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Trump Voters Will Never Forgive Shameful GOP Establishment
Townhall.com ^ | February 15, 2021 | Jeff Crouere

Posted on 02/15/2021 4:53:29 AM PST by Kaslin

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States despite being opposed by the establishment of the Republican Party. After four successful years as president, he received a record-setting 74.2 million votes. Obviously, the vast majority of Republicans strongly supported President Trump and approved of his performance in office. Polls showed that President Trump’s support level among Republicans reached 90 percent in 2020, an amazing feat considering the type of opposition he faced.

Not surprisingly, he did not receive this type of support from his enemies within the Democratic Party, the Deep State, the media, and the Republican Party establishment. These GOP opponents were powerful, although they did not represent a significant number of grassroots Republicans.

Some of the anti-Trump Republicans formed the now-disgraced Lincoln Project. This group raised millions of dollars to purchase political advertisements encouraging voters to reject President Trump. They ridiculed him in every way imaginable; however, it is now poetic justice that the despicable actions of its leadership will lead to the organization’s demise.

Other Republican Party leaders who hated President Trump were careful to give lip service to his “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) agenda, but they never truly supported it. In fact, these policies are despised by many Republicans, who prefer the big government globalist agenda supported by former GOP presidential nominees like the late U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and the current U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT).

In the unconstitutional and unfair second impeachment of President Trump, these establishment Republicans saw a perfect opportunity to destroy the future potential of the MAGA agenda. In the U.S. House of Representatives, ten Republicans voted to impeach the president. After a sham U.S. Senate trial, with a partisan Democratic senator sitting as “judge,” seven Republicans shamefully voted to convict the president.

Among this group was U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who was recently re-elected to a six-year term. In his campaign, he aired countless television and radio commercials touting the support of President Trump. After using this key endorsement to win re-election, he immediately began to condemn the president for continuing to challenge the election results. Despite an avalanche of criticism from Republican voters in Louisiana and protests at his Senate office, Cassidy remained disparaging of the president in the election aftermath. It culminated in his vote to convict the president for inciting the U.S. Capitol riot, even though he encouraged his crowd of supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

In an interview with former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos on ABC-TV, Cassidy discussed the future of the Republican Party. He said, “I think his (Trump) force wanes. The Republican Party is more than just one person. The Republican Party is about ideas.”

Yes, Senator Cassidy, the Republican Party needs to embrace ideas, but they are the ones articulated by President Trump. These ideas include cutting taxes and regulations, defending our Bill of Rights, especially the 1st and 2nd amendments, promoting strong borders, reducing illegal immigration, reasserting American sovereignty, supporting American manufacturing and jobs, demanding fair trade deals with China and other countries, pursuing energy independence, stopping the endless wars overseas, and ensuring election integrity.

Obviously, Senator Cassidy and his establishment Republican colleagues don't care about President Trump or his MAGA agenda. He also does not care about his Republican supporters in Louisiana. Fortunately, the executive committee of Louisiana Republican Party leaders responded to Cassidy’s betrayal by unanimously voting to censure him for his reprehensible support of the Trump conviction.

This action followed the Wyoming Republican Party’s censure of U.S. Representative Liz Cheney and the pending censure of U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) by his state’s Republican Party central committee. A petition has also been started by Utah voters demanding that Romney “resign” from the Senate.  

The GOP opposition to the president was not limited to those in Congress who supported his impeachment and conviction. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted President Trump in a speech after the vote to acquit him.

McConnell claimed the former president was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day, no questions about it.” He continued, “The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president and having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.”

While McConnell voted to acquit Trump, he noted that the former president could still be criminally punished for his actions. He stated, “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”

With GOP leaders like McConnell, who needs enemies? These contemptible comments by the Republican Senate leader will only harm the ability of the GOP to win in future elections. In an interview on Fox News, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized McConnell’s comments.

He claimed that McConnell “put a load on the back of Republicans, that speech you will see in 2022 campaigns. I would imagine if you’re a Republican running in Arizona or Georgia or New Hampshire, where we have a chance to take back the Senate, they may be playing Senator McConnell’s speech and asking about it as a candidate.”

McConnell and the other Trump hating Republicans put their dislike of the president ahead of the interests of the party. McConnell symbolizes everything that is wrong in the Republican Party. He is a swamp creature who has been in D.C. for decades too long. He supports positions based on politics, not principle, and is clearly the leader of the GOP establishment.

If the McConnell wing of the Republican Party is not defeated, the GOP will eventually perish. It is either the “America First” agenda of Donald Trump or the MAGA supporters will form a new party. Grassroots Republicans are furious, and that anger is not going away.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; gopestablisment; impeachment20; lizcheney
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1 posted on 02/15/2021 4:53:29 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The coup, (the real “insurrection” in DC) and the “impeachment” is because Donald Trump upended THE largest, multi-trillion dollar industry in America. The selling of American Congressional Legislation. The primary industry in DC.

THE issue that binds Red and Blue together in the UniParty is the issue of electoral fraud.Its why certain precincts have voted Red or Blue for over 100 years. Its the means by which Congress and K St lobbyists can guarantee “product delivery” to interests that pay enough.

Various “intelligence agencies” are the enforcement arm. Prolly different ones (there are 17 of them afterall!) supporting different “service lines”

Its mutually assured destruction if either side starts to betray the long-standing inter-generational process.

Whenever the issue starts to bubble too close to the surface we all start getting entertained with “pizza parties” and “SRA” issues/trafficking stories etc.-and other Red-Blue “trigger issues” intended to distract us-but these are only incidental to the business at hand-the selling of the votes and legislation of the most powerful legislative body in the world.

These “trigger issues” are intended to remove our eyes from what is going on right before our very eyes! These “trigger issues” are the stick the Deep State uses to marshal the votes they need to deliver product.

The contemporary information-digital communications technology has the ability to put an end to all of this -which is why the “information war” on the American electorate. Why “us” versus “them” is finally crystallizing.

Its why they barricaded Capitol Hill, The White House and The Supreme Court


2 posted on 02/15/2021 4:56:00 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Kaslin

The GOP had it ALL, and promptly micturated
on their voters and the Constitution
they had sworn (liars, all) to uphold.

The GOP makes scum and the plague look good.


3 posted on 02/15/2021 4:56:57 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Kaslin

The key to realignment is that Republicans are already a minority, and worse, there is a substantial minority of that minority (maybe 20%) who are sold out globalist - finance capital traitors.

Therefore.

Since the GOP is already a minority, and irretrievably split besides, the new party, in order to prevail and become the majority, will have to split the Democrat voter base to replace the 20% of the GOP who will leave, and ultimately to improve on those numbers.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 5:00:21 AM PST by Jim Noble (He who saves his nation violates no law)
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To: Kaslin

Are there actual Republican voters who like Mitch McConnell? I don’t think there are. While I’m sure he’s better in some way than the candidates that Kentucky Democrats have run against him, Mitch is the leader of the Republican party that nobody likes. How does this happen? How is he the leader? What does he bring to the table?


5 posted on 02/15/2021 5:00:41 AM PST by cdcdawg (Salute the marines!)
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To: Kaslin

I haven’t forgiven them for a long,long time.


6 posted on 02/15/2021 5:01:40 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Diogenesis

Heck they make covid attractive!


7 posted on 02/15/2021 5:07:36 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Kaslin

The author covered the Most Wanted Anti-Trumper Republicans.

However, he did not mention those Republicans who aided and abetted the voter fraud that occurred before Nov 3 and the stonewalling of those Republicans after Nov 3 to prevent any investigation of the obvious voter fraud.


8 posted on 02/15/2021 5:09:56 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Kaslin

What’s the odds McConnell is forced to step down as leader?

Slim & none...and Slim is leaving town.

We’ll continue to get the same leftwing Uniparty leadership unless some patriots stand up.

Rand Paul....are you listening?


9 posted on 02/15/2021 5:12:26 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Kaslin

Never Forget.


10 posted on 02/15/2021 5:14:24 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Kaslin

Mitch is and always has been horse crap.


11 posted on 02/15/2021 5:18:24 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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To: Kaslin

They have slit their own throats. I now hate Republicans worse than Democrats.


12 posted on 02/15/2021 5:18:34 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kaslin

Mitch’s furious rant was just like Nanzi’s rant. Mitch knows he is done for. His power is gone.


13 posted on 02/15/2021 5:26:29 AM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: dforest

The UniParty started that Capitol Hill “insurrection” after it became obvious to the rest of the country they had pulled off a coup on behalf of their CCP masters.

The beauty of it all at this point is that their Capitol Hill “false flag” operation appears to be a MAJOR Achilles heel they’re ALL desperately afraid of.

Its why BOTH Pelosi and Mitch went ballistic after failing to drape it around DJT’s neck.


14 posted on 02/15/2021 5:27:26 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Diogenesis

You have to step back and ask yourself why?

It’s pretty clear to me what we witnessed starting really in the 90s when the media started to lose control of the narrative is that the 17th Amendment put substantial power in control with the political parties. It’s well past time to repeal the 17th Amendment


15 posted on 02/15/2021 5:27:58 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Mitch has been cheating to win in Kentucky for years. He’s the last person on earth that would want election integrity.


16 posted on 02/15/2021 5:29:56 AM PST by weston (As as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: Kaslin

“Trump Voters Will Never Forgive Shameful GOP Establishment”

including THIS voter, who will NEVER again for a GOP candidate who isn’t a LOUDLY AVOWED Trumplican ... I will NEVER again vote for a candidate because they are “the lesser of two evils”, and i hope and pray the other 74,000,000 Trump supporters feel and act exactly the same way ...

the GOP can be fixed only by killing it ... period ...


17 posted on 02/15/2021 5:30:11 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kaslin
Apparently these establishment GOP nitwits really believe Trump's supporters are fixated on one man, and only on the man himself.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In 2015-16 Donald Trump was simply the zany, colorful character who gave a voice to the simmering resentment that had been building across this country among ordinary Americans for years -- decades, even. He only stands as a leader for these people because the entire political establishment refused to do it.

If I was a GOP leader I'd be absolutely alarmed about the disaster with the two Georgia Senate runoffs for one important reason: Trump's supporters stayed home even though he himself publicly supported the lame GOP candidates in those races.

That last point ought to demonstrate to these party officials how badly they are misunderstanding Trump's appeal to his supporters.

18 posted on 02/15/2021 5:30:51 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Article10

its all about electoral fraud...

The electoral process has been formally corrupted since 1984. The “image’ of the Left as an honest political wing in the USA has been driven by the media.

Since 1984 the control of media outlets has dropped from over 50 different organizations to just 6 today. The product of that consolidation is an ILLUSION of a “powerful Left wing”, a manufactured progressive consensus that has usurped political power it has no business with honestly. “honest” votes for Biden/the Left were 30-35 million. At most.

The problems originate in corrupted, local electoral precincts in deep Blue urban centers. These NEED to be cleaned. Nobody desires the dirty job. Part of “redistricting” projects, BTW, is to create regions and social environments permitting unfettered and unhindered electoral Fraud.

Think parts of cities where Republicans fear to tread. No bipartisan voting observers. If any Republican observers, or even voters show up,they are threatened. This is the beginning process of turning a Red state Purple.

This article provides a glimpse into exactly this process going on in Philadelphia in 2009

https://www.heritage.org/commentary/voter-intimidation-new-black-panther-style

There are more of “us” than “them” A whole lot more

Its all kayfabe. Its what they want you to believe, its what they want you to “feel”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

What the left has done, ever since the 1984 Reagan-Mondale blowout - (and Mondale was a “moderate” Democrat!) - is to start electoral fraud programs in the largest states to turn them from Red-to-Purple-to Blue. They realized they had no future otherwise. It started in California and New York.

This last election cycle local Texans managed to turn it around at the precinct level-their RINO Governor not withstanding.

Extreme involvement in your local precincts and making sure paper balloting on ELECTION DAY, with hand counts and recounts in a transparent fashion and setting with open audit trails available to the general public, among other measures-are key.

Its dirty, tough work and initially confrontational with the existing perps. As the above article illustrates, it will be dangerous. But it beats the heck outta the alternatives -which are bearing down like a runaway freight train

The left has focused on corrupting our local electoral process. They focus on the deep urban centers. This process of corruption is very active presently in Georgia, using Atlanta as its base, the last 2 election cycles. This process is seditious.

We the People have no future otherwise. These people INTEND to “rule”

The benefits of this process created the UniParty which is WHY this has been allowed to mature.


19 posted on 02/15/2021 5:31:02 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t see why they would.


20 posted on 02/15/2021 5:31:57 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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