Kurt Schlichter has a piece at Townhall that I thinks speaks to a lot of the Republican base, especially those from the TEA Party movement, on the GOPe (Establishment GOP and NeverTrumpers). While he rails against mostly the latter (but plenty for the former), this caught my eye:
…Oh yeah, we’ll repeal Obamacare. Oh yeah, we’ll defend the border. Oh yeah, we’ll defund the baby-butchering cartel. Oh yeah, blah blah blah blah blah. All lies, but they didn’t care. They had their power and prestige and the promise of a fat paycheck down the road when they moved from Congress to K Street. Actual conservative ideology? Well, that was for the rubes. And we were the rubes. We in the base, who are suffering from the establishment’s incompetent mismanagement of the society it had been foolish to try to micromanage in the first place, tried to warn them. But the Fredocons wouldn’t listen, because they’re smart, not like everyone says, like dumb…
That warning was called ‘the Tea Party,” and the GOP establishment didn’t like it either. Remember how all those activated Republican voters helped recapture Congress, yet most of the establishment types looked at them like they were something nasty that was smeared on their shoes? See, the base isn’t supposed to be activated. It’s supposed to be obedient. It’s supposed to turn out on election day to do volunteer work and write checks. It’s not supposed to try to have input. That’s for our betters, not for us.But the thing is, now we’re woke, and we’ve realized that our establishment sucks, and that we’re tired of being the suckees.
They didn’t listen to us when we gave them the Tea Party, so now we gave them Trump.
And while the Democrats are going all out to try to have Trump out of office (“He’s uncouth, rough, loud, uncivilized, ribald, sexist…..mentally incompetent”), that is to be expected (along with all of their political violence). They are, after all, the opposition party.
This is the Republicans fault and they have brought us upon themselves. We DID try to do it the right way with the TEA Party – with passion, with facts, with going back to our Constitutional values. We were sick and tired of Government not “governing” but ruling over the rest of us. They believe they are above the rest of us and that they could do whatever they want without repercussion. They failed to realize that politics is just another outgrowth of the Marketplace. They have failed to watch and learn from companies that failed and swirled down the economic drain – 1) that they have failed to see that conditions have changed and their worldview is out of whack and 2) they have failed to satisfy their consumers demand.
They failed once and the TEA Party rose up. They failed to embrace the energy and ideas of the TEA Party and now they have Trump. Yet they still fight against what their “consumers” are demanding – change.
They may win their battle against Trump for right now….but are they thinking about the next coming war that they are signaling to the base to bring with their actions? They may get their way.
But what if they don’t? Then what happens? What is the next “thing”? TEA Party refused, Trump refused….maybe they really are that stupid.
