Posted on 08/28/2021 1:32:24 PM PDT by RandFan
The GOP needs a liberty-centered, populist revolution. Republicans such as Sen. Rand Paul, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Rep. Thomas Massie have become some of the most prominent voices of the party during the embrace of this mindset. If Republicans center their populist momentum on liberty, they will see victories as they have never seen before.
In 2008 and 2012, the Republican Party was upturned when a controversial congressman named Ron Paul took center stage as one of the top candidates for its presidential nomination. A former Libertarian Party nominee, Paul began to share opinions that leaned far away from the establishment Right. The Texas congressman had anti-interventionist positions in foreign policy, critiqued his Gov. Rick Perry for high tax rates in Texas, and said that the country had failed in terms of fighting the eternal drug war the GOP had championed for decades.
He may not have won the nomination in either of the years he ran, but it seems as if the lasting impression he made on the party carried over into the party's primary in 2016 when a man named Donald Trump shared sentiments that were popular with voters but very unpopular with his primary counterparts. The similarities between Paul and Trump may not seem significant, but the debates revealed how they equally affected the shift in their party's mindset.
Both were anti-war, criticized former President George W. Bush despite the critique being unpopular, and did not say they would vote for the GOP nominee if they failed to win the primary. While Paul appealed to the Tea Party movement of the late 2000s to early 2010s, Trump embraced the populist ideology of 2016. Trump won the GOP primary while Paul helped set a candidate such as Trump up to be the dominant ideologue.......
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Libertarianism is dead for the foreseeable future.
No liberal democracy, and certainly no libertai=rian state (if such a thing could exist) has ever defeated a bolshevik insurgency such as we now confront.
We don’t need a weaker government, we need a stronger one. It’s just that the stronger government must be one that is committed to doing the right things.
Imagine if Trump could have arrested Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Robert Mueller in May 2017.
there’s a hard days purge of the CCP from American politics that comes first
As long as immigration goes to near zero immigrants per year, I’m on board.
But,....we all know the big meltdown will happen anyway long before the GOP gets it’s act together.
You have conservatives..
And you have republicans..
They are not the same thing...
You have small l libertarians ( merely really pissed off conservatives)...
And then you have the Ron Paul nut jobs..
If they removed abortion and open borders from their platform, I would be all in.
But, alas, those 2 items are deal breakers for me...
I need a home, and right now the bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCANT’S are not it
I'm finished with ruling class political parties.
In the Senate the biggest problem is that McConnell hand picks a RINO candidate in the primaries. The RINO gets a lot more funding compared to the conservatives, because of McConnell’s PAC and corporate money. And there’s usually more than one conservative candidate, splitting the vote. There’s never more than one RINO candidate because they only run with McConnell’s blessing.
The only way to stop this process is for conservatives to unite behind a single well funded conservative candidate. Trump can help that happen by endorsing a candidate, and through his PAC.
We now need steely spines. And quick.
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