Posted on 05/05/2022 9:59:36 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
J.D. Vance’s victory in Tuesday night’s Ohio Republican Senate primary is an important and hopeful sign for the future of the GOP. After Trump’s loss in 2020, some were eager for a reversion to the comfortable platitudes of the pre-Trump days. “We can’t let [Trump] define us for the future,” said Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, “because that would just further divide our country, and it would hurt our Republican Party.” Trumpism frightened members of the Old Guard who saw it as their duty to protect the “principled conservative” brand.
The Old Guard and the Never Trumpers hoped that all that talk of immigration, trade protectionism, and America First would go away. But it hasn’t gone away, and for good reason: the problems Trump identified, the crises he was willing to name when few others would, haven’t gone away either. They have gotten worse, because the Old Guard doesn’t have solutions to them.
It makes no sense to recite old Reagan-era slogans about the “free market” when Chinese oligarchs have colluded with tech billionaires to drain the marrow out of America’s working class. Invocations of “private enterprise” ring hollow when Disney, a vast corporation with its own county government, declares allegiance to a new sexual theology.
And when that theology is preached in elementary school classrooms against parents’ objections, encoded into TikTok algorithms and first-grade lessons alike, it won’t do to “build your own social media platform”—for the simple reason that the U.S. government has already built its own social media platforms, funding Google to keep tabs on Americans and overseeing online thought via the DHS. It’s not that the fundamental principles of natural law or natural right are any less essential: it’s that the challenges against them are new challenges, and the Right’s defense of them must take new forms.
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“They have gotten worse, because the Old Guard doesn’t have solutions to them.”
They are in on it.
Go around back and watch the box trucks backing up to their loading collective loading docks.
Wait, is this the JD Vance that is America first, or the JD Vance that hates Trump and says Trump voters are racist?
I get so confused.
Republicans succeed when they stop acting like democrats.
“After Trump’s loss in 2020,…”
Stopped reading right there.
There is no Trumpism.
There is CONSERVATISM.
It is NOT defined as smaller government (which the GOP has NEVER supported in votes). It is NOT defined as lower taxes (which means NOTHING when the GOP votes to raise the debt ceiling reflecting the spending they voted on, which is printed pieces of paper from the Fed). It is NOT “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (which in their contorted thinking equates to amnesty.
NONE OF THAT IS CONSERVATISM.
Conservatism is
Build the Wall
Drain the Swamp (which means the OLD GUARD IS EJECTED)
America First In All Things
Pro Life
Pro 2nd Amendment.
And you don’t get to pick and choose. You support ALL of it or you are not a conservative.
‘You support ALL of it or you are not a conservative.’
I think you left out cowering in fear whenever a ‘covid variant’ is announced...
“these young leaders—unlike the greybeards trying desperately to put Trumpism back in the bottle—have a plan”
There’s plenty of us greybeards that have been preaching of the New Right for many moons.
Nice to have the youngins on board the shiny new Trump Train of MAGA.
I see Conservativism as taking personal responsibility for ones’ own actions. I.E. Spending taxpayer’s money responsibly, not bloating government (wasting money), there is NO comprehensive immigration reform (follow the damn rules and amnesty is NOT a rule)
I’m GOOD with those five quoted!
ALL Bush League Republicans MUST be replaced.
Cornyn and Tillis are trying to put their Amnesty Gang back together.
Amnesty Senators Rubio and Hoeven MUST GO THIS CYCLE!
Don’t see how that would be relevant. If you’re over 65 the virus will kill you whether you’re afraid or not.
There are many on FR who retreat to the sanctuary of denial because they cannot endure their own fear of helplessness. There is no point in it. The vuris doesn’t care about their fear.
So just accept it. We are all helpless every day, at the mercy of random chance.
Is this J.D. Vance the same guy that got millions from the big tech moguls ? Yep !
Ding Ding Ding...
We have a winner..
You win the internet today.
All it takes for us to defeat the cheat, is to watch...
Sit in your car with a videocamera, sit inside the polls with a videocamera, watch the backdoor of the counting place with a videocamera..
This is all it takes... and a copy of the state law that allows you to do so
Yeah, not sure what to believe. However, if Karl Rove was going after Vance, then something says to me this is not all that bad.
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