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GOP Thrives as Trump’s Party
Townhall.com ^ | February 17, 2021 | John and Andy Schlafly

Posted on 02/17/2021 7:59:48 AM PST by Kaslin

The attempted coup against Trump as the leader of the Republican Party has failed, and the quest to purge his supporters has boomeranged against the elite.

Many local GOP groups cast unanimous votes of censure against officials who betrayed Trump supporters and all Americans by misusing the impeachment proceedings against citizen Trump. The GOP has not seen this level of grassroots energy in decades.

“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an' Men … lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promised joy!” wrote the celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns, coining a phrase that John Steinbeck later borrowed for the title of his famous novel.

Never-Trumpers who control the GOP money had a plan for banishing Trump. Consultants who feed at the trough of campaign dollars seek a return to lining their own pockets with fees as candidates would raise money without competition by Trump.

But the continued enthusiastic support for Trump among voters, as confirmed by every recent poll, shows that we are not returning to a gentrified Republican Party run by consultants. Liz Cheney hung on to her leadership position only because the vote was held in secret to conceal who the traitors are.

On Saturday 86% of Republican senators voted for Trump, despite intense arm-twisting to try to toss him overboard as the GOP leader. The scattered few Republicans who voted against him are a discredited bunch of Trump-haters, lame ducks, and recalcitrant globalists.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) was promptly censured by five GOP county organizations in his state, and Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) was censured by his statewide party. These extraordinary rebukes by Republican groups against Republican officials reflect a new era of grassroots power within the Republican Party.

“The party is headed in a Trumpist direction,” lamented Sarah Longwell on C-SPAN this morning. She is the Executive Director of a new PAC called the Republican Accountability Project, formed for anti-Trump Republicans.

The hundreds of thousands of Americans who rallied for Trump on January 6th disrupted the carefully laid plans of the Trump-haters. America has a rich history of disrespectful, raucous protests dating back to the Boston Tea Party.

It is the mockery of the sanctimonious officials which incurred their wrath against the mostly peaceful, even fun-seeking, protesters. Nobody likes to be ridiculed, and the self-centered political elite in D.C. dislike it most of all.

China forbids mocking Xi Jinping by comparing him to the cartoon character Winnie the Pooh, and noting the uncanny resemblance. Two Chinese citizens disappeared after posting a video containing such ridicule, and humiliated leaders on Capitol Hill seem to want similar punishment here.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) showed his disdain for the free speech rights of Trump supporters when McConnell ranted against him on Saturday, before voting to acquit. McConnell should have defended First Amendment rights instead.

Congressional tyrants have demanded arresting hundreds of political protesters who made their way into the Capitol, a public building holding a proceeding that should have been open to the public. Complaints are about a little vandalism, but that pales in comparison to the looting of Americans’ pocketbooks by Congress.

It was fake news by the New York Times, not retracted until a month later, that Trump supporters bludgeoned a Capitol police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. There was no truth to that story, yet Democrats based their article of impeachment against Trump on it.

When federal agents should be protecting our country against violent crime, they spend time looking for hundreds more of law-abiding Americans who happened to be in or near the Capitol on January 6th. One video even shows a police officer directing people to enter the building, but vengeance cares nothing about justice.

As many as 800 people are becoming political prisoners of retaliation by Trump-haters, and this emerges as a leading issue in the midterm elections next year. Some are veterans who have risked their lives defending our freedoms against foreign enemies.

Perhaps Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi would be more comfortable serving in the government of China, where harmless protests are brutally suppressed.

The protestors gave us powerful images that should become a rallying cry against the imperial Congress. The image of a jovial man playfully lifting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s podium is a priceless symbol of how Americans feel about the D.C. elite, as is the picture of a peaceful commoner from Idaho sitting in the feckless Vice President Mike Pence’s chair.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a pro-Trump freshman in the House, is banned from Fox News and excluded from committees, yet immensely popular among her constituents. That attempted purge is failing badly too, as Never-Trumpers cannot stop talking about her.

Voter turnout decides elections now, and that requires enthusiasm for the Republican candidate. Trump has it, while his detractors do not.\


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2022elections; gop; trump2020
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To: Kaslin

This thread will attract GOP “fluffers” like crazy...


21 posted on 02/17/2021 11:15:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Unless we get folks with your mindset on board, you might be right. Self-fulfilling, sour grapes prophecy and all that.


22 posted on 02/17/2021 3:59:30 PM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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To: FreeReign; All

Thank you,

There has only been two people on here that have been negative in reply to my posting. Two, not tens, not hundreds, TWO.

As for my statement regarding the GOP and the number of FReepers and Non freepers here and those that lurk, “an appeal to authority” ?? and “it should not play here on FR” ??

So by the very mention of the words that the GOPe are as crooked as a dogs hind leg, and we have been played like a fiddle for generations should be banned. Are you also going to start up a list of those here who DO agree with that statement you just read and get them banned from FR?

Given the number of topics and comments that relate to, and agree on the description of the GOP that was initially given, That is a Vastly larger number than you may believe or care to acknowledge.

As a reply seeing “getting the RINOS out of the GOP was your foundation statement, can you please show us where in the last General and State elections and all efforts in between by Ourselves have gotten rid of RINOs from the GOP?

“The swamp would eventually infect the New Party”

If the New Party is setup and run as a carbon copy of the GOP, yes, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and replication is Not a way.

Finally your “more complicated than that” comment.

I am willing to hazard a very well educated guess that the backlash and utter disdain BY the People for Anything GOP in the upcoming House Elections is going to be a bloodbath. And I cannot count the number of FReepers on here and around the country on social media and videos and website blogs etc. have voiced the same sentiment. The UNiparty screwed us over, AGAIN, and we shall Not forget in the upcoming House Elections. Why do you think the UNIPARTY WANT PDJT to come back to the GOP..... They know they are TOASTED without him and TOASTED BY HIM by any New Party he Supports. “Flack is think here captain”

BTW. Just as in closing, if they did not perpetrate such Election Fraud, AND PDJT had Not run and had the GOP coattail in the down vote (which scared the hell out of both parties as the fix was in) then the slaughtering of the House positions for 2020 would have looked like a shark feeding frenzy.

I support you views and thoughts, in a civil manner I shall reply in kind, but When you start out by commenting that myself, or anyone espousing thoughts voiced by a great many more than yourself, that you infer those people and myself should be Censored?, that is then very concerning.
This conversation is now over.

Blessings to you.


23 posted on 02/18/2021 1:16:49 PM PST by wombatsrule
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To: wombatsrule
So by the very mention of the words that the GOPe are as crooked as a dogs hind leg, and we have been played like a fiddle for generations should be banned. Are you also going to start up a list of those here who DO agree with that statement you just read and get them banned from FR?

When I say an idea "shouldn't play here", I mean that such an idea, when brought out in a debate, shouldn't win here.

I mean nothing about banning such ideas.

Sorry you took it that way.

24 posted on 02/18/2021 1:37:05 PM PST by FreeReign (Never forget The Steal)
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To: FreeReign; All

We are sorry that as does happen, the intent and perception of a statement were not as the reader nor the poster we correctly understood.

Thank you for your civil and respectful statement to clear this up.

We are Never going to just leave a misconception over intended statements go unanswered. And we truely thank you for assisting us to understand your intended thoughts.

Gods Blessings to You and Yours and our thanks for helping us understand.


25 posted on 02/18/2021 1:53:36 PM PST by wombatsrule
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To: wombatsrule

Regards.


26 posted on 02/18/2021 4:11:01 PM PST by FreeReign (Never forget The Steal)
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