RINOs Hate However Want MAGA! – JP

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Doral, Florida – The Republican establishment does not like grassroots conservatives, but cannot win without them. As the Anglican Church said of its Methodist reform movement, when it pushed them out into a new denomination in the 1700s, they are too enthusiastic! Since 1976, from Reagan to Trump, the Republican establishment has resisted grassroots conservative candidates, and gone on to lose without them and their supporters. The establishment prefers losing to Democrats over winning with conservatives.

Ronald Reagan

President Ford beat back a primary challenge in 1976 from Ronald Reagan, then former Governor of California. Ford’s Chief of Staff was Dick Cheney, who had also served as administrator of President Nixon’s wage-and-price control board. Cheney later served as Secretary of Defense for President Poppy Bush in the First Iraq War, and Vice President for President Dubya Bush in the Second Iraq War. Ford went on to lose that election to the deplorable Jimmy Carter.

Ronald Reagan and his grassroots conservative supporters returned to soundly defeat Carter in 1980, then won 49 states in 1984. Vice President Poppy Bush rode Reagan’s successful record into the Presidency in 1988, in effect winning Reagan’s third term. Reagan reduced taxes and regulations, thereby igniting a sustained economic boom. One of the consequences of that boom was that the Soviet Union admitted defeat in the Cold War and dissolved in 1991.

Once in the Presidency, however, Poppy Bush reverted to his globalist RINO roots, and raised taxes despite having expressly promised not to do so. This blunder cost him the support of grassroots conservatives, who supported the third party candidacy of Ross Perot with 19% of the popular vote for President in 1992. As a result, Slick Willie Clinton was elected with only 43% of the popular vote.
Thereafter, the Republican Presidential nominee in 1996 against Clinton was Senator Bob Dole, an establishment Republican from Kansas. In order to bolster his conservative credentials, Dole picked former Congressman Jack Kemp as his running mate. Kemp had been a supporter of Reagan and his supply-side tax cuts, but it was not enough to prevent Clinton from winning re-election.

Dubya Bush, then Governor of Texas in his second term and appearing to be more conservative than he really was, won the Republican nomination for President in 2000. He barely defeated Al Gore, and won a more decisive re-election in 2004 against John Kerry. Dubya was more conservative than Gore or Kerry, but nevertheless he expanded the federal bureaucracy with the Patriot Act, the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. He also started forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Dubya’s mismanagement of the economy gave us the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing Great Recession. Probably no Republican could have won the Presidential election that year, given Dubya’s failures, but John McCain showed himself to be a true RINO when he would not confront his opponent’s Islamic background. Mitt Romney won the first debate and had Obama on the ropes in 2012, but was too much of a RINO to deliver a decisive blow against America’s first black President.

In response to Obama’s election, grassroots conservatives launched the Tea Party movement at the beginning of 2009, which led to the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 2010. Even Obama admitted that his party had gotten a shellacking. Nevertheless, Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, together with Senate leader Mitch McConnell, worked to throttle the Tea Party movement. It was too enthusiastic for them!

Donald Trump

The experts were expecting Republicans to nominate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in 2016 for a dynastic re-match versus Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump, however, crashed that party and led a movement of grassroots conservatives to Make America Great Again. It is important to note that the grassroots conservative movement was there before Trump, and Trump mobilized it and provided leadership. MAGA was there before Trump and will continue after him. It represents the core of American political identity.

The economy was booming in 2019 and Trump appeared headed for re-election in 2020 when progressives pulled out the Wuhan flu virus, which they had helped create, and shut down the country. Under the cover of Covid, election integrity rules were relaxed in most states, and legal appeals after Election Day were too little and too late. Joe Biden was credited with having received 81 million votes, far more than Obama had ever received, and more than the 77 million that Trump received in 2024. It is reasonable to conclude that millions of those votes were made up!

RINOs had a hand at ensuring Biden’s victory in 2020. In Georgia crooked Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger allowed Fulton County to mislead Republican poll-watchers and count stored ballots that had been mailed in just to assure Biden’s victory. In Arizona the McCain Mafia, offended by Trump’s disparagement of their hero, made sure that the machine count in Maricopa County came out for Biden. In return, Biden named Cindy McCain as head of the food program at the United Nations. RINOs were relieved that Democrats had done for them what they could not do for themselves – – get rid of President Trump and his grassroots conservative supporters.

In the 2024 campaign, RINOs declined to defend Trump while he endured Democrat lawfare. Nevertheless, grassroots conservatives drove Trump to victory, but RINOs have not given up. Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, both campaigned for Quemala Harris. Congresswoman Cheney did not invite President Trump to her father’s funeral in Washington last month.

The results of the special Congressional election in Tennessee this week show what happens when the establishment neglects the grassroots. President Trump and prior Republican Congressman Mark Green, running together on the same ballot in 2024, won this District by 21 percentage points. Congressman Green running alone in 2022, not a good year for Republicans, also won by 21 points. In this election, however, the Republican won by only 8 points.

Today the Republican establishment in Florida is busy purging grassroots conservatives from party positions to which they had been duly elected. See: https://miamiindependent.com/stop-rinos-goring-maga/. The establishment is attempting to stamp the Trump seal of approval on their purge by hosting Lara Trump as keynote speaker at a Trump Day gala dinner in Manatee County next month.

Third parties in America are for losers, and in the genera elections, a RINO is better than a Donkey, usually. Accordingly, the place for grassroots conservatives to confront the Republican establishment is in the primary elections.