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Donald Trump's shock and awe campaign has been something to behold, and he's nowhere close to being done. We can't let the soft, squishy Republicans within the GOP derail our mission of destroying the radical left.
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The defeated Democrats are so screwed up that they installed David Hogg as their second-in-command at the DNC, so these dorks are not going to be our biggest problem. Neither is the regime media, which is totally confused and baffled both at Donald Trump’s popularity and at the sheer speed and volume of his assault on the Establishment. No, our biggest problem in making America great again is going to be other Republicans.
We can’t take our foot off the pedal. We can’t slow down. We can’t hesitate. Right now, we have the initiative and the momentum, and we have to keep driving on. It’s exhilarating. Most of us don’t feel no ways tired at all the winning. But not all of us. Within the Republican Party are folks who are distinctly uncomfortable with the concept of winning. These are the status quo folks, the people who liked things as they were before Donald Trump gave voice to the marginalized and ignored Republican base.
Trump wants to win. He wants to change things. But many Republicans don’t. If you’re a representative or a senator, you have a pretty good life. And, if you’ll look at the statistics, you’re almost a shoo-in to be reelected so you can keep the gravy train rolling down the tracks for ten, 20, even 30 or more years. As for the old-school conservative media folks, it’s also a pretty sweet gig. You just keep cranking out the same squishy, inoffensive content and enjoying the cocktail party invitations. Maintaining the status quo is an incredibly attractive option to them. Disrupting the status quo, however, is scary. It’s dangerous to their sinecures, so there are a substantial number of people who should be with us who are ambivalent about all the winning.
If we’re going to be stopped, we will not be stopped by a frontal assault from the Democrats or by the negative reporting of the regime media that wants to install a very different regime. We will be stopped by the friction generated by people on our side who are afraid to go faster and farther. Bit by bit, betrayal and cop-out by betrayal and cop-out, they will slow us down and eventually stop us from moving forward with our campaign of American renewal.
No one really expected Trump to do what he said he would do, although "promises made, promises kept" has been his value proposition from the beginning. At a conscious level, they knew that Donald Trump was preparing to make big changes if he won the election. They just couldn’t believe he would really do it. But then, Trump had four years to think through how to do it even as the Democrats tried to either throw him in jail for the rest of his life or see him killed. And we wanted him to do it. We’ve been discussing the kind of stuff that Donald Trump has been doing for decades. I know. I’ve been in the conservative movement for decades. This is all a dream come true. It’s what we’ve been dreaming of, and it almost doesn’t feel real sometimes.
But it is real. For some people, it’s too real. It’s too much. They just can’t handle all the winning, particularly because it disrupts their world. It’s scary. At some level, they want to slow or stop what we’re doing. You can see it in how some Republicans are presuming to deny Donald Trump his Cabinet picks because they are just as disruptive as he promised they would be. Pete Hegseth was nobody’s idea of a conventional Defense Secretary. Usually, we got some half-wit former general or some suit off the Raytheon board, or both, to do the job and never change a thing. But Donald Trump wants to rebuild our military, so he got a guy who understands how to apply combat boots to the fourth point of contact of the uncooperative to get in there and make changes. Three Republican senators voted against him. It would’ve been more if the other senators felt they could safely vote their way, but we didn’t give them their way. We made it clear to the likes of Joni Ernst that should she betray the President, she was going to pay at the ballot box. She wisely conformed.
But now we have Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr., coming up, and supporting them might just be too much to ask of some of these soft Republicans. Should they tank one or both nominations, that would represent the first real defeat for Trump since he took office. Sure, the Democrats like to paint that government funding order and rescission as a defeat, but that order is going to be back better than ever with all the issues addressed in the next draft, so it doesn’t really count as a defeat. But losing a nominee or two is a defeat, and we can’t lose a nominee without Republicans causing it.
We’re also starting to see Republicans start to get squeamish about other initiatives. Some are upset about pardoning all the J6 political prisoners. There was the tariff Cassandras. Others are concerned because maybe we’re going too far in rooting out DEI root and branch. But we’re not.
We’ve only wounded that ideology, but we haven’t killed it yet. It’s on the ground, but the best time to hit your enemy is when he’s down. We need to finish it. No mercy. This idea that we somehow have to quit fighting because it’s unseemly to comprehensively defeat our enemies has no place in the current Republican Party. Remember, this is a battle to the death. These people want to destroy us. The whole trans thing started out as live and let live – “OK, you want to pretend you’re a girl, fine, just leave me alone” – and became them not only telling us that we had to lie to keep our jobs but also give them access to our women and children. We are far beyond living and letting live – we offered it, and they rejected it, so now there’s a new deal. You don’t get to be a freaky weirdo and expect us to tolerate it.
But there are Republicans who are just not built for that kind of firmness. They don’t want to be called “mean.” They don’t want to be called “bigots.” They just want to go along and get along, but it’s not that kind of world. We can’t allow our enemies’ epithets to guide our decision-making, and we can’t allow the people who are too weak or lazy to fight for change to slow down those of us who are neither.
Our problem is not going to be the Democrats. They’re spinning their wheels, unable to adapt. Our problem is not going to be the regime media. No one listens to it anymore. Our problem is going to be our own fellow Republicans, and we must make it absolutely clear that modified “Starship Troopers” rules apply: Everybody fights, nobody quits, and if you don’t do your job, we primary you.
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