Interesting article by Kevin Roberts - The Struggle for the Soul of the GOP
He opines about "Democrat versus Republican battle and the beginning of the conservative versus "uniparty" war."
According to
recent polling that The Heritage Foundation conducted with RMG Research, an overwhelming three out of four swing voters opposed sending any additional aid to Ukraine without also allocating funds for our own border. A majority (56 percent) of swing voters in key battleground states thought that the $113 billion the United States had already committed to Ukraine was too much.
A majority (112) of Republicans voted against Ukraine aid on April 20. Younger and newer members are particularly fed up with leadership's conciliatory approach and manipulative tactics that have led us to this point. The average age of the Senate Republicans who voted "nay" is 59, while the average age of those who voted "yea" is 66. The average "nay" vote has been in office since just 2016, while the average "yea" vote has been in Washington since 2010. The same dynamic was true with the recent $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Newer, younger representatives want a choice, not an echo, and increasingly they're adopting a populist form of conservatism that champions "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" above all else. In other words, they want a GOP that puts America first. (If Trump wins he could find some very willing allies).
As Ronald Reagan said in his 1980 address accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, "For those who have abandoned hope, we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!"
The GOP establishment's actions this past week portend the end of the GOP establishment, not its survival. Conservatives will win the soul of the GOP and with it the hearts of the American people.
This leads me to wonder with this age gap of thinking in the GOP why aren't we seeing this in the Democrats. Their leadership has a stranglehold on the voices they allow to speak. Sure the Squad sounds like they are independent of sorts but then you come to realize they are the vanguard paving the way for where the Democrats are going next. Recent events bear this out. They were anti-Israel, antisemitic long before the rest of the Party got to that point. What is it about the mindset of a Democrat that they'll quickly fall in line regardless of how their voters feel vs Republicans who will break ranks for what they believe their voters want. Odd that.
