Posted on 10/18/2021 3:29:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security who wrote the infamous “anonymous” New York Times 2018 hit piece criticizing former President Donald Trump’s leadership, bleated out an op-ed for the Times last week titled, unironically, “We Are Republicans. There’s Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists.”
That “one way,” Whitman and Taylor argue, is to ally with Democrats in 2022 to defeat Republicans they feel have become too aligned with Trump and “Trumpism,” or the populist message he espoused.
“Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war,” they write. “And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats." To this pair, Democrats may have a few bad policies, but they also “agree on something more foundational — democracy.”
They continue:
We cannot tolerate the continued hijacking of a major U.S. political party by those who seek to tear down our Republic’s guardrails or who are willing to put one man’s interests ahead of the country. We cannot tolerate Republican leaders — in 2022 or in the presidential election in 2024 — refusing to accept the results of elections or undermining the certification of those results should they lose.To that end, concerned conservatives must join forces with Democrats on the most essential near-term imperative: blocking Republican leaders from regaining control of the House of Representatives.
The authors - charter members of the ‘neverTrump Republican’ cult - go on to lend support to creepy Deep State plant Evan McMullin - a former CIA officer whose quixotic attempt to derail Trump in 2016 failed miserably - in his equally quixotic Senate campaign against Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee. Elect Democrats and/or a small set of anti-Trump Republicans, they ‘reason,’ and the country can begin the path of purging itself from the noxious, insidious scourge of Trumpism.
Predictably, Whitman and Taylor don’t bother wasting space describing the specific policy differences they have with Trump and his supporters. Had they done that, they may have been bothered to explain why exactly so-called ‘Republicans’ support open borders, factories moving to China, endless foreign wars, and an Australian-style Covid-police state (probably). Instead, they continued beating that January 6 dead horse, peddling false narratives about ‘insurrection,’ fair and honest elections, and the ‘murders’ of Capitol Police officers while ignoring the fact that the Biden administration is turning the United States into a socialist, third world hellhole quicker than any of his most conservative skeptics could have possibly imagined.
Ever true to form, Twitter helped their screed along last week, the link prominently aligned with the words “Democrats in 2022” trending for much of Tuesday. But this time, I suspect even the formidable powers of Big Tech won’t help with what’s coming. With resident Joe Biden’s poll numbers sinking to all-time lows seemingly every week and increasingly more people waking up to the fact that the Democratic agenda is clearly leading to economic and social disaster, it’ll take a lot more than a handful of woke, hand-wringing “former Republicans” to bolster short-term Democratic prospects.
Pointing to Democrats’ cynical but successful long-game demographic transformation of the U.S. into various factions of competing socialist-leaning voter blocs, I’ve long predicted electoral disaster for Republicans regardless of repeated Democratic policy failures. And while that may eventually happen, surely few could have foreseen just how low the left - with an addlebrained President Puddinhead as their puppet - would take this country. Which means, barring some unforeseen, earth-shattering event, the GOP is primed to make serious political hay starting in 2022 and hopefully 2024 as well.
Speaking of 2024, you might make the mistake of thinking someone like me, who has been openly critical of the idea of another Trump run, would find some common ground with people like Whitman and Taylor. But in truth, we couldn’t be more polar opposites if we were standing on the North and South poles. For me and millions of others, Trump was a vehicle to espouse and implement key policy positions that provably make life better for the vast majority of Americans. Yes, he was self-centered, reckless, caustic, and his own worst enemy most of the time, but his personal faults paled in comparison to the daily lives of countless millions who are now being openly harmed by Biden’s toxic, unworkable, unsustainable policies.
For them, on the other hand, Trump represented a threat to the status quo, specifically the Deep State’s iron grip on power. We can’t have ‘America First’ when our overlords despise ordinary Americans, and so that movement had to be destroyed, any reference to it tarnished with the blight of “Insurrection!” and whatever “isms” they are constantly droning on about. While these people definitely hate Donald Trump, they clearly hate his policies, and his supporters, more than anyone could possibly imagine.
Thankfully, Republicans - even most ‘Establishment’ ones - understand that Trump and those “Trumpism” policies are the keys to winning in 2022 and beyond, so they at least pay lip service to that fact, a lip-service neverTrump ‘conservatives’ strongly resent. Even with all his faults, the former bombastic, egotistical, bull-in-a-China-closet president managed to move the Overton Window in a real way, and for that we owe him a huge debt.
Yet, many if not most Republicans don’t want to see another Trump run, and I don’t either. I firmly believe it’s time for the former president to pass the torch to the next generation of America First conservatives willing and able to carry it - not because of anything Christine Todd Whitman, Miles Taylor, and smarmy Lincoln Project grifters have to say, but because doing so would give conservatives our best chance at victory, and saving the country.
Truth be told, anyone claiming to be Republican but using Trump’s faults and the January 6 “Insurrection!” to align themselves with Democrats don’t deserve to be taken seriously. Because Trumpism, with or without Donald Trump but hopefully with his help supporting a new torchbearer, is the only hope to restore the America we once knew and loved.
Good grief.
What an enormous, lame anti-Trump screed.
GO TRUMP! :)
So the hatred goes BEYOND Trump. Well Trump endorsed Lindsey Graham for re-election, so are these NeverTrumpers against him also?
You know there used to be real ‘moderates’ in the Democrat Party. So why aren’t they in the news, organizing against AOC, Bernie, and similar?
Think about it...then you’ll understand why we’re getting out butts whipped.
The GOP believes in and will fight for:
1) Open borders
2) A global open market in labor
3) Offshoring productive industries
4) Financialization of the economy
5)) Severing the medium of exchange function of money from the store of value function.
6) Usury as the main engine of consumption.
7) Denying the people their natural, healthy love of their nation
8) Overseas wars on behalf of alien peoples without recompense for our sacrifice.
9) Forced "diversity" with its attendent decline in standards and inevitably accompanying violence.
The GOP has plenty of principles, convictions, and values. YOU must decide if they are yours, or not.
No surprise
If I lived in NC, or SC were he lives I would vote for him in a minute.
1. Grift money from stupid donors.
2. Pretend they’re losing elections over their principles when they’re actually losing them on merit. Notice how many “former” elected Republicans show up on their website. These people didn’t retire — they lost elections to Democrats.
It takes a special kind of misfit and loser to operate like this. They’re like soccer players who go out in a game and kick the ball repeatedly into their own net because they don’t want the spectators to see them get their asses kicked while they’re trying to win.
Excellent point.
anti graham is part of the free republic dna now. self righteous dissing of graham is considered chic
The only aligning with Democrats Republicans will do is to vote out the RINOs.
My problem with Graham was due to they Amnesty that he was pushing and how he seems to go into that mode, come out of it, and then back into it. Take that out, and I could live with him, and he was very helpful to Trump with his judges.
In this case I was just asking whether these asshole ‘Republicans’, like Whitman (who was born with a silver fork in her mouth, by the way), will go after Graham, since Graham supports Trump (mostly), but Graham is also one of them (to an extent, at least). Just want to see how ‘principled’ these asshole ‘Republicans’ are.
Does anyone really give two shits what these low-grade malcontents have to say? Who does Whitman - with all the charisma of a cardboard box - “think” she’s going to convince to vote for filthy leftists in 2022? These pukes have an outsized view of their own importance.
Unfortunately for them, Democrats including black and Hispanic voters are moving away from the elites in both parties.
“I don’t understand what you people have against Lindsey Graham.”
“If I lived in NC, or SC were he lives I would vote for him in a minute.”
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Wow, you either have a short memory or (judging from the 2nd statement above) you’re a RINO too who would vote for McCain (if he were alive) or Paul Ryan or John Boehner or GW Bush or Mitt Romney or Mitch McConnell (China’s paid usurper), etc.
Perhaps you’re just a one-world government warmonger and cheap labor express RINO too.
But you sure do post a lot of articles.
Whitman? She’s irrelevant hasn’t been ejected since the 90’s she’s past her prime
These are the same people who lectured us to hold our nose and vote for Romney and InSaine.
The GOP has plenty of principles, convictions, and values. YOU must decide if they are yours, or not.
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The principles, convictions, and values of the establishment GOP are exactly the reasons that after Party apparatchiks abandoned President Trump and refused to fight the “steal”, I became and Independent. Consequently, the dozens of email and postal appeals I receive everyday are trashed.
After Jan 6 I joined countless other Conservatives and begged President Trump to abandon the GOP and establish a TRUE second party for the benefit of his 80+ million hardcore supporters. He refused, and so in 2024 he will be facing fanatical opposition not only from the ‘rats but also from the movers and shakers of his own Party.
And why shouldnt we? Things have gone SO WELL with dim-0s in charge??
They will be scorched by a Trump victory, and all of the spoils of their dishonesty will fade away at some point.
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