Don’t Celebrate Too Soon! (Reprise), part 2

Conservatives are celebrating the recent primaries. Most of the winners are Trump-backed candidates. In Texas a Republican won an election in a district that has been owned by Democrats for forty years. I argue, however, that the celebrations are overly optimistic and premature.

Last November’s election results have been greeted with great glee by conservative commentators. The upset of the Virginia gubernatorial race has been seen as a referendum on education, wokeness, and fascism. The New Jersey truck driver who spent a thousand dollars to defeat the career politician in New Jersey has been described as a David and Goliath story. All of this has led to celebration that has crossed the line into gloating. Commentators are describing this as a harbinger of a massive red tsunami in the next couple of national elections even while Democrats (and Pelosi) are doubling down on wokeness. While I too am pleased with the election results — and surprised that 100k votes for Leftists didn’t show up at 0-dark thirty to change election results — I think it is way too early to start popping champaign corks.

Disappointingly, at the same time the pundits are predicting a red wave in the House, they are hanging their hats on hopes of only flipping one or two seats in the Senate. Really? With Biden having a 38% approval rating – and dropping – how can there not be a similar red wave in the Senate? Low projections for the Senate also explain why I think euphoric predictions of a red wave are premature.

Conservatives – and even some Leftists – celebrated the landslide recall of Chesa Boudin, the leftist District Attorney in San Francisco. Boudin was one of 70 Soros sponsored and funded DAs across the country who have taken it upon themselves to just not prosecute selected crimes. I thought the criminal justice system was supposed to treat all people the same. Remember that statue of blind justice? MSN reported,

Precinct-by-precinct voting maps show minority voters backing the recall in much higher numbers than college-educated, affluent white progressives, with very few exceptions. It’s not difficult to understand why, California political analysts across the spectrum tell RealClearPolitics. Minority communities suffer more when crimes rates are soaring than insulated wealthier neighborhoods with more protections and money for security.

Pundits are also celebrating the shift of minority votes from Democrat to Republican. The Daily Wire reported,

Hispanic voters are the fastest growing voter block in the country. From 2016 to 2020 there was a 31% increase in the number of votes cast by Hispanic Americans, and they accounted for about 10% of the electorate in the last presidential race. 

Historically, they’ve sided overwhelmingly with Democrats. In 2012, only 27% went for Mitt Romney, and in 2016, it ticked up a bit, but was still just 32% for Donald Trump. Then in 2020, there was a much more noticeable uptick, with roughly 40% of Hispanic voters going for Trump. 

The question now becomes whether 2020 was just a temporary outlier, or if it’s a permanent shift that Republicans can capitalize on.

Some pundits predict the Democrats will finally move the secure the Southern border as more Hispanics vote Republican.

Conservatives heralded all these events as harbingers of the impending Red Wave. I’m not so sure. From the media coverage, it does not seem that Leftists have recognized the general error of their bankrupt and moribund wokeness and voting patterns and instead are treating this as an isolated instance.

Project Patriot reported “Some call it the ‘California Exodus’ as over 360,000 residents left the state last year for greener pastures in Texas, Arizona, Washington — and Mexico.” Only time will tell whether these refugees who have destroyed their state will now swarm like locusts to destroy states that are still livable and have viable economies. Will the refugees bring their repugnant attitudes and voting habits with them? That doesn’t seem to be true in Florida, where forfor the first time ever in the state’s history there are more registered Republicans than Democrats, but only time will tell. When the woke refugees flee to red states, will they leave their leftist attitudes and voting patterns behind?  I have anecdotal evidence that the leftists fleeing the People’s Republics of Maryland and Virginia are taking their leftism with them as they flee to the Carolinas in search of lower costs of living.  They are blind to the fact that their Lefitism, wokeism, racism, fascism, and Marxism created the environment they are fleeing.  They refuse to recognize the link between their Leftist attitudes and voting and the impossible cost of living in states that have fled. So, is learning happening?  I think not. If they want to destroy where they live, more power to them. If they want to destroy where I live, that is unacceptable. You made your beds, now lie in them. Don’t come and mess up my bed.

I am not nearly as sanguine as the pundits or my friends that recent elections point to the Red Tsunami that others are predicting. Americans have the attention span of that blue fish. Celebration is premature. One of Napoleon’s maxims is that you always commit your reserve to reinforce a success, not to shore up a failure. It is time for Republicans and conservatives to redouble their efforts to expose the lies of the woke, racist, America-hating Leftists and to get true conservatives elected to important positions.

Conservatives point happily to the infighting within the Democrat junta, particularly with the $2T Leftists pork bill, euphemistically referred to as “Build Back Better,” whatever that means. National Review reported that,

The Associated Press reports that, unchastised by Tuesday night’s rout, Nancy Pelosi plans to ready the House of Representatives for a “debate and vote on a revised draft of President Joe Biden’s now-$1.85 trillion domestic policy package.” The decision, the AP suggests, is intended to “show voters the party can deliver on its priorities.” That’s one way of putting it, certainly. Another might be: Nancy Pelosi hopes to appease the progressive wing of her caucus by sending her most vulnerable members unarmed into the Somme.

The National Review asserts that pushing for the Leftist pork package would put vulnerable Democrats in a position where they will vote for a bill in the House that will fail in the Senate and will provide talking points for Republican challengers in November. We can all hope so. Current polling doesn’t seem to support that assertion.

Conservatives are forgetting the infighting that happens among Republicans whenever they get power. If history is any indication of the future, Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated that they are incapable of governing with a consistent vision and unity of effort — other than to lose gracefully and “go along to get along.” Republicans usually get along with Democrats better than they do with each other!!! Recall that throughout Trump’s presidency that Quisling Republicans devolved into pro-Trump, never-Trump, RINO, and other non-cooperative tribes. Imagine how much good Trump’s policies might have done if his own party hadn’t worked against him so hard! Also remember the infighting caused by the Tea Party. Initially the Tea Party was a refreshing and healthy push for fiscal responsibility within the government. Then other Republicans, the Left, and the media were allowed to re-define the Tea Party as… something else. The concepts of fiscal responsibility that the Tea Party championed are long dead.

A recent NBC News poll showed that the Democrats are out of step with the country.

Biden’s approval rating in the NBC News poll dived underwater for the first time in his presidency. The poll conducted Oct. 23-26 found that 42% of U.S. adults approved of Biden’s job performance — a 7-point drop from August — while 54% disapproved. This is a near reversal from April’s poll that showed 53% approval and 39% disapproval.

Other polls show that the Majority of Americans think that Biden is not mentally sharp and that Democrat policies are unpopular. Interestingly, the polls show that those with college educations are more likely to approve of Biden and the Democrats than those without. (Take some time to explore the graphs here.) That goes to show the effectiveness of the brainwashing in our colleges and universities. Send more kids to trade schools instead of the indoctrination camps.

Republicans should be working right now on the new “covenant with America” if they gain control. This should be part of their unified, coordinated campaign strategy for the next few elections. Republicans are going to need to figure out what they stand for and how they plan to govern. Platitudes are useless. Specific policies and objectives matter.

There is an old saying that “Republicans like big government; Democrats like bigger government.” I think that’s true. Maybe this time, Republicans will work toward smaller government, not just slower growth in government.

Milton Friedman said that he believed that most government should be pushed as close to taxpayers as possible so that they can a) decide if they are getting their money’s worth and b) influence policies they don’t like. I, for one, would like to see huge and real cuts in federal spending with the resultant decentralization down to the states where most power belongs under the 10^th Amendment.

I would love to see the Department of Education abolished and push control of education to local districts and school boards. There is no legitimate role for the federal government in local education. Since the creation of the DepEd, the US pumps more money into schools than any country in the world, yet our educational outcomes are consistently in the bottom of the middle third in the industrialized world. Stop the political indoctrination and focus on real skills like reading, composition, math, science, civics, and history. Stop paying for a woke bureaucracy full of nameless Vogons who hate America!

I would love to see President Trump part with some of his cash to form organizations to help get conservatives on school boards. I would like to see political sycophants who are cosplaying as general officers relieved. We don’t need a bigger military; we need a military focused on readiness and warfighting, not pandering to the woke and hunting for “white rage.” I would like to see the borders closed off, illegal immigrants deported, and those who paid to help them across the border prosecuted. Critical Race Theory needs to be exposed for what it is, by all of its many euphemisms. The government should get out of the business of backing student loans. We need a REAL infrastructure bill that builds and improves infrastructure, not Leftist causes. We need to dismantle the secret police and return the Department of Injustice and FBI into law enforcement organizations. The Intelligence Community needs to be scoured for political hacks and those who think they are smarter than the American people they are supposed to serve. Those involved in abuse of power must be destroyed. Instead of defunding the police, we should defund most of the federal government and return that money to taxpayers. We should certainly defund the FBI until they stop behaving like the brown shirts. We need to become energy independent again and rebuild our economy strong instead of “Biden better.”

All federal support of colleges and universities — direct or indirect — should be eliminated. These bastions of anti-American values must either stand on their own or perish. Federal tax dollars should not be used to shore them up. We need to either retreat into isolationism or prove to our allies that we are good friends and prove to our enemies we are strong. PBS and NPR should be defunded at the federal level. Americans are the most generous people on the planet. These institutions must demonstrate that people should invest their earnings in them rather than having their earnings forcefully extracted to support institutions they don’t value.

We need to restore trust in once-apolitical organizations that have been perverted in the last few years. In the not-too-distant past, one could look to the NIH, CDC, GAO, FBI, NIST, and NSF as purveyors of facts and analysis. Even the American Medical Association has succumbed to wokeness. Recent events, particularly the Plague Panic, have exposed these organizations to be political activist groups funded by taxpayer dollars. That must END, or they should be abolished. Taxpayers should never be forced to pay for institutions that work against them.

Politicians and woke TechTyrants who advocate for censorship must be destroyed.

I would like to see the Federal budget cut in half. Like after WWII, we need to drastically reduce the number of committees and staffers in Congress. We need to create a climate in which legislation from the bench is discouraged vehemently. We need to radically reduce the number of regulatory agencies which are shadow (and unaccountable) legislators.

We need to return to being a nation of laws for all Americans; “rules for thee but not for me” must be ruthlessly exposed and exorcised. Congressmen and the wealthy must be held to the same standards as the “deplorables.” While I was not a fan of Trump, the man, in general we need to return to Trump, the pro-America policies.

Republicans have a chance to transform a government of the few, by the elitists, for the woke back into a government of the people, by the people, and for all the people. I don’t think Republicans, being politicians, are any more willing to do that than the Democrats. Power is seductive. In the past they have been only slightly less awful than Democrats. So, the question in my mind is whether the Republicans will create a plan for governing and play on the same team (for a change) for the benefit of AMERICA or merely take advantage of this temporary situation to further feather their own nests. While I predict the latter, I hope for the former. Gloating must be turned into governing wisely with strong moral integrity, focus on America first, and fiscal conservatism. Conservatives must ignore minor differences and work together to save the nation.

 

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