Posted on 03/20/2016 9:30:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
New York Times best-selling author and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino explains that the GOP failed to battle President Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation of the country, and now we are feeling the consequences.
He blames Republicans who lost the party brand out of self-interest and crony capitalism.
Naming the battles promised but not waged, Bongino lists: Obamacare, executive amnesty, the Cromnibus, the debt ceiling, Balanced Budget Amendment, school choice, DC Opportunity Scholarships and the Environmental Protection Agency.
“The reason people are in open rebellion, and make no mistake they are, is not that we lost the battles. It’s that we never fought them,” he says. Even with all the evidence mounting, Republican leaders and the establishment continue to be deaf to their part in causing this revolt.
“They understand, we’re a boat at sea now. We are not moored anymore. We’re in open waters and nobody can see what’s ahead. We always had that lodestar, being the Constitution, that there was a no-go area that was always that star. If we navigated to it, everything would be ok and we’d get home. It’s gone. We’re just out to sea. No one knows the destination. No one knows when the sharks are coming, when the typhoon is coming and that’s why people are scared,” Bongino explains.
The activist left, he says, has America at a tipping point since it is “actively advocating the use of physical force for thought and speech suppression.” "They control language,” and their mere accusations and epithets stop civil discourse.
Bongino decries government’s so-called efforts to help people, saying, “It has actually kneecapped them.”
As a former cop and federal agent, Bongino finds Obama “profoundly disappointing” in his lack of support and defense of law enforcement. “It is a total disgrace,”
As for young people turning to Sen. Bernie Sanders and socialism, Bongino says they “do not understand what socialism is.” Describing a generation dependent on phones and iPads, he says, “If you own private property, you are not a socialist.”
The 41-year-old ran for Congress in the predominantly-Democrat state of Maryland, won on election day but lost when absentee ballots were counted later.
True - but those hundreds of folks we sent to DC learned something - like how to feather their own nest and make 'speeches'... (get bribes) They fought for something...
It’s all about the people pipeline.
The Cheap Labor Express will be kept running.
The RNC/GOP sold their souls years ago to the open borders agenda and have been actively conniving against their voters to block them from electing anyone to do anything about it.
You see this kind of thing rather frequently when Democrats control a State or a County.
The "absentee ballots", or the "late-reporting precincts", or the "last few batches of counted ballots" appear to decide the election by a razor-thin margin.
Of course they always tell me that my vote counts....
Like it was in Maine for Cruz.
And Missouri for Hellary.
Speaking of phones.....Obamaphones are weapons against our nation. Obamaphones are used to notify parasites of where to meet to disrupt democracy. Why are we not tired of paying for our own destruction?
Also odd is those elections were last minute ballots decide the race is that in most cases the Dem wins - later reports of missing ballot boxes are discounted as rumor and hearsay ...
Also, all of a sudden, establishment Republicans are ready to fight ten times harder against Trump than they did against Obama. Romney is ready to fight now, but he wasn’t ready to fight against Obama when he ran for President. They hate Trump more than Obama or Hillary!
You FreeBird totally 'get it'...
As clear and concise an explanation for the Trump phenomenon one could ever want.
What is so great is that this meme is making the rounds. It's out there in the public consciousness and now provides the filter through which people observe Washington DC. Lots of people giving each other the People's money for nothing.
Actually it isn't. Maybe that's what the donors through their K-street lobbyists want. What the folks in DC want is quiet comfort. Just pay me and don't expect me to do much. Don't do anything to upset our thing (La Cosa Nostra). Oh and keep sending money.
Republicans have controlled the House for 18 out of the last 22 years and haven’t defunded one dime of all these leftist federal programs, bureaucracies, and agencies.
The Soros Secretaries of State project.
It put the Saturday Night Live clown in in Minnesota.
And how many more?
Worth repeating:
Also, all of a sudden, establishment Republicans are ready to fight ten times harder against Trump than they did against Obama.
Worth repeating:
Romney is ready to fight now, but he wasn’t ready to fight against Obama when he ran for President.
Worth repeating:
The GOPe hate Trump more than Obama or Hillary!
Amazing.
Agreed 100%, and I say this as a Trump skeptic.
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