Post-2020, Where Republicans Go from Here

Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2020 | Ted Harvey

[Kaslin]

With recounts and run-offs pending, the 2020 election is in the home stretch. Most of the votes are counted, and the liberal media has already named its preferred candidate, Joe Biden, the president-elect.

But the 2020 election is not over—far from it. President Trump has not yet conceded, nor should he until the legal process runs its course. In Georgia, voting irregularities and potential fraud have been discovered, raising questions about Biden’s presumed victory in the Peach State. For example, more than 2,600 ballots in Floyd County were recently found uncounted, and they are likely to help President Trump narrow his 14,000-vote deficit to Biden.

To ensure accuracy, fairness, and transparency in America’s electoral process, the Trump campaign should leave no stone unturned in Georgia or elsewhere. We certainly won’t: The Committee to Defend the President recently invested more than $100,000 in the Georgia recount effort, simply to ensure that all legal votes are properly counted. Despite Biden and his media allies putting pressure on the Trump campaign to concede, Americans won’t know the final outcome until the electors’ December 14th meeting—and there is nothing wrong with that.

Look at it this way: 70 percent of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was not conducted fairly or freely. Why would President Trump abandon his voters to prematurely admit defeat?

No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever. President Trump received more than 72 million votes in the 2020 election, the most for a sitting president in U.S. history.

In 2008, Barack Obama received fewer than 70 million votes. In 2012, then-President Obama picked up fewer than 66 million. And the Obama campaign was universally praised (by the liberal media, that is) for putting together the most diverse coalition ever.

President Trump just smashed the Obama totals, adding to his minority support in the process. Over the course of four years, President Trump became even more popular among African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanics. In Florida, 55 percent of Cuban-Americans voted for President Trump, in addition to 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of “other Latinos.” That is diversity.

Beyond 2020, Republicans need to take a page out of the Trump playbook. Gone are the days of establishment politics, exercised by Republicans In Name Only who are all too eager to compromise with left-wing Democrats. Gone are the days of political correctness, when Republicans were crucified by a biased media and played along with it. Gone are the days of flip-flopping, when Republicans campaigned on issues like border security but governed as open-borders advocates.

President Trump showed Republicans the way: Don’t make excuses for high taxes, burdensome regulations, runaway healthcare costs, globalist trade deals, illegal immigration, and other issues long accepted as the status quo. Don’t apologize for contrived scandals, propagated by Democrats with an axe to grind or liberal activists masquerading as “journalists.”

Always speak your mind—from the heart, to the people. The Trump rally is the blueprint for Republicans to message traditional conservatism to the masses, not like politicians, but as fellow Americans.

Which brings up the last point: Be proud of America. There is a reason why slogans like “America First” or “Make America Great Again” resonate with tens of millions of Americans—because tens of millions of Americans love this country. Regardless of skin color, those Americans are ready to support political leaders who believe in common-sense principles, such as free speech or law and order. When Democrats resort to anti-Americanism, as they increasingly do, the Republican Party needs to position itself as the party of the people.

Whether President Trump wins or loses in the weeks to come, the future is bright for Republicans. Our party is in a better place than it was a decade ago—but only if we learn the right lessons.

[BobL]

“That could be part of the cheat, where they increase the Republican votes but less so than they increase the Democrat votes.”

That certainly would make sense...from their standpoint.

[Jan_Sobieski]

You may be correct. I don’t know all the roadblock laws they have set up. Thi is important to understand

[Jan_Sobieski]

Constitutional Party: Anti-Abortion, Senate and House term limits,
Free markets, anti monopoly, Deregulation, America First, pro-Union,
anti government unions, Anti-deep State, anti socialism,
Party of nuclear family values, Education reform,
No more teachers unions, Breakup of Technocracy monopolies
free speech, immigration reform, closed borders,
Welfare reform, incentivized work skills, No More Lockdowns,
NO GREAT RESET!

[chimera]

No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever.

If the final outcome is we lose (and it looks that way at this point), I don't see that as an indicator of strength. And as far as the "stronger than ever" part goes, if the last four years are any indication, it was never very strong, so "stronger than ever" probably doesn't mean much. I mean, we had a candidate who stood up to the swamp creatures, who did the right things the right way at the right time, defeated an "unbeatable" candidate, yet faced opposition for all his time in office from some of the most prominent members of the party he represented. During the 2016 campaign, you had supposedly conservative commentators and writers putting out nothing but "all hate-Trump all the time". There are some still doing it. That's not much of a "coalition", strong or weak. Who wants to work to strengthen that?

[rhinohunter]

Gone are the days of establishment politics

Huh???

How can you possibly make that claim?

I see no reason to believe that -- once Trump is gone -- that the GOPe will do anything other than revert to the old playbook.

And when it does you will see them take a drubbing like no other political party ever has...

[SuperLuminal]

"The fraud must be exposed or we are finished."

"Post-2020, Where Republicans Go from Here"

If the coup succeeds, the only destination for non-communist Republicans will be reeducation interment camps and/or ovens...

Bank on it!

[FormerFRLurker]

Bookmark

[dynachrome]

“Constitutional Republic Party”

Would that be mocked as CRP = crap or creep?

I would suggest “American Constitution Party”

ACP for .45 acp

[MinorityRepublican]

A fair number of Trump’s base will not vote in the elections after this one. They’ll just go hunting and fishing instead.

[jersey117]

Not McCarthy?

[Reily]

I am sure that is true. However if you surrender the field to the Rats its foolish to think you’ll be quietly left alone to do those activities.

[jjotto]

Cheney is chair of the House Republican Conference, which is essentially the GOP caucus. It’s considered the #3 job in the House GOP.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Sounds great!

[MinorityRepublican]

Millions of Trump voters are standing back. Standing by. If Joe Biden pulls a Bill Clinton and moves toward to the center, then everything will be fine. If hard core Socialists are able to manipulate Joe Biden into enacting the Green New Deal and confiscating firearms, then there will be a problem.

[dfwgator]

That’s up to us, hold every Republican accountable for where they stood with Trump, if they didn’t replace them.

It’s a much better approach than trying to start a third party.

[Reily]

Agree !

However I haven’t seen any indication that he will move to the middle. If you read Jonathan Turley’s (a Rat!) column in Town Hall it’s the opposite.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/11/17/turley-warns-the-biden-transition-team-just-took-an-ominous-turn-n2580217

[Trump_Triumphant]

I will never go back to the establishment, swamp infested Republican party that capitulates to our enemies and causes perpetual wars with countries we never even heard of before. If the GOP doesn’t remain an America First, MAGA party, then they’ll never see another vote from me.

[JPJones]

Constitutional Republic Party.”

A third party, splits the “republican vote” and will ensure dem victories across the board for the foreseeable future.

[Dr. Sivana]

You may be correct. I don’t know all the roadblock laws they have set up. This is important to understand

It varies from state to state. The first one has to do with ballot access. As the last major Third Party effort showed, Ross Perot had to spend months and LOTS of his own money JUST to get on the ballot in 50 states. There is a reason why Libertarian Ron Paul and Socialist Bernie Sanders both sought a major party nomination.

Besides the top level, many cities have minimum representation for each party (!), and the Dems responded in some of the northern cities (e.g. Hartford) by using Farther Left parties (e.g. "Working Families Party") to make the City Council even MORE left than it would be otherwise.

Heck I am doubtful that Lincoln with the then new Republican Party would have won in 1860 if it had been a two party race. If you look at the map below, the pink represents all the areas Lincoln won with UNDER 50%. Now with instant media and constant polling there is no way to have that kind of split. A new Ross Perot wanna be would have to get enough of a percentage (as he had before he got weird) to become the obvious alternative to one of the other two. But even if Perot had gotten in, he'd have no Congress who would feel obliged to cooperate with him.

Now you could spend a lot of money and effort to start at the bottom and work up. There are a handful of Libertarian state legislators out west. If a movement right party ever got traction, the Republicans would quickly adapt by co-opting the positions. Our system by design is supposed to buffer seismic shifts. Widespread fixed elections does away with all that.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Except for a couple congressmen and senators, they are all Democrats. We broke the corrupt Whigs. We can break the corrupt Republicans