Posted on 01/17/2021 9:02:35 AM PST by Peter ODonnell
The low-hanging fruit is the Congressional races in 2022, primary out every single incumbent, even those who appeared to support Trump, because they are all suspect, let God sort it out. And replace them with MAGA candidates, and do not split the vote. This is where Trump can be effective, if he puts a team together, goes through each Congressional District and endorses one candidate, and one candidate only with the official MAGA Seal of Approval.
How about just a resistance party? We can call it the “Patriot Party”.
In sum, unless fully embraced and led by Trump, any effort at a new conservative political party would be a nonstarter. Even then, if Trump led the new party effort, it would still be a hard sell unlikely to prevail. The end result would almost certainly be a defeat for conservatives like the election of Wilson in 1912 due to the Republican party splitting between Taft and Roosevelt.
Not a thing. Done.
Agreed I would just register independent...don’t ever stop voting but considering the power brokers in DC don’t want anything to do with Trump and more importantly Trumps voters let them wonder why nobody is volunteering for their door knock campaigns or GOTV efforts
I haven't heard anyone compare such an election to the 1912 three-way with Teddy Roosevelt attempting to return to the Presidency after the then-deep-stater Taft took over. Which probably means it's been written about numerous times in the last week or so :-)
It’s hard to imagine that a new party would get the kind of majority in that it wouldn’t ultimately have to form a coalition with one of the other parties.
Which essentially is what we already have within the GOP itself.
The idea is to make the Conservatives the dominant faction of the GOP.
tl;dr
I will say this though. Political Parties are a thing of the past. The Uniparty is what matters.
I don’t think so.
What we need is new media that is not biased against us.
We must also accept that the foolish people will sometimes get their way. Reagan followed Carter’s disastrous economic policies. We must endure similar nonsense for the next four years. Things need to get bad enough that your average liberal gives up on trying to solve other people’s problems. His own problems must dominate his every waking hour and give him nightmares too.
The only realistic alternative to the GOP is the democrat party. And the answer is no, I don’t plan to join them.
Of course, add DTW to that list of cities with predictable levels of fraud. No doubt also LAX, NYC, SFO, SEA, PDX, HOU, New Orleans, the list goes on but their relevance to the outcome varies.
There are 10 places to start.
Also do whatever you can to divide your opponent.
But whatever you do, don’t mention the words “by any means necessary”.
“””Alternatives to GOP: what are the options?”””
You ask a question that has few options, if any.
The GOP only seems to gain power when the Democrats overstep the bounds of political normality.
a. Reagan wins when Jimmy Carter is shown to be an incompetent leader.
b. GOP wins the House in 1994 for the first time in 50 years when Clinton pushes socialized medicine.
c. GOP wins House and Senate in 2010 when Obamacare is passed.
d. GOP could well win in 2022 and 2024 as it is pretty obvious that the Democrats will push the political boundaries beginning on January 21, 2021.
When the GOP is in power they rarely push any new political boundaries. That is until Trump became President and he created the America First policy or the fake news policy.
So without a person like Trump to lead the future, how can we change the minds of 80 million GOP voters where far too many of them have been trained to not expect any radical changes by prior GOP regimes.
My two cents.
Sure, you could get a large number of voters, but what good does that do considering what happened on and after November 3rd, 2020???
Voters made absolutely no difference...
Even if you get voters, you still have to have candidates...By and large, the republican party has very few candidates worth voting for as shown this year...
Always remember the 3 boxes. The soap box. The ballot box. The ammo box.
At this point, the third box is our only option.
Social media has taken away the soap box. Our government took away our ballot box. Let’s pray they don’t get our ammo box.
1. Trump was very much an anomaly. He was almost certainly the only GOP contender who would have won in 2016.
2. Trump attracted the support of a large cohort of minorities, independents and even many Democrats. Very few of these people are going to come out and vote for Republicans in 2022 — or at any time in the next 50 years.
3. For all his bluster and his combative personality, Trump has gone out of his way to avoid contentious battles within the GOP in recent years. The last thing he ever wants to do is support a loser, so he’s never going to out on a limb to push MAGA challengers to run against RINO incumbents unless it’s a heavily Republican state or district (Lizard Cheney is an ideal target for him). He would rather support a RINO who wins than a “Deplorable” who loses.
I have often compared Trump to Churchill, in that like Trump, Churchill was really not well-liked by other politicians, even within his own party.
Let’s look at the 1945 election when Labour whupped the Tories and Clement Atlee took Churchills place, remember in Britain you don’t vote direct for the PM, it’s based on representation in Parliament.
Many ask, why did Churchill lose, after what he did during the war? Several reasons, First of all, Labour did a better job of getting out the message of their post-war vision for Britain, which was basically Socialism. But this was also at a time when the British economy was in such dire straits, that even the private businesses were literally begging to be taken over by the government. What was the Tories’ message? “We’ve Got Churchill!”.
Also Churchill shot himself in the foot, with a dissatrous radio broadcast right before the election, where he stated that Labour would use “Gestapo”-tactics to implement Socialism. Well you can only imagine how the press went to town on that, “Churchill Compares Labour to Gestapo”, especially so soon after the war, and with the knowledge of the Nazi’s atrocities. Even his own party was appalled, and if it wasn’t for his popularity with the people, the Consevatives would have sent him out to pasture, after the election.
But at the time, Churchill was all the Tories really had, so they were at least smart enough to keep him on as Leader of the Party.
Fast forward to 1951, Churchill was back at 10 Downing Street , where he served until 1955 when he retired at the age of 80.
But of course, it’s not a total happy ending, Labour basically got their socialist program installed, which is still there to this day.
Get out and meet with people. Become involved at the local level. Promote conservatives and under mind the rest. Work with young people this is very important. Go to school board, city, and county council meetings. Take some like minded friends with you and make an evening of it.
Trump needs to restore the Bull Moose Party
Look how well that worked for Teddy Roosevelt.
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[I haven’t heard anyone compare such an election to the 1912 three-way with Teddy Roosevelt attempting to return to the Presidency after the then-deep-stater Taft took over. Which probably means it’s been written about numerous times in the last week or so :-) ]
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