Posted on 01/21/2021 7:01:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Trump wants to create a new political party after leaving office, says the Wall Street Journal. According to the report, “President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House.”
According to sources, President Trump says he would want to call his new political party the “Patriot Party,” but the White House refused to comment.
It is not known just how serious Trump is about starting a new political party. As the WSJ notes, to do so “would require a significant investment of time and resources,” and third parties “have typically failed to draw enough support to play a major role in national elections.” But President Trump is perhaps the most uniquely positioned person to do such a thing, as he has a huge base of supporters, many of whom were not heavily involved in the Republican Party.
Aside from the question of whether or not he can or will start a new political party, the real issue here, I think, is whether he should.
I’ve seen many Republican friends express disappointment with the GOP in recent weeks for their failure to fight for President Trump and his priorities, as well as their criticism of Trump in the wake of the Capitol riots following the false narrative that he incited an insurrection. In fact, Republican wobbliness preceded President Trump’s term in the White House. The corrupt Obama-Biden administration spent eight years violating the Constitution without significant pushback from the Republican Party. Aside from the refusal to give Merrick Garland a hearing upon his nomination to the Supreme Court, the GOP was an ineffective check on the abuses of the Obama-Biden administration,
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Politicians are all about themselves. They run for office for a job. Then everything they do is about job security.
So, Dems promise giveaways, not because they care about people, but because they want to be voted-in and to keep their jobs.
Republicans promise to fight for conservative principles, just so they’re voted-in, but then they back down in the face of Democrats, because they’re afraid of losing their jobs.
If ELECTION FRAUD in states with REPUBLICAN legislatures is the source of this then why are we talking about SPLITTING the conservatives? The states that stole the election should be under a direct and affirmed move to acquire EVERY single ballot AND the electronic balloting devices in those rogue states. It should be relentless to obtain these and submit them to a forensic top down analysis. The legislators in these states should be pressured to have every one of these ballots open for examination. Can you even imagine any election going forward with electronic balloting that is going to go the way of the conservatives? FOCUS on the issue!!!! WHO COUNTS THE VOTES WINS!! That is all they need. They proved it to us! People need to wake up and stop troubleshooting the symptoms! FOCUS ON THE STEAL!! How did they do it?
Yes. New Party.
For the American people.
Better outreach than repubs could ever had.
Socialists against Americans.
The Republican Party will NEVER EVER in the future be the answer to our problems.
We just spent four years with a president who only asked that we remain true to the Constitution of the United States, For that he was resoundingly attacked by his own party.
These people were so angry he was elected, they refused to work with him.
Things we have wanted to do for the last 70 years remained unaddressed because they were not going to let an upstart get our nation back on track.
Did we address abortion?
Did we address education?
Did we get the wall on our southern border funded?
Did we address rolling back infringements on the 2nd Amendment)
Did we get national reciprocity?
Did we get the defunding of China we must have?
Did we defund NPR?
Did we defund PBS?
Did these people stand up for our rights at ANY point in the last year?
Take a look at California. There is no Republican Party there. You all recognize that. You know how it got that way? It quit opposing the DemocRats there. Where else have we seen that?
Do you not recognize that our whole nation has adopted that same arrangement?
Let’s look back to John McCain for a moment. Did you EVER see the party leadership shun him like they did Trump? Let that sink in. How about Mitt Romney, Cindy McCain, Lisa Murkowsky, and a number of others? Did the party leadership ever give them the treatment they gave Trump?
We used to decry Black’s loyalty to a party that NEVER did anything for them. Now we as Conservatives are slavishly supportive of a party that hasn’t done anything for our cause in decades.
It is so corrupted that it continues to support policies that financially support a global pariah China.
This party just allowed the election victory to be stolen from our president. What’s worse are the stakes that were involved. Our nation has just gone over the edge into darkness.
Over the next four years you will see what a political party can do, if it has the will to implement change. As you watch our nation torn down around you, remember that your dear Republican party did NOTHING over the last four years. NOTHING!
If you think you can change this party, you are simply delusional. You refuse to accept reality and you are content to remain on the same sort of plantation Blacks have chosen to remain on.
No one in this party is going to change it.
Go ahead and keep trying to do the same thing we have tried for the last 50 years if you like, and keep thinking you’re going to see different results.
The party just had the biggest wake up call it will ever have and it chose to sleep through it. It was so determined to do that it stabbed in the back politically the man trying to wake it up and get it to do the right thing.
And with this object lesson staring you in the face, some of you elect to tell yourself this party can be changed.
Oh my goodness!
No, but the parties that replaced them were. I think the current situation in the US is more like the time frames when those replacements happened that ever before.
What does splitting conservative vote matter is conservatives vote for republicans that loathe and despise them anyway.
Force McConnell and Rino’s to register as uniparty democrats. That’s what they are.
They despise all of us.
I didn't mean to imply that Biden would be making the decision. His handlers make all the decisions. It is all political theater, including the militarization of DC.
IMO, the only way they will "fail" to block Trump is if they are confident they can control the outcome of future elections.
Election reform has to be the number 1 priority of the GOP starting now. If nothing is done, everything else is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
1) You won't get more than half of the Republican Party. You'll get the Trump supporters who were non-participants in elections prior to Trump, and maybe, if you're lucky, 1/4 of the Republicans.
2) You'll be lucky to get 10% of Democrats.
3) You need 270. If nobody gets 270, then the House chooses the President, with each STATE getting one vote. Since there won't be a majority of third party Representatives, that guarantees that either the Democrat or the Republican will be selected as President.
Ross Perot, John Anderson, George Wallace, and especially Teddy Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party he formed after he lost the Republican nomination for re-election, all have proven that third party candidates are LOSERS.
Trump understood this, which is why he ran as a Republican. Even Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, understood that you must run as the candidate from one of the two major parties in order to succeed.
The ONLY REASON why Trump would start a third party is to intentionally torpedo the Republican party in retaliation for their backstabbing him on Stop the Steal.
Yeeessss....and the THIRD PARTIES that successfully replaced them are currently still here. IMO, the times are ripe for precisely such a replacement. If Trump starts it, "I" for one, will sign up (and I've been registered as an independent for the last 50 years).
any political party only serves to divide the people and is used by our unseen rulers to keep themselves in their powerful positions. The elections are rigged so there has to be a better way for the American people to choose their president. Currently, the USA is a country without a legitimate government.
That's quitter talk and taking the easy way out. "There's nothing we can do, so why even try?"
FIGHT for control of the Republican party, just like the Hippie Libs did for the Democrat party starting in 1968. That's when sHrillary, Ketchup Boy John Kerry, and the rest of the progressives burrowed their way into the Democratic party, AND WAITED 20+ YEARS to get into positions of power.
Play the long game here. Don't take your ball and go home because you got dunked on once.
The McConnell Republican’s are dead to me. A Trump Party could give me hope.
ML/NJ
Force McConnell and Rino’s to register as uniparty democrats. That’s what they are.
They despise all of us.
I'll say to you what I just said to CodeToad:
That's quitter talk and taking the easy way out. "There's nothing we can do, so why even try?"FIGHT for control of the Republican party, just like the Hippie Libs did for the Democrat party starting in 1968. That's when sHrillary, Ketchup Boy John Kerry, and the rest of the progressives burrowed their way into the Democratic party, AND WAITED 20+ YEARS to get into positions of power.
Play the long game here. Don't take your ball and go home because you got dunked on once.
“That’s quitter talk and taking the easy way out. “There’s nothing we can do, so why even try?”
That’s not “quitter talk”. That’s being realistic and knowing when a new approach is needed.
Definition of insanity: Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.
We’ve been at this “Take over the GOP and heal it” crap for over 40 years. The Soviet Union needed 75 years before the people finally gave up on communism. For 75 years we said that was retarded.
Well, retarded people, the GOP is not fixable. The GOP is corrupt to its core and it is in cooperation with the democrats. They are one and the same.
Books like 1984 warned us of the mentality of hope, that we only need to try harder against impossible odds.
The book contained the phrase “We’ve always been at war with Oceania.” Well, we’ve always been at war with the democrats. We? We, who? We have, the GOP has not.
It is time to dump the GOP.
It was the GOP that destroyed the Tea Party... with help from dems and their boys in the press.
We needed a leader who could fight back for us... not some oppotunists to walk to the head of the parade.
Trump could be that man - that leader. It really is time for all of us to leave the GOP. They’re not there for us when we need them, they don’t care about our issues and they don’t protect us. It’s a group of people who like cushy jobs with lots of power.
Someone taught the GOP to ‘talk the talk’ to hoodwink the base... but they don’t come through. Ever. It really is time to pack up and leave.
Nailed it.
Do you think The President would run for a House seat, say from Florida? He would then be a real thorn in the House. Might even become Speaker. That would make the witch twitch.
Amen the the uni-party needs to be dismantled.
The book contained the phrase “We’ve always been at war with Oceania.” Well, we’ve always been at war with the democrats. We? We, who? We have, the GOP has not.
It is time to dump the GOP.
As one FRiend to another, I am not trying to talk down to you.
But you need to study history. How did the Party of Jim Crow laws, anti-civil rights, pointless wars, and the Ku Klux Klan, turn into the party of Green Energy, Affirmative Action, anti-cop, anti-military, and outright Socialism?
We need to reform the Republican party, not walk away from it.
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