You Think We Republicans Have Problems? Just Look at the Democrats> Kurt Schlichter

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You Think We Republicans Have Problems? Just Look at the Democrats
Kurt Schlichter


We Republicans have plenty of internal issues. It’s not all hugging n’ sunshine on the right side of the aisle. We're building an unprecedented coalition that includes new members who don't agree with a lot of things us old-school Republicans agree with, and we still have some residual dinosaurs from the Paleolithic Era who don't know what time it is and don't know who our enemies are. We've got a tough road ahead, but we are stumbling down it. We're working out compromises among our multiple factions, and we've been remarkably successful in overcoming the obstacles in our path – witness the House getting past the continuing resolution and speaker issues. We have a pretty good idea of what we want to do and a general idea of how to do it. We know who we are. Sure, the GOP sucks, but there's a light at the head of the tunnel, and it might turn out not to be an oncoming locomotive.

But the Democrats are completely screwed.

Compare what they believe in with what they say they believe in. The cunning and reptilian James Carville correctly identified that the key issue is the economy. If the Republicans master this economy and make it great again, we will do fine for the next few election cycles. If we blow it – and don't underestimate the ability of Republicans to blow stuff – we're going to get crushed in the next few election cycles. Carville, who's criticized the Democrats because he's not stupid, says the best strategy is to go even more populist than ever. In fact, his idea is to go so populist that the Republicans can't compete. And that's an interesting idea, one that matches up with the Democrats' preferred self-image as the champions of the little guy, but it also runs head-on into the Democrats' reality. It is not the party of working people anymore. In fact, the Democrat Party hates working people. Working people like God, families, guns, and America, which makes them racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and probably fatist. What do Democrats offer the working class? More lectures? More limits? More hardships? You can't have cars, you can't have steaks, and you certainly can't have a rifle. You can have subways full of homicidal hobos, cash giveaways to Ukrainians and Third World peasant invaders, and government employees trying to talk your son into becoming your daughter. Enjoy!

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People want 'better', not 'worse'.

Those are valuations that vary from individual to individual.

The problem for the Dems is that their 'better' only helps a few that are selected by them - college graduates, illegal immigrants, limousine liberal Global Climate Change hypocrites, the Circus freak show tent, etc.

The Republicans have two years to define their 'better' and sell it to American voters.  Lowering the cost of living for individuals and families is a 'better' both sides need to execute or obstruct for the 2026 midterms.

The dilemma for Republicans is that 'better' for indivuduals and families may mean enforcing anti-trust laws to prevent monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, etc., from mainting their current pricing power.

Why is only one factory owned by one company providing the vast majority of baby formula in the US?

Why is only one factory owned by one company providing the vast majority of saline for hospitals?

Over-concentration of market power can lead to increase price risk, economic risk, health risk, and national security risk to America and its people.

A necessary component of Adam Smith free market economics is competition to awaken Darwinian spirits within the economy to drive innovation, progress, and efficiencies.

Wall Street has a proclivity towards over-concetration of markets to achieve anti-competitive, and inflationary, pricing power.

To help drive down prices, those with established pricing power need competitive challengers to make use of supply side economics to drive down prices.

This has a potential to drive a wedge between Big Business conservatives and Free Market conservatives.

Free Market conservatives and Fiscal conservatives are near extinct and have been marginalized in the modern GOP.  The Big Business Republicans may have the critical mass necessary to stop implementing populist free market policies to drive up competition and drive down prices.