June 16, 2015 - The Date Turning Back Became Impossible

Topic: Perspective

Battered Conservative Syndrome is a real thing.  Years of watching Republicans in practically every chamber across this great land have taken their toll on the minds of those who have counted on the Party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan to do something, anything to at least hold back the menacing leftist scourge and the accompanying demise of Western civilization a little while longer.

Some self-proclaimed conservatives, as if the term carries any weight whatsoever today, can’t believe what their lying eyes are telling them.  If only, they say, we could return to the glory days of vaunted American icons like John Boehner, Paul Ryan, John McCain, and the Bush dynasty at the helm of the Republican Party, then perhaps we could vanquish these evil Democrats once and for all.  They appear to believe things were sublime under the leadership of the right side of the dreaded uniparty, and because they’ve let their brains rot on account of consuming conservative purity think tank propaganda that somehow ignores the elephant in the room – that America First vote totals in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 federal elections are commensurate with large margins of victory, and that the defiance of nearly every previously known trend, indicator, bellwether, and predictor was required to blot out undeniable victory from seating rightful office holders.

Yesterday, a post on X, shown below, caught my attention, and for all the wrong reasons:

Trump has left the GOP in terrible shape.  We don’t win elections.  We don’t get policy goals achieved.  It’s a joke.

It’s been non stop Dem victories since he won in 2016.

Trump is the largest problem is the GOP.

DeSantis as the leader of the party is the way to start winning.

To recap, 5 out of 8 Americans, per Rasmussen Reports, believe the 2020 election outcome was decided by fraud.  An even higher percentage, north of three-quarters, don’t find our system of electing officials to be trustworthy.  More than 80% of Republican voters believe President Trump lost the 2020 quasi-election unfairly, and short of mental impairment or ill health, there is zero demand for an alternative, because the vast majority of Trump’s base wants to see justice in the realm of elections.  None of the other Republican candidates will mention election manipulation because if they did, it would serve as a tacit endorsement of Trump, an acknowledgement that he was wrongfully deprived of reelection.

All other Republican campaigns are dead on arrival.

Readers would benefit from researching Stockholm syndrome – defined by Britannica as a “psychological response wherein a captive begins to identify closely with his or her captors, as well as with their agenda and demands.”  The term originates from a failed 1973 bank robbery in which my noted description of the syndrome played out in real time.  The same condition presents when Republicans believe that by simply not mentioning the election manipulation crisis, or by ignoring it altogether, that American patriots will be able to “Trojan Horse” candidates of choice into the halls of government.  Wrong.

There is no going back to the way things were.

The movement is bigger than Donald Trump, and must be if our Republic is to survive.  He won’t be here forever, just as none of us will be, though he will live on forever as one of the pivotal figures in the destiny of the American experiment.  He has but one remaining term available to him, and it must be one for the ages to root out extensive networks of corruption that, thanks to the work of many patriots, have now removed their respective masks of deception.  Trump himself was the man to call out the grift and corruption of the Republican establishment, to the shock of many – after all, we thought our elections were mostly fair, and discord in the party would only usher in the reign of Hillary R. Clinton.  I fell into this group on June 16, 2015, when Trump came down the famous escalator inside Trump Tower.

The following points are highlights from his historic campaign announcement:

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Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.

Trump is issuing a clear indictment of the Republican Party, not the Democrats.  Even though the Democrats had long been associated with radical environmentalism that crippled industry in the Midwest and other regions, Republicans couldn’t get it figured out with the issue of trade, completely squandering the Reagan coalition that delivered unassailable landslides in the 1980s.  The non-college vote, not the illegal alien vote, destroyed the GOP in the so-called “Rust Belt,” and was sent fleeing by the likes of George H.W. Bush, the godfather of NAFTA.  I chuckle when thinking that because Donald Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin for the GOP for the first time in decades, other Republicans think they can complete there, too.  In truth, all other Republicans, even absent a grudge from the Trump base, would be fortunate to carry Ohio and Iowa.

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When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.

The U.S. has become a dumping grounds for everybody else’s problems.

Same chapter, different verse, this time calling attention to the failures of the GOP to secure the southern border, the most basic function of preserving a sovereign nation – a boundary.  Republicans held the U.S. House and U.S. Senate for six years of George W. Bush’s time in the White House, and did nothing, all so they could protect sources of cheap labor for the donor class, even though it enables Democrat goals of impoverishing the minority working class and importing an all-new electorate.  This trend among Vichy Republicans continues in border states, with Texans and Arizonans suffering under the heavy hand of cartel invasion.

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Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They’ve become rich. I’m in competition with them.

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We spent $2 trillion in Iraq, $2 trillion. We lost thousands of lives, thousands in Iraq. We have wounded soldiers, who I love, I love — they’re great — all over the place, thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers.

And we have nothing. We can’t even go there. We have nothing. And every time we give Iraq equipment, the first time a bullet goes off in the air, they leave it.

Last week, I read 2,300 Humvees— these are big vehicles— were left behind for the enemy. 2,000? You would say maybe two, maybe four? 2,300 sophisticated vehicles, they ran, and the enemy took them.

What kind of terrorism?  Exactly.  Few have drawn attention to the fact that Trump detailed the sort of military leadership failures Americans saw from the Biden regime in 2021, recklessly abandoning sophisticated equipment and weaponry, and even our own people, and foreign intelligence sources, to fight their way out.  Trump highlights the foreign policy failures of the uniparty, and the failed campaigns initiated by George W. Bush, in blunt fashion.  Within months, he would be mocking Jeb Bush and his continued drift toward the end of the debate stage.

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And they don’t talk jobs and they don’t talk China. When was the last time you heard China is killing us? They’re devaluing their currency to a level that you wouldn’t believe. It makes it impossible for our companies to compete, impossible. They’re killing us.

But you don’t hear that from anybody else. You don’t hear it from anybody else. And I watch the speeches.

I watch the speeches of these people, and they say the sun will rise, the moon will set, all sorts of wonderful things will happen. And people are saying, “What’s going on? I just want a job. Just get me a job. I don’t need the rhetoric. I want a job.”

If you read up one paragraph in the linked transcript, you’ll find that Trump is talking about his “fellow Republicans.”  Once again, the average working-class American doesn’t give a hoot in hell about conservatism.  More than half of our countrymen live paycheck to paycheck – they want good, reliable employment.  Is it any wonder Mitt Romney couldn’t generate turnout despite Obama’s hemorrhaging of the working class, but Trump could?

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So the reporter said to me the other day, “But, Mr. Trump, you’re not a nice person. How can you get people to vote for you?”

I said, “I don’t know.” I said, “I think that number one, I am a nice person. I give a lot of money away to charities and other things. I think I’m actually a very nice person.”

But, I said, “This is going to be an election that’s based on competence, because people are tired of these nice people. And they’re tired of being ripped off by everybody in the world. And they’re tired of spending more money on education than any nation in the world per capita, than any nation in the world, and we are 26th in the world, 25 countries are better than us in education. And some of them are like third world countries. But we’re becoming a third word country, because of our infrastructure, our airports, our roads, everything. So one of the things I did, and I said, you know what I’ll do. I’ll do it. Because a lot of people said, “He’ll never run. Number one, he won’t want to give up his lifestyle.”

Perhaps my favorite portion of this because it speaks to the human experience.  I didn’t vote for Pastor Trump, I voted for President Trump.  I wasn’t fazed one iota when the aptly timed Billy Bush “locker room talk” tape came out.  Why?  Because every single man who ever sat inside a locker room has said numerous things he would never wish to come to light in the event he became a public figure, let alone a presidential candidate.  People today, just like then, are tired of polished, professional politicians who do nothing but enrich themselves at the expense of the people and spend entire terms in office doing nothing but figuring out how to stay there.

Conclusion

I’ve come to love the phrase “burn the boats,” or “burn the ships,” attributed to Hernán Cortés when he arrived in the “new world” in 1519.  He left his men with no choice but to fight, as there no longer existed the temptation to flee to presumptive safety.  We in the ranks of the awakened have burned the ships with the old order, the long-expired uniparty brand of the Republican Party.  Trump represents the voice of the people, and we will raise up new leaders to stand in his stead.  There is no looking back, and in his much maligned speech from eight years ago, he was prescient in his description of today’s political peril and accurately portrayed the enemies of true American renaissance.

Nothing less will do, and we should not settle for anything less.

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