by Matthew Boose
Republicans are facing their biggest test in generations.
The mentality of a psychotic mob of radicals has taken control of the country and its institutions. With remarkable speed, America’s mayors, governors, media, lawmakers, health experts, artists, sports leagues, generals and troops, powerful corporations, and the wealthiest men on the planet, have all loudly endorsed this mob, its hatred of America, and its demands for radical transformation.
The mob has been given blanket permission not just to riot and destroy America physically—to desecrate its monuments and harass enemies of the revolution—but to define America, its history and its future, and its deserved punishment for what they call “systemic racism,” the existence of which is entirely uncontested by anyone in any position to resist it. Wholly convinced of their rightfulness, wholly convinced of America’s evil, these radicals have taken the country hostage, and nobody is stopping them.
America’s elites, once decent and patriotic, have turned against their own people in a frenzy of destructive ideological lunacy. The will to enforce the law has evaporated. No one is protecting the silent majority.
No, not even the Republicans.
Republicans think that coming out against defunding the police will somehow distinguish them from the Left and reward them politically. This is nonsense. The Democrats have also pushed back on defunding the police, because they aren’t stupid.
As usual, the Republicans have simply rejected the most extreme demands of the Left while swallowing the substance of the Left’s criticism, which is that America is a racist country in need of fundamental change.
Republicans have all but endorsed Black Lives Matter, the group’s ethnic chauvinism, and their murky grievances with America’s putative “systemic racism.”
Here was Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) the other day:
You know, none of us have had the experience of being an African American in this country and dealing with this discrimination, which persists here some 50 years after the 1964 civil rights bill and the 1965 civil rights bill—we’re still wrestling with America’s original sin.
Original sin!
If Republicans reject defunding the police, then logically they should reject Black Lives Matter, which advocates defunding the police. They should do so loudly, vigorously, and articulately. But they haven’t, and they won’t.
If the Republican Party won’t defend the rule of law, protect the silent majority, and push back against calumnies against America and its people, then what are they there for?
Good question.
A recent investigation by the Claremont Institute’s Thomas Klingenstein is worth noting. It’s a lengthy piece, but the essence of the argument is that Republicans don’t stand for anything. Unlike the Left, they don’t argue from basic principles of justice; all they have are cheap slogans. “Limited government! Lower taxes! Decentralization!” You get the idea. The Republican Party doesn’t operate with deliberation and purpose; they’re shadowboxers.
That purpose ought to be preserving what Klingenstein calls “the American way of life,” which obviously is threatened at the moment.
One key point that Klingenstein raises concerns rhetoric: lawmakers aren’t just there to pass laws, but to edify the public and explain to them the threats to their way of life. But unlike Democrats, Republicans don’t bother to explain the things they want or think we should want as Americans.
To adapt Klingenstein’s argument to the present moment, it’s obvious what the Republican Party should be doing. They should be standing up for law and order while explaining to the American people how Black Lives Matter, its anti-American slander, and its program of racial extremism is hostile to Americans, their institutions, and their welfare.
Instead of saying, “Defund the police is crazy socialism, but some reforms are probably needed to address America’s painful history of genocide,” they should be saying, “America is a great country, not a racist country, and we will defend it to the very last day.”
While appearing to adopt contrary rhetoric, the Republicans have endorsed the Left’s principle, which means they have no argument against the Left’s demands.
They have surrendered to the narrative of anti-American hatred.
The Republican Party lacks either the intelligence or the courage to sense the big picture and engage accordingly. This is not just about the police. America is facing an elite uprising with the objective of reconstituting America at its very core and punishing all dissenters.
It is a matter not just of political interest, but of duty, that president Trump and the Republicans forcefully oppose Black Lives Matter and the woke faction that is working with them to destroy the United States.
If they can’t do that, then there is no reason for the Republican Party to exist.
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Matthew Boose is a Mt. Vernon fellow of the Center for American Greatness and a staff writer and weekly columnist at the Conservative Institute. His writing has also appeared in the Daily Caller. Follow him on Twitter @matt_boose.
Photo “Mitch McConnell” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0.
While I might agree with you on the anarchist or antifa not being able to destroy this country, because at any time we could completely shut them down, you’re dead wrong on what you believe to be destroying this country. Your racist remarks about whites voting for trump is a little hypocritical being you would be the first to cry foul if someone made that same remark about obama. Secondly, the biggest thing destroying this nation is the breakdown of the american family along with removing God from every facet of life. What happens after that is gender confusion, same sex marriage, abortion,etc. This depravity has destroyed mighty nations throughout history and will certainly not spare this one if it continues down the same path.
This is why I hand pick the politicians I Donate to. The RNC has not gotten a dime of my money that I know of. I am spending my Kids Inheritance to give them the America they think it is and not what the leftist are turning it into.
The Republican Party left Ken Cuccinelli swinging in the breeze, which allowed long time Clinton acolyte Terry McAuliffe to secure his election to be Governor of Virginia – ask the good people of Virginia how that worked out for them, and now how the leftist loon Northam, is working out for them. Thank the Republican party for that.
In the 2010 senatorial race, prominent Nevada Republicans not only abandoned the GOP nominee, Sharron Angle, they went so far as to endorse Sen. “Dirty Harry” Reid!
Nope, party be damned. The rare few principled politicians we do have are there largely in spite of the party, rather than due to it. Ask them.
Vote on the issues and the candidate, not the party. Vote your conscience, not what some party hack tells you. And for crying out tears, stop looking to “government” for a solution to the problem that they create!
Ralph – well put.
It’s not the anarchists or Antifa that is destroying our country; it is the Alt Right, the Mitch Bitch McConnels, etc. who are doing that to us by easing the spread of Covid so that it kills hundreds of thousands more Americans, including many whites who had voted for Trump back in 2016. By jumping the gun on reopening the economy, by stonewalling efforts by doctors to devise a reliable and free antidote to the virus, by covering up for killer cops, by stocking bigotry, etc., it is the Far Rightists that pose the greatest threat to this country’s survival as we know it.