The Least Important Election

After the GOP essentially held a coronation of the former president last year, ending on caucus night in January, it was clear that those of us looking to wrest back this nation from the cultural Marxists who’ve taken over every institution of importance in the country would get exactly zero assistance from the GOP nominee. 

We’ve seen some progress against the forces of darkness here in Iowa, but we’re just scratching the surface in this fight for the soul of this state, not to mention this country as a whole. The most successful pushback we’ve seen anywhere in the country has been through the exemplary leadership of Ron DeSantis in Florida. There are very few other victories to lift up since 2016, when the GOP primary electorate hitched its wagon to the void of principles avatar that is Donald Trump. 

You see, Donald Trump will glom onto rhetoric that entices low information people on the right, and because these people don’t take the time to actually look at outcomes and the process by which those outcomes are achieved, they see him as some sort of hero because “he fights”. In reality, he flails about like a fish thrown onto the bank after being pulled out of the water. Donald isn’t a man of any core values. He’s a utilitarian ethicist who will try to be everything to everyone, but in reality, all he is is a boat anchor on the effort to combat the cultural rot in this country. 

Because of the former president’s penchant for unrestrained rhetoric, backed up by nothing, he’s a perfect foil for the forces of cultural darkness. He’s the essence of what it means to be controlled opposition. 

Two things stick out on this front. His endorsements and his new rhetoric on the issue of life. Trump’s most fervent supporters mistakenly believe that he’s against the establishment in DC. In reality, he’s doing the bidding of the DC insiders by endorsing moderate to left leaning Republicans in primaries where there exists a much better challenger or incumbent in the primary. The two best examples of this are the House races in Virginia with Bob Good and in South Carolina with William Timmons. Trump is supporting a primary against Good because Good dared to endorse Ron DeSantis last year. He’s one of the most consistent conservative voices in DC but he didn’t kiss the ring quick enough. He has to go and that helps the establishment. On the converse of that race, Trump is backing the establishment candidate in William Timmons, a moral reprobate of a man, in a race against challenger, Adam Morgan. Morgan is the chairman of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus and one of the best men to run for Congress in a generation. Trump’s endorsements are a drag on the effort to restore fiscal and moral integrity to Congress. 

On the issue of life, instead of lifting up a culture of life as being the most important fundamental right, he’s chosen to be a that fish flopping around on the bank. Last year, he called abortion restrictions like those signed by Ron DeSantis “terrible”. He’s given up on a message of life being the preeminent right, in direct contradiction to our Declaration of Independence, and has now chosen to basically take on the position of a 90s Democrat. I guess he’s just reverting to form. 

For these reasons and many more, this has now become the least consequential presidential election of my lifetime. I will vote in my state senate, house, and sheriff races here in Iowa. Outside of that, I have no one to cast a vote for this fall. I urge others to get involved locally. Nothing good will come from this presidential election. 

The Problem is Us

 The Problem With Our Politics are the Voters

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill 

I may sound like I’m black pilled if you read to the end of this piece. I’m not sure I would call what I believe as being black pilled. I would call my thoughts in this piece an exercise in political reality. What I won’t do in the piece is police my tone on this issue. We owe it to ourselves to be incredibly hard on ourselves and our fellow Americans for allowing what has happened in this nation. 

I have come to realize that the average voter is our nation is grossly uninformed. We are governed by the people we’re governed by because the average voter is ignorant of nearly every aspect of government. In decades past, I may have been more charitable in my assessment of the average voter. In 1980, it was much harder to know exactly what was going on in the halls of the United States Congress. Now, there is precisely no excuse. I can see every vote and every debate on the little device in my pocket. 

Unlike the vast majority of people in our country, I have spent a great amount of time talking to these average voters over the past 9 years. Between phone calls, canvassing, and rallies, I’ve easily spoken to more than 10,000 voters over the past 9 years. The overarching thought I’ve had is exactly what the British Prime Minister said so long ago. We’re being destroyed for a lack of knowledge. 

Will I continue to rebuke bad politicians? Sure. I will refocus my efforts, though, on trying to get average voters to stop watching, listening, and reading canned garbage shoveled our by Con Inc media. in a spirit of imploring them to stop being ignorant. There are no excuses for our choices in November of 2024 except that of willfully ignorant voters. I hear that people want to “drain the DC swamp” on my supposed side of the aisle, while they renominated a guy who had a shot at that task and failed utterly.  

When pressed, many voters make all sorts of excuses (he didn’t know,…he was fighting against so many different forces,…he’s not a politician,…it’s Congress’s fault,…blah blah blah) for why our former president failed so spectacularly in the task of cleaning up the administrative state. I do choose to stick by what Harry Truman said regarding the presidency. The buck stops in the Oval Office and everything that happens under a given president’s tenure on the executive side must be placed at the feet of said elected executive. Two explanations can be made for why the former president failed and both are bad. Either he is incompetent and weak or he was lying when he told people he wanted to clean up DC.

This brings me to my biggest issue with many people on the political right. Cognitive dissonance. I’ve asked people what they thought of the government response to Covid. I never got an answer of, “It wasn’t so bad.” I always heard people say that Fauci was bad. Pence was bad. Governor So and So was bad. People with online profiles containing #pureblood in them will shill for the guy who signed the order making the mRNA shots a thing. That is out and out cognitive dissonance. 

I hear so many people who call themselves right of center rail against the Republican Party. They don’t understand that the whole party is now controlled by the former president and his hand picked lackeys. The current Speaker of the House is attached at the hip to the former president. The party is 100% headquartered from Mar a Lago at this point. You can’t rail against the GOP without railing against the head of the party unless you wallow in cognitive dissonance. 

I don’t come at this from a position of hatred for my fellow Americans. I come at this from a position of lamentation for how far we’ve fallen. Instead of being an actual opposition to the political enemy the left has become, the GOP and the former president have become Democrat Lite. They are definitively to the left of the 1996 Democrats on every issue, including abortion. The GOP even has their own LGBT mascots in Bruce Jenner and Rick Grenell. 

How can we expect to claw back to a base standard of not spending too much and lifting up traditional, time tested social values while acting like the left with the parking brake stuck on? Eventually, that brake will fail and the whole nation will fall over the cliff. 

Congressman Thomas Massie, one of the few consistent men I know in DC, wrote this for his X account a few days ago: 

This was some of the most thoughtful discourse on where we stand right now. It doesn’t matter who wins this fall. We’re in for a bumpy ride on the economic front because none fo the candidates are interested in drastically cutting spending, as is required to even give us a chance of turning this around. 

My conclusion is that I’m going to need to work to see the 2nd point in Representative Massie’s top post come to fruition. We need to hit rock bottom and work like everything depends on achieving outcome, (a.), because it does, instead of (b.), or even (c.). That means we need to be prepared for hardship and then when the hardship hits, we need to be prepared to endure it and come out the other side with the proper messaging. I pray for a collective prodigal moment in the pig pen. We all have to come to ourselves and go home, nationally speaking. Outside of that, we’re essentially finished as a free people. As for me, I won’t go quietly. 

I implore everyone who reads this to stop consuming the media you’re consuming. All of it. Reach out to me and I can help you find what you need to find on the information front. Neither the mainstream left media or the Con Inc media are on the side of saving this county. Misery, victimhood, and grift are too intertwined in the current media climate. You have to divorce yourself from the current popular sources. 

Saving this country will be hard, but what else should we do? Sit by and watch and just vote every 2 or 4 years? That has gotten us to where we are. Stop it. I the voters are the problem, voters becoming informed citizens in order to address the issues in the way they matter and at the time they matter(h/t to Daniel Horowitz) is the solution. In a nation where the power is derived from the consent of the governed, we only have ourselves to blame for where we are right now.

The Race to the Glue Factory

This last few weeks have been quite revealing. The controlled opposition nature of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement has been distilled into a clear liquid. The only problem with that liquid is that it’s poison to conservative activists and the prospect of reigning in an out of control bureaucratic state. All a garbage Republican politico has to do now is paint some MAGA slop over their doorways and the angel of political accountability will pass them over. 

In a world where Congressmen, like Chip Roy and Bob Good, are seen as bad people for not kissing the ring, people like Elise Stefanik (Should be D, NY) are seen as leaders. This can’t be allowed to continue if we wish to see any sort of actual American revival. 

It’s now easy to see why the electoral cancer that is Donald Trump has gained traction over a competent and effective leader, like Ron DeSantis. The vast majority of Americans don’t want to be citizens. They want to be zoo animals or pets, for lack of a better description. Throw them some food and give them a few toys and they’re happy. Covid proved this to me. People don’t understand that the cheese in the trap is there for reason. 

On the political right of today, few are interested in doing hard things, like running a campaign on issues and policy points or actually answering questions from voters (paging Nikki Haley). Heaven help us if we want a competent ballot chasing operation like the Dems have. Trump has enough name ID to get himself and a few establishment wing nuts over the line in primaries, but when it comes to general election outcomes, the GOP is a disaster because of the stink that is transferred from the former president to anyone he’s associated with. Ask Kari Lake what the Governor’s Mansion in Arizona is like, if you don’t believe me. Just because you win a primary doesn’t make you a good politician. It means you found enough people to buy into your male bovine excrement to fill in a bubble for you in a low turnout election.

With no plan on how to run a competent presidential campaign in the face of 91 criminal indictments, I fear that the down ballot consequences of this shortest primary cycle in history will be disastrous. The Republican National Committee is essentially broke, while the DNC is flush with cash and a readymade slew of opposition ads in the can. All they have to do is have someone read Trump’s Truth Social feed on TV and any Democrat with a pulse will beat him. The GOP also has no ballot chasing enterprise in the works. Organizations, like Toilet Paper Turning Point USA say they’re going to step in, but I don’t expect people used to grifting to be able to run a competent ground game. The DNC is well seasoned in areas where the GOP is nonexistent.

We can likely forget holding the US House. With a multitude of resignations and retirement announcements, the GOP House majority is cooked. A toothless new Speaker is doing them no favors, either. We have to concentrate on keeping the few great members of the House in their seats. I think of three, specifically. Chip Roy, of Texas, must keep his seat. His voice is the most important one in DC. Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, must be defended at all costs. He has a Trumpcult nut running against him in the primary. I urge everyone to go to his website and pitch in a few bucks, as I have already done. The last one is the new chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Bob Good, of southwest Virginia. Trump’s merry band of circus freaks have stood up a primary challenge to him. We need to help him retain that seat. After these, you do you on supporting individual congresscritters (as Chip Roy calls them). We need these three voices in the US House. 

In a year where the Senate map should be favorable for Republicans, I can’t see any outcome better than a 50/50 draw. The only sure pick up I see is in West Virginia. Sadly, the likely winner of that race is very likely to the left of the Democrat vacating the seat. Ohio and Montana should be easy pickups, but with the top of the ticket being a mess and the proven over performance of Dems in suburban areas, I wouldn’t bank on any other GOP pickup. One notable senator who is in trouble is Ted Cruz, of Texas. He is within the margin for error of both of his serious Democrat challengers. The Senate is irredeemably broken and a 50/50 split is actually closer to a 95/5 left wing majority. I will keep an eye on Michigan if Justin Amash chooses to run. I have no Senate race to vote on in my state, so I have no dog in this fight. 

While all of the above may seem like I’m in doom and gloom mode, I can say that I’m at peace with this election cycle. While I have no one to vote for this cycle at the top of the ticket, this makes it 16 years without a general election presidential vote for me, I see glimmers of hope at the state level. Texas has passed a few good reforms and it looks like Dade Phelan’s political future is on life support. Ron DeSantis, back in Tallahassee, has chosen to step right back in as the leader he’s always been. Iowa is seeing forward progress with this legislative session. Kim Reynolds is stepping up to defend sanity on several social issues, including working to break the gender cult in Iowa.

On the national electoral front, the 2028 presidential election starts the moment the race is called this November, especially if one of the two octogenarians is still taking the oath of office in January fo 2025. I’m not so sure that the Dems won’t replace Biden with someone who can walk in a straight line and read off of a prompter, but that is more likely to happen after his very likely reelection. The more the race is about Trump’s personality, the better for the Dems. 

Many people in the political realm call what I just wrote about a horse race analysis. In this case, the horses are on their way to the glue factory. I just pray the nation isn’t in tow. 

Choose Victory Over Victimhood

Personality over principle…that’s where a large swath of the electorate has landed on the not as far left side of American politics. I see cracks in the veneer of this movement, but it needs to be ripped from the American body politic to truly be able to move forward. Because my nature is to not join movements of people I find no common cause with, I haven’t saddled up to this personality over principle garbage. Let me explain.

Since the escalator ride in 2015 that acted as a lobotomy for many Americans, I’ve seen a slide toward a different kind of currency being made valuable on what I thought was the political right. That currency is victimhood. I see people hitching their souls to a man in whom they place all of their aspirations. If they aspire to be victims, this man is their gateway to the new (slightly) right grift.

I saw through this vacuous movement in 2015 and 2016. I saw through this movement during the time of the new Nebuchadnezzar figure in the White House. I saw through the victimhood grift when he left office in shame, a broken covid tyrant caught up in a mail ballot mess of his own funding by way of the CARES Act. Unlike most on the ‘right?’ side of the political spectrum, I wasn’t seduced by the functionally Godless new progressive populism filth that has so pervaded a portion of the electorate. When a certain failed politician throws God into his teleprompter reading sessions, I want to vomit. God will not be mocked.

Instead of a movement oriented on things that are timeless, like truth, hard work, integrity, charity, and honesty, we’ve been enmeshed in a overgrown web of discontentment, hatred, spite, and contempt for all that is good and true. This new not so left movement sees themselves in the culturally degenerate figure they lift up as their political savior. This figure has never been faithful to his family or to his employees. They see that as a positive as it requires no introspection, no repentance, and no humility. As a nation, we used to value men who could admit when they were wrong and we lifted them up when they fixed that wrong. That is now seen as a sign of weakness.

As the 2024 Iowa caucus draws near, I take heart in being part of a campaign that is the exact opposite in disposition to the failed former executive’s campaign. The staff members on my team aren’t degenerate reprobates, but instead they’re serious and mission focused individuals, set on helping the best elected executive in the country in his effort to help steer this country away from the precipice we’re teetering on at this present time. 

Right now, we have a massive chance to make effectual change in this country. That would necessarily mean we would discard the rank progressive populism taking over a certain segment of the American right. We need to trade that unprincipled mess in for sane, liberty minded, anti corporatist focused, small government conservatism. 

There is precisely one man running with the policy and personnel chops who could bring about the change we need. Ron DeSantis is that man. He’s also the first candidate in generations who you could point your children toward and say that he and his family could be real roll models for what America needs to strive toward. Decent, morally upright family life is almost foreign in our country, but that is what Ron has. Casey DeSantis would be the very best First Lady in our history, in my opinion. I don’t say that just because I know her, either. I say that because she’s her husband’s best advocate and his first sounding board. That gives me great comfort. Their three little ones are pretty great, too. 

If you understand what I’m conveying, join me. The Iowa Caucus is a week away. Let’s help turn this nation in peril around. Choose victory over victimhood.