{"id":1602397,"date":"2022-08-12T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1602397"},"modified":"2022-08-12T07:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:18:52","slug":"will-alexander-the-republican-status-quo-is-officially-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-alexander-the-republican-status-quo-is-officially-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Alexander: The Republican Status Quo is Officially Dead"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwill-alexander-the-republican-status-quo-is-officially-dead%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=1602397&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Years ago, I heard that Romans punished murderers by forcing them to carry the corpse of their victims on their backs for as long as it took for them to become infected and die. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">True or not, that\u2019s the picture I get with Republicans like Bill Barr, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell and many others who are so determined to cling to the party\u2019s old ways while cultural and political earthquakes are threatening to destroy America as we know it. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When Trump came along as a no-nonsense outsider with a passion for winning \u201cbig league,\u201d political curmudgeons were so enslaved to the status quo \u2013 how presidents should look, speak, and act \u2013 that they were completely blinded to his unusual virtues. \u00a0Unable to adapt, they fixated on his unorthodox style as an intolerable vice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTrump was born for the current American crisis: the life-and-death struggle against the totalitarian enemy I call \u2018woke communism,\u201d said Thomas Klingenstein, Claremont Institute chairman, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=Trump%27s+virtues&#038;view=detail&#038;mid=77323BDD0E5F61C8770B77323BDD0E5F61C8770B&#038;FORM=VIREhttps:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=Trump%27s+virtues&#038;view=detail&#038;mid=77323BDD0E5F61C8770B77323BDD0E5F61C8770B&#038;FORM=VIREhttps:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=Trump%27s+virtues&#038;view=detail&#038;mid=77323BDD0E5F61C8770B77323BDD0E5F61C8770B&#038;FORM=VIRE\">speech<\/a>, Trump\u2019s Virtues. \u201cThe \u2018woke comms\u2019 have seized every political, cultural, and economic center of power in the country from where they ruthlessly push their agenda. \u00a0That agenda rests on the conviction that America is thoroughly bad (systemically racist) and must be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To beat back the crazies and tear down the stuff they were building, America needed a blunt object, not a precision tool. \u00a0For voters, it was a no-brainer. \u00a0So they picked the guy with the bat, axe, and sludge hammer over those carrying shiny scalpels and tweezers that broke when things got tough. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But instead of getting behind the man who voters picked, status quo Republicans quietly seethed, not only against Trump, but his voters. \u00a0Rather than adjusting to the hard truths of the times, they wished for former days, budgeted for more tweezers, then waited for Trump to fail.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He didn\u2019t. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the face of psychotic Democrat opposition, Trump became one of the most effective presidents in American history. \u00a0He fixed the borders, achieved energy independence, moved Israel\u2019s embassy to Jerusalem, normalized relations between Arab countries, and fought loudly and unapologetically against anti-American critical race theory. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He \u201csmoked the rats out of hiding places,\u201d as Klingenstein put it, and distrusted the \u201cexperts\u201d who made a \u201cdespotic mess\u201d of America. \u00a0He called Haiti a \u201csh*thole\u201d and said Maxine Waters has a low IQ \u2013 two comments that were \u201cuncouth \u2026 that most people agree with\u201d but dare not say. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTrump is a manly man,\u201d said Klingenstein. \u00a0\u201cIn the present times, when manhood is being stripped of its masculinity, traditional manhood, even when flawed, has much appeal. \u2026 Trump ripped apart people he thought were weak. \u00a0Sometimes he went overboard, but his supporters forgave his excesses because it is in such short supply. \u00a0\u2026 Courage never demands perfection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But tweezer Republicans couldn\u2019t overlook his unorthodox style. Although he proved to be as conservative as Reagan, they still hated him. \u00a0Quietly. \u00a0Their political timidity demanded perfection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So like liberals and leftists, these Republicans still refuse to come to terms with the fact that Trump\u2019s agenda and no-nonsense style is now the life force of the Republican party. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Seething with contempt, they stubbornly cling to a dead Republican modus operandi that believes you can coast along until the next election while cuddling up to psychotic Democrats without dying from political gangrene. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As it looked like Trump\u2019s running in 2024, Republicans like Barr and Cheney have joined the party to prevent his re-election. \u00a0They want others to see him as the voodoo doll that political psychopaths portray him to be \u2013 a crazy, racist, homophobic, con man who can\u2019t discipline himself long enough to stop yelling \u201cfire\u201d in crowded theaters. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The problem? \u00a0The fire is real. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After legitimizing the Jan. 6 federal grand jury subpoenas of Trump top officials as \u201ca significant event,\u201d a nostalgic Barr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-barr-jan-6-grand-jury-donald-trump\/\">told<\/a> CBS reporter Catherine Herridge that, thanks to the excesses of progressive Democrats, 2024 could be like Reagan\u2019s 1980 election that clinched three terms for Republicans. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAnd I think we could do that again and really achieve a decisive victory with the right candidate, but I don\u2019t think he [Trump] should be that candidate,\u201d said Barr. \u00a0\u201cThe day he\u2019s elected, he\u2019ll be a 78-year-old lame duck who is obviously bent on revenge more than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump was right about Barr: \u201cThey \u2018broke\u2019 him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dick Cheney also barfed up years of contempt for Trump, shoving it all in the first few seconds of a political ad for his daughter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn our nation\u2019s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,\u201d he grumbled. \u00a0\u201cHe tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. \u00a0He is a coward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s only one word to explain such an asinine statement: Hate. We get it, Cheney. \u00a0Please, go back to bed \u2026 and thanks for your service, sir. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When the FBI raided Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, a seismic event that trumped all \u201cdump Trump\u201d schemes combined, a few strong Republicans spoke with the clarity the moment deserves. \u00a0But \u201cleader\u201d Mitch McConnell was slow as a turtle. \u00a0When events finally forced him to tweet, he tackled the job with a political tweezer. \u00a0Sad. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Status quo Republicans, by their own free wills, have clung to a corpse far too long. \u00a0Refusing to come to terms with America\u2019s new and very dangerous situation, they\u2019ve become good-as-dead D.C. creatures, infected from head to toe with political gangrene. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Monday\u2019s FBI raid lit a powder keg, and it\u2019s now smoldering. \u00a0That raid was Biden and his collaborators seceding from the America we\u2019ve known. \u00a0They\u2019ve shot the opening cannons on Sumter, they\u2019re out for blood and getting it \u2013 from Trump and his supporters \u2013 and foolishly, they\u2019re determined to never stop.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMake no mistake,\u201d said Klingenstein, \u201cwe are in the midst of a cold civil war. You cannot win a war unless you know you are in one. Weak men do anything to avoid admitting the hardest truths because they lack the resolve to do what truth demands from them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump supporters are behind him even more because political kleptomaniacs are burning things to the ground, all over America, and no one\u2019s stopping them. \u00a0All this hoopla about Trump has never been all about Trump \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s about the fires, stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More than ever, we need strong, courageous Republican leaders. As Klingenstein has said, \u201cTrump was born for the current American crisis.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Status quo Republicans, if you are not resolved to step up and do what the hardest truths of our day demands, then let Trump do it. \u00a0If you can\u2019t get solidly behind the man who the majority of Republicans are rooting for then, please, get out of the way!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The status quo, especially after Monday\u2019s raid, is officially dead. \u00a0There is no going back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I heard that Romans punished murderers by forcing them to carry the corpse of their victims on their backs for as long as it took for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1602587,"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-1602397","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\/1602397","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}