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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Unless there is a mass wave of primary ousters, the GOP can die.
I am done voting for Assistant Democrats.
We need a new Party.
“Reforming” the GOP is a sad joke. Sorry. I’m not that dumb.
There is hope among them (see list...yes it’s short)
You can’t mass replace everyone!
True, the Senate will take 3 election cycles.
Let’s start in 2022 with the Amnesty Senators Micro Rubio and John Hoeven.
Yes, this is the way forward imo.
The biggest problem the GOP faces is that it has proven itself to be eminently untrustworthy when it comes to fulfilling its campaign promises. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Until we, as a group, and an elected representative calls for EVERY avenue of immigration into this country to be shut down for the next 50 years(at least), no student visas, nothing. And to begin the process of denying and taking away ANY benefits illegals and refugees receive to get them to self deport. And to begin the process of forced deportation......NOTHING MATTERS.
It doesn’t matter who we elect or what solutions they try to bring to the table. In the coming years, MILLIONS of 3rd world degenerates and 6th Century savages will have come here and at every opportunity, give birth to citizens.
Just this year alone, if estimates hold true, more illegals and refugees will come into this country than the number of people that live in Montana and Wyoming, combined. And that’s just this year.
Two states worth of American’s.......GONE!!!!!
I’d like to see a new sort of approach: a party with a short, focused platform (no abortion, no tax increases, whatever) and the party will support and fund ONLY those candidates who PERFECTLY adhere to the platform. Any back-stabbing, deal-making, or dishonesty means you get ousted from the party and you get no support. Fulfilling campaign promises and adhering to principles ought to mean something.
Congress
where people spend millions
to get a job that pays thousands (supposedly)
Sorry to disappoint but both of those will retain their seats probably until retirement
Does Liberty Populism encompass America First?
If not the republic is dead. And the nation will follow.
Then it won’t matter, the GOP is a dead party walking.
Should Massie succeed McTurtle?
Hope he does
As much as I like what you wrote, the ‘perfect’ candidate doesn’t exist. NO ONE ever conforms perfectly to a platform, because we’re all different. Unless you can find a bunch of people who can THINK EXACTY ALIKE, the point is moot.
Nothing was done to not repeat stop and steal. The GOP has very little passion for the Midterms and will throw a total idiot candidate for 2024.
Call it what you want..nothing has changed in the gop.
Well,they got worse.
I can..
They are called democrats.
And THAT is the problem.
Brainwashed, non-thinking, do as you’re told, mindless Democrats.
Conservatives, although we don’t all think alike...at least WE THINK. Mostly.
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