The Coming Split
American Greatness,
by
Daniel Gelernter
Original Article
Posted By: GustoGrabber,
12/28/2022 6:24:49 AM
Last week I wrote about Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump. My comparison wasn’t between the two men as presidents—though they had some similar personality traits—but between how the two men were treated by the Republican Party. The Republican Party of 1912 decided it would be better off renominating William Howard Taft, even though its voters would have preferred another Roosevelt term. The resulting split ushered in Woodrow Wilson and the first academic globalists, whose bright ideas laid the groundwork for a second world war on the eve of the conclusion of the first.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rinktum 12/28/2022 6:40:17 AM (No. 1365953)
This article is so good it should not be a Must Read, but should be a Forced Read! The author gets it and writes exactly what many of us feel about this whole political situation. There were so many good quotes that hit the nail squarely on the head. The anti-Trumpers will not agree but the author makes a strong case for Trump and I would urge you to share it everywhere.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
slipstik 12/28/2022 6:51:56 AM (No. 1365958)
I've held my nose and gone republicrat for the LAST TIME! DeSantis is machine Republicrat. Good guy, possibly, but still a lackey of McConnell. This nation has already been destroyed. I'm gonna stay home, while I still have one anyway, because NOTHING I do will change anything. Mitch tells me that every damn day
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F15 Gork 12/28/2022 7:11:23 AM (No. 1365964)
DeSantis needs to stay in Fl as governor for at least one more cycle. Best not to be in the frag pattern while the GOP commits political suicide.
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The GOP's hate being in power. They would rather complain about not being in power. For example...look how many GOP's
broke ranks to vote with the dems on the "Omnibus Spending Bill". Never again they proclaimed in unison...until the next
opportunity to change their free-spending ways...then it will be "never again...again)
The GOP's will always be #2 in my eyes...( if you know what I mean)
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chumley 12/28/2022 7:41:41 AM (No. 1365980)
This is the best article I have read in a very long time. It sums up what so many of us have been trying to say here forever. The "most conservative who can win" is complete BS and always was. The uniparty decides who can win, so we are left with carp choices no matter what.
If Trump starts a 3rd party I'll vote for him. He might not win, but so what? The communists will steal the election anyway, and the republicans will refuse to challenge it. We've been there before. A maga party will eventually gain momentum and start winning.
Then I'd like to see the firing squads. If we are going to be a 3rd world banana republic, we might as well go all out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
plomke 12/28/2022 8:02:14 AM (No. 1365995)
The GOP half of the Uniparty will continue to bluster and fundraise only as long as we let them.
Abandon the GOP half of the Uniparty and support only CANDIDATES who keep their word.
No more fake, phony, RINO career politicians...
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franq 12/28/2022 8:29:42 AM (No. 1366021)
The wise among us will learn or know, then act on the reality that spirituality, not politics, is the answer to the problem. Politics is the problem.
"But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." Romans 8:9
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 12/28/2022 8:31:33 AM (No. 1366023)
Article is spot on. We are no longer registered Republicans. The day after Mitch and Company pushed through Omnibus, we changed from GOP a to Unaffiliated. We will never vote Democrat, but voting Republican hasn’t done anything for us.
Frigging idiots could have saved the country.
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anniebc 12/28/2022 9:37:17 AM (No. 1366112)
South Carolina, a conservative state, has two uniparty Senators. Traitors! I like that, poster #5; we should "go all out."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/28/2022 9:51:09 AM (No. 1366127)
One wonders, is the Republican Party the "stupid" party. Or, is it merely reflecting its supporters' stupidity?
The Trump Cult is strong in this one. The dead-enders just don't get it, thinking Trumpism is still a building force in politics. It's not. It's spent. And it needs leadership that isn't carping about being cheated in the past. Rallies? What rallies? His announcement of "superhero trading cards"? His announcement of '24 candidacy?
Those seeking a third party can look at the Libertarians as an example. Their future is highly limited by legalities, including ballot access and public funding laws. And who are the big money patrons willing to finance this effort? It's more realistic to take over the GOP at the local and state levels, if anyone has the energy to get involved.
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bighambone 12/28/2022 10:39:09 AM (No. 1366174)
The wimpy establishment Republicans and RINOS who are against Trump and the MAGA Republicans on ideological and political grounds, and instead side with the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats on important financial and political issues are making it a sure thing that the Republican Party will remain in the congressional minority, with little actual political power except by talking a lot and writing letters to the aggressive Democrats that are ignored, while accepting as many of the financial and other spoils that the majority congressional Democrat delegation allows.
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Bison65 12/28/2022 11:14:10 AM (No. 1366208)
I read Dan Gelernter’s essays when he was still in college. He is a bright young man with true Conservative instincts. Seems to me he is much Like his father David who was of the victims of the Unabomber.
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49 Ford 12/28/2022 1:15:06 PM (No. 1366284)
I think the writer is way off base. No amount of wishful thinking is going to rekindle the Spirt of '16. Our great President Trump has (IMO) been too badly damaged by seven years of relentless Deep State antipathy to win a national election, even an honest one.
And DeSantis should do exactly what poster # 3 suggests.
We may have already crossed the rubicon, in which case no amount of thrashing around by the pundit class or internet posters will make any difference.
# 7 has the right idea.
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