In my opinion, (all the preceding types with one hand) and it should be yours, Congress, or what is left of it, should run as a committee in cahoots with the Senate, the judiciary and the appointed department heads of the civil service and military in a war coalition until normal suffrage by accelerated elections can take place. If people can show up at a recruiting station they can show up at a polling booth. Even write in or phone in. (Perhaps email should be made more secure for this. Finally a good reason to tell people to do PGP.)
Appointed representatives are not needed for government to function, as Congress is only ratifying or legislative, not executive or ministerial. The President can go to war for long enough under this Constitution for the elective process to catch up to where he needs their approval. No matter how badly government personnel have been decimated, it is the intent of the Constitution that is paramount, not its pro-forma expression or inherited tradition of procedure. That inherent ideal and intent is that the people's general will and its public acclamative expression is the basic underlying process of US government. There is no need to sieze, concentrate, or assume power as it has already been siezed permanently to the hands of the people at large. The manufacturing of their assent, however expeditiously, must be bowed too as it is the keystone of the security of the system in itself.
The executive has 17 members of succession, so it is largely protected from total disaster. In the event that they are absent then the tradition of wartime collegial mututal security has been to call emergency assemblies from amongst the States. This is what bound the States together in the first place since Mecklenberg. It's even in the name, the United States of America. Don't stop a good thing.
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