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.
Even California voted against sodomite mirage-3 times-until the courts went over their heads and then as usual it was proclaimed to be a done deal.
OMG...
And, the cheating wife needs to return to being the wife she needs to be.
ROTFLMAO!
The GOP is never to be trusted again. They are dead to patriots.
He sure is. The WhiGOP is just a zombie party now, with no self-awareness that it died.
The vile socialists have robbed me of academia, media, sports, church and will vote in a single party country by eliminating the electoral college, add 2 more socialist states and pack the SCOTUS guaranteeing that their socialist party will be the single party in the USA. The spineless RINOS helped usher that in, and my next vote would be to vote them out, but I believe that my vote no longer counts. Tell me again where socialism works? Venezuela? Cuba? N. Korea? and on and on....I guess I should be thankful it is only face diapers for now, but check back in a year, or two and see how things are going.
I’m not sure it’s cowardice when they WANT this, won’t do to have the mere people-citizens-throw monkey wrenches into their cozy arrangements.
by opposing lefturd loon force, tyranny, and insanity, not Trump or MAGA
No, the GOP needs to go the way of the Whig Party. The GOP is fake, “controlled opposition” and its leadership hate their cities and actively work against them.
It is time to start a new political party.
Just north of 50 and I don't remember a time either. President Regan was good but the GOP was still awful and they hated Regan's guts almost as much as they hate Trump.
I am appalled at the betrayal of Donald Trump. Many of these Republicans were elected because of him and us. There has to be a 3rd party to replace the GOP otherwise they will keep taking us for granted and betraying us. Trump going from 63 million to 75 million is not because of the GOP, it is because of Trump. They need to come to grips with what their betrayal means. But staying in the party will only cause them to lie to us every election year and then betray us again and again. The GOP needs to die!
The only way to break the treachery is to split from the GOP and let it die on the vine. It will be painful at first but this is the road less traveled by. Otherwise this is going to happen again and again and again.
This is a vicious cycle that we must break or ten years from now this will happen again. I don’t want to be in a political party with Erick (shoot the protesters) Erickson and Adam Kinzinger.
Sure! Righto! After you! Of Course! Naturally! Bye!
Well if you take a hard look at the actions of Congress it will astonish you that people have not shown their anger and refusal to accept some of its workings before this. All in all people have been rather complacent as their money, their rights, and even their lives have been used as so much chump change by those in the halls of power.
I do not condone violence. But it is far past time that those elected to represent us realize they must answer for betrayal after betrayal of us and their lickspittle, fawning, unctious,weasely,groveling to globalists,techoligarchs, warmongers, and the like.
With one exception. They are not pro-union as that gets in the way of cheap labor.
errata: But it is far past time that those elected to represent us realize they must answer for betrayal after betrayal of us, and their lickspittle, fawning, unctious,weasely,groveling to globalists,techoligarchs, warmongers, and the like.
Please note I’ve now put a comma after “betrayal of us”.
This sounds like it was written by a RINO. They actually think they have a future. Very sad.
I am 65 held my damn nose and voted in EVERY election since I was 18 local ones too!! Nov. 3rd was my LAST AND FINAL vote ever!! The GOP has NEVER BEEN a strong and fighting party face facts folks the GOP has let this country be taken over by Marxists and communists and they have DONE NOTHING!! I have worked at local RNC offices, made calls, walked neighborhoods donated MANY DOLLARS!! I have never felt the way I do about Trump and these BASTARDS could not have his back EVER SCREW THEM!! The ONE TIME I actually believed in our candidate after all these years these BASTARDS couldn’t get behind him not even to thank their constituents for all of the years of loyalty and work for their CONSTANT loser candidates I AM DONE!!!
Uni party
Tell me he’s kidding. 😂
This is propaganda.
The era of the America First Party begins 1/21/21.
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