Bush League Republicans must become extinct before the Republic does.
So when they said they didn’t want Trump because he couldn’t win, they were lying. They were really afraid he could win. All along I said we have to chase these people into the Democrat Party, so the Democrats can bleed the kind of people they routinely shove aside. Good luck making an alliance with the BLM/Antifa types. They’ll use you Never-Trumpers, but the radicals will always call the shots.
Glad to see Pat is still putting them out - Great Essay !!!
Just wondering, did you spell Pat’s last name wrong deliberately?
The left can have them - I’ll no longer share a table with these pinheads.
The New World Order of GHWB is obsolete.
Excellent article
Second, in a reflexive response to 9/11, we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, dumped over the regime in Libya, armed rebels to overthrow Bashar Assad in Syria, and backed Saudi intervention in a Yemeni civil war, creating a humanitarian crisis in that poorest of Arab countries that is exceeded in horrors only by the Syrian civil war.
The policies pushing them are almost entirely opposite.
Obama undermined Bush’s legacy in Afghanistan and Iraq, and destroyed Bush’s legacy in Libya, Yemen, and Syria.
Pat creates an inchoate mess when he tries to dump the two into the same basket of motives.
Never again will we turn to these people...
Another must read by Pat.
The first and easiest step in any revolutionary movement, and that's what this really is, is the deliberate destabilization of the status quo. It's what happens afterward that we're contemplating now. What will a Europe look like, for example, without nations and 30% Muslim? 50%? It won't be happily assimilated citizens in a welfare state tax base, that's pretty evident by now. What of a United States with no borders and whose welfare system promises plenty for all until it runs out? And then, well, then Venezuela. The elite still eat very well there, incidentally. Everyone else, not so much.
And still the drumbeat, the anthems, the lies. But the roadmap to plenty, no longer. It was never a good map in the first place.
There never was a real conflict between Democrat and Republican leadership before Trump. It was all Kabuki theater. The real conflict has been between the UniParty oligarchy and the middle class.
With Trump in the White House, the masks are coming off.
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Tribalism
What nation on earth exists without it, to some extent?
The question is, do we wish to exist or not.
If we do, whose ideals should we adopt, our own or another person’s ideals dictated to us?
I opt for the former.
Close our border for between one and two generations.
Lets get back to basics.
Thomas Jefferson's 1801 First Inaugural laid out what he considered to be the principles of his Administration. President Trump may find that Jefferson's listing agrees with most of what he ran on as a candidate.
Note the important warning contained in Jefferson's last paragraph--that if "we" strayed from those principles, the nation should return to "the only road which alone leads peace, liberty and safety."
We are just beginning that "road" back. Determination of "We, the People," combined with diligence and patience will be required against those tyrannical, cultish, totalitarian (do and say what we do and say) and oppressive "progressive" regressive paths which have led us away from the principles of Jefferson and the Framers of our Constiution of government, and backward to Old World ideas.
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
“Bush Leaque Republicans” = RATs = UniParty.
They’re ALL the same on the inside with a different facade on the outside.
The UniParty protects its own....pray for the POTUS everyday.
Great article.
The Bush era oozes out the back door...
Shaking my head...Pat certainly gets it. Great article.
> “What were the historic blunders? It was not supporting ... conservative judges and justices”
I agree with 99% of what Pat writes here but Bush I gave us Clarence Thomas and Bush II gave us Alito. However, Pat does not use the term ‘appointing’, he uses ‘supporting’ which colors it different.