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The Republican Future Starts Now
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 20, 2021 | Karl Rove

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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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
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To: allendale

90%+ of incumbents win their primaries. Then what? We’ve got to play by GOPe rules now. That means voting for Democrats when a Quisling Republican is on our ballot. Right now that would be any elected Republican who voted for McCarthy and McConnell for leadership. They must go. All of them.


61 posted on 01/21/2021 5:51:43 AM PST by lodi90
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To: ryderann

“The Patriot Party, here we come!”

This Rove piece proves it. It’s the same bromides as after every GOP loss (‘92, ‘96, ‘02, ‘06, ‘08, ‘12, ‘18), with some added lies about Proud Boys and “militias” and Sidney Powell.

Conservative Third party has always been perilous, but Trump/2020 has uncovered the GOP’s betrayal for certain. No more insanity.


62 posted on 01/21/2021 5:53:11 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: karpov
Karl Rove is one of thousands of reasons I am no longer a Republican. The future of the Republican Party is one of abject failure, just like it's past. They took no concrete action to restore my right to vote in a fraud-free and fair election. A little talk here and there, but no action. My vote does not count and I certainly won't waste my time going to a polling place to place a vote for a Republican, or a Democrat or a third-party candidate simply because it my vote does not count.

If a party cannot unify around the most basic of all rights and successfully restore that right then they are worthless. Republicans are worthless. Their future is bleak.

63 posted on 01/21/2021 5:53:43 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: karpov
Paul Gigot, a/k/a "Mr Excitement"


64 posted on 01/21/2021 5:54:03 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: karpov

“...and the third is a group (militia types) of secessionists and extremists.”

Not how he throws in people (sucessionists) who want one thing - to have this country run according to its constitution, whether that be the USA or a new entity. And note how he considers ANYONE talking about sucession as ‘militia types’, even though there are plenty of example of peaceful separation of territories in recent history, throughout the world (with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia being just 2 of them).


65 posted on 01/21/2021 5:55:08 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Soul of the South
"Rove and his friends hated and opposed Trump for actually moving the agenda forward. What this demonstrates is the majority of party leaders are not conservative and have no intention of aggressively supporting conservatism."

Now that they are comfortably in the minority again, the GOP will start talking conservatism for fundraising purposes. It is their MO. The unofficial slogan of the GOP is, "Words not Deeds."

"If only we can win back the house..."; "Now that we have the house, we need the senate to truly implement our agenda..." etc.

It has always worked for them in the past, and then when the grass roots gives them what they ask for, they are like the dog that finally caught the car he has been chasing for years, and has no clue what to do with it. I think, hope and pray that this time it is different. Grass root conservatives need to stop sending money to the fraudulent scam known as the GOP.

66 posted on 01/21/2021 5:55:15 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: wny

There is no Republican future.

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Neither in the party or Rove. Just not salvageable and lacks credibility. The Titanic is in better shape.


67 posted on 01/21/2021 5:55:53 AM PST by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun". "WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT")
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To: Bayard

“Republican party is dead.”
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No. The Republican party is deep state. It is a part of the swamp. It is a political show to fool us, as long as we allow ourselves to be fooled. And so many are fooled.

Third parties don’t win elections. It is far too late for that.


68 posted on 01/21/2021 5:56:55 AM PST by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: wny

Agree with you. I am no longer a republican. It doesn’t even deserve a capital R.... I look forward to voting against them all on the state/federal level. Locally, all of the Republicans are huge Trump supporters. State..... not sure- federal- all snakes- Braun is going down next election cycle. It can’t come soon enough


69 posted on 01/21/2021 5:59:05 AM PST by southernindymom ( )
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To: karpov

FU Rove. The GOP is dead.


70 posted on 01/21/2021 5:59:42 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: ryderann

If it forms, I will transfer my membership.


71 posted on 01/21/2021 5:59:44 AM PST by southernindymom ( )
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To: Soul of the South

There’s a great analysis here on why McConnell prefers being the minority leader.

Ihttps://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/01/19/mitch-mcconnell-blames-president-trump-says-mob-was-provoked-by-the-president/


72 posted on 01/21/2021 5:59:53 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: xenia

The GOP is more dangerous than the Democrat party. It’s time to face this.

You cannot continue to fund an organization that flat out lies to it’s members and then nakedly works against their interests.

That’s the most refreshing thing that happened in the last four years - it’s no longer a theory. The entire party structure is designed to work as faux opposition to the Democrats that are naked about their agenda.

It needs to be faced. It should be starved out of existence, but corporations will prop it up until the GOP can’t get anybody elected. The D’s need some sort of fake opposition for the next two years. It’ll take about that long to lock it all down sufficiently.


73 posted on 01/21/2021 6:00:07 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: karpov

74 posted on 01/21/2021 6:00:22 AM PST by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: wny
Karl Rove is desperately trying to avoid a fatal schism in the Republican Party. He wants the party "reformed" rather than abandoned. This "architect" is perhaps the very worst man to be advancing this cause, he will only contribute to it falling down around his head because he has no credibility.

A reading of the comments on this thread makes it clear that the overwhelming opinion is that the Republican Party must be abandoned because it cannot be reformed. I am reluctantly inclined to agree.

It is not easy to set up a new national political party in the American system which is a Winner take all game incentivizing one party or the other to swallow upstarts. We all know the history of the Whigs in 1856 and the subsequent bloodiest war in American history.

Our chances today are perhaps even worse than the Republicans of 1858 and 1860 when they elected Abraham Lincoln. We conservatives hold not one consequential institution of American life. The hard truth is the left dominates them all. The harder truth is they will be ruthless in their dominion. The Whigs, at least, had the momentum generated by the insuperable high moral ground caused by slavery.

To form a new party we need two things: a charismatic leader and an overwhelming moral factor.


75 posted on 01/21/2021 6:00:56 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: wny

That’s right; the “future” of the Republican Party was doomed when they wouldn’t support Trump’s agenda - from the very onset, when they wouldn’t overturn ObamaCare (after pledging for years to do so). They then stalled any attempts at border or immigration controls, and refused to defend him against bizarre, empty assaults from the Dems.

Now that he is safely removed, the enemedia is actually starting to give Trump credit for at least the “Pax Trumpicana” - now new endless wars, and scaling down of those he inherited.


76 posted on 01/21/2021 6:02:22 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: karpov

The GOP is dead to me.


77 posted on 01/21/2021 6:05:11 AM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: Vaquero
Republican Party is dead. Long live the Patriot Party.

Bump!

F the GOP, it's MAGA or bust.

78 posted on 01/21/2021 6:06:20 AM PST by jpsb
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To: ConservativeInPA

If a party cannot unify around the most basic of all rights and successfully restore that right then they are worthless. Republicans are worthless. Their future is bleak.


The GOP gave the Dems a mulligan to defeat Trump and now they want us to give them a mulligan for that too. Yeah, no thanks. It’s time for GOP voters to play by GOPe rules now.


79 posted on 01/21/2021 6:06:33 AM PST by lodi90
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To: karpov

Yeah. Karl Rove. That’s the answer.


80 posted on 01/21/2021 6:06:54 AM PST by 9YearLurker (P)
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