On its current trajectory, the GOP is set to regain relevancy in 2024—if they can keep following the Democrats to the left and field an electable presidential candidate. Peering into my crystal ball, I imagine a New York Times story in December 2024 reading something like this;
“Republican President Elect Jerry Brown addressed the media at a party he held for his transition team, where the former Governor of California jubilantly praised the GOP voters who helped elect him. ‘Back in 2018, when the Democrats under the leadership of President Clinton, along with the help of our brothers and sisters in the GOP were able to finally criminalize the Tea Party, we turned the corner of progressivism’ he said. ‘And when that criminal conservative element was purged, and they tried to form a third party run for the White House in 2020, it created an opportunity for moderates like myself to transition to the Republican Party to help fill the power vacuum. As President, I pledge to continue to root out any remaining domestic terrorists and hold them accountable for their radical pro-liberty ideas. It’s the dawn of a new day, and I’m proud to announce my first round of appointments, who along with myself have pledged to reshape the Republican party and help me continue to re-educate the small minority of people who still don’t understand why all of us former Democrats have moved to the other side of the isle. With that in mind, I’m pleased to announce that my Secretary of State will be Al Sharpton.Taking over as Secretary of Homeland Security will be my good friend George Clooney. These two will be joining Treasury Secretary Chelsea Clinton, myself and Vice President Elect Streisand in getting to work, as soon as we’re done partying that is!’”
Of course I exaggerate for effect. Somewhat. The fact is, President Obama’s fundamental transformationis now fully revealedto be a bolt to the political left, dragging the GOP reluctantly along as the center slides ever further towards socialism.
The fate of the GOP will be decided by the current war between the mainstream wing who, fearful of looking like the Grinch next to the Democrats’ Santa Clause, are all too willing to follow the liberals ever further to the left while at the same time doing the dirty work of trying to wean out the real conservatives who have rallied around the Tea Party flag.
This battle goes back several years. The lines were clearly drawn by Nancy Pelosi herself, who back in 2011 urged Republicans to “take back their party so that it doesn’t matter who wins elections.”
You should think about this a little bit before jumping on the anti-Tea-Party bandwagon.
If Pelosi and her self-described “Republican friends” have their way, there will be absolutely no substantial difference between the Democrats and the GOP. At that point, the elections will indeed not mean anything, and therefore they will not need your vote anymore.
And when they don’t need your vote anymore, that’s when the other shoe drops—right on your head.
If liberals truly value diversity as they incessantly claim, then by definition that would include respecting and valuing everyone—even a devil tea-bagger.
Revealed by their own words and actions therefore, liberals are uniformly anti diversity and anti-inclusiveness. Their goal, as stated by Pelosi, is a single political party with shared collectivist values.
Gone is the Voltairian attitude of tolerance, the idea that I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Replacing that is the Pelosian maxim to cast out anyone who disagrees, punish them and force them to accept the party line.
In the Soviet Union it was the Communist party. In Germany, the Nazis. In Iraq, it was the Ba’ath party.Will our GOP and Democrats morph into a similar creature? Or will the American spirit of diversity and inclusiveness and freedom live on?
Within the next few years, you will have your answer.