I have heard for a few years, now, how that dastardly, Orange Man, Donald J. Trump, or more correctly and properly referred to as former President Donald J. Trump, changed the Republican Party, and he changed it for the worse.
And, what I now hear is that the Republican Party needs to be taken back from Donald Trump; it needs to be saved.
Funny thing is, I don’t believe Donald Trump changed the Republican Party or that he ruined it or it needs to be taken back from him, and I definitely don’t believe it needs saving. I believe that already happened.
As far as taking the Party back from Donald Trump, it is difficult to take something back from someone who does not have it.
I say this because I believe the majority members of the Republican Party realized in 2016 the Party had changed over the years, had gone astray, and those who were leading the Party were the reason it had changed course. And, this newly awakened majority of the Party decided to get back the Party they had joined, many of whom joined decades ago, and make a course correction.
What I also believe is that this majority of the Party saw in Donald Trump someone they could use to accomplish their goal. They may not have realized it at the time, but they basically used Donald Trump as a battering ram to break up the status quo and awaken those in the Party who had allowed it to get to where it had gotten. Most of those running in the 2016 Republican primaries were part of the status quo the majority was ready to reject.
What I now believe is, there is no current Leader of the Republican Party. We are presently looking for someone to take the reins, someone who can support and advocate for the programs the former President supported while not backing down as he did not when challenged. This leader needs to be someone who can do it all with a bit more decorum, a little more elegance, and with a more modesty.
Trump served a purpose. He was a means to and end, but he is not the end. We thank him for his service.
When I hear people attacking the former President, I hear them attack me, which is their intent And, I hear them attack all those others who voted for him.
When we are called “deplorables,” mouth breathers, white nationalist, trash, backward, uneducated, non-elite, racist, stupid, religious zealots, and whatever new insult they think they are demeaning us with, I realize we are on the right track. We are winning at getting the Party back to where it should be. These insults at first angered me, but now, they make me smile.
Those same awakened Republicans, and many which are of another Party, were further awakened during the pandemic. They began to see what the insidious, far left had infused into our school curriculums. They saw how socialist-leaning (actually more communistic-leaning) teachers were teaching untruths and dividing our children and us further by race and creed.
Most importantly, this awakened crowd saw Constitutional Rights being stripped away and they decided they needed to take charge of the narrative in order to gain back Rights taken and to ensure these Rights were never threatened again.
And take charge of the narrative they have.
The other side continues to try to insult its way back in control of the narrative. It tries to use the race card which had won so many games for it in the past, but see it falling on deaf ears and becoming more and more a losing hand.
It tries to associate everything with Donald Trump but are realizing the word Trump only resonates within their own little silo, which is shrinking.
They are now trying to have us believe we are moving backward towards the 1800’s or at least the pre-60’s Civil Rights days where one race was inferior to another, when in actuality, they are the ones trying to make that happen by making those of fairer skin believe they are guilty of the sins of past generations and while, at the same time, inferior to other races, when most of us have moved beyond race as a reason to make decisions about people or programs.
And, the other side is fostering hatred instead of unity.
I mentioned many teachers as being communistic leaning. To help understand my comment, one needs to look at some of the definitions of communism, which is, according to Marx, the end to which socialism is merely a step towards.
First off, Communism is a Social, Economic and Political theory. So, it is all-encompassing.
One definition is, “a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Communism includes the management of the public property which is held in the hands of a few who decide who gets or doesn’t get access to that property, similar to how lockdowns where enacted during the pandemic. Certain public places could be kept open to the public while others couldn’t, with little explanation as to why one was allowed and another not.
Certain groups could congregate, while others couldn’t. The central government or heads of the social States got to choose which could or couldn’t happen.
Without going further off topic, and getting back to the Title, the point of all this is, the Republican Party is owned by the majority of that Party, not those who have been elected or those who think they know best for all.
It is this newly awakened group, and not Donald Trump who served a very valuable and much appreciated purpose, that owns the Party. It is this group who did not change the Party but who put the Party back on course.
So, when the former President is insulted, yes it may sting a bit, but it does not push the Party off the course it is now on, which is, the support of the Constitution, not its rewrite, and where all people are equal under the law as long as they uphold the law, and no one is more equal than another.
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