Posted on 01/21/2021 5:20:54 AM PST by karpov
President Joe Biden’s inauguration marks not only a new administration’s beginning but also a new chapter for the loyal opposition.
The Grand Old Party lost the White House while picking up U.S. House seats, holding half the Senate, and adding to its numbers in state legislative chambers. These conflicting outcomes leave Republicans facing the difficult task of cementing blue-collar Trump voters into their ranks while regaining strength in the suburbs and making inroads with an increasingly diverse electorate.
To rebuild, Republicans must decide what their party stands for. The way forward begins with clarifying what the GOP’s answers should be to the nation’s challenges, with an eye to the 2022 elections.
This won’t be easy. Tensions between the party’s various elements are difficult to navigate, but it’s important to remember that President Donald Trump’s most popular achievements were conservative: originalist judges, a pro-growth tax cut, regulatory relief, strong national defense, recognition of the global threat posed by China, secure borders, and respect for life and religious liberty.
OP officeholders, candidates and party leaders should offer ideas that apply timeless conservative principles to America’s changing circumstances. As Republicans oppose the Biden administration’s agenda, they should contrast their new initiatives with the Democrats’ approach. The key is to remember that what they’re for is as important as what they’re against. The values underlying Republican initiatives are crucial, too. There are more conservatives in America who believe in traditional values, family, faith, personal responsibility, patriotism and law and order than there are liberals who don’t.
This will require forbearance, which is in short supply in some quarters of the party. Republicans should be guided by President Ronald Reagan’s rule: “The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20% traitor.”
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GFY, Karl.
There are more conservatives in America who believe in traditional values, family, faith, personal responsibility, patriotism and law and order than there are liberals who don’t.
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No there are not. The Democrat, metropolitan machines are not populated with hardly anyone fitting the description that Rove offers.
Think about it this way. IF the political Left wasn’t so overconfident in 2016, they probably would have won then. This nation is populated with enough of a majority who could care less about being part of any nation as long as they get thier bread and circus.
Hey Noob. Karl Rove is a dirty word around here.
Silver Lining: Think of the money we will all be saving.
I am ashamed to be considered “REPUBLICAN”. The only reason it’s there is so I could vote in the primaries.
Both the republican and the democrat “parties” are a waste of God’s oxygen and have been for a very, very long time.
Disgusting parties of selfish lies, hatred and division - BOTH sides. I don’t want any part of either of them and none of the other so-called parties out there are worth their salt.
Republican party is dead. Foxnews is the bellwether imo.
I don’t think people realize how significant that collapse will be yet.
Fork in it. I’m in the Trump Party.
“There is no Republican future.”
Word for word what I thought.
We need a new party. The GOP is useless.
We QUIT the GOP and registered as NO PARTY AFFILIATION. SCREW the WEAK, CORRUPT, DO NOTHING PUBBIES!!
Buh dee buh dee,that’s all folks for the Republicuckan party. By the way Rove,you do a great impression of Porky Pig.
The Egghead must be afraid.
Sorry, but there's 75 million who don't want to be the loyal ass-kissers.
No, not difficult. Impossible. We refuse to compromise with the Uniparty whores. Period. It's third party or nothing for many of us.
The Grand Old Party lost the White House, lost the majority in the Senate, and retains the minority in the House. By the time the “future” gets here,. it will be too late, the Democrats will have implemented their agenda. The GOP will promise us they will end it if we vote for them, then they’ll make excuses for why they can’t. We need a party that actually fights for and represents us. The GOP is not it.
Says the newspaper who spent the last four years backing Biden.
His ideal of the GOP sounds great, except that most of the GOP elected representatives had long bailed on those ideals anyway and were just Democrat light. Rove hated Trump, of course, but Trump actually reflected those ideals and worked on that basis, and that was why the rank and file voters liked him. Too bad GOP politicians didn’t catch up and that Rove didn’t have his revelation until too late.
Graham said today or yesterday that Trump should be the leader of the Republican Party, and I think he’s right. A third party probably wouldn’t work, but morphing the existing GOP into the image of Trump’s way of thinking is certainly possible. Otherwise the GOP really won’t have any future. Just the same old same old uniparty, and who needs to vote for that?
SSDD
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