"It was also alarming to hear these young lawyers insist there was no election fraud and blame Lin, Sidney, Rudy, etc. for causing the Capitol Hill incident"
Well, Mercer isn't exactly a top tier law school (more like 3rd or 4th tier). The best and brightest are elsewhere.
My line of reasoning is solid as it always is. The mods being against us doesn't make any sense as they have positioned this community behind Trump for the entirety of its existence. He moved, then we moved. I don't know about the rogue mod, but there is no reason to think the mods who run this board are anything but committed MAGA,
Having said that, let us entertain the notion that your theory may be true. Why would they go through the effort of setting up the new domain? If all the mods were cooperating with the feds, they could have just used TheDonald.win. No, the explanation they gave us - the mod who owned the domain getting salty - fits much better. We've seen interviews and quotes from him that back this up.
As far as other communities, there is GAB, which gets more than 20 million unique visitors a month (and growing). If you want to get more involved - there is a GAB group where you can help with campaigns (or get help if you plan on running).
check it out. Also Parler is only temporarily down. Bitchute and Rumble tend to be mostly conservatives.
There is no playing nice after they stole the election.