The Americans stopped the coronation of the Drunken Harridan.
And more Americans voted for Donald Trump than any presidential candidate ever in history, including the current mindless occupant seated at the Resolute Desk.
And, no, the Americans aren't expecting any help from the self-proclaimed Principled Conservatives to restore America to it's glory. Principled Conservatives are neither.
It sure is interesting that when Trump criticized the R party establishment during the 2016 primaries for its ineffectiveness, and even refused to commit his support to the eventual R nominee during one of the candidate debates, he was held up by many as a visionary, transformative leader; when my friend @roamer_1 here criticizes the R party establishment, and Trump, for their ineffectiveness and refuses to commit his support to R party nominees, he is denounced as a democrat.
Trump's supporters spoke as one : they would no longer accept that failure to support the party essentially meant supporting the Ds. But by the eve of the 2016 general election they were telling the rest of us that failure to support Trump essentially meant supporting the Ds. And what do you know, we're still hearing the same argument now.
Why is it that Trump's self-glorifying pro-Trump/damn the R party stance was admirable, while roamer_1's objective pro-Conservativism/damn the R party stance isn't?
That, and stop, just
stop calling the perfidious louts "RINOs".
They are, in essence, the GOP. (Sorry,
@Cyber Liberty, I know you are personally trying to change that, and there are other exceptions, but that is where the power lies.)
It is Conservatives who are the real Republicans in Name Only, because there is no other banner for conservatives to run under without being shoved completely off to the side in the false dichotomy of the "Two-Party System".
It is the "GOP Leaders" like McConnell, McStain, Romney, Ryan, Boehner, Bushes, and so forth who have managed to pull aside the football, time after time, who have managed to fall just short enough that the Democrats have managed to keep most of the ground they gained, if not add to it during "Republican" moments of power.
But Conservative??
Only in apparent comparison to the ever Leftist-sliding Democrat (now openly Socialist/Communist) Party, is the GOP "conservative", with that tenuous position of moral relativity ever giving ground to the SJWs and special interest groups
EXCEPT those who support traditional (family) values and the Right to Life.
There are always enough of those cretins in Congress (and elsewhere) to abandon principle in favor of "bi-partisanship" to scuttle any attempt to gain conservative ground, and often to make sure the eventual agenda of those who advance ever toward totalitarianism and away from our Constitutional Republic is satisfied, in even the smallest yet ground breaking ways.
(For instance, for those who think the SCOTUS would readily rule against requiring a "vaccine" to exercise your Civil Rights, think again. The precedent is already established that you can be "taxed" for not buying health insurance. While less personally and biologically invasive than modifying your cellular chemistry with mRNA, it is not a far step that you could be penalized for not subjecting yourself to medical experimentation on a massive scale, be that penalty pecuniary or a loss of essential Civil Rights, "for the public good"--the latter phrase, one which has been stretched like taffy beyond sane limits, is much like the interstate commerce clause.)
It is these little bricks, the decisions, the failures of investigations to actually accomplish anything or hold any to account, the nibbles at the Bill of Rights, that in summation form the all too solid foundations in statute and precedent which will be used as the basis for the growing megastate, the totalitarian Global Order, and those who are supposed to be representing US are in the thick of it, representing (with rare exception) only themselves and the monied interests which ultimately they see as putting them in power, not the voters who gave that anointing a rubber stamp. And now, now with the absence of howling, shrieking and absolute hell-raising protest of the latest and most egregious election fraud/theft, the die is cast, and the voices of the voters don't mean one whit because the elections can be manipulated at will, the polls reported as whatever the made to order point spread will be (+/- 4 points) in the captive media, and all else censored by omission or deplatforming.
If that doesn't work, the powers that be have the option of (literally) coming after any or all of us for "domestic terrorism": because their goon squads can create an incident, anywhere, anytime, call 1-800 rent a
riot "mostly peaceful protest".
Frankly, I'm with
@roamer_1. In the past 4 years, the GOP failed to remove Obamacare. Failed to cut the budget, failed to
produce a budget, went 20 trillion further in debt, and failed to codify measures which would ensure continued and increased border security. Walls are nice where they are, but you have to close the frigging gate. (It's like the switch was turned back on, here come the Obama caravans of "kids" again, likely headed to or already part of some human trafficking scheme.) What happened with Epstein/Maxwell's information? So much information and so many opportunities gone down the Memory Hole of "investigation".
Was it put in a digital Rolodex so the usual suspects have convenient sources of entertainment (Those are someone's kids, damn it!), What about the Burisma scandal? and Riots, real ones not some faux "insurrection" that did not even have a rope. A real "armed insurrection" wouldn't have to scrounge up fire extinguishers to not actually hit police over the head with (no video,
in the Capitol!, of anyone being hit with one--or it would have been all over the news). Somehow, over 200 people ended up with charges against them for visiting the Capitol, and more are coming, but cities across America were burned (or protesters faced down by citizens with firearms in plain view to keep the peace) and where are the charges? Against a 17 year old who defended his own life? Against Homeowners defending themselves, their home, their neighbors from people who had torn down a metal gate to trespass as a mob? Against police who could not have killed the guy who was dying of a Fentanyl overdose, and not against those who have looted, burned, and murdered their way through the year leading up to the election.
Where in the Hell has the GOP been through all this? Whining impotently in the corner.
It isn't about Trump, one way or the other, really, it is that the GOP's utter failure to make anything but an EO policy, and even the allegedly conservative Justices added to the SCOTUS turned tail and hid under the nearest lawbook when the issue (seems pretty damned clear to me) of a primary jurisdiction case regarding election procedures in an national election, a question of violating (
prima facie!) the Constitution arose, in an epic and historic display of the continued nonfeasance that has become the hallmark of the Party.
I have a hard time seeing what it is I am supposed to be fighting for when the Party which is supposed to be fighting for me appears to be fighting against me and the Constitution it is sworn to uphold. This is why the GOP lost control of the House, despite any boost it got from the POTUS, and excused as a typical midterm loss of seats. That has been the failure that keeps on failing.
IF we don't stand on principle...
IF we fail to make a hard line, carved in stone, not scratched in sand, we can expect conservatism, the Constitution, and the Republic to fall, and leading that charge against it will be some of the GOP, voted for to keep the greater evils from having the pole position in the vanguard.
