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.

 

Why I Chose to Support Ron DeSantis

 It is 60 days until the Iowa Caucus as of the writing of this piece. I haven’t blogged much in the past few years. I’ve been more contemplative in my approach to life. I’m still the firebrand activist when I need to be, but my heart has softened to the plight of the people the government treats as cogs in the system. 

I chose to jump back into the political fight last year, before the Iowa legislative primaries. I was pleasantly surprised by our governor, Kim Reynolds, and her choice to get off the sidelines and support primaries against a number of bad Iowa Republicans. I was part of several of those primaries on the ground organizing front. 

After that victory was won, I had thought the political process had started to find the N on the compass row. I was wrong. When Donald Trump chose to take swipes at the successful governor of Florida, I knew we were in for a mess. When the calendar turned to 2023, I chose to get back into the Iowa caucus organizing process. I met with and talked to several candidates. One stood out. That Florida governor…

In March, I went to the book tour event Ron DeSantis held in Davenport, IA. I listened. I digested what he was saying. It was policy rich and principled in a way that I hadn’t heard from anyone else even thinking about running. After the event, I greeted him and got a card from a staffer. I sent an email to that staffer that ended up being the start of a journey that has brought me to this point. 

I had heard that Governor DeSantis and his people were hard to get ahold of. I didn’t really expect anything from the email I sent, to be honest. I was wrong. A member of this staff called me a week after I sent that email. We had a long phone conversation about Iowa and about the political climate here in the state. That person, I won’t call her name, is now a friend. She kept in touch with me. We still exchange text messages and emails and she knows she can always call or text me if she needs prayer.

Fast forward to the campaign season and I have, through a multitude of public and private meetings, been honored to get to know Ron and Casey DeSantis. 

Ron DeSantis is focused, principled, and kind, but with a resolve I haven’t seen in any candidate for president. He conducts himself in a manner that places him above reproach, morally. He is a good husband to Casey. The way he talks about his wife and kids is the way any man should talk about his family. He deeply loves his wife and children. You can tell his little boy is the apple of his eye and his two daughters have their daddy wrapped around their little fingers. America needs more examples of a man doing great things while also being a good family man.

Casey…well…Casey DeSantis is a gem of a human. She’s a political activist at heart. She is truly her husband’s biggest supporter and his most important sounding board. For that, I am grateful. She’s a great wife and mother. She and Ron are meant for one another. I’m thankful that she’s someone I can call a friend. It would be the honor of a lifetime to be able to call her the First Lady of the United States. 

One of the great honors of the whole campaign season was hosting the DeSantis family at my church in Washington, Iowa on October 8th, 2023. I was glad we were able to be a blessing to them that morning and I thank Ron and Casey for their outreach to my church. 

There are many others in both the Never Back Down PAC supporting the governor and his campaign staff that I can now count as friends. As a volunteer county chair, I talk to someone in this fight most days of the week. 

I’m not so sure that our country deserves a man like Ron DeSantis in the White House. We’ve overseen the murder of 65 million babies since 1973, an ongoing crime that continues apace, even since the Dobbs ruling of 2022. We’ve seen the rise of the gender identity cult, seeking to mutilate the minds and bodies of young people across the country. We’ve seen the degradation of the natural family. We’ve seen the destruction of all cultural institutions, including most local churches. Mass immigration of people not seeking to be citizens is a massive problem. Inflation, medical tyranny, a bureaucracy seeking to control our lives…I could go on and on. 

One thing gives me hope. God says that as long as there is a remnant that haven’t bowed the knee to idols, He can work through those people. I believe we do have a remnant. That’s all it takes. 

I want to ask everyone who reads this to pray for Ron, Casey, Madison, Mason, and Mamie DeSantis. They surely need the guidance and protection of God in this season. Also, pray for his staff and everyone across the country who has devoted themselves to working to see Ron become our next president. Pray for needed generational change. Pray for competent and principled leadership. Pray for our nation to turn away from vain pursuits. 

My personal prayer is specifically for a space of grace from God whereby we might be able to see a revival in the civic realm of people taking their citizenship seriously and ultimately, a revival in local, New Testament churches across the nation where the Gospel will be preeminent once again. 

Lastly, I ask and pray that anyone who reads this will join me in this effort. Find me on Twitter/X @bigredmatt1011

Ideas over Identity

 Once Again, The National Pulse is after me. I don’t apologize. 

I wrote a blog post about campaigning in the South Carolina and Georgia seven and half years ago. I was bothered by the cultural dynamics of several southern states and rural areas.

I don’t apologize for my words. Here’s why. I grew up in the 90s in the middle of this country in a small city surrounded by cornfields and cattle. Now I live in a small town surrounded by corn and hog farms. My formative years in school were punctuated by being in a totally color blind society. My grade school was made up of almost 25% refugee families from the conflict in Vietnam. Laotian, Cambodian, and Hmong kids were my friends. I thought race issues were non existent. 

The same could be said for where I live now. My church has large ministries to Hispanic and African immigrant populations. We have black, white, Asian, and Hispanic people, and every combination thereof in church. 

I am bothered when I go to places like Chicago and Milwaukee, where people are siloed up by race. I am bothered by small towns in the south where people choose to live on one side of the town or another to self segregate.

Maybe I’m still naive, but I still strive for a colorblind society. I hate everything that divides by race. My bible tells me that there are only two types of people; saved and unsaved. The New Testament is a for ALL people and there is only one race…the human one. 

I have laments about culture in areas of our siloed up country. I have admittedly urged people to move, but that is based upon where people can be more free from state intervention in their church or business. I lament the fact that there are white churches and black churches. I lament the fact that we can’t have discussions on cultural issues, like fatherlessness without bringing race into the equation. I lament because our government has pushed to see men pushed out of the home to be replaced by the government. That’s not racial. 

I shed tears when I heard Larry Elder give his history and talk about issues of family and culture at a recent Iowa GOP dinner. 

Our only dividing points should be ideas and principles. We can debate those things. We can seek to change long held cultural issues plaguing urban and rural America. Growing up in an area untouched by these issues showed me that it is possible to simply debate ideas.

I have seen a continued push to lift up how people look or their physical traits over ideas and policies. I’m harder right on policy issues that nearly anyone I know, but I also don’t want to see people divided by immutable characteristics. You can’t change your color. You can’t change your sex. 

This is why I can’t stand BLM, the alphabet mafia, or people like Nick Fuentes. They all seek division based upon physical identity. It all ends in the same morally depraved ditch, regardless of the direction. Until we move back to debating and seeking policy victories, the right will be a hollowed out husk of a political movement. 

I see hope in people like Ron DeSantis and my own governor, Kim Reynolds. They have had success in actually governing. They have moved their states to the right without focusing on immutable characteristics or identity politics. 

We must be able to focus on ideas. I don’t want to see our country fall into the European model of all political parties being big government socialist proponents with only superficial identity politics separating them. This is not something I could be a part of. I have had many moments where I think of finding a piece of undeveloped land in the mountains and going off grid to escape all of this, but my conscience won’t allow me to. I have to be engaged in this fight or I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. I can’t leave a nation of disparate groups of people who are pitted against one another for reasons that don’t matter. 

If you want to see more freedom, liberty, less government intervention in small and medium sized business, and a focus on tried and true moral principles, I’m with you. I you seek to divide over color or sex, I am not.

I Don’t Apologize

 I Don’t Apologize. 

I was at the Iowa State Fair all day Saturday, August 12th. I was overheard by a reporter calling the cult around the former president degenerates, regarding an airplane banner being towed through the sky above the fairgrounds. I stand by my words.  Raheem Kassem, a foreign national, seems to think I care what he thinks. Alex Bruesewitz, a paid grifter consultant, seems to think I care what he thinks. I don’t. 

I stand by my statement. The only part of the record I’ll correct is that I do all of my activism as a volunteer. I take no money. I knock doors, make calls, and help in any manner I can. I know people in the Iowa’s House and Senate. I know people in the Never Back Down PAC. I know people in the DeSantis campaign. Everyone of them I’ve met have been genuinely decent people.

I’ve been heavily involved in politics on a grassroots level for my whole time here in Iowa. I’ve seen our efforts start to move this state in a better direction. The last 18 months have been a huge victory in this state that had long suffered under a regime of corporatist hacks and social progressives. We aren’t where we need to be, but we’re no longer running head long in the wrong direction. I credit our governor, Kim Reynolds, for pushing back against the federal government when they pushed for her to issue stay at home orders during the federal covid tyranny of 2020. After 6 weeks, she recognized the errors of their thinking. We had youth sports in the summer of 2020, before anyone else in the US. 

I traveled extensively in 2020 and early 2021. Iowa was the most free of any of the states I traveled to and through, including Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. I was glad to be back home to iowa every time I left. 

I have never supported the former one term president. I saw his economic interventionism coming. I didn’t see 2020 coming, though. We were governed from DC for the last 10 months of his term by the medical industrial complex. The former president gave gave the nation over to Anthony Fauci. Previous to the worst management decision in world history, he governed as dyed in the wool Keynesian, pushing the non government/government central bank to expand our money supply at rates never before seen, to keep interest rates artificially low so saving was dissuaded and spending beyond means through cheap loans was encouraged, thereby creating a bubble that burst 18 months after he signed that disastrous CARES Act. That bill was the single most damaging piece of legislation ever signed in our history. Ask Thomas Massie about that legislation and our former president’s reaction to his objections. 

States, like California, were bailed out. People were paid not to work. Supply chains shut down worldwide. The massive amount of new dollars had nothing to buy after inventories were diminished. That’s what we’re paying for now. Too many dollars chasing too few goods.

This same guy who lost by his own doing in 2020, to a potted plant of a man, had the temerity to come back to my state at a dinner in front of a few thousand Republicans at the of July and tout his corporate welfare payments to farmers and his infatuation for ethanol production. The former president said nothing about the disaster that he left in his wake that allowed the forces behind Joe Biden to take over. 

 

When the RNC and our former president knew about a push to harvest ballots in certain states, no counter effort was put in place. The party and the former president gave up that ground, instead choosing to peddle grievance and “release the kraken” nonsense. Instead of looking inward to see where they had failed, that former president and his merry band of degenerates(I said it again) chose to fundraise off of the backs of baby boomers to “stop the steal” instead of looking at what they did wrong to lead to the mess that was the election of 2020. I believe there was malfeasance, funded by the CARES Act, that went on. That’s been going on in large cities for a very long time. Again, the RNC and the former president had no preemptive plan to deal with it. 

This was all happening while the former president also plowed forward with a planned transfer of wealth from taxpayers to big pharma, called Warp Speed. That will go down as one of the most evil decisions in world history. We’re still coming to grips with that evil decision. 

I say all of that to say this. I watched every leader in states and at the federal level over the last 8 years, since the former president rode down his escalator at a building he financed with funds from our societal enemies. I saw a few good ones, like my governor. I saw one great one: Ron DeSantis. I saw a guy who admitted his mistakes when he made them. I saw a guy who changed course when better data became available. I saw a guy who made his state a destination for people seeking freedom.

It was then I noticed Governor DeSantis’s pivot toward fighting back against the enemies of truth in the education, banking, and financial systems. He brought in Jimmy Patronis to help guide Florida financially. They divested from ESG companies. They fought Disney when Disney sought to make an issues of Florida’s proposed plan to protect young children from the religion of gender ideology being pushed in government schools. 

DeSantis fired his surgeon general when that guy pimped mask policies against his administration’s policies, in favor of Dr Joseph Ladapo. Dr Ladapo is the only righteous public health official in government anywhere in the country today. After initially promoting the covid quasi therapeutics being peddled as vaccines, when the data started coming in, Florida became the only state to start recommending against the shots. Contrast that to the former president giving presidential commendations to the evil cabal of people involved in Warp Speed as one of his last acts in office. 

In combination with Florida’s Attorney General, Governor DeSantis has landed the only real blows for justice against the evil that has become the cadre of Soros backed district and state attorneys. His removal of two pro criminal prosecutors is one of the very few righteous deeds in the nation in the fight against violent crime, in total contrast to the First Step Act signed by the former president after a certain influencer waved her ample posterior in his face a few times. 

The paid grifters currently propping up the former president’s less than energetic personal campaign,  many of which live in Florida because of the Governor, were effusive in their praise of Governor DeSantis…until they got paid not to be. Three days before the midterm 2022 elections, I saw it. I’ve been watching and studying these people since 2015. They never change. They’re transactional quasi populists with no coherent worldview. Worldview is destiny.

Now, we have freaks like Laura Loomer, Steven Cheung, the Dilley losers, the two I mentioned at the top, and a whole host of other world class degenerates making things up to smear one of the only righteous families in American political life. I think Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey, are a mirror being held up to our country and people in the cult don’t want to look at their own reflection because it says something bad about themselves. Strong marriages and strong families aren’t the norm now and can be intimidating for people with empty souls. I believe that’s why Laura Loomer accuses Casey of not going through a cancer battle. I believe that’s why they’re obsessed by physical appearances and clothes. I believe that’s why they make things up about the personal lives of this couple.

Ron and Casey love each other. That’s plain to see. When you meet them, they’re in sync. Spend any time around them and you figure out that it’s 100% real. They’re good parents. They support one another and they believe the same things about life, family, and country. As the Bible says, they’re equally yoked, moving in the same direction. They believe in being servants. Leadership comes through service. 

I don’t have children. I do, however, have a nephew who I would do anything for, up to and including laying down my own life. I have friends who have many children. I see a nation that is quickly spirally toward utter moral depravity. I don’t want to leave this nation on the path it currently is traveling for the sake of our coming generation. That path, on the cultural front, did not change or even slow down while our former president was in office. He would sometimes use inflammatory rhetoric to placate his fans, but then he would let his leftwing cabinet members actually set policy, controverting his rhetoric. we got all of the blow back with none of the policy victoires. 

Now, do I think everyone who voted for the former president once, or even twice, is a bad person? No. Most people vote defensively against the other side. I do, however, think that the former president’s inner circle and his outer organization are some of the worst of people I’ve ever seen. They deny all reality to prop up a man who is so pride filled, he still touts warp speed as his greatest accomplishment. He’s willing to destroy the man who governs the state he chose to move to. Make it make sense?

In closing, I won’t back down. Donald Trump must lose the primary for our nation to have any shot at a new birth of freedom. Our best choice is Ron DeSantis. His record of service is something we haven’t seen in a presidential candidate in generations. He’s not running to be somebody. He’s running to do the work need to help turn our country back from the precipice of decline we’re teetering on right now. 

Matt Wells