(If you have or haven’t heard the term
Cuckservative or Cuck – this article defines it well without using the term
itself. If you assume that most Republicans are ‘conservative’, you’ve been
fooled. In fact, most Republicans – both voters and politicians – are really
Cucks when push comes to shove. Any wonder why things don’t change?
Read the whole thing and decide who you are
yourself – might be fun to find out!
BTW – to learn more – get the book
“Cuckservative” – available on Kindle format at Amazon. It’s a revelation on
American politics. CL)
No matter what happened while Barack Obama
occupied Pennsylvania Ave., several things have become clear since Donald Trump
took office in January:
Most Congressional Republicans don’t want
to repeal Obamacare.
Most Congressional Republicans don’t want
to restrict immigration.
Most Congressional Republicans don’t want
to lower taxes.
Most Congressional Republicans want to go
to war with the world.
Most Congressional Republicans like
unconstitutional federal power and bloated bureaucracy.
That shouldn’t surprise anyone.
The late Sam Francis labeled the Republican
Party the “Stupid Party” for a reason. But perhaps the label should be on the
voters who keep sending them to Washington. They lie and we punch their ticket
to D.C.
Clyde Wilson has been sounding the alarm
about these faux conservatives for nearly five decades. As he writes in the
Forward to his recent Annals of the Stupid Party: Republicans Before Trump (published
just before the November election), “the greatest obstacle to meaningful
change will be the Republican Party.” It always has been.
Wilson romps through the history of the GOP
in this splendid collection of essays. From Lincoln to George Quincy Bush to
the current establishment crop in Washington, including Mike Pence, he explains
why Americans should never trust a Republican. Trump is different to a degree,
but he is an outlier and the inertia of the “Stupid Party” is already working
against him.
Most Americans forget or we never taught
that the Republicans were from their inception in 1854 the party of revolution,
be it economic, political, or social.
From the income tax to the loss of real
federalism, to the establishment of state capitalism and central banking, to
heavy-handed regulation and social engineering, to activist federal judges, the
Republicans have their fingerprints all over every unconstitutional and immoral
act.
The national government is their creation.
The Democrats simply adopted their playbook in the early twentieth century.
Think Teddy Roosevelt’s “national greatness conservatism” or Lincoln’s misuse
of the meaning of the Declaration of Independence. They have crafted a civic
religion on the ruins of what actually made America great. It wasn’t banks,
bombs, and bureaucracy.
Wilson explains that while many Americans
sat on the sidelines during the Quincy Bush years, content that an “R” was in
office, the central government expanded its power exponentially. Bush, in fact,
made Clinton look great. At least he was willing to accept fiscal if not personal
responsibility.
It did not improve while Obama organized
America. The opposition was easy when it was largely symbolic, but as the
American public is quickly discovering, “Republican principles” don’t go beyond
passing meaningless legislation that would never make it past Obama’s desk.
Trump would have signed much of it. Now, crickets.
Passing actual legislation that critics
would label “conservative” or “limited government” has never been their M.O.
Wilson accurately calls it the “Republican Charade.”
And even Wilson’s beloved Dixie has been
sucked into the Republican maelstrom. For example, “Senator No,” Jesse Helms,
became a “National Republican” and Wilson writes “never met a Republican
president or a Republican policy he doesn’t like.” Washington can be
intoxicating which is why principled men either burn out, are marginalized, or
are co-opted. It’s easier to be with them than against them.
Wilson believes Trump may be different. If
his recent press conference and quick action on a number of bedrock issues is
any indication, he may be correct. But then again, Trump is not your typical
Republican.
Perhaps the only way to truly make America
great is to rid the American consciousness of the myth of St. Abraham. That
would help undermine the vice grip the “Stupid Party” has on American
“conservative thought.”
This would involve a systematic overhaul of
American “conservative” institutions, among them large print media and
“conservative” think tanks. Neocons are being exposed as frauds. That trend
needs to continue.
Wilson’s solution to the problem? Have
Trump tell the Republicans, “You’re Fired!” As he asks, rhetorically, “Why save
the stupid party?”
Readers of this insightful book will be
left wondering the same thing.
Brion McClanahan [send him
mail] holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of South
Carolina and is a faculty member at Tom Woods's Liberty Classroom. He is the
author or co-author of six books, most recently 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to
Save Her (Regnery History, 2016). Find him at www.brionmcclanahan.com.