https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/the_republican_party_killed_itself.html
The Republican Party killed itself. The particular poison定语从句 it swallowed is the hatred 定语从句it harbors for its own voters. Sooner or later, all that hatred was going to burn it up. 状语从句When Republican lawmakers turned their backs on Republican voters protesting for free and fair elections and endorsed election fraud by ignoring it, they blew up any remaining illusion 同位语从句that the Red-Blue divide in D.C. is real.
Republican voters struggled for over a decade to give the Republican Party all the power定语从句 it needed to fight for the Constitution and American liberty and against the quickening assault of totalitarian state control. Republican voters repeatedly urged Republican lawmakers to stomp out Big Tech’s censorship and strangling of free speech状语从句 before it was too late. Republicans in office have done nothing.
状语从句When voters turn a blind eye to their suspicions that only a UniParty exists in D.C., actively support Republican lawmakers, and find themselves inevitably betrayed by those same lawmakers nonetheless, the sting is particularly fierce. From the point of view of a Trump-supporter, the Republican Party has wasted a tremendous opportunity. The “stupid party” looks 状语从句as if it’s achieved peak stupidity. But from the point of view of D.C. Republicans 定语从句who have worked to thwart President Trump’s agenda for four years, it is a certainty 主语从句that the only stupid Republicans 定语从句they see are their own voters.
It didn’t have to be this way. Republicans in Washington could right now be in the majority with a strong president in the White House. Instead, they spent years using Trump-supporters状语从句 when their votes were needed and giving little in return. It was a betrayal 定语从句that leaves deep scars.
Did Republicans finally pay the price with their voters in Georgia? With turnout in pro-Trump areas diminished, 定语从句that seems the case, and after most Senate Republicans spent the last two months 分词surrendering the presidency, rather than fighting for it, who could blame Georgia voters for choosing not to care? On the one hand, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock seem like shoe-ins to supercharge Obama’s socialist legacy. On the other hand, in a Republican Party 定语从句that overwhelmingly prefers Donald Trump’s handling of domestic and foreign policy issues to the ways定语从句 in which establishment Republicans have handled those spheres in the past, neither David Perdue nor Kelly Loeffler looked very “Trumpy.”
Neither Georgia senator jumped up in fury after an avalanche of suspicious voting irregularities led the national press corps to anoint Joe Biden as “president-elect” a full four days状语从句 after the election had ended, and状语从句 when Senators Perdue and Loeffler finally pledged to challenge the results of the presidential election a day or two before their January 5 runoff, their commitments reeked of desperation, not righteousness. After their losses and subsequent refusals to see their promises through the next day in D.C., it seemed Trump voters had pegged them correctly.
President Trump won more votes in November than any other sitting president, 分词状语crushing his own 2016 victory by adding over ten million new voters to his coalition. He expanded his support from minority voters, sustained his gains with blue collar laborers, and attracted former Democrats disgruntled with the socialist direction of their former party. For the first time since President Reagan, a Republican leader came along 定语从句who strengthened the GOP. And how have establishment Republicans in D.C. mostly treated this unexpected gift horse? They’ve stymied President Trump and his agenda for four straight years. When they weren’t denying him funds for an effective border wall or undermining his promises to end Obamacare permanently, too many Senate Republicans spent their time before television cameras publicly bemoaning the president’s efforts to fight communist China’s growing economic power, his insistence on reinvigorating American manufacturing, and his refusal to allow the Democrats to win every battle of the Culture War.
Instead of seizing the opportunity 定语从句President Trump handed them in 2016 to prove to Americans宾语从句 that they were capable of tackling the immigration, trade, and health care issues 定语从句Republican voters prioritized, Republican leaders decided to waste most of the president’s first two years in office by giving Obama and Clinton cover for a Russia hoax定语从句 that was designed and utilized by Democrats both to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign and hamstring his presidency. More effort was given by Republican congressional leadership to obfuscate potential crimes 分词定语committed by Obama’s administration and Clinton’s campaign than to tackle any of the “America First” policy proposals 定语从句that had delivered President Trump victory. 状语从句If there were a prize for lost opportunities, stalwart NeverTrump Republicans in Washington have no competition.
状语从句If the Mitt Romneys, Paul Ryans, Ben Sasses, or any of the other consistent NeverTrump naysayers 定语从句who all predicted the worst from Trump’s presidency had any professional credibility, they would recognize 宾语从句how repeatedly wrong they have been about their doom-and-gloom predictions for five years. 主语从句 has only made them (and, by extension, their Republican colleagues) increasingly repugnant to ordinary Republican voters.
Somehow the only Republicans 定语从句who don’t understand宾语从句 that voters have repeatedly rejected their preferred policies are the same D.C. lawmakers 定语从句who have spent four years battling the president. It is hard to believe now, but prominent Republican leaders in Washington repeatedly warned before and after his election 宾语从句that Donald Trump would (1) ruin Republican outreach to black and Hispanic voters, (2) lead America into violent conflicts abroad, and (3) undermine conservative policy through his nominations and executive orders. Instead, President Trump won over more minority voters than any Republican presidential candidate since 1960; judiciously avoided wars with North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela (while utilizing a mixture of unexpected outreach and diplomacy, economic warfare, and firm deterrence); and presided over arguably the most staunchly conservative administration in a century (strongly supporting religious leaders, protecting the lives of unborn babies, and appointing constitutionalists to the federal courts).
It is difficult to pull the lever for the Republican members of a legislative body that stubbornly refuses to understand why voters elected President Trump and how the president has succeeded for those voters despite the intractable efforts at sabotage by NeverTrump Republicans in Congress. It is hard to imagine ever supporting members of a political party who see ordinary Americans protesting for free and fair elections as a greater threat to the Union than their own totalitarian colleagues pushing censorship and socialism in the halls of Congress.
For some Trump-supporters, the choice between authoritarian Democrats and turncoat Republicans is a coin toss. They may abhor the way 定语从句Democrats are destroying America’s constitutional foundations and freedoms, but they also detest the weak-willed Republicans in office 定语从句who are complicit in the Democrats’ efforts to fundamentally transform the country by failing to actively fight back tooth and nail. Was that not 名词从句why Donald Trump rose to power in the first place? Because Republican voters had become so fed up with thirty years of slow but consistent betrayals by their own party 结果状语从句that they finally decided to bring in someone new willing and able to fight?
For anyone not residing in D.C., that was the obvious lesson of 2016. Over four years later, too many elected representatives still haven’t figured that out. Washington Republicans have worked tirelessly to make President Trump go away, and they have done so at great cost to the future of the Republican Party.状语从句 When Republican leaders constantly countermand the voters of their own party, many voters would rather destroy the party and start from scratch than reward the very people 定语从句who seem to hate them most.
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