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The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again: He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump.
That leads us to the inevitable question: What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him? Do we knuckle under and vote for Ron DeSantis because he would be vastly better than any Democrat?
I say no, we don’t knuckle under. And I like DeSantis. I’d vote for him after Trump’s second term. But not before.
If you ask me, Trump’s presidency was much more “American” than it was “Republican.” That’s why it was such a success and why so many of us loved it.
Now, if the Republican Party thinks it’s not big enough for Trump, it’s not going to be big enough for me either.
The RNC can pretend Trump isn’t loved by the base anymore, that he doesn’t have packed rallies everywhere he goes. But I’m not buying it: Talk to Republican voters anywhere outside the Beltway, and it is obvious that he is admired and even loved by those who consider themselves “ordinary” Americans.
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Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No.
Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes.
Is this where the idea comes from of a third political party possibly emerging?
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Now comes the $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill. Republican 18 Senators and nine House members, voted for the bill. Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he was “pretty proud” of achieving Republican “priorities” with yet another spending binge of money we don’t have.
How can a Republican who professes to be a conservative and champion of the Constitution be “proud” of “woke” Leftist policies and “priorities” like “family planning/reproductive health including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species”? We all know that “family planning” and “reproductive health” are euphemisms for abortion. So taxpayers are going to be fleeced for $575 billion to sacrifice more human beings on the altar of “biodiversity”.
Kimberley Strassel commented [WSJ] December 22, “Never has Washington contemplated such a monstrosity. If a satirist set out to describe a once-admirable institution in decline, its members cheerfully passing off their laziness, secrecy, cowardliness and graft as ‘success’, it’d be hard to compete with this week’s Senate show. The omnibus is everything that is broken in D.C., dumped in one steaming pile.”
So why did so many Republicans hand the Dems such a victory?
Have any Republicans supporting this bill done a long-range, cost-benefit analysis that shows how fattening an already $30 trillion debt, and throwing more fuel on the inflation bonfire, serves conservative “priorities,” as McConnell boasts?
The answer to that question is that there is a fundamental progressive consensus. The Constitutional structure that divides and balances the power of a limited federal government in order to protect the political freedom of the sovereign states, has become passé.
Using one’s office to secure spoils for one’s political clients is an age-old habit of democracy, but now the spoils are not just federal contracts, entitlements, and subsidies, but political ideologies and policies that are blatantly anti-Constitutional and mortal threats to our freedom.
Yes, the Republican Party is just part of the Leviathan now, which is why it rejects Trump.
If votes actually counted, all the MAGA candidates would be in the majority, and Trump would be President. The Republicans would be real opposition, not “controlled opposition”.
But because we are no longer a Constitutional Republic, but basically an authoritarian Police State, real opposition is not going to be allowed.