Posted on 02/10/2021 10:30:58 AM PST by Twotone
It's been a tough few months for conservatives, but I figure it's time we try to get clarity on where we are, why we're here, and where we might go in the future. Yes, it will sting, but what's the alternative? Somehow or other, we must find a way at least to cope with, and at most to replace at some point, what is shaping up to become the most destructive presidential regime in American history.
That it seems to essentially be a foreign sort of thing is even more devastating. As nightmarish as it is to contemplate it, the Biden presidency appears to be the proxy regime of a high-speed Asian superpower right now transforming the United States into its vassal state. It's running the same play in other countries, too.
Now, don't get me wrong: If Planet Earth's rising Asian overlords knew how to govern with decency, deftness, respect for individuals, moderation, etc., maybe that would lessen the horror of all this.
But as it happens, the governing philosophy of these people amounts to a noxious stew of plutocracy, technocracy, totalitarianism, Orwellian pig-snobbery, oligarchy, racism, amorality, corruption, crony capitalism, feudalism/serfdom, "social credit", repression, imperialist dictatorship, fascism, communism, and probably three or four other lousy things I can't think of right now.
Trump was the bulwark against this. He ran against it in 2016. As president, he imposed new tariffs. He scuttled the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, which he viewed as a sham that wouldn't do anything except weaken the United States economically while accelerating the growth of its aspiring controller.
But whatever his virtues, I suggest it is time for conservatives to fully accept the fact that Trump failed at the Power Game.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
He lost a battle. The war continues.
Since he had spent 30 years in politics, his biggest problem was that he did not bring all the hangers-on and parasites he needed to staff the Federal bureaucracy, and the fraudulent 'Russia' narrative prevented him from cleaning out the viper's nest at the FBI and DOJ.
The author is still way too respectful to the MSM, and ignores the fact that Trump's tweets were attacked constantly because his enemies knew he was right and that they electrified his base.
His biggest fault was in not realizing how dishonest and criminal his opponents were, and without being able to get control of DOJ, there was little he could do about vote fraud no matter how much he warned about it.
Had not spent 30 years ...
This is false. President Trump had significant anti-fraud processes in place.
I saw more poll watchers in more places than ever before.
He did not have a great legal team in place; however it was considerably more than nothing.
What happened is there were billions spent against his anti-fraud processes, as documented by the Time article.
They started working on the steal the day after the 2016 election. look at 2018 and the Mark Harris/Dan McCready race. Both sides were ballot harvesting yet a democrat board of elections went after Harris and it resulted in the elimination of rules concerning absentee, now called mailin, ballots. At that time Marc Elias was attorney for the NC Democrat Party. He took what he learned and hit EVERY swing state just in time for the pandemic!
For later.
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Bachman’s article is a tough read, but a perceptive and necessary one - I’m still amazed that the son of rocker from Guess Who and BTO could be so clear-headed and insightful in matters of political importance.
Given that Trump has been just about the only politician in the modern era to take on the Deep State establishment elite, it’s really tough to criticize his failings - but like many men with profound talents, he also had major defects. Some are understandable - the long list of losers Trump appointed and then flushed is sobering - but as Rush pointed out, if you’re not part of the system (and Trump was clearly outside that ‘old-boy’ network) how do you determine on short notice who’s both qualified and trustworthy to handle scores of critical appointments?
What Bachman doesn’t point out is Trump’s greatest achievement, which in my mind is making absolutely clear the fixed con game that is the moving force in this country. I’ve known for decades that the news media is made up of a bunch of worthless shills - but Trump made it clear that the same people who said questioning the legitimacy of an election is seditious are the people who spent three years pushing a baseless narrative of Russian collusion in election interference.
Similarly, my liberal colleagues in the Nixon years pontificated about all the terrible things that Dick would inspire. Like politicizing the IRS (Lois Lerner anyone?). Or siccing the FBI on political enemies (James Comey?). Or weaponizing the intelligence agencies (Clapper and Brennan?). Or corrupting the Justice Department (Rosenstein?). One could go on and on, but all those liberal concerns were just so much posturing - the elite would do anything do get rid of Trump (and the deplorable he stood in for), and all their pious liberal principles were just so much posturing if they could use them. And if one had to “fortify” an election by shenanigans in four urban counties, well those were just eggs that had to be broken for this particular omelet.
So thank you Donald Trump, despite your many failings for exposing these POS’s, at great personal cost. Hopefully, your work will be continued, more successfully in the future.
The ghost of Bush? They're nice people and need to be liked.
I'm thinking this is a constitutional weakness. As President or Congress, what might they actually do to fix the states?
“Bachman’s article is a tough read, but a perceptive and necessary one.” Amen to that statement. The left savaged Mr. Trump and schemed, lied, cheated and set up our defeat by wrecking the voting process to allow ballot harvesting, fake names on the vote rolls, piles of non-vetted mail in ballots, voting machine software updates with no vetting or oversight and hindering GOP vote watchers.
All this was predictable but the GOP party and the elected GOP politicians in place had no plan to stop this before the vote. Complaining about it later doesn’t work.
The GOP has to start now to reverse the acts that wrecked vote integrity as 2022 and 2024 must result in GOP wins or our America will be Red China’s puppy dog.
We who are conservatives must stop complaining that the GOP is weak and join our local GOP party to turn the party into a strong force to regain our land as a constitutional republic.
He placed his bets on popularity.
Pretty sure neither the GOP or Trump has got it. For the GOP there is nothing to reverse. And Trump won't right anything because popularity is not enough.
Hmmmm. Suspended interest because there is world enough time.
There’s a lot of points here that I agree with. However, this article leaves out any reference to the reality of a Uniparty, which has been pretending to be representing different ideological constituencies for many decades.
Conservatives have been getting their butts kicked, not because we’ve had incompetent representation, but because we’ve had phony representation.
“What happened is there were billions spent against his anti-fraud processes, as documented by the Time article.”
President Trump did not fail to prevent election fraud and he did not fail to expose it. He caught them red-handed stealing the election and exposed them to the world.
He followed all of the Constitutional remedies available to him, but the Executive branch is only one of three co-equal branches, and the other two branches failed to ensure a free and fair election.
It was their failure and their disgrace - not his.
I blame the Legislative branch more than the Judiciary. The Legislatures are the closest to the people - and for this reason, the Constitution gives them full authority over elections.
They sat back and let the State Governors and Secretaries of State do whatever they wanted - even after Trump lawyers laid it all out for them.
There were some last minute attempts to make things right - but it was too little too late.
“I’m still amazed that the son of rocker from Guess Who and BTO could be so clear-headed and insightful in matters of political importance.”
Very amazing.
It’s all too much about Trump. A succesful analysis toward reversal will do without him, whether he was successful or not.
Brian Mays, writer of Fat Bottomed Girls is an astrophysicist.
Well, maybe he’s over stating his case, but he’s not wrong about what seems to be his central thesis:
“And now, the weird alliance of leftist rabble and plutocrats—foreign and domestic—runs everything. They don’t just control the entire United States military, the White House, the Senate, and the House: They control the universities. They control the non-profits. They control big business. They control the public schools. They control Wall Street. They control the movie studios, most of mainstream media, the book publishing houses, and the cable companies. They control Big Tech and social media. They control the newspapers, the magazines, and the musicians. They control every, or nearly every, single institution of influence in the entire country.
And they control them all, because for years, decades, they have outplayed conservatives in a million different ways in the Power Game. ... Every conservative “victory” for the last century has amounted to nothing more than a speed bump during a relentless slide leftward toward national dissolution.
This seems to me to be an accurate assessment of the order of battle as it stands today.
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