The Great Stumble gives way to the Great Awakening
Coalition transformations are pushing America toward an end and a new beginning
Personally, I believed that it would take a full four years to rip apart the fabric of this nation. Kudos to Joe Biden for doing it in under two!
Failed Afghanistan withdrawal
The substantial executive-ordered destruction of the domestic energy industry
Malfeasance of the supply chain management—a malfunction possibly created but certainly exacerbated by his administration
Massive money creation to fund substantial money giveaways to keep labor on the sidelines while destroying small businesses
Excessive lockdowns and school closures
Overplaying the Covid card (and they’re still running pathetic public service announcements to go get boosted up!)
Even more massive money creation to fund the Inflation Reduction... ah, cough, cough Green New Deal
Directed action against political enemies through the Department of Justice and the FBI henchmen
Unprecedented use of fascist-style coordination of Big Tech and Big Finance to spy upon, censor, and intimidate American citizens
Provoking a Russian invasion into Ukraine (nations that have consumed an inordinate amount of time in our recent history) with subsequent unjustifiable military expenditures, leaving our own arsenals bare to the bones
Abdication of the southern border to drug cartels which are quickly morphing into terroristic/militaristic organizations
The social agenda to indoctrinate children with sexual perversion and racism
Lawlessness
(You can add anything left off in the comments section.)
The image of Biden stumbling up the stairs to Air Force One (how does one stumble up?) personifies the past two years. Thus, the America we knew at the end of the Trump Administration is a distant memory.
Tuesday may well be a course correction. How a GOP-controlled House and Senate will act will be the difference between a continued decline or the beginning of something new. Nothing can take us back to pre-Biden, pre-Trump, pre-Obama years. The old saying about not being able to step in the same river twice is true. And we shouldn’t want to go back to some perceived “better times”; there’s been a decline in our national providence for quite a while.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan won the presidency with the help of the Reagan Democrats, middle Americans who had always voted Democrat but had been stymied by a decade of no growth and high-inflation. The end of the Obama era evoked the same reaction and brought us Trump. Tumultuous as it was, the economy improved greatly as did the prospects for future, sustainable growth. Every demographic benefited by the old adage that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Then came the Great Stumble and it’s been a free fall every since.
On March 30, 2021 Jim Banks (R-Indiana) wrote a memo to Kevin McCarthy, minority leader in the House, urging a new alignment for the GOP.
“President Trump gave the Republican Party a political gift: we are now the party supported by most working-class voters. The question is whether Republicans reject that gift or unwrap it,” he stated.
Then he warned, “There is an embittered and loud minority in the GOP that finds our new coalition distasteful… Members that want to swap out working- class voters because they resent President Trump’s impact on the GOP are wrong. In fact, they are intentionally sabotaging Republicans’ political future.”
Liz Cheney exposed the Bush-wing of the party for what it was—perpetual warmongers that believe it is our divine responsibility to make the world safe for democracy. After her own state voted her out, Cheney has gone rogue by endorsing Democrat candidates. She is trying to burn down the house on her way out. So much for statesmanship.
Then there are the Republican elites, those who never gave up the Country Club, clinging to their power with campaign contributions from the privileged monied-class.
Mitch McConnell, the epitome of the traitorous D.C. insider, has hoarded the elites’ contributions. He and his minions gave generously to mealy-mouthed fools like former Republican Lisa Murkowski (censured twice by the Alaskan GOP); he has withheld from those of the new GOP, like Blake Masters, J.D. Vance, and Kelly Tshibaka, the Alaskan Republican running against the elitist Murkowski. (In fact he ran television ads against Tshibaka, the only Republican in Alaskan the race!)
He supports charlatans like Mitch Romney, John Thune, John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy, Rob Portman, Pat Toomey, and Richard Burr (the last three, having seen the writing on the wall, retired) and others who are, and were, in the game for everything but middle America. Treacherous fools, each and every one.
Fact: when President Trump took office in January 2017, there were 241 Republicans in the House. Since then, 115 (48%) have either retired, resigned, been defeated or are retiring in 2020… Lesson: there is no going back to a GOP “before Trump.”
—Dave Wasserman, Cook Political Report, June 30, 2020
Banks pointed out that Trump gained the support of small business owners, farmers and ranchers, mechanics, and even custodians (who, he reported gave 59% of their donations to Trump). Banks further stated:
[Ninety-four percent] of college professors donated to Biden while 6% donated to Trump; 86% of marketing professionals donated to Biden and 14% donated to Trump; and 73% of bankers donated to Biden while 27% donated to Trump.
Especially on the last data point, things have changed. In 2012, Wall Street contributed roughly $6 million to Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, and gave more than three times that amount to Mitt Romney.
In 2020, Wall Street donated four times more to Joe Biden than Donald Trump. President Trump didn’t just shift each party’s role—he caused a paradigm reversal. [emphasis Banks]
With indications that large swaths of Hispanics are voting Republican in this year’s midterms as well as a sizable percentage of black men and white suburban women, a great paradigm reversal is taking place.
The only way to save what’s left of America and begin to clean up the mess in Washington D.C. is with those who will benefit from it most. It’s middle America that needs saving, not those in the Ivory Towers, nor those in the dark valleys of Wall Street, nor the Big Tech overlords, nor the deep-state bureaucrats in D.C.
If the election goes as predicted, the fight is only beginning. You can’t vote and then go back to business as usual. We still face crushing inflation, a deep recession, federal government overreach into our daily lives, and a politicized bureaucracy that no longer serves the will of the People. We must not vote and then slip back into our hectic lives. We must monitor and hold their feet to the fire.
The Great Stumble will live in my memory as the beginning of the Great Awakening.
If you haven’t yet voted, make sure you do. It’s not hyperbolic to say this election is the most consequential of our lifetimes thus far… well, until 2024.