We Need to Ritually Sacrifice a Squish GOP Senator to Encourage the Others
Kurt Schlichter
There is a wonderful and salutatory effect to publicly posting a head on a pike for all to see. Now, after the hideous leftist celebration of the murder of that executive from an unpopular industry, it’s necessary – for the benefit of dumb and disingenuous people who will cry about this imagery – to make clear that this is not to be taken literally. It is to be taken figuratively. That is, we in the America First movement must figuratively post the head of at least one hack GOP establishment senator at the summit of Capitol Hill during the 2026 cycle. The real question is who we’re going to make an example of.
Now, I’m old enough to remember when there were a whole bunch of soft Republicans in the Senate. There are far fewer today than they used to be, believe it or not. About 16 years ago – how time flies when you are reforming the Republican Party – the Tea Party movement started up and shook up Washington. It was a direct response to the continued failure of the business-as-usual, managed-decline Republican Party. The establishment told us that we couldn’t ever change things. We had to vote Republican, no matter how bad the Republicans were, and keep our mouths shut. All we were were mere voters; it wasn’t like we mattered. But you know what? We did matter. We mattered hard. And we posted some heads on pikes.
Rand Paul didn’t just show up. Mike Lee didn’t just show up. Ted Cruz didn’t just show up. No, that was us. We changed things in the Senate. We beat unbeatable incumbents. We won unwinnable primaries. And we made it known that we expect conservatism from our alleged conservatives.
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