We have witnessed realignments in the
past, but the one we are in the midst of is extraordinary. It began before
Trump came down the escalator but he was the first to capture it, energize
it, and win office as a result. The realignment is not about him per se, as
demonstrated by the nomination of Judge Roy Moore for the Alabama Senate seat.
The realignment is much more.
The causes of realignment are manyfold: a national media that has
become partisan leftist, the Deep State, with its own intrenched anti-American
interests, the two national parties, each of which has betrayed America
and her ideals in different ways. Abetted by all the above, the betrayal
of our national institutions has been brutal. And noticed by huge numbers of
Americans who are the ones realigning.
The main issues spurring the realignment have been illegal
immigration, bad economic policy, racialism shoved in America’s face, the
elevation of nanny state shackles, the espousing of ideas destructive to the
human spirit, and an arrogance of our elites that is counter to those many
good things that America once stood for.
It’s a deep revulsion for everything the left has become.
It has set up a new paradigm that hasn’t been recognized or
described well as of yet. Recent signs of it include Trump’s
election, the ongoing inability of the Democratic party to stand for
anything other than hating Trump, the Deep State’s multiple failures,
and the beginning of the primarying of the fraudulent GOP, i.e. Judge Roy
Moore beating Luther Strange in Alabama, the resignation of Bob Corker, the
writing on the wall for Senator Jeff Flake. And more to come.
The 2018 buzz has begun. The Democratic party cannot win in 2018
because they cannot see that they have been rejected. They stand for nothing,
and are aligned on the wrong side of history. The Republican Party is seen
by its base as fraudulent, in line with its donors rather than its own
professed principles. The GOP has two choices, reform and realign or
go the way of the Whigs. 2018 will be a barometer of which way this will
go. The GOP cannot continue to govern against its base and the will of the American
people. For them it is change or die in 2018.
The only thing that will prevent Trump from winning reelection in
the biggest landslide since 1984 would be if he betrayed the principles he ran
on. Those are the principles that are forcing realignment.
Illegal immigration
This was the number one issue that won Trump the presidency. It
helped reclaim the Reagan Democrats, the blue-collar vote. In spite of the
demagoguery of the left, it’s not about racism, it’s simply about the right of
a sovereign country to maintain its borders and control who is allowed in. To
blue collar Americans, it’s about having rising wages, and a better life for
their children.
Unleashing the Economy
The abusive regulation and anti-business
rhetoric and policy of the Obama years came home to roost in its subpar growth
numbers. America felt trapped in the nanny state, with a stagnant future to
look forward to. It was called the new normal, and Americans simply aren’t
going to accept a vision of defeat. Americans want the freedom to be upwardly
mobile, the opportunity for their children to have a better lifestyle.
Trump saw this, and his own past success became a signature.
Economic freedom is an issue for the realignment. One of the
few good things accomplished by Republicans has been the undoing of the
horrid regulatory mass left by Obama. If you continue with a better our tax
policy, the economy will thrive, and people will stand up and notice.
America First
In 20/20 hindsight, the Democratic party insistence on tearing
down America was its biggest mistake. It has destroyed its own image to
Americans, blue collar as well as the white collar middle class. Witness
what the NFL did to itself by denigrating America’s national anthem and its
flag.
RINOs, true to form, don’t understand either. America, for all its
flaws, still is the best place in the world to be, still has the best ideals
and ways to become great. It’s not his idea, but Trump sees this clearly,
and realignment will take this principle on, not as an unflinching demagogic
“America is always best”, but through a simple recognition that American ideals
are good.
Anti-Racialism
The left needs us to be divided along racial lines. They cannot win
without this division, so they shamefully push it. Witness the evolving race
baiting. Opposing Obama in anything was racist. Opposing the NFL kneelers is
racist. Everything Trump does is racist. Every white American is racist,
by virtue of race. Martin Luther King said “I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The left has
brutally savaged that dream by becoming race baiters. They have used the club
of “racism” far too long, arriving at racialism, their pathetic attempt to
balkanize America.
A big part of the realignment is a rejection of this evil
racialist idea. Whites did not vote for Trump because they were racist, just like
women did not vote for Trump because they were sexist. They simply rejected the
idea that racialism is a good thing. There is a tremendous group of black
Americans that are rejecting the Democratic Party racialist message.
Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Larry Elder have long soldiered in
this effort. Burgess Owens is a fresh new voice in this racialist war.
A coalition that learns to defeat the race baiting is emerging. It
is part of the realignment. It is a good thing.
Rejecting America’s Negative Elitism
It’s no secret that America’s elites have gone awry. Our media is
so far left you can see them as bad as Pravda. Our cultural
institutions are so far left they are unrecognizable. The universities,
Hollywood, and the media have become arrogant, ignorant, and blind.
The realignment will capitalize on our elites’ negativity.
It’s simple: you replace negativity, their wrong choice of ideas,
and their anti-Americanism with something better.
America is a country that stands for good things, including itself
as a sovereign country. It will have borders, and stop illegal immigration.
America is a country that believes in equal opportunity for all.
It believes in economic freedom, and the American dream to do and be better.
America believes in its ideals because they have done far more
good than harm. That is why “America first” will resonate. It is still the city
on a hill as described by Ronald Reagan.
America can open the door of racial equality and walk through it,
rather than balkanize itself. Martin Luther King’s dream is still there to
achieve. Racism in the form of Racialism needs to die.
America’s failed negative leftist elites must go.
It doesn’t matter if the GOP takes on the realignment or a new
party is formed. But the realignment has come.
These two quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville are more germane than
ever:
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than
any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be
good, America will cease to be great.”