Posted on 01/07/2021 10:33:30 AM PST by Kaslin
The shameful events of Jan. 6 revealed something deeply wrong in the country. A restored Republican Party must be a part of the solution.
Nearly a year ago, on Jan. 9, 2020, after 13 years of waiting, a longtime hope of mine was fulfilled when I became a naturalized American citizen. Almost one year later, I watched in horror and sadness along with millions of my fellow Americans as men and women violently stormed the government seat the country I love so dearly.
The rioting and destruction we witnessed over the summer were indefensible. And yes, the left has dangerous radicals of its own. Wednesday’s utterly shameful events are clear evidence that there is something gravely wrong in the country right now.
Like it or not, for the near future, America is stuck with a two-party system. So, with everything in its power, a restored and rebuilt Republican Party must be a part of the solution.
The Republican Party of the future cannot — not tacitly, not quietly, not in the slightest — encourage grievance or stoke anger. It must not aid, abet, or give any credence to wild conspiracy theories stemming from the likes of QAnon, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood. The Republican Party of the future must once again become the party of the civil, the free, and the sane.
Most importantly, the Republican Party of the future cannot continue to endorse the view that any election lost to Democrats constitutes the literal end of the country. America is more resilient than that. Our Founders wisely and prudently instituted checks and balances and designed separation of powers to ensure that no single election, or even a series of elections, would break America beyond repair.
It’s not surprising that people do desperate, illegal, evil things when they are repeatedly told by politicians and commentators that Senate or presidential elections aren’t just important, but pose an existential threat to America if their side doesn’t win.
No, going forward, the local needs to replace the national, and we must tend to our towns and communities with far more fervor and dedication than we now devote to events involving the White House or occurring in states thousands of miles away from where we may actually live. Politics should not and cannot be the center of our lives and the source of our purpose.
What we saw on Jan. 6, 2021, is not a surprising result when people are falsely told their votes are meaningless because the elections are “rigged” and democracy in America is a sham. Nor is what we saw on Jan. 6, 2021, a surprising result when people are falsely told that an all-powerful, nefarious “Deep State” controls every lever of power in America and that a similarly shadowy cabal of “globalists” controls the world.
Here’s the truth: State legislatures and numerous audits and recounts did not find any widespread voting irregularities or fraud capable of overturning the 2020 election results. More than 60 legal challenges and lawsuits heard by judges from district courts to the U.S. Supreme Court — including three U.S. Supreme Court justices appointed by President Donald Trump himself — failed to prove any election-altering voter fraud, nor did an investigation by Trump’s own Attorney General Bill Barr.
The fact that can be gleaned from all available evidence is Trump lost the 2020 election, and it wasn’t that close. Unlike in 2000, this loss wasn’t anywhere near the 537-vote margin seen in Florida, a single state that held the result of the election in the balance. According to Trump’s own words in 2016, it was a landslide defeat — 306 Electoral College votes to 232.
Trump’s tenure as president was not without remarkable successes. What Trump accomplished in the Middle East, with multiple peace accords forged between the state of Israel and several Arab nations, is a diplomatic achievement without parallel over the last 30 years. The president’s efforts to end burdensome regulations deserve acclaim, as does his successful appointment of excellent originalist justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Yet, if the Republican Party wants to have any hopes of salvaging its image and winning another election, it must move beyond hitching its fortunes to one person, especially if that man is the destabilizing force known as Donald Trump. Let cults of personality belong to other parties and other nations, and let the American presidency rescind to the responsible power level envisioned to the executive branch by the Founders.
Finally, after not even bothering to publish a new platform in 2020 for the first time in its history, let the Republican Party once again stand for smart, intelligent, and informed ideas. Then, let them muster the strength and skill to follow through.
The United States needs a party to hold Democrats accountable — one that defends the U.S. Constitution, life, character, and free markets, and then leaves the American people alone to live their lives in peace. The Republican Party must decide, and decide quickly, whether it has the courage to take up that mantle again, or whether it wants to ride the rusted husk of what’s left of the Trump train straight into oblivion.
Clause 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors"
How is it constitutional that Judges and Administrators (not Legislatures) directed CHANGES IN THE "MANNER" of appointing electors?
Is this comedy?
The Republican Party is dead. It died on November 3, 2020, and was buried on January 6, 2021. Good riddance.
“The GOP is dead.”
Unfortunately so true.
A delusional article...
You cannot have a nation ran essentially be the Chamber of Commerce, who crushes their own countrymen when they clamor against their marginalization from the forces of globalism.
The end result is that no one will care about such a nation (if we can even call it a sovereign nation). Because heaven knows that the political Left loathes the idea that the U.S. isn’t accountable to extra-national institutions.
The problem with America is too many weaklings have immigrated to our shores and brought their cowardice with them.
The Republican party showed it true colors to we the people. The majority just corrupt politicians. Faith in our government is lost.
This guy needs to join TPUSA, the Chamber of Commerce, the Federalist Society and all of the other GOPe/Conservatism, Inc. organizations so he can cuck his way into a high place in the "respectful opposition".
>>The GOP is dead. It’s plain and simple. Stop pretending it isn’t.<<
Not yet. Not until they move forward to marginalize conservatives up and in to the midterm elections two years from now.
They may pander to the conservatives to help take back the house, but the future of conservatism in the GOP is pretty much over.
Nope! Just changed my voter registration to unaffiliated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
Cucks gonna cuck.
They came to America with the idea of getting even with America for causing all the problems in the countries they left.
>> Wednesday’s utterly shameful events
What exactly were those events?
Remember the IRS abuses in 2010. The GOP did nothing. That was the flash point.
This guy is in denial about the fraud.
This guy is creating false equivalency between the summer violent riots and what happened yesterday.
Josh, this election was different.
Look at AOC, The squad, Bernie, Warren. They want to change America, not keep it the same or draw closer to our founding.
They want to be Europe or China and that isn’t America and so it’s the end.
Change your party affiliation to Independent. It’s one small thing you can do today.
This person likes dreamin’.
Fast and Furious!
“’Cause dreamin’ can make you mine!”
Don’t make me puke-the GOP is half of the Uniparty and has been for a while, they’ve just been forced by patriotic Americans to show their hand-this began at least with their multiple votes supporting illegal immigration even after being flooded with calls to vote for citizens rights and against illegal cheap labor, way back under Bush II, if not before-going on well before that but that’s when the mask really began to slip-they yell about pro-life and such but never do a damn thing to roll it back because it keeps the suckers voting for them-we need a third populist party, if votes will ever count again anyway in an honest election which I don’t count on.
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