to push through various pro-business laws across the country. During this same year, NFIB and its subsidiary organization, the Small Business Legal Center, filed a federal lawsuit against Krizmanic and his administration claiming that the distributist reforms of the state were violating the Sherman Act (1890). NFIB claimed that the laws enacted under Krizmanic's governorship constituted an attempt by the government to "stifle" and "control" competition, which is forbidden by the act. The suit was thrown out of court for lack of merit by Judge Thomas Moukawsher of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania in 2016; in his opinion, Krizmanic's policies merely aimed to protect small businesses from predatory behavior by large corporations, which was not prohibited by the Sherman Act.

Krizmanic attempted to run for the Christian Democratic Party's nomination in 2015 for the 2016 election, but lost to Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Krizmanic staunchly opposed Bush's policies, and after the inauguration of Jeb Bush in January of 2017, Krizmanic announced that he was resigning his membership in the Christian Democratic Party to form a new political organization called the Distributist Party. Krizmanic was joined by numerous former state legislators and politicians from the Christian Democratic Party, and the party received considerable attention from national media outlets. Parties such as the devolutionist American Traditionalist Party and the Traditionalist Workers Party voted to join the Distributist Party in August 2017.

In 2018, Krizmanic announced that the Distributist Party would run against Bush in the 2020 Presidential Election. Krizmanic’s announcement was met with skepticism and suspicion from members of the Christian Democratic Party. Many of them believed that Krizmanic was trying to gain power for himself, and his ideas were too radical for the mainstream American public to accept. Krizmanic pressed on with his campaign, and he began to gain some support from the working class and small business owners who were disillusioned with the traditional party system.

As the election approached, Krizmanic’s campaign began to pick up steam. His message of distributism, which focused on creating a decentralized and more equitable economy, resonated with many voters who had been left behind by the Bush economy. Krizmanic’s platform included policies such as land trusts for poor families, a distributist agricultural bank, and a revitalized currency based on the silver and gold standard.

Despite the growing support for Krizmanic, he faced fierce opposition from the Christian Democratic Party

During the 2020 Presidential Election, Krizmanic adopted a populist rhetoric. He continued the populist tradition of "Colorful Suit Campaigning", previously used by populist candidates such as Huey Long, Cab Calloway, and George Clay. Krizmanic would often be seen in campaign events wearing bright orange suits with an orange tie.