Posted on 12/15/2018 6:29:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Let me be blunt. It’s obvious to me that the political right needs a fighting force—an organized ground level force built for the political conflicts of the 21st century. Politics has become a contact sport. This force must be unlike many GOP political figures who want to avoid contact and seem obsessed with being admired by the left and the editorial boards of the New York Times and CNN, rather than pushing back against the people seeking to destroy them. Who was it that said, you can’t fix stupid?
The left aided by the liberal media has declared war on conservatives. They have declared war on cops, the Constitution, the rule of law, due process, religion, and free speech. To counter this, we need political street fighters, brawlers to help President Trump push back against the swamp, the deep state, never-Trumpers on the right, and the Washington establishment. Currently, Trump has to rely on a group of your grandfather’s Republicans who mistakenly believe that you can compromise with the left or that you can win at political warfare from inside the safe space of a think tank, a TV studio, or from a DC cocktail party.
Traditional GOP politicians and elites do not realize that going forward into the 2020 elections the tactics they are currently using that had previously worked to win elections have become obsolete and ineffective at countering the guerrilla-type warfare tactics of the Democrat Party and the American left.
Somebody needs to tell these Republican intellectual elites that the other side is shooting at us figuratively and literally as in the case of Congressman Steve Scalise. In this new age of political warfare, they have allowed the left to dictate the rules of engagement. In turn, the left has turned politics into the art of lying. They control the language that can be used and thus control the narrative. Anyone who thinks the left will play fair or use traditional methods to win debates or elections is dangerously naïve. These political ambushes are the metaphorical equivalent of a roadside IED. Often you won’t know the left’s blast is coming until it’s too late in the election cycle when their eleventh-hour surprise smears or outright lies appear. Recall when former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney didn’t pay his taxes for ten years. After the election when Reid was confronted about the outright lie he smugly responded, “It worked didn’t it?”
Everyone should be awake to the predictable left. Their opposition research digs deep into a GOP candidates’ past, finding some innocuous clumsy statement, photo or connection even if it was decades ago and smears them with it as if it happened yesterday. They recently did it to Cindy Hyde-Smith in her U.S. Senate race as the Democrats engaged in their insidious game of identity politics.
Who is behind this? A few culprits are Media Matters, American Bridge, CREW and Shareblue. These are subversive leftist groups running a well-funded and organized Trump resistance movement. They are purveyors of misinformation and propaganda. They have made it clear that elections no longer matter unless they win. When they lose, they demand recounts, claim voter suppression and suspicious uncounted ballots will magically appear. Media Matters operative David Brock said in a confidential memo that, “We will fight every day. We’re going to resist the normalization of Donald Trump. We’re going to contest every effort.” In a training manual, Shareblue proclaimed that Trump allies would be forced to step down or change course due to news pushed by Shareblue. They organize boycotts and threaten corporations into not doing business with conservative groups. They conduct training courses on how to write letters and flood newspaper publishers to stop counterview op-eds from being published in liberal publications. They attack conservatives on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and flood their administrators with complaints to get them shut down or suspended.
These are the leftist bullies that can at a moment's notice summon a mob of people to show up and raise hell. They were behind the smearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. They were the ones who were pounding on the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court trying to storm the gates. They engage in political violence, throw out false allegations of sexual assault or harassment, and race baiting along with other types of physical threats, physical violence, and property damage. They are undoubtedly behind the assaults against Republican elected officials and White House staff in public places like restaurants or at their homes.
These leftist groups are a formidable foe that the conservative side currently has no response. We need infrastructure, and we need to mobilize it quickly. I want to be clear. I do not advocate for violence, but I do advocate for more effective counter-tactics than the weak-kneed ones currently deployed.
This new conservative fighter has to rid themselves of their self-righteousness about the kind of tactics they will have to use to take on the left’s machine. For instance, taking the high road is an ineffective tactic against this foe as merely is expressing outrage. Proving that we are better than they are is useless. Besides, I already know I am better and don’t have to prove that to anybody. This new political fighter has to be able to fight through whatever the left throws at them and not flinch, apologize, grovel or abandon a conservative or GOP candidate after an opposition research sneak attack. Think Trump supporter. They have to snicker at being called racist, homophobe, misogynist, lslamaphobe, and fight on. In other words, when the left metaphorically throws rocks, the new conservative fighter has to be willing to pick up those rocks and throw them back. If you need an example just watch how President Trump fearlessly takes on the left.
Many on the conservative side do not have the stomach for this. My response is then get used to losing elections. Get used to gun confiscation. Get used to government control over every aspect of your life. Get ready for totalitarian fascism. You can stop it. If you dare to change tactics and move to the front.
I agree. It’s disgusting...and, dangerous.
They appear to not stop at anything...nothing is beneath these DC Swamp fiends.
The Republicans seem to be in cahoots and as aggressive (sneakily and behind the scenes) against POTUS, as the vicious, rotten dems.
I don’t trust McCarthy. Heck...I don’t trust MOST of the Repubs. They want it to be back to pre-Trump, cocktail party circuit, business as usual for the elites.
Who will...or HOW do we....stop this?
DC is a big club, and we aren’t in it.
“Who will...or HOW do we....stop this?”
I think about that a lot.
The deep state is bad——but as far as I’m concerned,the MSM is far worse.
Even when they post a picture of Trump it’s purposely uflattering. Not one good word said about him,ever.
With a fair press and good reporting some of the enmity that the Dems have toward him would be challenged and the dreadful treatment that he gets from the “entertainment” world would be called out.
It is more than disheartening,it’s damned frightening.
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Purely for entertainment purposes, of course.
Bingo!
ditto. we are the children of the REAL patriots.
I was glad to see a wreath on my father’s grave today.
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One way to create a wave would be to email your Reps and Senators every day on their websites with a list of
QUESTIONS and that we demand ANSWERS.
If the servers started getting millions of emails a day someone would have to take notice...
but it would have to be a concerted plan.
and of course, the libs would start their own counter..
ping to a very essential article......
The question remains: Where the hell do I sign up?
Wanted for?
That is correct! Until WE take the gloves off and join the battle, nothing is going to change.
I agree about “judge shopping,” you wouldn’t want to do in the Ninth Circuit. OTOH there is such a thing as appealing, and you want to go to SCOTUS. Wouldn’t it be just as well, when judge shopping, to go where you would be instantly kicked out of court, appeal, be instantly rejected on appeal - and then appeal to SCOTUS?I’m not a lawyer . . .
"the political right needs a fighting force—an organized ground level force built for the political conflicts of the 21st century".
Post of the year! Public education=public enemy #1!
I have a M.A. in Journalism and graduated Summa Cum Laude. Worked in the field. Outlets don’t want a conservative Journalist. Changed careers. I would shut down the media until standards could be set. No apologies. Ever.
Worked in that field too. It's worse than Journalism. Something has to be done, but few are listening. I've tried on here for YEARS to get folks to get going. Trump finally has started it.
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That’s probably what the Jews of Western Europe were saying in the mid 1930s as Fascism and the rise of Hitler was occurring.
Sadly, Humans appear to be willing to allow themselves misery over action. I also think that the majority of people would rather be told what to do than to have to think and fend for themselves.
It takes a whole lot of pain and misery for people to change. Look at Brazil? A positive outcome now after decades of socialism and decline. They are lucky they escaped the clutches of that evil.
This case would put SCOTUS on the spot, that is certain. Sullivan is settled law, decided 9-0 with strong concurrences, and I don’t question it. You don’t overturn Sullivan, you go around it. Sullivan should be right, because in 1844 it would have been right. And the facts before the Court in 1964 did not raise the right question for Sullivan to be as generally applicable as it is cracked up to be.We are better off if we focus on winning elections and then running the country successfully.The whole point is that the First Amendment tries to assure that the people have reasonable access to all reasonable political opinion. Sullivan tries to implement that. The problem is that Sullivan takes for granted that the First Amendment was in fact successful in its intent of assuring that Americans have reasonable access to all reasonable opinions. 1A was written to assuage fear that the newly constituted government might prevent that via censorship. 1A does not explicitly assure that a private monopoly never does the same thing, by other means - but preventing or redressing such by other law is clearly not in conflict with the intent of 1A.
Sullivan suggests that neither Democrat nor Republican politicians have a right to redress of libel complaints; the trouble is that Republicans are routinely libeled - and Democrats never are. The system by which criticism of Democrats is systematically suppressed in the MSM is the problem. And/or, the problem is the existence of such a thing as an “MSM.” It all revolves around the claims of “journalistic objectivity” which attach to “the MSM” and the extent to which the government sanctions such claims (via the FEC in particular, also by the FCC, and probably by other mechanisms including indoctrination in government schools).
So what if we do “run the country successfully?” Democrats systematicallyfail atavoid doing that, and nearly as systematically win election of a two-term POTUS every 16 years. And were odds-on favorites to make their own ascendency a permanent condition after deploying secret police against our candidate (if not all 16 preliminary candidates) prior to the ’16 campaign.The courts need to clean up that system before it attains majority status in SCOTUS, making itself permanent. The Democrat Party is not independent of the journalism establishment, and neither is the FBI or CIA or any government bureaucracy you want to name.
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