Acceptance is the first step.
- If we accept or acknowledge the RNC and DNC are private corporations, existing like all other corporations to the fulfilment of their for-profit charter, to make money; and
- If we accept or acknowledge their business model is structured around people and businesses giving them money; and
- If we accept or acknowledge that in the process of raising money their interests may or may not align with the goal of those contributing to the business; and
- If we accept the history that Mitch McConnell and the RNC worked purposefully to remove the influence of the Tea Party; then
- This factually accurate statement from Steve Deace takes on a new meaning:
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[…] “the GOP (club) would rather lose to Democrats than lose control of the [club] to it’s base.” Electability boils down to the right kind of approved candidate.
That is an accurate context for this midterm election cycle. Factually, the income stream for the RNC improves if they have the ability to campaign against the opposition club. The larger the outrage, the more substantial the fundraising. The corporation makes more money in defeat, or in the minority, than it does when it wins or holds majorities.
As a result, there is a disconnect between the financial incentive of the corporation and the expressed intent of the corporation. When the RNC club wins, they have a more difficult time raising money, because people who previously contributed are now looking for results.
Combine that business model reality, with the accurate statement from Steve Deace about the club perspective of MAGA, and you begin to see the weird dynamic that surfaced in Georgia in the first week of January 2021. Did the club want to win the two senate races? Or was the club content to let deflated Trump voters see a lackluster club response to the 2020 election issues in Georgia, a frustration which led to wins by the opposition?
The same dynamic is established now. Senator Mitch McConnell and the GOP club corporate donors are not happy with the unapproved candidates winning many of the 2022 primary contests. They are not hiding their disdain, nor are they hiding their shift in midterm expectations as a result of their desire to see the unapproved republican candidates defeated.
However, there is a more looming scenario that we have been discussing.
As we have seen from their non-response to the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the GOP club would not be disappointed to see the DOJ take down Donald Trump prior to the midterm elections.
In a national version of the Georgia result, there would likely be widespread voter anger and frustration, if the DOJ indict President Trump and the republican leadership pull the Ron DeSantis routine and stay hidden and silent.
The GOP gets rid of the issue of Donald Trump, and a 25% drop in MAGA voter turnout – the result of anger and disenfranchisement – leads to overwhelming victories for Democrats in the midterms. The result, both Donald Trump and MAGA are essentially removed from the RNC/GOP structure. Nothing would make that group happier than to return to the status quo of controlled and approved party candidates. [Insert Ron DeSantis here]
In the biggest of big pictures, the important issues for the club to control surround trade, finance and economic policy. There are trillions at stake. The multinationals and Wall Street in general would both benefit from the elimination of a political movement based on America-First national economic policy (ie. Main Street USA).
The common bond amid all of the diversity within the Trump coalition is the working-class economic connection. No other republican politician of significance has any national economic outlook unfavorable to the multinational corporations who finance the club priority. The only economic nationalist in the republican party is Donald Trump. Remove him and the America-First policy is removed with him.
Let us also not be naïve or intellectually dishonest with each other. The decision on whether to indict or not indict Donald Trump is going to be made by Democrats and Republicans alike. Personally, I worry that decision has already been made, sometime around early June when the DOJ first inspected the documents at Mar-a-Lago, as part of a larger collaborative midterm strategy, noted above.
The picture would essentially be, have the DOJ remove Donald Trump; have the republican leadership do nothing except express faux outrage at the outcome; and then watch as a blue wave midterm election benefits both Democrat and Republican clubs.
Democrats advance their radical agenda, republicans gnash their teeth and fundraise off the radical agenda, and the 2024 presidential candidates pull out the fainting couches, gasp in horror, bewilderment and outrage over the events, while reminding the republican base that supporting law enforcement, and following the constitution, means sitting quietly and voting harder…
Show up personally to vote, vote with everyone you can find able to, and show up enmass. that is the only way to possibly beat the machines in the midterms. Meanwhile we must all work to get rid of those machines before the next election somehow. Write your Legislatures, corner your County Clerks and get in their face with your concerns. Its that or just set back, watch TV and let China take over cause that is where this is going. And the people in charge right now have no clue they will be the first on the chopping block when that happens.
Correct.
Do not early vote.
Do not absentee vote.
Vote on Election Day.
In other words, the Uniparty has zero interest in representing the will of the people or doing the people’s work. They seek to amass and maintain ever-more raw power and personal wealth. They view the people as subordinate to them and their desires. They view the constitution and our laws as things to openly corrupt as they pursue personal ambitions. That’s naked tyranny.
I have made a Libre Office presentation based on the information given here. I am hoping that I can present it at the next local Republican meeting.
for me … this nation is toast … so my prayers to the “CREATOR” is this … the ship is sinking … don’t bother saving it for any reason … our ‘collective’ sins as a nation have gotten us to this point … let it burn to the ground … don’t even bother “FATHER” … we don’t deserve it … ( just start with d.c. as a large and smoldering hole and work out to the major cities first … )
So, let me see if I have this right.
SD says that Trump will be indicted before the mid terms and commie party #2 will win seats in House and Senate. With Trump indicted, and tried in a DC court, we know he will be found guilty. That will eliminate him from being on the Commie party #1 ticket in 2024. SD is doing a good job of destroying DeSantis because he knows DeSantis is a threat to Trump and is being chosen by the commie club #1. But since Trump is being taken care of by both commie parties, how is DeSantis a threat to Trump? Since SD says the club chooses our candidates, what makes SD think the club is going to choose a MAGA candidate? If not Trump or DeSantis, who does SD approve of that will be allowed to be our candidate chosen by the club?
I want Trump restored to his rightful place in the WH. If he is not on the ticket, I do not vote. But, how can he be on the club’s ticket when they don’t want him and they choose the candidate? So, again, who do we support that they choose?
How do we choose the candidate?
Someone please answer this for me.
First, focus on ignoring McConnell and ignoring the defeatists and vote all-GOP on your November ballots to win back the House and Senate majorities. It’s up to us to make that happen. It’s the only way we have a chance of stabilizing Congress in advance of the 2024 election.
Don’t worry about a Trump indictment until it happens (if it ever does).
Write in a name.
Thanks.
Thanks.
You may have missed your opportunity already. Did you vote for the MAGA candidate in your state’s primary?
Once again, you may be forced to hold your nose and pull the lever for someone who won’t represent your values. MAGA needs to keep winning primaries and generals until they get the message.
If you donate to candidates, make sure you know if the ‘service,’ takes a cut for McConnell’s club. If they do, portions of your donation may be used against your preferred candidate and in favor of a club-endorsed candidate. It happens a lot.
Contact the campaign to see if there’s a way to give directly without the RNC getting a cut. Lyin Liz Chaney got money from Kevin McCarthy, even after Wyo Republicans censured her.
I am more optimistic. The more they do to Trump the stronger and more focused we get.
Make sure you vote in November. Vote all-GOP to win back the House and Senate majorities. Do not let the Dems continue to have control of Congress leading into the 2024 Presidential election.
Become precinct committee people looks to be the path of taking over the RNC and making it do what we, the majority, want.
Yes they’ve already won the state of GA… who do you support? Kemp or Abrahms?
I don’t like either one of them, but Abrams would be far more destructive than Kemp. She would be vindictive and work to make the lives of Republicans as bad as she can.
Kemp facilitated the cheat. If I were GA resident, I’d have a LOT of trouble pulling the lever for him… Id be curious what Sundance thinks…
You are correct. I’ll vote for Kemp but it will make me physically ill.
This whole thing is extremely complicated.
Aspiring to understand domestic politics on its own terms is no longer sufficient. Trying to frame partisan motivations in terms of mere fundraising is woefully inadequate. We are now at the point where a genuine understanding of domestic politics must be geopolitical at its base. Nothing less will suffice, as indicated by this post a few days back. What we are seeing is the culmination of a European colonial system of empire, some 500 years old, making a final attempt to retain its colonies and remain in power into perpetuity. A full spectrum grasp of that entire history is necessary to properly understand current world events, and America’s place in those events, even on a domestic and local scale — a daunting task, to which very few of us are up.
Further complicating matters, it would seem President Trump is among those not up to that task. He had good intentions to be sure, but it is now obvious he came at it with what amounted to a world view from the 90’s, largely neocon in its proclivities. And he was totally unprepared, as were all of us, for an attack like Covid that had been in development right under everyone’s nose for the last 20 years, and would be so again. I could go on, but this is essentially to say that we probably don’t have any single person in America right now capable of pushing back against the empire at the level of full spectrum geopolitics needed to have immediate effect.
And this is also not to say that his presidency was for naught, nor that he may not still be able to do good. But it won’t be President Trump who messianically makes America great again. That’s going to take all of us thinking globally and acting locally, as the bromide goes. But for that to work, we all need to seriously upgrade the “think globally” part.
And for any tempted to lash out with cult-like zeal against perceived blasphemy — as there seems to be quite a bit of here lately — remember, I’m just trying to “discuss uncomfortable truths”, and “accept things as they are, and not as we would wish them to be”.
Because that’s what we do here.
Right?
Great post, and in a similar vein to my posts here. We need a political movement and not a cult of personality. Trump is like Horatius at the bridge; he was able to hold off the invading Etruscans for awhile, but even Horatius was wounded and had to retire from the field (and Rome was captured).
By the way, do you read N.S. Lyons’s Substack, The Upheaval?
No. I’m doing good if I have a few minutes a day to read here.
I agree that the whole thing is complicated. But I disagree that you are discussing “uncomfortable truths”. You are discussing your point of view when you say that President Trump was a neocon with a 90’s view. He pushed for peace in the middle east, withdrew troops from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. He was not for an American empire as Biden and Obama and the neocons wanted and still want. Despite pressure, he worked to keep peace in the world all 4 years and to get us out of potentially damaging alliances like the Paris Accord, NAFTA, and TPP. He pushed European countries to spend more on their own defense instead of relying on the US to pay for NATO. He warned Germany that reliance on Russian oil would have consequences. He made universities tell how much they were receiving from China. He was our greatest success in geopolitics of benefit to Americans, American jobs, American economics, and our status in the world.
Of course he was unprepared for Covid. But he almost immediately closed the borders of the US to China. He used his emergency powers to get companies to produce PPE, ventilators, hospital equipment, etc. to get what the US had on hand to the states. He sent a hospital ship to New York. He set up a Covid taskforce, consulted with pharmaceutical companies, with whatever experts were at hand. He put Pence in charge of the effort against Covid. He got a Covid relief bill through to help people in various ways. Too bad that the Democrats added so much pork to it.
He gave us a stable economy, enlarged the military, set up Space Force, got military funding for equipment, gave us cheap gas, low unemployment, and economic growth. He made trade deals that helped farmers, helped consumers, lowered the cost of needed drugs without constantly spending money. He improved veterans benefits, set up opportunity zones in cities, closed the borders of the US to illegal immigration and encouraged legal immigration.
He took on the multinational corporations and made unilateral agreements that helped Americans.
Think globally? No. We should first think locally. Think of what would improve the US for Americans and US wellbeing. Not what would improve the US globally.
Everyone is entitled to their point of view, but I am not going to ignore the holes in your argument and stay silent.
Fair enough. As to his neocon proclivities, I would say look no further than the non-Senate-confirmed national security staff with whom he surrounded himself after the Flynn intrugue, and the resulting policies, vis-a-vis Iran especially. These were at best unforced errors, but more likely an indication of his base-line world view.
As to all the rest of it, I would reiterate from my OP that none of what I said was to suggest that his presidency was for naught, nor that he could not still do good. It was to suggest that he, as president, was and is not up to the task of solving the seemingly intractible problem of colonial empire that faces us here in the West. No one person is, that I’m aware of. That’s my point. Sure, all the accomplishments of his administion you pointed out were good, but at the risk of contradicting myself, it was all for naught in the sense they were entirely undone by the coup d’etat of 11/3. It was not for naught in the sense that we all, thanks to President Trump, now have a much better view of the intractibleness of the problem, a problem which can only be understood, and ultimately confronted, with a much better global perspective, a perspective better than even what President Trump had going into this.
If we are not to pursue a global perspective and merely act locally as you suggest, then there is no need to visit sites like this. Turn off all media and go tend your victory garden. Which, by the way, is a good thing. It just won’t be enough. We managed to successfully push back against the Covid Great Reset agenda because a critical mass of people became aware of the global fraud and the power grab to effectively, and locally, say NO. If the Western problem of empire is ultimately to be overcome, a similar critical mass of people must become similarly aware. And that, in my opinion, can only happen with a much better global perspective than we have now. It’s no longer enough to think of domestic politics without a global perspective. That’s not how the world we live in works.
I think that we’ve probably suspected this for a while and now it’s time to be sure that it doesn’t happen. This is our country and if we don’t fight for it no one else will. Do you honestly want to live in a society that the current illegal admin is trying to set up? Neither do I. So this means that we fight with everything we have, no letting up, and always staying on top of all issues.
I hate Karl Rove…truly can not stand him.
First get rid of every election machine, next vote in candidates that demonstrate an America first thot process. Test every single candidate with one question: if you are elected will you promise to vote against McConnell as Senate leader and McCarthy in the house. If you don’t promise to do that you are not a true America first candidate.
So isn’t the takeaway from all this is that there is really no point continuing to keep voting for GOP because Dems are so bad? Since I started paying attention growing up in the 90’s and 00’s, we’ve had congress and president alternate between parties and the only consistent thing is less liberty and more intrusive Government.
President Trump in 2016 campaigned on the best ideas we had had in probably at least a century, and which would been extremely popular and beneficial if congress had supported and enacted them. Instead all we got from the GOP congress was a lousy tax cut. Why would things turn out any different if we somehow get Trump back in 2024? If the uniparty was a roadblock then, they’ll be even worse a second time.
The whole system has been so badly corrupted it no longer resembles anything the founders envisioned or put into the Constitution. We need to destroy the current system and start fresh, not try to repair the dead, and rotted tree. States are supposed to be sovereign entities, so how about getting them to act like it and tell the feds to pound sand. Case in point with DeSantis and the FBI raid. Instead of going awol and putting out a weak tweet, how about kicking the FBI out of Florida and resisting them when they try breaking Constitutional rights?
Finally, here is a quote from Thomas Jefferson who said it best: “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
Atlanta here. We simply did not want to use the Dominion machines.
Throw them all into the bottom of the sea.
Paper Ballots 2022 and 2024!
I fear that you are correct, Sir.
Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots
https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/
N.J. election 2021: N.J. governor race still too close to call. Murphy, Ciattarelli waiting for all votes to be counted.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/11/nj-election-2021-nj-governor-race-still-too-close-to-call-murphy-ciattarelli-waiting-for-all-votes-to-be-counted.html
I’ve had enough of Karl Rove and his white board.
#HumptyDumpty
I had the same feeling but watched anyway.
He made some good points but dissed the primary winners.
He should have praised their success of a good campaign.
But Karl and McTurtle have exposed the GOPe mindset…
Vote for our people or we will help Democrats get elected!