Is it time to create a new political party? That’s what many are saying, thanks to the traitorous hacks in the GOP. The three McTraitors are the face of globalism and establishment failure and they are the three people who have been working with people like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and other RINOs to turn this party back to its former ways before President Trump splashed on the scene. Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Ronna McDaniel all must go. None of those three weasels should be in a leadership position.
As for a new political party, that’s talk that is understandable to hear after what we just went through, but it’s something we’ve been talking about for a while now.
A year ago, The Intelligencer wrote a piece on the possibility of Trump starting a third party.
Trumpism is to a significant extent an attitude that has a bearing on but doesn’t entirely depend on issue positions, or certainly any one issue position. That separates it from classic single-issue groups like the anti-Masonic Party of the 1820s and 1830s, the abolitionist Liberty Party of 1840, or the Prohibition Party formed in 1869 (and still around in a diminished form).
Perhaps the closest single-issue party to one that Trump’s fans might have joined is the American Party of the 1850s, better known as the Know-Nothings, based on a pledge of secrecy its adherents were supposed to honor. This nativist party was momentarily powerful but soon faded, its ranks largely absorbed by the Republican Party or the Whig successor the Constitutional Union Party of 1860.
Generally speaking, MAGA isn’t a sufficiently issue-oriented movement to be well served by a single-issue party.
Some minor parties have represented strong ideological groups with no clear relationship to the major parties. Those would include the Socialist and Communist Parties of the 20th century and the Green and Libertarian Parties of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
One less durable but significant variant was the People’s Party (or Populists) of the late 19th century, which drew votes from both major parties and arguably pushed both (and particularly the Democrats) to the left. Since many Trump supporters consider themselves latter-day Populists, focused on denying power to both Democratic and Republican elites, they may follow this influential but short-lived model. Though he was a Democrat who only appropriated Populist policy positions, William Jennings Bryan remained a national political power for decades based on a Populist message and following, much as the Trump family might aspire to do as a force remaining within the GOP but hostile to some of its elements.
I disagree with this guy on many levels; I think MAGA is the strongest political movement in this country, by far. And no, I am not including ballot harvesting and swamp sabotage. I am talking about a tried-and-true movement consisting of real people. This is why the GOP establishment and Dems are trying so hard to destroy it.
However, I believe a third party will screw GOP establishment Republicans, but it would screw us as well, and Dems would keep winning big because we’re not addressing the real issues here.
And for the record, it’s not just our side that feels this way. The Dems do, too.
Are Americans finally ready for a third-party? Andrew Yang, a former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, certainly think so. They have just founded the Forward Party with the avowed aspiration of promoting more moderate politics and candidates.
They have some evidence to back their hopes. In a just-released survey, the Pew Research Center found that the share of voters with an unfavorable view of both political parties has risen from 6% in 1994 to 27% today. When asked to respond to the statement that “I usually feel that there is at least one candidate who shares most of my views,” 43% disagree, up from 36% in 2018. Thirty-eight percent strongly agree that “I wish there were more political parties to choose from in this country,” a figure that includes 48% of Independents and 38% of Democrats but just 21% of Republicans.
I have been a Republican since I was in high school, even before I could vote, I was a member of the “Young Republicans,” and I can tell you, that I hate this party as much as I loathe the Dems. They are total garbage. We need a new party, clearly. People like Ronna McDaniel, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy do not represent us; as a matter of fact, they work against us.
Senator Josh Hawley agrees and is calling for sweeping changes to the GOP.
Here’s what Josh Hawley said: “The old party is dead. Time to bury it. Build something new”
The old party is dead. Time to bury it. Build something new
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 13, 2022
He’s right, and that’s exactly what we were trying to do, but we got sabotaged by the GOP, and Dems once again used mail-in ballots and harvesting to pull off impossible wins and beat the odds.
Here’s what people online are saying:
“Only a complete imbecile can’t see that there cannot be elections this close in so many places. They slow the count to see how many votes they need and then come up with numbers that win by .5% or less. That is statistically implausible. And it keeps happening over and over again.”
“Good people of Kentucky come up with a candidate to run against McCarthy in next primary season ! Please! Take out your deadwood.”
“We either learn to harvest ballots, or we keep losing, it’s that simple”
“Personally, I don’t think it was the money factor. People know how they’re suffering under this economy. They know abandoning our energy independence is costing them a fortune. Parent know the perverse things public schools use to indoctrinate their children.
Until this mass mail-in balloting is stopped every election will be suspect. Until every vote counting machine is removed every election will be suspect.
Until we return to only a few absentee ballots, paper ballots on the day of election, voter ID verification, and hand counted by bipartisan election officials don’t expect the results to vary.”
“This wasn’t Trump’s fault. This was massive mail-in ballots and harvesting. Wake up everyone”
“I’m sorry to say, anyone who says anything other than there was cheating is not helping. Just say they cheated and have proof. Everyone is so scared to tell the truth. No need to fight with each other or them. Expose the cheating and the rest will take care of itself.”
“Mail-in votes are here to say, we either adapt, and learn to use them to our advantage, or we die on this hill, with our precious “conservative” virtue intact”
In my opinion, we don’t need a third party; we need to get rid of the current GOP leadership and create a new party that way. We were focused on these little stupid RINOs who we took out in primaries when we should have been more focused on ousting the three McTraitors. We should have formed a plan to get rid of them, years ago.
And we need to suck it up and learn how to ballot harvest and use mail-in votes to our advantage because I can tell you this — they’re not going anywhere.
This post originally appeared on WayneDupree.com.