Requirements/Considerations for GOP Victory in 2022 and 2024

Requirements/Considerations for GOP Victory in 2022 and 2024

To win back the Senate and the House in 2022, and the White House in 2024, Donald Trump is the least likely person to lead the turn around. The Republican Party needs more who can do what Glenn Younkin did in Virginia,  form a coalition of rural Counties, people who voted for Trump, people who didn’t vote for Trump but like to vote Republican, suburban moms, female, male, white, black, and Hispanic.  The focus needs to be on capable people, being color blind at the same time.  A focus on issues that matter.  Make it an Americans for America race.   The left’s penchant to call out racism and white supremacy constantly is wearing thin, and seriously questioned, and the Covid crisis is over.  We are recovering our freedom, our economy, in part thanks to the vaccines, but also because Americans are realizing Covid will be with us.  Yet, we can live with it, as we do the flu, and continue to be careful and free. We are capable, to use an ole adage, to walk and chew gun at the same time.  Trump need not be on the scene; he can be toxic.  His policies are welcomed, but his personality is not.  We are not in the habit of embracing those who constantly see themselves as the achiever, even with good ideas, but more the team effort, less “I” and more “We.”

Hidden in the rural enclaves, the valleys and the mountains, are many patriots, citizens, that are disgusted with events in our economy, to enumerate:

• rising gas prices, 
• ignoring our oil independence, while calling upon OPEC and Russia to produce more oil to import.
• false claims of a majority of racists, 
• education being corrupted by ideologues seeking to indoctrinate our children with:  
• Critical Race Theory (CRT), which engenders division and hatred. 
• re-constituted history (1619 Project), 
• allegations of white supremacy making guilt by caucasian children a requirement, 
• a disregard for parents views or preferences for their children’s education
• a lack of school choice
• the failed Afghanistan pull-out
• a callous disregard for Americans and loyalists left behind in Afghanistan
• illegal immigration run amok, 
• payments to illegals for health care, education, even family support, far in excess of what is available to citizens, and especially properly vetted immigrants seeking and attaining citizenship legally, 
• inflation, 
• an elderly compromised President with weak leadership qualities and communication skills, 
• a concern for who is really in control of our Federal Government,
• questionable choices by the Biden Administration for the head of various departments and Cabinet positions,
• a questionable choice of VP as back-up for the Oval Office, 
• officials in the Administration more focused on prioritizing sexual preferences, the climate and social justice, than issues that matter to the majority,  
• excess government spending with no apparent desire, all factions at fault, to reduce spending
• the push by progressive Democrats seeking a broad socialist agenda for the entire nation, to include items as reparations, medicare for all, payments for illegals,
• socialist spending plans without fiscal responsibility,
• burdening tax-payers for the pet projects of elected officials.
• a troubling increasing Federal debt,
• so much of the Main Stream Media voicing opinions that do not reflect the majority of our citizens
• the apparent collaboration between the majority of Main Stream Media and the Democratic Party,
• a push for unions and unionization, not for a better work environment, but for increased funding from unions to support liberal political candidates that cater to their demands.  
• unions being used as a force against business, education, and healthcare, more for themselves than those they serve.
• affirmative action gone to far, weakening education standards, impacting productivity, and effecting decision making.
• campaigns to defund the police, or limit police activities and the ability to remove criminals from our streets, while the elitists then use campaign funds or tax-payor dollars for private security.
• falsifying fears of impending climate changes and diverting funds from matters more essential, higher in priority, that impact all Americans and our economy,
• the hypocrisy of many politicians doing for themselves what they tell their constituents not to do,
• a criminal control system that is releasing dangerous perpetrators without bail and with little consequence,
• and more….

The list is in no particular order of priority, but each issue is important.

Inputting a personal concern, with an emphasis on the size of government and the habitual nature of elected officials to talk about spending cuts, but doing nothing once elected.  Our Federal Government is too big and more interventionist than helpful.  With no critical emergency to deal with more can be relegated to States, reducing departments, agencies and Czars that occupy Washington DC offices.  That is an opportunity to cut spending.  And with spending cut, first, taxes can then be reduced.  To reduce taxes, first, and not cut spending did not work for either Reagan or Trump.  Consider how much staff is needed by each Senator, each Congressman, how large need the EPA be, how long a motorcade to a climate control conference is justifiable, and on and on and on.  Then consider welfare or entitlement programs that put government before parents and faith as guides, confidants, and care givers.  Such programs also take away self-esteem, incentives to work and the need to better oneself.  They are costly and often a tool of politicians to incentivize dependent persons to vote for those promising to satisfy their wants and desires.  That make’s our Nation weaker and lazier. 

Power, to many politicians, becomes their drug and they seek to control, as made clear by McAuliffe in his race for VA governor, suggesting that parents should have no say in the curriculum the system generates and the teachers are ordered to teach. This is not how Americans want to be led. 

If Democrats want to mirror FDR then adopt his desire for small government, manageable, that helps our citizens, not a big government, unwieldy, that intervenes and creates impediments to progress. 

Trump can love America, as he does, but he should not be the face of the Republican Party going forward, ‘a’ face, yes, but not ‘the’ face.  

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Thomas W. Balderston

Author and Blogger