The Republican Civil War
Why the best chance to change the face and the soul of the Republican Party starts with the 2022 midterm elections and then shifts focus to the Endgame that would be the re-election of Trump in 2024
As the 2022 midterm election season has finally kicked off with the commencement of early voting in Texas this week, we have finally reached a pivotal moment in time for the Republican Party as we know it. The old guard, positionally in power for the last several decades have all but run their course and sit at a juncture after failing to embrace Doanld Trump in 2015, conspiring to sabotage his administration at the offset in 2016 and never circling the wagons enough to ensure a repeat victory in 2020 have exposed themselves, their administrative state and lobbyist counterparts and legacy media insulation that for so long has provided them with cover and refuge. We are truly final act for the country club attending, chamber of commerce loving, neocon establishment republican.
In the last two years of the first Trump presidency, we saw both nationally, and in the beltway a real movement and push for the populist, nationalist politician here in America. Failing to secure the needed support and energy from 2018 midterm endorsements and House race winners, we saw the true colors exposed from the likes of the Liz Cheneyâs, Adam Kitzingerâs and Nancy Maceâs of the world. It would be turncoat republicans like this that would on add to the anti-nationalist and anti-Trump movement and pad the numbers of Never Trumpers likes of Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Where it took Trump almost two years to get the original ticket items like the border wall and the tax cuts done due to the bogging down by these establishment entities, it would their combined forces that would equally slow down the last two years of the first Trump presidency in ways that in the end only hurt the middle class and average American family.
But from the ashes that were the 2020 presidential election was the rise of the America First candidate. Where in years past, we would simply follow or support a Trump endorsement; shit he was the president at the time, who defied all the odds and derailed the Clintons money machine in what was the biggest election upset in modern history. But after such instances of letâs say, a Nancy Mace we have as a base learned from past miscues, and as supporters, now best support Donald Trump by sometimes calling him out on bad or misinformed endorsements when need be. We are seeing it in some instances and races now heading into the 2022 midterms, and in response to misinformed or non-America First (but more establishment) nods, we as a base have mobilized to call it out, and rally around the America First candidates and movement (something President Trump certainly wished he has more of throughout his brief time in politics, Iâm sure).
Now that we have set the stage that was the past six years of Republican partisan politics (or lack thereof) we sit on the edge of the rebirth in the conservative movement following this yearâs midterm elections. Contenders like the Joe Kentâs, Anthony Sabatiniâs, Mike Collins, Jim Bognetâs and Andrew McCarthyâs in the House races combined with experienced senatorial candidates like Blake Masters, Eric Greitens and Adam Laxalt look to knock the establishment on its head and have it begging for mercy. Incorporate America First gubernatorial candidates like Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano and Sarah Sanders and you really start to see the future that was described in some of President Trumpâs earliest speeches; the oneâs that described the forgotten men and women in America; the blue collar, middle class, heart and soul of this nation will finally be getting some well-deserved and long overdue America First representation on Capitol Hill come next January.
That being said, the last in a generations establishment republicans will not, by any mean ride quietly into the sunset. You are already seeing the lines being drawn, mostly likely at some backroom direction of Ronna McDaniel at the RNC, as she has never acknowledged Donald Trump as the true leader of the Republican party, has always been dismissive of the grassroots nationalist movement (because of big money donors ) and did next to nothing (literally) to support Stop the Steal following the events of November 3rd, 2020, in the rigged and stolen presidential election. Additionally, some of her closest allies like Kevin McCarthy (who in my opinion, will never be (and shouldnât be) the Speaker of the House if all goes to plan after the midterms) uses proxy influencers like Sean Hannity at Fox News and scumbags like Matt Schlapp at CPAC to muddy the America First movement buy implanting D.C. plants and retreads (like Morgan Ortagus) and give airtime and endorsements (like Cory Mills) to candidates that do not represent the real heartbeat of the push to break away from the establishment and return the power to the people in the form of the aforementioned Save America candidates.
We cannot even begin to scratch the surface of talking about our country club lovin friends and not mention those like Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Lisa Murkowski (who is being primaried by a Trump endorsed candidate). In the past, they would have led us to believe that they were âholding the line,â looking out for all of us and supporting the president when he was in office. Thanks to the party split however, and the growing reach of social media we have come to learn that this has never been the case. Days where theatrics were performed on the House and Senate floors, in hearings and committee meetings and even during some of the spiciest confirmations like Kavanaugh we have come to learn that those in the republican party who were the most establishment and least loyal to Trump and the American people would fist bump their democrat counterparts on the Senate floor, attend lunches in the afternoons and parties with each other in the evenings and even rationally negotiated budgetary items behind closed doors together during the SCOTUS confirmation hearings.
This is where the real disconnect is. Itâs where they are hanging on by less than a thread and are dispatching all available resources possible to try and prevent the America First candidates from representing us in the beltway after the midterms. The New York Times (of course) recently reported: âIn conversations with senators and would-be senators, Mr. McConnell is blunt about the damage he believes Mr. Trump has done to the G.O.P., according to those who have spoken to him. Privately, he has declared he wonât let unelectable âgoofballsâ win Republican primariesâ (lovely, right?). Trump of course countered immediately and referenced the âOld Crowâ weighing in: "Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its votersâ (stay tuned). Former Trump lawyer and regular War Room contributor, Boris Epstyen weighed in last week, in a more elegant fashion stating, â(McConnell) Heâs finished.â
Historically, these behind the scenes tactics rarely have gained much traction and go nowhere as McConnell has had to rely on the assets who already were in D.C. to under the radar-ly slow Trumpsâs agenda. However, it appears that China Mitch is finally coming to terms with the writing on the wall as he has mobilized players like Matt and Mercedes Schlapp who essentially run CPAC to issue counter-endorsements to America First candidates in addition to pour millions and millions of dollars into campaigns and ad warfare to run (not Russian) mal-mis-or-dis information pieces on Trump backed players all over the country. McConnell has even pushed fellow senator and casual Trump supporter, Ric Scott to publicly endorse McConnell for another run at Senate majority leader following the 2022 midterms.
You take all that into consideration combined with recent comments from McConnell slamming Stop the Steal, the legitimate political discourse that occurred on Jan. 6th at the Capitol and pushing back on the recent censuring of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, exposing the figurative canyon of distance between ideologyâs right now between the Old Guard and all things Trumpworld.
So at the very least, things are really ramping up (not just the early primary voting races). As the playing field continues to level itself, by June we will have definitive numbers that will reveal just how much of an eventual red wave is going to wash up on the shores of Capitol Hill. The best advice I can give at this juncture in the midterm season is: back the America First candidates that best identify and relate to you. Donât send your money to the RNC, and to people like Matt Schapp and Ronna McDaniel. Instead, direct your donations, your time and support into America First movement. Regardless of who endorses these candidates or how much airtime theyâre getting in the legacy media means nothing. This whole movement that is mobilizing across the country right now is most dependent on (the grassroots base in the movement) NOT repeating the mistakes that plagued the start and end of the first Trump presidency. The more pressure we apply at the ballot box will continue to expose the RINOs and Never Trumpers and allow us to better identify the political targets in a fashion that closes the book on the establishment and reigns in the America First movement that is going to get this country back on track in the same fashion we were moving towards at the height of the first Trump Presidency.