The Republican Party is in disarray, and its lack of unity is highly visible to the American public. People like Chip Roy and Thomas Massie support Ron DeSantis, and people like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor-Greene support Donald Trump. None of these four individuals could be considered a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and they all should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the MAGA movement (henceforth, The Movement) — the single largest, most potent political front against the Democrat Party that exists today.
Yes, it is unlikely that The Movement would ever have arisen without the political leadership of Donald J. Trump. It was born out of the former president’s defiance of the legacy media and has since congealed around the former president as the District establishment continues to weaponize our nation’s domestic security apparatus against him. Our nation is in deep trouble, and the Conservative Right should not be squabbling among themselves.
Would The Movement persist if the former president were to surrender his leadership? It is difficult to say. This said, why should he?
Yes, there are many good people in leadership positions who could and surely would sustain The Movement in the former president’s absence — and this, for the simple reason that many Americans have awakened to the fact that their nation is under siege by various global forces. Among these latter are included the world’s corporate globalists, neo-Marxists and the more traditional communists, and, of course, our corrupt global bankers. And, all of these are to say nothing of the recent subversion of our electoral process, the anti-American indoctrination of our nation’s children, the continued manipulation and control of our nation’s money supply and national economy, our ever-failing judicial system, mandated experimental gene therapies, and the invasion of illegal immigrants across our southern and northern borders. Of course, the list is much longer, but these are the key issues that threaten the very fabric of our society and the vital traditions that once made us a great nation.
Yes, it is true that we are in the primary season, and that the political factions of each political party should be given a chance to express their positions. I, for example, welcome the voice of Vivek Ramaswamy and am grateful for his endearing respect for the former president and The Movement of which he is surely a part. Unfortunately, Ramaswamy’s example is not being followed by the other candidates. and their open criticism of the de facto head of the Republican Party is unhealthy in times like these.
Yes, I can well understand Thomas Massie’s criticism of Donald Trump’s handling of the federal budget during his first four years in office. And yes, I applaud Ron DeSantis’s gubernatorial leadership during the CoVID trauma of the past three years, but why can these matters not be brought up with the same tact and goodly manner in which Vivek Ramaswamy speaks of the former president?
Donald Trump is the rightful “owner” of The Movement and those who would openly oppose him as they have done and continue to do are either foolish or driven by personal ambition that is supported by hidden forces that do not serve the best interests of our country. It is difficult to believe that these forces still believe that they can control the political narrative after what our nation has been through since the cover-up of 9/11. Alas, our nation no longer belongs to the people, but on paper, and The Movement represents the one political force that can take it back, if only the Republican Party leadership would stand with it.
No, I do not believe that President Trump is the answer to all of our nation’s evils. Nor, do I believe that The Movement is as.enlightened as I would like to see it. This said, no one on America’s political scene has offered anything that is comparable in potency, and that could move the nation away from the economic, political, social, and ideological havoc that the globalist Left has in store for our nation and humanity as a whole.
If we view President Trump and The Movement that he has built and champions as a battering ram sufficiently strong to penetrate the thoroughly corrupt District fortress that America’s political establishment has been fortifying since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and before, then we could, at minimum, be well satisfied to have breached the gate that is preventing us from restoring our so long revered, but clearly troubled constitutional republic.
That we stand together against the globalists among us who would undermine our glorious tradition of a sovereign people whose government serves it, and not the other way around.
That the American people would behave with civility and respect toward their fellow citizens and restore pride in our nation’s rich heritage and all that we have overcome to bring our nation this far! This is not our first internal domestic struggle, and it will surely not be our last. This is the nature of a political democracy and constitutional republic. That we only keep in mind that the democratic nature of our republic should not be used to subvert its republican character, but rather to strengthen it and make it more resilient against current and future threats.
Roddy A. Stegemann, First Hill, Seattle 98104
Author of Mount Cambitas - The Story of Real Money