The Lonely, Lost, Losers that are the GOP
Nobody likes the GOP establishment except the GOP establishment
Of course, we immediately get fed the media blame of Trump for the historically unprecedented GOP failures taking over for the terrible performing Democrats this midterm election.
Of course.
Liz Cheney could not be any happier. Ignoring for the moment that Trump voters knocked her and another seven GOP anti-Trumpers out of the primaries, certainly there are plenty of data-points that indicate anti-Trump sentiments took a toll on Trump-favoring candidates.
And you can feel something here… the sting of 2016 was so profound on the political chattering class that they made much of the electorate suffer the same election anxiety attack over and over again. Hate of Trump became woke.
And of course, Trump would not go away… would not shut up.
Of course.
But Trump alone cannot explain what has happened… the election of Democrats at a time with a memory of their recent authoritarian COVID abuses, unprecedented inflation caused by their gross overspending and anti-oil policies, opioid deaths through the roof, attacks against free speech, attacks against the right to defend oneself, breathtaking government abuses of power for politics, the southern border open with floods of Covid-untested illegal immigrants planted all over the country WHILE Covid was raging and we were locked down, out of control crime… and woke-made social chaos that attacks the youngest of school children. All these things are opposite of Trump’s platform. All these things should have been election bombs that the GOP leveraged to win.
No, Trump is not fully to blame here. Something else is broken with the GOP… the lonely, lost, losers that are the establishment GOP.
What do females, LGBTQ, youth, celebrities, Hollywood, educated elites, big business, small business, Wall Street, the military industrial complex, big pharma, billionaires, minorities, the poor, government employees, and unions have in common?
None of them are constituents of the establishment GOP. None of them.
What’s left?
Not the working-class. It was Trump that brought them in. They don’t like the establishment GOP and the feeling is clearly mutual.
Even the religious right is more apt to support Trump and is fickle in support of rank-and-file Republicans.
Maybe, big oil… although that industry is salivating over Democrat dollars for conversion to renewables.
This trend was clear in the 2008 election. Only the electorate dislike of unilateral power grabs from the Obama Democrats gave the Republicans the false sense that they were politically healthy. They were not. They were being left behind and trampled, but without a plan to recover… without a fight.
Then Trump. He had a plan. He fought not only the entire well-organized and well-funded Obama-Clinton Democrat cabal… but he had to fight the sinking loser GOP establishment too.
Trump was popular because he fought. He is still popular. Conversely the establishment GOP is the most unpopular party in the history of parties.
Maybe DeSantis is more popular now. But he will be the next devil the Democrats will brand as such… and then who will he have as constituents? Cuban Americans?
Breaking into electorate popularity will require Trump-like new economic populism. It will require the GOP be the party of the working class and small business voter. It will have to show young people the way to a happy life starts and ends with independence and work, and not being mothered to their grave.
The problem for Democrats is that they are the party of Wall Street and globalists, and they all hate the working and middle class. They will lie and pander to those, but then really give them nothing, except the unions. But they print and hand out other people’ s money to big business and the non-working class. So, they thrive off that and their cultural radical distractions until the money is all gone.
The problem for Republican establishment is the people in control of the party are upper class rich who pander to their old economic buddies… and nobody finds that popular.
Unless one of the parties’ changes, like Trump changed the GOP, the elections will be mostly for show, and Democrats will win that show because Democrats are the better actors on the stage.
Today all politicians are basically actors playing a role for their masters. Their masters want us all to be wage slaves and worse off than previous generations. The politicians that break from the masters and fight for the economic well-being of the people, and not the masters, will win elections.
Speaking as one who resists self-identifying as anything in particular, I can sympathize with a lot of what you’re saying here and still think Trump is absolutely not the guy to carry out even one item on anyone’s wish list.
That's a very well-written and thoughtful analysis of why the Red Wave didn't happen, and I agree with a lot of what you said, but not all.
When it comes to Wall Street and Globalist influence, I think both parties are in the tank, not just Dems.
And when it comes to individual candidates, I think the gerrymandered system (95% of incumbents are re-elected) means they win just by party affiliation alone, despite whatever they say or do.
What I agree with most is that very few politicians today are working for "the people". They're in it for themselves. All the flag-waving and "Save America from Socialism" slogans are just PR hype; MTG and Gaetz and Jordan (and McConnell and McCarthy) are lusting for power and will say and do anything to further their own careers. And they'll make 180-U-turns on anything they ever said if the occasion calls for it.
ANd yes, there are Dems in the same boat. But right now I see some Repubs just drooling at the thought of holding the gavel and going after Hunter Biden - as if Jared Kushner didn't make millions, maybe billions off of his White House position.
Really, I don't see many honorable politicians at all. The John McCain's are all gone.
So, I don't agree with everything you wrote, but it was a thoughtful and well-written analysis.