Posted on 05/23/2022 4:53:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Republican Party has a split personality. On one side are the small donors and committed volunteers who compose the grassroots. These are the people who are real conservatives, engaged and enthusiastic.
In recent years, this group has been staunchly in support of President Donald Trump. This is the “MAGA” movement, which wants to “Make America Great Again” and to put “America First.” These activists are the ones who attend Trump rallies and participate on conservative talk radio and contact Congress on critical issues.
The other wing of the Republican Party hates these folks. This group is known as the “country club” Republicans, the moderate, establishment wing of the party. This group is represented by the Bush family, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and the late U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona.
The moderates also are firmly in control of the party’s leadership positions. This includes the Chairwoman of the Republican Party, Ronna Romney McDaniel, and most of the state party leaders. True conservatives view this wing as the “RINO’s” or Republicans in Name Only.
Over the past fifty years, the establishment wing of the party has been dominant. However, there have been two major exceptions who served as President of the United States. Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
These Presidents were real conservatives, focused on “America First” policies and less interested in starting wars overseas and sending our military to foreign countries. Both Trump and Reagan cut taxes and enjoyed strong economic growth in the country.
While the party split was apparent during the Reagan presidency, it really was in the forefront during the Trump administration. He initially enraged the establishment wing by winning the 2016 GOP presidential nomination after defeating a string of more moderate candidates, such as former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Jeb Bush, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).
Some of the Republican opponents became afflicted with the political disease known as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They hated the President so much that they became “Never Trumpers.”
After his 2016 election victory, some of these Republicans eventually decided to reluctantly support President Trump. Incredibly, others remained in steadfast opposition and started groups such as the “Lincoln Project,” which is so hostile to President Trump that it will support Democratic candidates running against Republicans aligned with the “MAGA” agenda.
As we approach the 2022 midterm elections, there is a battle for the soul of the Republican Party. GOP voters have a major decision facing them. Do they support candidates aligned with Trump or ones who espouse a more moderate agenda?
Among U.S. Senate Republican candidates, the ones championing a big government, globalist agenda are aligned with the party’s establishment. These candidates have the support of U.S Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who will likely be the Majority Leader if Republicans win back control of the Senate.
McConnell has been in the U.S. Senate for decades. He represents the “old guard” who believes in working within the system, often in collaboration with Democrats. Trump derisively calls him “Old Crow” and has little patience for his tactics. Trump was especially incensed after McConnell viciously attacked him in the aftermath of the January 6th protests.
On the House side, if Republicans have a majority after the midterm elections, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is poised to become the next Speaker. He is another establishment Republican, who has been a member of Congress for many years.
McCarthy will attain this position even though he was taped after the January 6th protests calling for President Trump’s removal from office. He also was recorded on phone conversations advocating that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other conservatives be removed from social media.
McCarthy’s upcoming victory as House Speaker was guaranteed when Trump expressed no interest in running for the position. He also continued to back McCarthy despite the publication of his controversial phone calls. Even though McCarthy wanted Trump removed, the President continues to support him for House Speaker.
Unfortunately, there are no House conservatives ready to challenge McCarthy for the position of Speaker. The only potential opponent, U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), announced he will support McCarthy for House Speaker next year.
Here is the problem, if Republicans win control of Congress in the midterm elections it will be due to the outpouring of support from conservative, “MAGA,” Trump voters. Trump voters dominate the base of the GOP and will vote in substantial numbers in November. The establishment wing is powerful within the GOP leadership, but not among average Republican voters.
Unfortunately, these enthused Republican Party activists will soon face tremendous disillusionment if the congressional GOP leaders, McConnell, and McCarthy, refuse to take bold action in 2023.
While the party split was apparent during the Reagan presidency, it really was in the forefront during the Trump administration. He initially enraged the establishment wing by winning the 2016 GOP presidential nomination after defeating a string of more moderate candidates, such as former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Jeb Bush, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).
Some of the Republican opponents became afflicted with the political disease known as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They hated the President so much that they became “Never Trumpers.”
After his 2016 election victory, some of these Republicans eventually decided to reluctantly support President Trump. Incredibly, others remained in steadfast opposition and started groups such as the “Lincoln Project,” which is so hostile to President Trump that it will support Democratic candidates running against Republicans aligned with the “MAGA” agenda.
As we approach the 2022 midterm elections, there is a battle for the soul of the Republican Party. GOP voters have a major decision facing them. Do they support candidates aligned with Trump or ones who espouse a more moderate agenda?
Among U.S. Senate Republican candidates, the ones championing a big government, globalist agenda are aligned with the party’s establishment. These candidates have the support of U.S Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who will likely be the Majority Leader if Republicans win back control of the Senate.
McConnell has been in the U.S. Senate for decades. He represents the “old guard” who believes in working within the system, often in collaboration with Democrats. Trump derisively calls him “Old Crow” and has little patience for his tactics. Trump was especially incensed after McConnell viciously attacked him in the aftermath of the January 6th protests.
On the House side, if Republicans have a majority after the midterm elections, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is poised to become the next Speaker. He is another establishment Republican, who has been a member of Congress for many years.
McCarthy will attain this position even though he was taped after the January 6th protests calling for President Trump’s removal from office. He also was recorded on phone conversations advocating that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other conservatives be removed from social media.
McCarthy’s upcoming victory as House Speaker was guaranteed when Trump expressed no interest in running for the position. He also continued to back McCarthy despite the publication of his controversial phone calls. Even though McCarthy wanted Trump removed, the President continues to support him for House Speaker.
Unfortunately, there are no House conservatives ready to challenge McCarthy for the position of Speaker. The only potential opponent, U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), announced he will support McCarthy for House Speaker next year.
Here is the problem, if Republicans win control of Congress in the midterm elections it will be due to the outpouring of support from conservative, “MAGA,” Trump voters. Trump voters dominate the base of the GOP and will vote in substantial numbers in November. The establishment wing is powerful within the GOP leadership, but not among average Republican voters.
Unfortunately, these enthused Republican Party activists will soon face tremendous disillusionment if the congressional GOP leaders, McConnell, and McCarthy, refuse to take bold action in 2023.
Republicans who are against MAGA are obviously against Make America Great Again and are the useful idiots of Democrats et al. who HATE America, who consider the USA to be an evil, racist, nazi nation that must be destroyed, and whose objective IS the destruction of the United States.
THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY--OR AMONG THE BENEVOLENT--FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT!
Hopefully, MAGA has infiltrated the local and state GOP apparatus and can exert more power than it was able to do in prior decades.
We need MAGA at the local and state level. Otherwise, the RINO’s will still control the national party.
Vote out every RINO who must face a primary, especially in the state legislatures who handed the Steal to the Democrats.
RINOs are the enemy within. They are embedded spies and must be removed from office.
RINOs would rather see a Democrat win than support a MAGA candidate.
The only way we get our country back is to vote out RINOs every two years in the primaries.
Eventually, this strategy will mean that RINO leaders like McConnel and McCarthy will be passed over for real conservatives. It could happen as early as 2024 if we vote out enough RINOs in this summer.
Remember the 2016 rhetoric about how that election was our last chance?
To any Dem trolls listening: No I am not talking about your agents provocateurs shooting up shopping malls.
Massive non-cooperation / secession is needed.
From dog catcher up!
Over 10 years ago I predicted that the field was ripe for a third party. The only problem is that the field doesn’t matter when the two parties have colluded for several hundred years to stack the deck against outside party threats.
The problem is that everyone looks at republicans and democrats on a single line spectrum. I’m sure many of you have seen the 2-axis charts that tends to flesh out differences a little better. Variations of it are based off not just conservative versus liberal and authoritarian versus libertarian. To try to add more axis’ or nuance the definitions to fit the current climate gets a lot more academic.
It’s easier to talk about several issues or topics, and the best way to exemplify that is, instead of a third party coming a long, strictly speaking, instead we have... Then along came Trump.
Trump didn’t just generically make a big tent. Whoever would have thought that a republican candidate could lure union trade workers? He didn’t get them all, because old habits die hard, but it serves as the single best example of demographic complexity in the field. “Left versus Right” just doesn’t cut it. In this case, “Authoritarian versus Libertarian” doesn’t help much either.
Because the two parties and their long term platforms diviied up the issues and seemed to pull them to either “side” like two poker players splitting the pot, everyone imagines the political field to be two poles on a singular axis. Trump was not beholden to the establishment, sticking with the old chips was not mandated.
If I were a liberal “journalist”, I’d probably gleefully start up my thesis saying the republican party is in crisis. Just because ‘they’ would say it doesn’t make it completely wrong. Not only was Trump stimied from draining the swamp, he couldn’t even filter his own pond for leeches.
The Rent is much to high.
It will take two more election cycles for the rino hunt to have material effect, 2024 and 2026. If we are still living.
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