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.
Not in TX, I don’t think.
Oh FFS
Seriously, quick where is my credit card do I can give them 🤑
They really believe that They are now not known globally as being joined at the hip with the Uniparty.
Please send me all your GOPe and RNC and Republican donations. I shall forward them on....🤯
Idiots !!! You screwed us for generations, Now fk off and try getting a job with the Dems, they don’t want you either, do your done and gone...
That’s right 😉
No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
This isn't about Trump, it's about holding the government accountable and election theft. It's much bigger than Trump.
What we need is strict interpretations of the amendable Constitution, particularly the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids.” —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Send me a fund-raising letter requesting money for the GOP.
Make sure to enclose an envelope postage pre-paid for my use.
I have a little something to give you.
I won’t be getting those letters for money any longer I am taking my name and my mom’s name OFF the voter rolls AND I won’t have jury duty any longer either BIG PLUS!!
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.
This is simply NOT true.
The Trump campaign has not presented their case to a court. The courts have denied standing or dismissed the complaints on technical grounds, but to my knowledge they have NOT addressed the facts of the complaint.
As long as the state GOPs continue to serve up RINOs, as they all seem to be, there is no Republican Party anymore.
The American people of every race, creed, religion, party and other demographic, finally had a President that gave a shit about them. And the puppet masters did t like it.
Soros said he’d be a one term President.
If the man rallied the people and asked me to grab my shit, I’d stop typing right now. Ain’t gonna happen. I feel horrible for him and his family. They’re going to go after him and them.
All he did was care.
Still waiting in the DNI report and all the evidence he said he had, though. He should pardoned Assange a month ago.
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Hey Josh, I know you Federalis[hi]t rubes lurk -- go. fuck. yourself.
It's going to take a more forceful response.
I don’t even think just supporting individual candidates will work anymore, which one hasn’t wound up co-opted by the machine anyway? I’m not demoralized but that’s because I know there are still millions of patriots, not because I see a way around this mess yet., and certainly not a political solution within existing framework.
And certainly not because of the GOP-they’re in on it, the other side of the Uniparty coin.
The Republican Party? What is that?
Time to ignore The Federalist
The speed at which the GOPe Senate hid and ran, should be in a Physics Journal.
They are immense cowards and look to be beyond redemption.
Trump should start a Third Party. If he doesn’t we should.
Yes, a hard tack, but we have no choice. Conservatives are now the equivalent of what the Blacks are to the Democrats.
people are falsely told that an all-powerful, nefarious “Deep State” controls every lever of power in America
"Falsely"? Grifting neocon writer brown-noses the leftwing billionaires who fund neocon writers.
Does this fool really think the globalist plutocrats are going to continue to pay gas-lighters like this jackboot-licker to continue to con the rubes?
What they mean is they want the GOP to be the party of open borders, free health care for everyone, etc etc..basically they want to be the Dem lite party..so F them..I am done with the GOP, they can kiss my a@@
The federalist is generally just a mouthpiece for the RINO Establishment.
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