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“The
dust cloud over the horizon is not the Cavalry. Today, there is no Cavalry.”
……But
it appeared to some, until early 2015, that the GOP Cavalry may yet be on the
horizon.
In 2012, the Republican Party asked for
more troopers. Republicans voters sent more. They captured the House of
Representatives.
In 2014, they asked for more horses.
Republican voters sent more, and the GOP controlled both the House and the
Senate.
Then, as the 2016 General Election
approached, the GOP said, “Now, give us a new Commanding Officer and we’ll come
to your rescue, in full force, in the nick of time, to save the day. We
promise.” They said.
But by then they had suffered the
irreparable fate of the clock that struck thirteen, not to be believed again.
Looking
back, the first clue to their failure to arrive might have been spoken in
mid-December 2008 when then President George W. Bush said, “I’ve abandoned
free-market principles to save the free market system.” He meant to offer
it as a rationale for TARP. But, instead, he unwittingly broke the
champagne bottle against the bow of the U.S. Tea Party and christened a
movement.
On
its face, his statement made about as much sense as a spouse explaining, “I
just had to have a torrid affair in order to save my marriage.” Or a
physician, on trial for malpractice, testifying that, “I had to end the
patient’s life in order to save him from death.”
It
took a too-tortured-by-half logic to straighten out the bent reasoning in
Bush’s statement.
Those
who couldn’t make the computation work started a grassroots movement that
adopted the symbol of the Boston Tea Party.
It began as a protest against a central
government grown indifferent to the U.S. Constitution, addicted to deficit
spending, and in hot pursuit of widening intrusions into the lives of American
citizens, led by a political class whose public service was increasingly seen
as a collective exercise in self-aggrandizement.
Tea Party street demonstrations didn’t
yield substantial change. So the movement put down their protest signs
and began planting political campaign signs in their yards supporting local and
state candidates who pledged to support the movement’s advocacy of sane fiscal
policy, smaller government, and fidelity to the Constitution.
The election successes of the Tea Party
movement were met with negative pressure from the ruling political classes, in
both major parties.
Feeling threatened, the GOP
professional apparatchiks demonized the Tea Party. They realized it lived
outside their range of control. The GOP chose not to embrace the movement. Bad
decision.
They
found eager anti-Tea Party allies among the media and Democrat Party
spokespersons – often one-in-the-same.
Meanwhile,
none of this went unnoticed by the wagon train of citizens circled in an ever
more threatening wilderness, under attack by a declining economy, spreading
lawlessness both on the border and in the inner cities, all exacerbated by the
federal government’s insatiable canine appetite for deficit spending, with no
end in sight.
And so
here we are. Our wagons in a circle. Still no sign of the GOP Cavalry.
At
least not one coming on horseback.
But
then travel by horseback is old school politics. Almost as old as a Democrat
Party Cavalry riding donkeys led by Comrade Bernie and Hillary the Felon.
A
long-awaited GOP Cavalry may be coming from an unexpected and surprising
direction: an airborne Boeing 757, with horsepower on a whole new level.
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