Anonymous ID: fce71f Sept. 8, 2023, 6:34 p.m. No.19515171   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>19515167

Sorry for the long message but this is about the future of the Republican Party and our nation.

Re­pub­li­can vot­ers face an im­por­tant choice next year. It will de­ter­mine both the fate of our party and the course of our na­tion. Will we be the party of con­ser­vatism, or will we fol­low the siren song of pop­ulism un­moored to con­ser­v­a­tive prin­ci­ples?

The di­vide be­tween these two fac­tions is un­bridge­able. Con­ser­v­a­tives like me be­lieve that man’s rights come from God and na­ture, not from the state. Like our founders, we know the im­per­fect na­ture of men and women and that grant­ing them un­lim­ited power im­per­ils lib­erty. That is why we have a bril­liant sys­tem of checks and bal­ances, di­vi­sions of au­thor­ity, co­equal branches of gov­ern­ment and sov­ereign state gov­ern­ments. Con­ser­v­a­tives un­der­stand that to ad­vance an agenda on be­half of the Amer­i­can peo­ple, we must work through this sys­tem.

For decades, con­ser­vatism’s ide­o­log­i­cal ri­val has been lib­er­al­ism. The rad­i­cal left has now taken the De­mo­c­ra­tic Party into the abyss of pro­gres­sive so­cial­ism un­der the guise of the woke cli­mate agenda.

But to­day an­other strain of this ide­ol­ogy chal­lenges con­ser­vatism from within and for con­trol of the Re­pub­li­can Party.

Pop­ulist move­ments have long been part of Amer­i­ca’s pol­i­tics. They have most of­ten been led by De­moc­rats and left­ists, such as William Jen­nings Bryan, Huey Long and Bernie Sanders.

But a pop­ulist move­ment is now ris­ing in the Re­pub­li­can Party. This grow­ing fac­tion would sub­sti­tute our faith in lim­ited gov­ern­ment and tra­di­tional val­ues for an agenda stitched to­gether by per­sonal griev­ances and per­for­ma­tive out­rage.

Re­pub­li­can pop­ulists would aban­don Amer­i­can lead­er­ship on the world stage, em­brac­ing a pos­ture of ap­pease­ment in the face of ris­ing threats to free­dom.

Re­pub­li­can pop­ulists would erode our con­sti­tu­tional norms. A lead­ing can­di­date last year called for the “ter­mi­na­tion” of “all rules, reg­u­la­tions, and ar­ti­cles, even those found in the Con­sti­tu­tion,” while his im­i­ta­tors have demon­strated will­ing­ness to bran­dish gov­ern­ment power to si­lence crit­ics.

Re­pub­li­can pop­ulists would have us trade in our time-hon­ored prin­ci­ples for pass­ing pub­lic opin­ion.

That isn’t a trade I am will­ing to make. I am an un­apolo­getic con­ser­v­a­tive who be­lieves that strong na­tional de­fense, lim­ited gov­ern­ment and tra­di­tional val­ues must guide our na­tion as much to­day as they have guided our party for the past 50 years.

Should the new pop­ulism of the right seize and guide our party, the GOP as we have long known it will cease to ex­ist.

If we are to de­feat Joe Biden and turn Amer­ica around, the GOP must be the party of lim­ited gov­ern­ment, free en­ter­prise, fis­cal re­spon­si­bil­ity and tra­di­tional val­ues.

Anonymous ID: fce71f Sept. 8, 2023, 6:38 p.m. No.19515203   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>19515186

What’s really going to bake your noodle is when you think about it, what if PDJT had been president still? Mike Pence would still be the vice president as well. At least, this way, the Biden crime family is being exposed from the Oval Office!