Posted on 07/13/2020 3:38:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
“I’ve been in the habit for many election cycles of telling people when they asked me how important the election was, I would always say it’s the most important election since the last one and will be the most important one until the next one. I think this may be a little different here … this election is different. This is big, no doubt.” - Brit Hume
If you’re a Trump supporter, this election cycle so far has been sort of like sitting down to watch your favorite college football team play a much-anticipated game against a hated rival. You’ve got friends over, popcorn popped, nachos, drinks, the works. Big screen blaring in the man-cave, excitement in the air. The kick-off happens and you settle in for a few hours of football bliss with your friends. Then, your all-thumbs kickoff-return man fumbles the ball, which the other team recovers for a touchdown. “OK, we can come back from this,” you think. But down 7-0, your QB wants it all back on the next possession, nay the first throw of the next possession, which then gets picked off and promptly returned for a pick-six. (I’m a Tennessee fan, y’all. I’m used to scenarios like this.)
Two more sloppy possessions and a porous defense and you’re down 28-0 and it’s not even halftime. Suddenly, the pizza is cold. The beer is warm. The nachos don’t taste so good. Your friends want to leave, and the party you’d looked forward to for so long looks more like a funeral parlor scene than an epic evening with friends. You turn the channel or go outside to do some yard work - anything to get your mind off what’s happening to the team you love. Maybe you check the score in an hour, but your evening’s been ruined. Your disappointment might even turn to anger at your team or at least the players or coaches who screwed up or didn’t seem to try hard enough. “You can take a loss, but at least fight,” you tell them in your mind. “At least make a game of it. At least make the time I spent rooting for you worthwhile.”
Before you dismiss me as a Chicken Little (and if you do, believe me I hope you’re right and I’m wrong), consider a sobering discussion Fox News host Tucker Carlson had with Brit Hume last week. After analyzing the part of Joe Biden’s unveiled Marxism-lite plan that includes the legalization of at least 22 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S., Carlson asked Hume if it was “fair to say no Republican could ever win a national election at least in the foreseeable future?”
“I think that’s a reasonable assumption in the foreseeable future, and it wouldn’t take 22 million,” Hume told Tucker. “Let’s say the number were half that. 11 million new voters, the overwhelming majority of whom would vote for the Democrat, would keep the Democrats in power in the White House for sure for several election cycles at least.”
Beyond the electorate change, which would be bad enough, Hume and Carlson covered two other things Democrats could do quite easily with simple majorities in both Houses - abolish the filibuster (something the normally solid Mitch McConnell didn’t have the guts to do) and make the District of Columbia a state. If Democrats win in November and accomplish this trifecta in the next two years, in the words of Tucker Carlson, “we are headed at very high speed toward effectively a one-party state at least for the foreseeable future.”
In other words, the presidential and Senatorial elections about to take place in November 2020 are by far the most important elections of our lifetimes, and it’s truly not even close. Trump’s 2016 victory and judicial nominations bought us some time and maybe even the ability to fight back on some fronts going forward, but a November loss could be a permanent game over for national conservative governance of any kind.
As to Trump’s much-needed upping of his game, Hume wondered if the president “can stop talking about himself long enough to talk about something else and talk about their agenda and his message.” I sure hope so, because what’s at stake is far more important than the president’s ego. Is he up to the task? We’ll see. Like the football game that seems hopelessly out of control in the first quarter, it doesn’t look good so far. But the good news is the Trump campaign is like a few football teams we’ve known over the years. Streaky. Error-prone. Porous D. But damn, that offense can be pretty dynamic at times. Like 2016, it would be a mistake to ever count him out. But no matter what the scoreboard says, conservatives and liberty lovers of all stripes had best do more than his or her part until the clock says zero, or all could be lost forever.
A serious issue in my opinion. Even with the POTUS winning re-election in 2020, the Dems’ long game would still have serious ramifications in 2024. And that is just looking at the Executive and ignoring the Legislature.
This, the need to divide the country, while there’s still something to divide.
We need a pro American WORKER second party and it ain’t the GOP...
If November goes well for us (and I think it will) then (perhaps) some real swamp draining can happen and people will see what the Democrats (and RINOs) are really like. That could end the Democrat Party.
Alternatively, if the Democrats do well in November, they will be able to eliminate the chance of the Republican Party from ever making a comeback.
I think one of the major parties basically won’t exist in 2024. Hard to say for sure which one though.
Trump winning in 2020 would be similar to his winning in 2016; obstruction from both parties will prevent him from advancing his agenda in any meaningful way.
With all that’s going on with the Wuhan virus Trump’s still talking about ventilators. No repub backup on ANYTHING. The mobs fill the streets, silence. It’s eerie.
The GOP is throwing Trump under the bus. Post Trump I will actively try to destroy the GOP. At this point the GOP is in the way of true opposition to the leftist/Marxists. Globalism ( The GOP current platform ) does not present real opposition to the left. Marx/Lenin/Stalin were all globalists and for free trade too.
We need only look at bankrupted/destroyed states like Illinois, californication, and New York to see what Demo party Control can do to the rest of us. We MUST avoid letting the D party bosses win!!
If we divide the country, we will be facing a two-front war, with the Chinese having beachheads on each coast. The Democrats have to lose the right to vote for their treason and all their Marxist leadership must be tried and executed down to squad-sized community activist. In fact anyone trained by the Marxists in sabotage must also be tried and executed or there will never be peace. Their treason cannot be tolerated.
Chinese. Stupidest comment I've ever read. Divide now while we still can!!!!
‘Carlson asked Hume if it was “fair to say no Republican could ever win a national election at least in the foreseeable future?”
fair to say...? it is obvious on its face, and the only way that will change is the dems growing so bloated they can’t meet the demands of all their constituents, and they split into schisms...exactly like they did in the election of 1860 when they ran two candidates (Douglas for the more moderate wing, Breckinridge for the forces wanting to push slavery to the western states)...running two candidates in an election isn’t exactly a recipe for success...
Don't forget the Dems making Puerto Rico a state (after a referendum ) and expanding then packing the US Supreme Court.
In an instant they have 4 more US Senate seats and an unbeatable majority in the SCOTUS.
This talk has been around since day 1...party names may change, but there will always be two parties...because of the $$$. Each party (whatever they’re called, Whigs, Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, etc.) needs a foil to point their finger at and say, “if we only had x we’d be able to do y”. They’ve been playing us for a long time...he the rise of Trump and Trumpism which needs to continue regardless of who leads it after Trump’s 2nd term.
People keep talking about names as if they matter. The Democrats will always exist bc greed and lust for power will always exist. Whether they call themselves that or something else, what does it matter? They won’t be changing their name anytime soon though because there’s no reason to.
The dwindling percentage of patriots might call themselves something different, but it doesn’t matter. The communist media will label any threats to collectivist power with all the isms that they already assign to Republicans.
Republicans did the same thing in 1912.
e need a pro American WORKER second party and it ain’t the GOP...
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True. If Biden wins, India, Communist China and Mexico wins. Americans can fight over what menial labor jobs are left. White males, especially, will be hard-core unemployed.
White males are the new Jews of the holocaust.
The communists are to blame.
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