The Republican Party is finally winning, and the Conservative movement is enjoying real power and cultural resurgence.
The Democratic Party is on life support, and a couple of special elections in deep-red states cannot change its larger decline. They are polling very weak numbers, and the leadership looks like feckless puppets more interested in performance art or political theater than in actual governance.
They have no solutions, only complaints. The monomaniacal Democratic strategy of “Orange Man Bad” has harmed them irreparably. They staked everything on shutting down Trump, and every attack backfired bigly, giving the Big Orange Man more power.
But political hegemony doesn’t last forever. Supermajorities in government frequently fracture, and the Conservative movement is facing similar challenges. As the number of voters switching to the Republican Party increases significantly across the country, a range of political and ideological clashes will inevitably emerge. On Bill Maher’s HBO program, we hear from “left-wing MAGA” pundits who have abandoned the Democratic Party because the party is corrupt and dishonest.
But that voter cohort is still left-wing. Do we want disaffected leftists transforming the GOP into another liberal party? Are conservatives committed to maintaining the Republican Party as a vehicle for fiscal discipline, the Constitution, and reaffirmation of the American Creed of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Republicans must confront three factions gaining traction in the GOP and reassert commitments to conservative policies.
- Sodomy (the LGBT Movement)
The Republican Party has been a pro-family party since its inception. Founded in 1854, the Republican Party pledged to destroy the twin relics of barbarism: slavery and polygamy.
Regarding polygamy, women should not be treated as property, and the family unity should not be corrupted. Marriage as a natural institution must remain one man and one woman.
The Marxist LGBT movement wants to redefine marriage to undermine society. The Log Cabin “Republicans” are promoting this agenda within the GOP. We can be grateful for the financial acumen of Scott Bessent, the campaign efforts of Ric Grenell, and the grassroots activism of Scott Pressler, but these men also want to normalize the notion that a man can abuse another man as if he were a woman and that there is nothing “queer” about it.
Then-candidate JD Vance was wrong when he mentioned “normal gays.” There is nothing normal about homosexuality.
The sexual revolution of the 1960s Hippie Boomers launched free sex between people of the same sex. This cultural disruption is now frustrating the conservative cause. Last month, Grenell fired a conservative staffer at the Kennedy Center because he believed in traditional marriage. So much for freedom of speech!
The well-being of society, the stability of public health, and the rejection of moral anarchy are essential hallmarks of American conservatism. Just because a couple of well-connected homosexuals put on a MAGA hat does not mean we should cave on the fight for the family. You destroy the family, the fundamental unit of society; you are slouching towards Gomorrah.
Republicans should not be welcoming confused men in dresses as standard-bearers for the party, either. Republicans should not fall into the LGBT diversity Olympics just to win a few more votes.
- Anti-Semitism
Support for Israel has been a fundamental position of the conservative movement. For the last thirty years, post-Cold War, both political parties have defended the Jewish state from enemies foreign and domestic. That country is part of our Judeo-Christian heritage and the fight against Islamic terror, and it remains the only free society in the Middle East.
The regressive left panders to Islam. Progressive members of the House Democratic caucus, including arrogant, ignorant Muslim supremacists like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. It’s bad enough that the Hamas caucus has moved into Congress.
What’s worse is that some Republicans are starting to talk like them. Marjorie Taylor Greene has jumped the shark, falsely describing Israel’s war efforts in Gaza as “a genocide.” Her comments are not just irresponsible; they are resignation-worthy. Rep. Thomas Massie’s hatred of AIPAC has turned into all-out hostility to Israel. While there’s an argument for ending all foreign aid, Massie’s constant social media refrain against Israel belies a deep ignorance or a stunning insolence.
More dissident conservative pundits are bashing Israel, trafficking in anti-Zionist tropes, and embracing anti-Semitism. Jew hatred is anti-Western, anti-white, and anti-American. Any form of ethnic or religious bigotry sells out the vision of our framers, who in the Declaration of Independence declared that “All men are created equal.” The conspiracy theories about “The Jews” controlling the American government, or all the hateful lies from the USS Liberty to 9/11, not only undermine the credibility of the conservative movement but also serve the leftist aims of fracturing the coalition.
Roseanne Barr stated it best recently when she called out the corrupt, perverse marriage of communism/Marxism and anti-Semitism, and all of it must be expelled from the GOP.
- Socialism
Government intervention into the economy is becoming popular with some populist elements of the Republican Party. While the arguments for temporary tariffs on selected goods have their place, the federal government should not pick winners and losers.
Conservative pundits Richard Painter and Scott Morefield have advocated for government-run single-payer healthcare. This is insane! Why would any conservative want the government to run our healthcare system?
US Senator Josh Hawley has become the worst offender in Congress.
He campaigned on placing a cap on credit card interest rates. Nothing will harm the working class and lower middle class more. If credit card companies can’t make money, they will cut off a wide swath of the country from getting credit cards at all.
Hawley wanted to stop necessary cuts to Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Bill. Does this guy want more Americans to be dependent on the government? We need Congress to repeal and reduce government spending and programs, and grant more funding back to the states.
Hawley recently excoriated auto insurance executives because they ask for the age and sex of insurance applicants before offering them a plan. Insurance companies have to assess risk, so they use factors like age, sex, and the number of years driving. Insurance companies would go out of business if they could not assess risk and charge premiums accordingly!
Let’s not ignore the incursion of unionism. JD Vance announced during the 2024 campaign that he opposes federal right-to-work laws. What happened to the First Amendment? Freedom of association should also mean the freedom not to associate, and why should any American be forced to join a union and pay dues for its political posturing as a condition of employment? This is not the American way at all.
We must restore a respect for free enterprise in the Republican Party, and we must emphasize that (temporary) tariff schedules are about protecting essential industries and preserving national security.
We don’t need more collectivism, identity politics, or government largesse. We need to reassess and affirm true conservative principles for the long haul: