‘Moving on from President Trump’ is
a Failing Strategy for the GOP
American Thinker,
by
Laureen Lipsky
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/24/2021 5:52:53 AM
From the moment President Trump took office in 2017, the GOP almost instantaneously morphed into a strong political party helmed by a non-politician. Under Trump’s lead, the once weak-spine, dull, and globalist-focused party transitioned into the people’s party.Although a registered Republican since the age of 18, I was never enthused about any Republican candidate; in fact, I would often stall at the polling booth and ponder if the Democrat candidate would be a better choice—on more than one occasion I ended up voting for the opposite side. Trump brought energy to his adoptive party not seen since President Reagan. America First was not only
Reply 1 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/24/2021 6:31:38 AM (No. 672377)
The list of Trump's accomplishments, which the White House distributed shortly before they left, is a great way to learn what Trump did in his first term; but an alternative is to read about - if you are lucky - all the policies that Biden is overturning that were initiated by the Trump administration.On one hand, we have the builder, and on the other hand, we have someone who prefers to tear down. (I hope the Never Trumpers are happy.)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/24/2021 6:59:01 AM (No. 672387)
I've been thinking about cancelling my party affiliation, and I've been yelling at bloggers who say we shouldn't start a third party. Why should we leave our Party? Why not make the RINOs leave? We know who they are now, why not focus on getting rid of them? If I'm not affiliated with the party, how can I affect change? Not waiting for President Trump, where do I go to work, to do something besides write to congress critters and senators who don't care?
When Ronald Reagan left the dem party, he had someplace to go--the GOP. If we leave now, we don't yet have a place to go. President Trump changed the party; are we just going to throw all his work away? He showed that we can take our party back. There are more of US than them; we should make them leave.
Ditto for America. If we secede, why can't we take our United States of America from the communists? In secession, do they get to keep our history, our founding documents that they hate? Why not make them secede and take all power from Washington and let them set up their communist governments in blue states? Why are we giving up what we have to create something new? The left stole everything from US; they didn't build America.
If you go Independent, that's great, but Independents are just that, independent. How can we affect change on the local level as Independents? I'm asking all these questions for dialogue, not to point fingers at anyone for their choices. I come to this site to unload and read what others are thinking, but I'm wanting more and more for some of our conversations to continue to the point of action. We share some great ideas and make great points, but the action is missing. Still searching. . .
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/24/2021 7:16:29 AM (No. 672398)
I’ve already ordered my TRUMP 2024 yard sign, how about you?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
worried 1/24/2021 7:42:26 AM (No. 672419)
I don't think the country deserves to have Trump as president again. He brought us a strong economy, low unemployment, jobs aplenty, great stock market and many foreign policy triumphs. Why should he put up with al the garbage he got from the left again? He doesn't need their hatred and ugly actions. Yes, he loves the country, but the country doesn't deserve him. I would hope that he retires and lets the haters stew in their own juices.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
homefry 1/24/2021 7:47:16 AM (No. 672425)
A failing strategy indeed however, I dont think he will ever be prez again. I believe he will take on a new role as king maker. EVERY Republican should be approved of by Trump before WE vote them into office.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/24/2021 7:52:17 AM (No. 672432)
Who told us to ''move on'' after the Kennedy's were shot? It was only 58 years ago. /s
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
philsner 1/24/2021 7:56:48 AM (No. 672441)
We don't need a third party. We only have one right now. So the idea that dumping half of the uni-party won't work is wrong.
The GOP simply has no strategy other than maintaining our destructive course. They are eliminating themselves. Of course, when the government goes full Soviet, it's all moot.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
philsner 1/24/2021 7:58:03 AM (No. 672443)
Speak for yourself #4. It isn't our fault the ruling class cheated us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Captleemo 1/24/2021 8:16:44 AM (No. 672470)
I'm all for doing away with the republican party. Had there been anybody with any brains in the republican leadership they would have realized that with Trumps leadership they could have stayed in power for years maybe even eliminate the democrat party. Instead they chose to hand over the congress to Nancy Pelosi with all her demented hatred and then the senate. The presidential race was stolen and all they could say was it was a fair election and to move on. Now it looks like Mitch McConnell wants to stick one last knife in Trumps back. How on earth could anybody but a never Trumper want to still back the republican party in any way shape or form.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 1/24/2021 8:42:00 AM (No. 672499)
For four years I focused on Trump's accomplishments, which are spectacular. Above all, turning around an economy that under Obama was a strangled disaster. I didn't like the bragging, the narcissism, the twitter wars with Hollywood nitwits that so diminished the dignity of the office of the presidency, but I put all that aside for what he was achieving for America.
When the elections came around last November, with only a few exceptions, everyone I knew-- friends, family, neighbors-- was voting for Biden. They did not especially like Biden, but they loathed Trump. Absolutely loathed him. Great masses of American voters-- egged on by the endlessly hostile media, big tech, the entertainment industry, academia-- could not wait to get out and vote against Donald Trump. Not vote for Biden. Vote against Trump.
That is the simple story of 2020. It is not, as Rush Limbaugh recently speculated, because great numbers of Americans have bought into a socialist/communist ideology. I don't see that. Rather, it is that Trump managed to do two things simultaneously: strengthen America as no other politician in recent memory has done, and, at the same time, completely infuriate and alienate half the American population.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/24/2021 8:42:03 AM (No. 672500)
I agree with #2. I think we should stick with the Republican Party, get rid of the Never Trumpers (and never doubt that McConnell has been one all along) and go to work. We need to begin in the States! I know I sound like a Broken Record, but the States are where we can get change. We need to get rid of the Republican Governors and Sec. of States who allowed the Fraud and refused to help us in the last election. We need to fill the State Legislatures with Republicans so that they can forbid Dominion Machines and Mail in Ballots! It all starts there! We also need to get rid of the RNC Leadership and put in new people! We need to find more people who can run for Congress and win! We need to expand the Senate! We have a lot of work to do before 2024! I doubt Trump will run again (and put his family through the Rats Nest they call D.C.)! But I do think he will find a "Chosen One" he can help to win in 24. Could be Ron DeSantis in FL. Trump has guided him all the way to his win here, and they are still very close. He would be a great President because he thinks like Trump! America First! I'm betting Trump is already mapping out a win for whoever he chooses to bring the Party to a Win. I also think the 75-80 Million Trump Voters will back him all the way!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/24/2021 8:48:02 AM (No. 672504)
'Failing' is not the word I would use. Suicidal is more like it. Fortunately for them, I don't think Trump is going to abandon them and start a Patriot Party. His stated goal of working on improving election integrity is going to benefit them (undeserving as they are) among others.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Omen55 1/24/2021 8:51:33 AM (No. 672511)
It never ceases to amaze how the GOP strives to commit political suicide.
The craven stab in the back stupid party.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/24/2021 9:06:12 AM (No. 672525)
The GOP should be more concerned about folks moving on from it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 1/24/2021 9:30:23 AM (No. 672547)
General Douglas MacArthur addressed Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, July 25, 1951:
"I have seen since my return to my native land after an absence of many years our material progress has been little short of phenomenal.
It is not of any external threat that I concern myself but rather of insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions, these institutions which formerly we hailed as something beyond question of challenge, those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
Foremost of these forces is that directly, or even more frequently indirectly, allied with the scourge of imperialistic Communism.
It has infiltrated into positions of public trust and responsibility, into journalism, the press, the radio and the school.
It seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings.
This evil force, with neither spiritual base nor moral standard, rallies the abnormal and subnormal elements among our citizenry and applies internal pressure against all things we hold descent and all things that we hold right the type of pressure which has caused many Christian nations abroad to fall and their own cherished freedoms to languish in the shackles of complete suppression.
As it has happened there it can happen here. Our need for patriotic fervor and religious devotion was never more impelling.
There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism, no half way in the preservation of freedom and religion. It must be all or nothing."
MacArthur warned in his Farewell Address to Congress, April 19. 1951:
"The Communist threat is a global one Under no circumstances must
Formosa (Taiwan) fall under Communist control.
"Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions," stated General Douglas MacArthur in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Cindiana 1/24/2021 9:40:11 AM (No. 672557)
Fabulous, #15. First time I've read that speech. Remarkable, and so prescient. What in the world has happened to SO many people in this country that they embrace a philosophy that is vacant and suicidal?? Thank you for posting.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Krause 1/24/2021 9:49:47 AM (No. 672575)
To a lot of politicians, pleasing the people is down on their list ofconcerns. Ideology and donors are at the top of their lists. Trump woke a lot of people up. Democrats and the left media (all the same ideology) ignored all the good Trump did 'for the people.' They spent all their time fretting about what he 'said.'
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/24/2021 10:33:51 AM (No. 672663)
It's not a failing strategy, it's a PEE (Party Ending Event)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/24/2021 11:28:40 AM (No. 672724)
Trump gave energy, and it's being wasted on third party dreams and a second civil war/rebellion. Yes, it's time to grieve and move forward in the direction inspired by Trump.
It's time for all those energized Americans to become the leadership of the Republican Party. State and local party structures are generally weak, dependent on acquiescence and comity in the ranks. Go become a precinct captain, a local party officer, a delegate to the state conventions. You can even become a candidate yourself. Take over the party and purge it of these pusillanimous country clubbers.
Or is that too much? Okay, then, what are you going to do? Anything but whine?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/24/2021 12:08:25 PM (No. 672777)
Re: #10 - Your point regarding Trump's negatives across the political spectrum can't be overstated and was made far worse by his stepping into a media/progressive ambush in DC. The left is willing to openly cheat and risk having to fight in the streets those on the right side of the political continuum. Real hair, teeth, and eyeball fights, not social media skirmishes. Many on the right side have become overly effusive in praising Trump in increasingly messianic terms but are paradoxically also among the least likely to lift a finger to fight for him (e.g., 2nd impeachment in two years after three years of bogus Russian collusion attacks). Besides, there's only one messiah and he's not a politician.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/24/2021 4:11:39 PM (No. 673025)
If just half of the 75 million Trump supporters do not vote for incumbent RINOs and anti-Trump establishment Republicans who are running for re-election in the Republican State primary elections, and instead vote for true conservative Republicans running for election in that primary process, it would not be long before the Republican Congressional Delegation will change its go along to get along with the Democrats stance. Remember It has been the State Republican Party run primary elections where all the RINOs and faux conservatives have been getting nominated and elected. That’s where the problem has been and that’s where it must be fixed. Setting up a third political party which would split the conservative and Republican votes is not the answer and neither is voting for Democrats
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