Any idea of “taking back the Republican party” died a long time ago. The RINOs are entrenched. So now what? The answer to that has become obvious: take the Republican party in the direction of federalism.
But not just the Republican party. This is because federalism actually transcends the ordinary left and right issues. It become an issue of restoring the balance of power between the national government and the individual States.
For the Republicans, federalism means the reduction of 50% of the federal government, returning most of the western lands to the States, ending entitle programs for good, repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments, reforming the federal judiciary so that they quit pestering the States and the people. And possibly renouncing the national debt.
For the Democrats, federalism means an end to the US military on every corner of the planet, along with perpetual wars, keeping foreigners from killing each other, and just paying attention to the few, critical parts of foreign policy that truly matter to the US. For them, federalism also means a massive reduction in the national police authorities, intelligence agencies, government and private databases of personal information, and mountains of bureaucratic regulations.
The trouble is, that there are a lot of Republicans and Democrats who *like* having an overreaching and omnipresent national government. So *these* are the people the federalists are running against.
It’s been said that the democrats are a bullet train to socialism, while the republicans are a slow train to socialism.
I want off this train. And Rush is right. Splitting the left would be a great thing to do, but it’s a death knell for our side.