Exasperated. Disgusted. Flummoxed. Enraged. These are just a few of the words that describe my reaction to the surrender-class in the GOP. Nothing sickens me more, frankly, because these people don’t want to win. They’d prefer to keep on losing. They’re fine with election theft, so long as the phrase never publicly crosses their lips. It’s as though they believe, childlike in their naïveté, that by simply refusing to name the enemy, the enemy will magically disappear. For a long while, I thought they were earnest, but as evidence is disclosed, and as more information becomes too obvious to ignore, they choose not to see it, know it, or at the very least, simply acknowledge it. You see, it’s the political version of the silly attempt to ignore a bully. In all my life, I’ve yet to meet a single bully you can ignore into reformation or surrender. Instead, the bully simply sees your inaction and your feigned lack of attention as an invitation to attack you all the more viciously. The only way to overcome a bully is to beat his or her ass into submission. Only this offers any chance that they’ll self-reform. Only this offers a long-term peace as a possible outcome. Foolishly, as we reckon with the fact that the bullies we face at home are our most lethal enemy, it’s as though some among our number think that softly-worded, evasive tweets will get it done. This is leading us to an unavoidable reckoning in the GOP, but we must be ready for this internecine conflict. We cannot defeat our enemies abroad until we defeat our enemies at home, and we cannot defeat our enemies at home until we confront their collaborators in our own party. We will not find victory over them until we can summon the courage to openly speak the truth. It’s time to have this fight, if it’s not too late already.
I like Kurt Schlicter a good deal. He writes some very intelligent things, and at times, I find myself very much in accord with his thinking, but on Wednesday, his Tweeting rubbed me raw, and I responded to him in what I’d ordinarily consider an unnecessarily profane way. It was his assertion that Trump had lost in 2020, whether it was stolen or not, because Biden occupies the White House:
Oh, is he in the Oval Office. Because that's the test. https://t.co/S4PzrQbOrZ
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 22, 2023
I hear and read people who speak of this as pragmatism. It isn’t. It’s surrender-justifying, conflict-avoidance twaddle. When a car-jacker catches me off-guard and unprepared, relieving me of my vehicle, according to Schlicter’s logic, I no longer own a car, effectively. The facts of the law don’t matter. Justice doesn’t matter. I am now car-less, and I should now accept this fate, particularly if the car-jacker can somehow manage to go down to the DMV and collaborate with workers there to re-register the car fraudulently in his name. Perhaps he thinks I should continue to make the payments. Perhaps he thinks I should just walk away. I can’t understand this sort of thinking. I can’t fathom how one advises the American people to simply accept the election theft of 2020, and 2022, and probably 2018 too. Why? On what basis does one believe that the election of 2024 won’t be stolen? Because you hadn’t named it? The words hadn’t crossed your lips? This is absurd thinking, but as much as I like Schlicter, here he’s leapfrogged several bridges too far. Even could I join him in his mindset, it would offer me only a short respite until the next inevitable set of election crimes are consummated in 2024.
I’m not suggesting Schlicter is a bad guy. I don’t believe that at all. He’s no RINO. He’s no coward. I believe if it came down to it, he’d fight to the death for this country. It’s just that in this false normalcy, we’re all a bit squishy. As mentioned above, I tend to agree with him on a wide range of issues, but this is where I fall away. You see, in my view, based on his own statements on Twitter and elsewhere(townhall.com,) Schlicter is clear that he thinks that there had been excessive shenanigans in 2020. Translation: They stole it and he knows it.
The problem lies in the evasive weasel-wording used to convey this message. Worse, in my view, is the fait accompli acceptance of the crime. It’s as though Kurt is telling us that we should simply accept that a wide-ranging conspiracy or coordinated conspiracies to commit treason against the United States must be accepted. Even if the venues in which such crimes could be proven have been closed-off to us, because the legal gatekeepers and the media praetorian guards are part of the conspiracy, we must ultimately accept it, by his logic. After all, Biden is in the White House, right? This relates directly to what I posted on Wednesday: We’re already overrun. The enemy is here, amongst us, and I’ll tell you why we’re intent upon all of this soft-selling:
We’re cowards. All of us. We deserve the catastrophe we’re now experiencing. Not me, nor any of my readers, nor any I know are willing to step forward and put everything on the line. The whole thing has been rigged, and we know that justice is being used against us just like it’s being used against the legitimate protestors of January 6th, or the parents who’ve spoken out at school board meetings. We’ve seen it coming incrementally for three generations, and most of us remained silent, going on with our lives in a form of sleep-walking. This is what a communist takeover looks like it, and the only thing to stop it now will be us, summoning our courage, starting with public statements of the unabashed truth:
We are being governed by treasonous criminals who disguised a coup d’etat as an election, or a series of them. The people arrayed against us function precisely like a Mafia, and the bulk of the administrative state has been converted to equally corrupt adjuncts to that operation. The media is part of it. Hollywood is part of it. Our entire education system has been co-opted and is now another appendage of this monster. We are being governed by a foreign cabal, not all necessarily foreign by birth, but certainly in values and aculturation. This is why the Bidens travel to Ukraine and to Africa as Americans live under a spreading fog of dangerous chemicals from Eastern Ohio to the Atlantic. The people who govern us have more in common with the CEO of Norfolk Southern, and clearly, he’s not too worried about it.
I don’t blame Kurt Schlicter for saying things about Trump and the stolen election in the way that he has. He’s taking the path least likely to get him cancelled, mocked, or ridiculed(or worse.) Hell, Dan Bongino isn’t willing to say too much more, despite being the most gutsy guy in media. I don’t blame those who think they can somehow win in 2024 with somebody other than Trump, but for the fatal flaw in their reasoning. I’m going to say this now, and say it clearly, so that all of the nominally Republican and conservative folk, and all those inclined to poll with them can understand:
You must begin to call out the truth you know, but have been afraid to say, or you will never win the White House again in any of our lifetimes. Donald Trump is the only Republican who can win in 2024. Why?
In the end, he’s the only one willing to unashamedly declare that which should be painfully obvious to every sane and honest person who observed the elections of 2020. If Trump can’t find a way to win, none of them will. Donald Trump was the only candidate in 2016 willing to tell you all the painful truths you did not want to hear, not merely about the Democrats, but about your own party. You won’t save the nation by lying, or by ducking the truth. It’s no different than the fools who argue against communism by saying “well, a little socialism is okay.” It’s like the Republicans who pretend we can out-Democrat the Democrats.
Be of good cheer, but tell the unvarnished truth. All of it.
Let me start: Trump won! Biden is illegitimate. The enemy is here, more and more openly among us.
Say it! Mock people who will not admit it. Scorn people who deny it.