By Rich Kozlovich
Recently I've read about a potential conservative third party emerging from the Republican party, and there seems to be a lot of discussion among conservatives over this based on conversations I've had. There are two articles I've posted today dealing with this that takes us into the emotions of such thinking, and the practical thinking that I believe will prevail.
First! This piece by entitled, They Are Mad as Hell but Will They Take It Anymore?, with the sub-headline, "Has there ever been a more opportune time to create a new political party?" @ Liberty Nation, where she states:
Out of the ashes of an embittered, archaic, and dying Republican Party, Donald J. Trump rose to the occasion while descending on a golden escalator to put the GOP out of its self-inflicted misery. The Silent Majority was silent no more, and joining forces with an America-first candidate, 63 million energized, excited, and optimistic people swept the man and dozens of hangers-on into office.
Instead of embracing a win and a Republican mandate in both houses of Congress, petty arguments, backstabbing, distancing, and incredible disloyalty to the president, Republicans have done little to keep their party members happy. Rather, the green-eyed monster from losers long ago reared its ugly head in the trappings of Senators John McCain and Mitt Romney and their sycophants who followed along. For many, the fix was in – from the inside out — making the Republican Party no better than the Democrats of 2016.
She's suggesting that a "Trumplican Party", made up of America Firsters, blacks and Hispanics who've turned the corner because they could clearly see Trump did more for them in four years than did the Democrats in decades, and those she calls Trumplicans who believe in real justice. Not a dual system we're clearly stuck with now where the elite get away with treason. Along with those who support a strong economy, a strong military, and immigration control.
She didn't mention less regulations, less spending, less taxes, etc, but those are the traditional conservative talking point for Republican party leaders to keep the rank and file in line while never delivering when they had the power, and this election has made it clear, they never intended to.
That may be emotionally appealing, but is it a real potential? Personally, I don't think the groups she's outlining are going to support that idea, and it's not going to happen.
The second piece I posted today was from Brad Slager, who in his piece, The President’s Departure Means the Never-Trump Crowd Now Find Themselves as Outcasts observed:
When former RNC chairman and current Never Trump minion Michael Steele came out last month to state they had plans for how to reconstitute the Republican Party his plea was met with little more than eye rolls from the GOP. When the pyromaniacs who burned down the barn come forward to state they will be there to help rebuild it the normal reaction is to chase them off the property with buckshot................
He went on to say:
To go along with these figures acting like evicted tenants pledging not
to send Christmas cards there is Bill Kristol, who has appeared like a
doddering shopper at a mall who forgot where he parked the car. Kristol
this week made the attempt to promote the concept of forming a third
political party, and the result could not have been more dismal.
His proposal was to come up with The Owl Party as a centrist
alternative and he nearly broke his nose, stumbling so magnificently.
Once he realized there has already been a satirical Owl Party - one that
stood for Out With Logic - he wavered on his cause, and once he was met
with complete apathy it was mere hours later when he had abandoned his
plan entirely.
While the two articles differ in that one wants real conservatives to form a third party, and Sager's piece observes a third party of Never Trumpers isn't in any way possible. But the issue isn't about which group, it's about any group among the Republicans. The fact is, it's my view there will be no viable third
party by any dissatisfied Republicans, from any segment of the party.
There may be an effort to form a third party made up of disgusted Democrats, who are moderately (if there really is such a thing as a moderate Democrat) to the left, and disgusted Republicans who are fauxcons, versus real conservatives, but that won't float. History and the cultures they're departing are against them and the American culture won't support them!
Why? Paraphrasing Harry Truman: "If the public has a choice between a Republican and a Republican, they'll chose a Republican every time". And it works in reverse.
As Slager notes, and I think very credibly. about these Never Trumper fauxcons:
In other words these allegedly "True Conservatives" declare they will continue what they have been doing for years -- acting like Democrats and supporting left-wing agendas. They will do this all the while telling others on the Right how they are not truly conservative. As they wander off into the political wilderness these pariahs will not be missed by anyone in conservative circles.
It's clear that segment of the Republican party is toast. They may as well become Democrats, except the Democrats don't want them! Schadenfreude!
Well, what about a Trumplican party? Teddy Roosevelt tried that with his Bull Moose party, and it failed, worse yet, it split the vote and Woodrow Wilson, known as America's first fascist president, was elected. In America political parties are formed around ideas, not personalities.
There was talk about the Tea Party becoming a third party, and there was some effort there, but most of the Tea Party people were only interested in supporting the party that embraces conservative issues. Which of course left them no choice but the Republicans. Only there was a problem with that! They learned the Republican leadership was great at the talking the talk, but was lousy at walking the talk.
Their options?
Form a third party or take over the Republican party. They chose the latter, and that's what they've been doing, much to the dismay of the Mitch McConnell and John McCain crowd, with McCain calling them misfits.
The fraud of this election, and the actions of the current Republican leadership, has outraged them and their take over is going to happen big time now. In two years there will be another election for House and Senate members, and the landscape has changed politically, and socially.
The take over started at the local level and in this election Republicans picked up 11 seats, and they're now in control of more state legislatures, which is critical, because they'll be in charge of redistricting their states, and especially in states where the census has given them more seats in the House. The Republicans could "dominate the process".
