What Does The Republican Blowout Mean?

Vol 11.9.26

On September 16, 1787, on the evening before the Constitutional Convention was scheduled to adjourn, a women approached Benjamin Franklin on a Philadelphia street corner and asked him, “What sort of government have brought us?”

“A constitutional republic, Madam, if you can keep it,” he replied.

In listening to the commentary from leading conservative pundits reminding us of the severe midterm losses suffered by nearly all US presidents over the past century, I’m not comforted. (Midterm exceptions are Roosevelt in ’34 during the Great Depression and Bush in 2002, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.)

These losses do not feel normal. They have an ominous feeling. Would anyone have bet that Texas Republican candidates would lose both senatorial and gubernatorial races?

To his credit, Texas Senator Ted Cruz did his best to inform the conservative electorate as to why the “ass kicking” happened.

Take the state of Kansas, a state that has not elected a Democrat senator since 1932. It just did. Here’s what exit polling showed were the top issues in Kansas. Number one, cost of living, energy, and groceries. That was listed as number one by 30.6 percent of voters. Corruption. Number two, 18.5%. The cost of the Iran war, 10.1%.

The top issue, cost of living, is very real. Here are some stats that are a lot more real and personal. Spam, processed meat substitute, broke record sales, selling 113 million cans last year. That is nearly as much spam as was sold during the entirety of World War II…

…Twenty-nine percent of Americans have used buy now, pay later for groceries this year. That’s double the share just two years ago.

The last two statistics are very alarming—Americans are resorting to eating a canned meat substitute and are having to borrow to feed their families. This phenomenon was clearly missed by the Trump Administration. For people standing on the first rung of the income ladder, everything, gasoline, food, rent are overwhelmingly too expensive. The Republicans lost big, in part because young Americans see the dream of home ownership as out of reach.

What is ominous for me is that I live in a one-party state, California, where the new governor, Xavier Becera, never bothered to even campaign or offer any solutions to our excessive tax burden, the highest gasoline prices in the country, unacceptable crime rate, and soaring cost of living.

Becera who was literally appointed by the Democrat machine won 64% of the vote to Steve Hilton’s dismal 34%. In the state that I love, the Democrats have perfected the craft of one-party rule by making sure the state funds their massive number of constituencies, their government employees’ outrageously generous pension programs, the teachers’ unions, the untold numbers of special interest groups which are connected to a vast, industrial-scale fraud machine where billions of confiscated dollars go missing and by stae-sponsored voter fraud.

The Republican blowout across the country feels ominous to me because, as I tell my friends and family, “If California can be a one-party state, so can the US become a one-party country.

As I watch the Fox News television coverage, I see story after story about how the new Democrat congressional majorities will conspire to duplicate California’s one-party rule. They plan to eliminate the filibuster, the electoral college, reopen the borders, provide millions of illegal aliens generous welfare payments and the right to vote, and provide healthcare to every US resident legal or illegal.

(It is an article of faith among the Neo Bolsheviks in the US, Canada, and among the young on our college campuses that healthcare, cradle to grave, is a right. The problem for them is what if there is no one left to pay? Cannot anything—elder care, babysitting, dog walking, food, housing, therefore be a right? The answer is—nothing can be a right simply because the majority votes to make so. In a constitutional republic, nothing can be a right if it is dependent upon someone else to fund it.)

Interspersed among the news stories depicting the new Democrat majority’s plans to criminalize its political opponents and seize permanent power, are scenes of chaos on the streets of Paris and in other European cities. What is important to understand is that the Democrat takeover of the congressional branch of the American government and the riots in Europe are components of the same totalitarian movement.

As I’ve reported in a previous Freedom Chronicles column, the mobs threatening to bring down the French Republic are led by the French Muslimist jihadists and the French Neo Bolsheviks who are the children of bourgeois (upper middle class) parents who are themselves absurdly anti-bourgeois.

The bourgeois/anti-bourgeois French revolutionaries we are witnessing on our television screens match our own radicals who are also largely well-educated and indoctrinated children of Marxist-inspired Ivy-League elitists who are allied with the Islamists we have imported. Both threaten the democratic rule of law in favor of authoritarian one-party rule.

The problem for this cabal can be summed up by Margaret Thatcher’s famous remark, “The problem for socialists is that eventually they run out of other peoples’ money.”

It has been observed that a new convert to conservativism is often a liberal who has just been mugged. One such fellow is the former progressive and excellent writer, Daniel Ryan Spalding. In his expose of Ilan Omar, he awakens to the observations, Authoritarianism could be marketed as liberation, censorship as safety, antisemitism as anti-colonialism, and religious fundamentalism as cultural authenticity…

…Political movements that once demanded freedom from oppression became increasingly comfortable making excuses for oppressive ideologies, provided those ideologies could be presented through the correct vocabulary of victimhood and resistance.

As Franklin reminds us, it will be necessary for us to reach a whole generation of young Bolsheviks like Daniel if we are to keep the republic.