{"id":1034224,"date":"2021-11-19T21:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1034224"},"modified":"2021-11-19T21:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:28:51","slug":"charles-hurt-republican-establishment-playing-to-lose-failing-to-learn-from-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-hurt-republican-establishment-playing-to-lose-failing-to-learn-from-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Hurt: Republican Establishment Playing to Lose, Failing to Learn from Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcharles-hurt-republican-establishment-playing-to-lose-failing-to-learn-from-past%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1034224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kevin-McCarthy-behind-Mitch-McConnell-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">DENVER \u2014 Republicans in&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;are positively giddy over all the new polls showing President&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;tanking the&nbsp;Democratic Party&nbsp;ahead of next year\u2019s midterms. Indeed, Mr.&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;is making history.<\/p>\n<p>For a guy who got elected on a single pledge to not send Mean Tweets, Mr.&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;has managed to burn through an astonishing reserve of goodwill in a very short period of time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>All&nbsp;he&nbsp;had to do? Be nice. And don\u2019t touch anything.<\/p>\n<p>After 50 years in&nbsp;Washington, the guy was at the very least a known quantity. Sure, people rolled their eyes when&nbsp;he&nbsp;strolled into a room. They plugged their ears when&nbsp;he&nbsp;droned on and on. They smacked&nbsp;him&nbsp;gently away when&nbsp;he&nbsp;groped children and sniffed your hair. Everyone, of course, knew&nbsp;he&nbsp;made up stories.<\/p>\n<p>But, still, people didn\u2019t really hate&nbsp;Joe Biden.&nbsp;He&nbsp;was old, White, and harmless, which is the whole reason President Barack Obama picked him to be his vice president in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, somehow, bumbling&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;has managed to become the most unpopular president since the invention of the telephone. And that\u2019s even as the media is still protecting&nbsp;him!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Joe Biden&nbsp;has screwed things up so bad that somebody had to come out with a new bumper sticker. \u201cMean Tweets 2024.\u201d At this point, Mean Tweets would win.<\/p>\n<p>And you think a 36% approval rating is bad? You just wait until people find out about what&nbsp;his&nbsp;children are up to. Anybody who says that number cannot get any worse, just watch.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Republicans in&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;are buoyant over their prospects for next November, especially considering the narrowest of margins by which Democrats control both chambers of Congress. Republicans are sure to win the House and are on track to win the Senate despite facing one of the worst electoral maps in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>It is entirely possible that given the much easier map of seats that are up in the election after 2022, Republicans could be looking at a near super-majority in the Senate by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>And Mean Tweets in the White House.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>But there is troubling news \u2014 at least for Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>Republican politicians in&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;are so bullish about their own future that already they are lining up for a \u201cplay it safe\u201d campaign for the next couple of years. Don\u2019t say anything. Don\u2019t cause any problems. Stay real quiet and let&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;sink&nbsp;his&nbsp;party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>After all, Democrats always do far more to help Republican politicians than actual Republican politicians ever do. That is why we got Donald Trump in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>What made Donald Trump such an unstoppable political juggernaut is that before he beat the Democrats, he beat Republicans. Beat them like a rented mule.<\/p>\n<p>Surveying Republicans in Congress today, it is hard to see what exactly Republicans stand for \u2014 other than just not being the&nbsp;party&nbsp;of&nbsp;Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the Senate, for instance, 19 Republicans voted for Mr.&nbsp;Biden\u2019s insane $1.2 trillion \u201cinfrastructure\u201d bill, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. In the House, 13 Republicans joined Democrats to pass the boondoggle, explode inflation and give Mr.&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;a huge political win.<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that Republican leaders in Congress do not have a vivid alternative vision for the country that would keep their caucus together on such an important matter as the largest non-infrastructure \u201cinfrastructure\u201d spending bill in history?<\/p>\n<p>Simple. Republicans are not playing to win. They are simply playing not to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Which always means the same thing: They win. You lose.<\/p>\n<p>The only solution for Republican voters is to bring back Trump. Or maybe somebody even more destructive. More profane.<\/p>\n<p>There is only one campaign Republican leaders in&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;should be running over the next three years. It\u2019s not why we should vote for Republicans over&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;and&nbsp;his&nbsp;party of lunatics. Democrats make that case well enough on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans need to convince voters why we should vote for them \u2014 over Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Mean Tweets 2024!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at the Washington Times.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Republicans in\u00a0Washington\u00a0are positively giddy over all the new polls showing President\u00a0Biden\u00a0tanking the\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0ahead of next year\u2019s midterms. Indeed, Mr.\u00a0Biden\u00a0is making history. For a guy who got elected on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}