There's a Reason Conservatives are Becoming Less Tame

American Thinker ^ | 27 Sep, 2022 | John Green

[MtnClimber]

Those opposing a socialist takeover of America are becoming less tame every day.

New York magazine is suddenly realizing that the Republicans will likely retake the House of Representatives in the midterm election. They are not happy. They just ran a piece titled: “The MAGA House Will Make the Tea Party Look Tame.” The article included this little beauty:

If the tea party was rightfully derided as a hard-right, recalcitrant bloc with no serious interest in governing, the 2023 House Republican majority could make that era of instability seem almost quaint in comparison.

Panic much? The title is correct, and the quote, reeking with their utter disdain for Republicans, even illustrates how we got here. But the article didn't ask the most important question: If conservatives are getting less tame, why is that?

It's because our bureaucratic overlords and their Democrat sponsors are still not listening to the grievances of a large, and growing, number of Americans.

Barack Obama was supposed to be our first postracial president. His election should have proved that we were moving past our racist history. He even promised us a unifying administration if elected. We took the bait and gave him a chance. He delivered divisiveness, uncontrolled borders, worldwide apologies for America, and started us down the path of annual trillion-dollar deficits.

We had concerns and wanted to talk. The Lightbringer's response: "The election is over." In other words: I won, you lost, no more discussion is necessary, deal with it. And with that, Barack Obama triggered the formation of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party started as a grassroots movement to push back against the leftist fiscal policies that would enslave our children to a mountain of debt. It was a peaceful movement. They held rallies and protests all over America. Everyone was welcome.

[Lurker]

Face it, people. The left wants us enslaved or dead.

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[LouAvul]

the Republicans will likely retake the House of Representatives

Oh. So that's what they mean by "less tame."

I'm thinking of the mongrel attacks on women in NYC. I'm thinking of the messycan cartels turning (selected) areas of the USA into their private sewage compartments. I'm thinking of the general, ubiquitous drug addicts and degenerate alcoholics turning our cities into tent slums.

My idea of "less tame" is for conservatives to adopt a "hands on" approach to eliminate all the above in a definitive way.

"Less tame" does not mean continuing to wait for the limp wristed Repugnant Reps to get off their fat butts and do something. To wait for those pimps ... is insane. "Insanity is repeating the same action over and over all the while expecting a different result."

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[wardaddy]

I don’t much care for this article

Too many premises from the brainwashed under 40 folks

Post racial president ?

[Jeff Vader]

I agree, the venn diagram of the 2 movements would probably show a 90%+ overlap

[Alberta's Child]

Democrats didn’t kill the Tea Party. Republicans did.

How many Republicans swept into office as Tea Party candidates never lived up to their campaign promises once they got to Washington?

[dfwgator]

Wasn’t “Morning Joe” a Tea Party Republican?

[Alberta's Child]

Joe Scarborough was out of Congress long before the Tea Party existed.

Other crooked lightweights like Nikki Haley and Joe Walsh, on the other hand, we’re elected with strong backing from the Tea Party.

[Roccus]

What the urinalists call *THE* tea party (political party) was really started before Obama. It was the profligate spending of a Republican congress that prompted calls for *A SECOND* tea party (event) This idea was well expressed here at FR before it was picked up by Rick Santelli as a way to show DC how pissed off we really were. The MSM, in order to pigeon-hole people they had nothing but disdain for, decided to call them *THE* tea party
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for FReepers as well as the politically ambitious (RINOs, carpetbaggers etc) to take on this mantle.
Thus, since those who believed in the cause accepted this labeling, they were often duped and became targeted, isolated, ridiculed.
Stop legitimizing the tactic of our enemies to define and label our ideas, beliefs and goals.

[knarf]

[Sicon]

Trump didn’t even invent “Make America Great Again”. Reagan used it in his 1980 campaign, but it was “Let’s make America great again”. That being said, Trump was right to invoke it again in 2015-2016.

[Disambiguator]

A venn diagram of RINOs and Democrats would show a similar overlap in terms of beliefs and agendas.

[rlmorel]

This is true.

However, there are two specific things that Trump provides that The Tea Party did not, or could not:

1. Leadership.
   • He may be crass.
   • He may be eccentric.
   • He may be mercurial.
   • He may be inexperienced.
   • He may make mistakes.
   • But he does not lie down and roll over.
   • Trump provides a planted flag that serves as a rallying point that The Tea Party never had.

• Trump makes the Left "Show their asses".
  • This is valuable, it provides intelligence to show us empirically exactly where their vulnerable spots are. Granted, HE is their "vulnerable spot", but when Trump is in place, we can calibrate our efforts based on their screams of outrage. They cannot help themselves. This aspect has value. "Bipartisanship" isn't an option with the current political opposition.

[Taxman]

Ping

[rlmorel]

We could simply apply a sound level meter to their screams of outrage, and prioritize our issue focus accordingly...:)

[sit-rep]

Hijacking the lefts play... Accuse the opposition of what you are undertaking. Part of me suspects this author is a rino...

[bert]

All his enemies that conducted the coup are not only still alive, but the are all endeavoring with increased fervor to destroy him. Trump did not ever engage his existential enemies

Donald Trump was an exceptional President. What leads you to believe he will not allow his enemies to continue to destroy him? To continue the coup?

[DoodleBob]

This is a stupid article, because it espouses a leftist ideology that sanctions violence when "the oppressed have grievances."

Daniel Greenberg wrote an excellent takedown of this "violence is ok when there are grievances" in 2014. Daniel's takedown was brutal, but he was right back then.

The same idiotic, mental rot was espoused to sanction leftist destruction and mayhem during the riots of 2020. We called them out back then, reminding the children that riots aren't protests and destruction of property is never sanctioned by men of reason.

You'd think people on the right would understand this sophistry. Of course you can use a firearm in self-defense, but torching the court house as "LEGITIMATE free speech of the aggrieved" is what I expect from MSNBC.

Then, along comes American Thinker (second worst allegedly conservative new media toilet next to Gateway Pundit) sounding like Antifa

If conservatives are getting less tame, why is that? It's because our bureaucratic overlords and their Democrat sponsors are still not listening to the grievances of a large, and growing, number of Americans.

Thank you, comrade! We are all leftists now.

Not.

[rlmorel]

I don’t agree with your “allow his enemies” characterization of Trump’s conduct.

I know exactly what you mean, but in my opinion, WE “allow his enemies” to destroy him.

That said, nobody is stepping up to the plate with the possible exception of DeSantis. I like DeSantis, but you think they won’t do the same thing to him?

Or to anyone with anything but a “D” after his name? (IMO, The only reason they aren’t doing it to DeSantis is that he is a governor of a state, not the President)

I would rather go down quickly fighting with someone who fights back without giving up, rather than rolling over on my back as most conservatives seem willing to do, and die as a nation by small increments.

[rlmorel]

I need to apologize-it shouldn’t be “most conservatives”, it should be “some conservatives”. That was an unfair brush to paint with.

I think there are plenty of us on our side who are willing to fight the political battle, and what is lacking is leaders who are willing as well.