Paul Ryan doesn’t get it. I’m not sure he ever did.
Ryan made a speech at the Reagan Library condemning the populist appeal of Donald Trump.
And here’s the reality that we have to face: If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere. Voters looking for Republican leaders want to see independence and mettle. They will not be impressed by the sight of yes-men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago.
Let’s look at a couple of definitions. First, populism
populism
NOUN
support for the concerns of ordinary people.
Second, conservatism
conservatism
NOUN
the holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas.
Paul Ryan was a champion of the status quo and clashed with Trump on a number of issues, including the TPP and NATO. Ryan was satisfied with the US footing almost the entire NATO bill while Trump negotiated to have other nations pay their fair share.
Ryan was all for the TPP but many, Trump included, were not. The TPP was called “NAFTA on steroids.” Richard Trumka called it “A bad deal for American workers.” Even the MSNBC creatures had a problem with it:
But when it comes to deals like these, including NAFTA, another trade deal also on Trump’s chopping block, “It just hasn’t worked. That’s the problem,” said Velshi. The issue is that although the government is helping creating wealth for these companies, there’s no mandate that they spend it on hiring or wages. “Companies love free trade,” said Velshi. “Companies get to share profits with shareholders, the government gets the taxes, but workers don’t get their fair share.”
“This is all diplomacy. There is no benefit,” said Derek Scissors, a China specialist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “The idea was diplomatic rather than economic.”
Ryan left office in 2019.
Trump was right about NATO and he was right about the TPP. Since retiring, Ryan has taken seats on the Boards of Directors of several corporations. Being on such boards is a usually quite lucrative.
Thing is, Ryan doesn’t get it. Donald Trump wasn’t a polished politician but he cared more for his country than for his wealth. He cared for Americans of all color and religions. Ryan added
‘If we fail this test, it will be because the progressive left will have won by default,’ he said. ‘It will be because the conservative cause lost its way and followed the left into the trap of identity politics, defining itself by resentments instead of by ideals. ‘It will be because we mistake reactionary skirmishes in the culture wars with a coherent agenda. It will be because we gave too much allegiance to one passing political figure and weren’t loyal enough to our principles.’
Ryan underestimates American conservatives. Trump got 75 million votes in the last election. It wasn’t because of his personality. It wasn’t about too much allegiance to one “passing political figure.” American conservatives finally felt that someone actually cared about them and their country and not their personal political futures and fortunes. They had someone who wasn’t willing to sell them out. Trump was the right person for populism and for conservatism. We had a great economy. America would have had such a person for another four years if not for a perfectly timed pandemic.
Instead, we have a village idiot bent on destroying everything that means a thing in America.
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DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Trump represents the vast majority in the country, who are neither Right nor Left Cultists.
He’s not going away, nor is the “central path” he represents.
The Uniparty needs to go, and replaces with real and many political parties that give a voice to actual Americans.
Ryan “gets it” just fine. He sees the Ruling Oligarchy under attack and he starts barking like the chihuahua he is.
“Populism” is just another name for the mob democracy conservatives claim to fear.
Up yours!
You mean like the police state we see under the Democrats?
Maybe, but some “ism” had to be rolled out by failing Leftists when Trump was getting, and remained, supported by millions.
When Ryan says, “If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere. Voters looking for Republican leaders want to see independence and mettle. They will not be impressed by the sight of yes-men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago,” he’s creating a straw man.
It is a false dilemma.
There is no conservative cause that makes nice with Dems because they don’t want Trump, but that is what Ryan and Romney and the NRO writers all did.
They are not “conservatives.”
They are power-mongers.
As power-mongers, these “conservatives, like all of the National Review writers and add Paul Ryan, are looking for relevance as well as a paycheck.
Those who seek office OUTSIDE of the Paul Ryan/NRO side of the GOP are not 2nd-rate imitations of Trump.
They each stand on their own.
Give them a listen and see for yourself.
If, OTOH, you want to see a pretend yes man and a toadying flatterer, go back to watch President-elect Trump eating lunch with wannabe Mitt Romney, a man after Paul Ryan’s heart.
Boy!
Did Mitt want a Trump Admin job, or what!
It’s difficult for most to grasp what Trump was doing because it hasn’t been seen in American and DC in a long, long time, if ever. Trump put America and the American people FIRST, before himself and all else. Professional politicians cannot comprehend such a concept; it is against everything they “stand” for.
I don’t worship Trump; I’m not even sure if I like him. But I loved his policies and I wanted to see much, much more of it. He was good for the nation, and I certainly liked that.
Rinos don’t do that. Democrats don’t even get close to it; they are beholden to people that aren’t even in this country. If more Republicans embrace this ideology, the Republican party would sweep the nation. If they don’t and revert back to what they were under McCain and Romney, they will be nothing but a Democrat party utility. We don’t need Trump per se. But we need MANY who have his same vigor and dedication to this country and Constitution.
It’s hard to accept that anyone with a hint of political knowledge could actually type that with a straight face.
Yahoo news reported that 75% of republicans don’t believe it was Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol despite what we saw in real time. Most polls show over half of republicans believe Trump won the election despite him admitting his game plan his entire term as well even the most conservative judges laughing him out of 80 some courtrooms.
Trump openly stated his disdain for people of color and of other religions on a regular basis. There was no hiding of his profiteering for the wealthiest of Americans while he crushed working Americans in the dirt and then pissed on them.
Yet, like machine gunning a bus load of kindergarteners in broad daylight and admitting to it, his cult will defend him and blame Democrats for it- and the indoctrinator cult of zombies, Moonies QAnon quacks, and pedophile sex slave promoting ilk actually believe it.
“Trump openly stated his disdain for people of color and of other religions on a regular basis.”
Of course, you know and we know you are lying. Since the facts have been presented numerous times, you know and we know YOU know you are lying. Why do you lie? Why do you seek to be a liar?
You voted for an avowed racist, rapist, child molester, corrupt criminal that puts his own personal greed before the American people and support election fraud. You really have no credible standing here. Go find some liberal site where lies are appreciated.
I’m sure you love those lies about how secure the southern border is now. Your beloved racist idiot Biden loves lies and you love liars.
“It’s hard to accept that anyone with a hint of political knowledge could actually type that with a straight face.”
Your a partisan douchebag who has tied his identity to a political party.
Who cares what you say?
Trump – never racist, zero evidence of racism. Just you cowards and your new “scarlet letter”.
Capitol – so when antifa/BLM attacks cops and old ladies, and I know they are Leftists/Biden voters, can I say that YOU did the attacking then?
The few hundred trespassers at the Capitol were Trump voters, for sure. But you don’t get to say all 75 million of us are, by default, guiding you f*cking nazi.
Go back down that sh*thole you crawled out of. No one cares about you insane ramblings.
Up yours Ron!
I have yet to see evidence that the Capital trespassers (trespassing on a publicly owned property?) were in fact Trump supporters. It was a fascist planned event that started even before Trump finished his speech. Just because the media didn’t report on it honestly as they never do doesn’t make it fact.
Watch the videos. There are many. If you still don’t see it, have your eyes checked.
I saw a BLM repeat terrorist leading the charge.
They were Trump supporters the way the thousands of antifa/BLM storm troopers are Biden supporters….and their are many, many more vids to watch then a few from one day.
Not equivalent.
Senate Republicans Block January 6th Commission – because they know perfectly well what would be revealed, even to those who are as thick as a brick.
Their strategy is to force any investigation to be conducted solely by Democrats, so that they can continue to hide behind the lie that it’s a purely partisan exercise. Then they’ll continue to claim it was all a false flag event orchestrated by ANTIFA or BLM—even though the creation of a bipartisan commission would have allowed them to fully investigate such possibilities.
Your entire political movement now stands on a foundation of transparent lies. You can thank Donald Trump for that.
Comrade Greggie, I see you continue to pimp your falsehoods. How many “Congressional” investigations into the January 6th dustup do you want? Is seven not enough for you?
Perhaps we need a Congressional investigation as to why people are being held in jail for charges as mild as trespassing without bail? Or maybe we could have Congressional investigations into the foreign deals cut by Beijing Biden and his crack head son that benefited no one but the Biden family?
No one is surprised that you continue to pimp the lies of the left in order to protect sexual predator Beijing Biden.
You’re an idiot. And a liar. But then, I assume you consider those traits as being positive personal traits.
How about an investigation of why idiot and Hunter Biden had a meeting with Burisma officials while Hunter was taking bribes from them and idiot extorted Ukraine to kill an investigation that would have cut the Biden’s off from the $83,000 a month Burisma was paying them? And why idiot Biden lied about ever discussing Hunter’s crooked influence peddling?
How many “Congressional” investigations into the January 6th dustup do you want?” One full bipartisan investigation would be sufficient. It would give republicans the opportunity to get to the bottom of all of that ANTIFA and BLM involvement they claimed was responsible, wouldn’t it?
The GOP has crossed the line from reprehensible to pathetic.
Nothing that includes the corrupt and lying Democrats should get taxpayer funding. Their destroyed credibility is not worth one taxpayer dollar.
“One full bipartisan investigation would be sufficient. ”
All Congressional committees are made up of bipartisan members. As I said, you are an idiot.
Maybe one of the existing 7 committees formed before March 25th could look into the lying Democrats/press (one and the same) who claimed Officer Sicknick was murdered by a Trump supporter using a fire extinguisher. Or maybe they could finally hold the Capital PD officer that murdered Ashlie Babbit responsible. Or find out why American citizens are being held without bail for a crime as meager as trespassing. Do you think any of those things are important, Commie Bastid?
As I said, you are an idiot.”
Yet it’s always you who ends up angrily yammering like one.
Your one party police state will just end in war.
You third-world Chinese know that, right?
And you always show up to defend the totalitarian police state of the Democrats.
What possible option do these indoctrinated hate enraged sore losers have other than get red faced and lob elementary level angry insults?
The entire world saw in real time what happened Jan 6 as well as what led up to it. We all saw and heard McConnell on live camera bashing Trump only to later protect him for political reasons. We all saw and heard GOP minority leader Kevin McCarthy blaming Trump for sending in his mob only to flip flop after Trump made him kiss his ass-again, for political reasons. We all heard Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) clearly state “there was no insurrection” and compared it to “a normal tour guide” only to later see video of him helping to barricade against the mob.
These coo-coo-for-coco-puffs hate infested gulibles we’re dealing with here are still clinging to the Big Lie that the election was rigged yet can’t see a single discrepancy in the AZ recount. They are still pretending it’s about demanding a fair election yet are perfectly content with every aspect of voter suppression and allowing state GOP legislators to toss out outcomes they don’t like which is happening in GOP states.
It’s like Dr John actually stating Trump cared more for his country than for his wealth and cared for Americans of all color and religions.
Trump cultists have gone full blown batshit crazy divorced from reality.
You’re indoctrinated, and angry about your own useless life.
There was no insurrection, and only an cult fool would push that without objective analysis.
Meanwhile, people like you are attacking cops, old ladies, and pushing for segregation.
You ARE the thing you think you are fighting.
Get a clue. Trump is owning space in your head, rent free, because you are a child.
Considering how facts nor reality plays any role in the la la land in which you or your fellow cultists live, along with the utter nonsense your blurt out with an insistence of being inarguably true, I should know better than even trying to get an iota of coherency from you or yours on any level.
But much like Dr John’s asinine claim of Trump’s financial priorities or concerns of people of color or of other religions, your statement simply defies what played out in real time right before our eyes. Perhaps you don’t understand the definition of “insurrection” (a violent revolt against civil or political authority)? Maybe you haven’t actually viewed the video’s? Maybe you believe the vids were edited or “fake news”. Maybe like that Liberty Mutual commercial where David Hoffman says “I don’t see it”, you too just can’t see a connection?
Maybe you’re just a goddamn hate infested liar who would (and realistically has) defended Trump from anything from assaulting peaceful people on the street for a photo op to coddling white supremist to committing genocide for his own political gain? Maybe, you’ve become so alienated from truth and are solely committed to QAnon, Newsmax, Tucker, Hannity, GatewayPundit etc. that you just follow their commands religiously?
I really don’t know what has taken over Trump cultists and his basket of gulibles to this degree. It is a fascinating thing to behold.
“Maybe you’re just a goddamn hate infested liar who would (and realistically has) defended Trump from anything from assaulting peaceful people on the street for a photo op to coddling white supremist to committing genocide for his own political gain? Maybe, you’ve become so alienated from truth and are solely committed to QAnon, Newsmax, Tucker, Hannity, GatewayPundit etc. that you just follow their commands religiously?”
Or maybe we understand that the Democratic Party of old, the party of FDR and JFK, is long dead having been sold out to the Gramsci Marxists well over 3 decade ago. Perhaps we understand that while those of your ilk cannot find one thing to think is good about the USA, you still remain on USA soil, disparaging it as you would any enemy. You don’t like where you are, but you won’t leave.
If you want to talk about committing genocide for political gain, perhaps you would like to review the disgraceful history of the Buffalo Soldiers who are now canonized in American history?
Because you are incapable of thinking for yourself, while incessantly repeating the mantra of the Marxist left, you seem to object to those who can think for themselves, who do not hate the nation they live in and who do not want to follow your 20th century Marxist dogma. The tactic of accusing your enemy of what you are guilty of was exposed a century ago.
Getting back to my original comment to Greg:
Maybe if you ever substantiated a single point or accusation you have EVER made, you might have a shred of credibility. You haven’t so… you don’t.
Unlike the Clinton’s, Obama and idiot Biden, Trump left office with LESS money than when he entered. Your beloved socialists enriched themselves while in office, even as citizens suffered.
Aside from your BLM violent instigator running through the Capital imploring others to start fires and destroy property, where was the insurrection?
You and your corrupt ideology are the purveyors of violence, terrorism and conspiracies. If you think anyone views you and your lies with anything but amusement and pity, you are sadly mistaken.
“What possible option do these indoctrinated hate enraged sore losers have other than get red faced and lob elementary level angry insults?”
Well, we could make up lies and repeat lies long ago and repeatedly debunked, but not only does that make one look stupid and ill-informed, but it is immediately seen through. Besides, you probably have a copywrite on it.
You still happy with that utter failure you and about 20,000,000 fraudulent votes stained the White House with? You’ve supported a truly racist and corrupt fraud, so you HAVE to lie about Trump in order to try to resurrect your own intelligence in your own mind. But, you are still just an ignorant ideologue addicted to lying.
I think they’ve invested too much of themselves into Trump’s personality and delusional “reality” to ever let go of him without a serious identity crisis. Were it not for that, they’d cut their losses, dump Trump, and salvage the GOP as the party of traditional conservative values. So long as Trump is in front of them, they don’t seem to remember what those were.
“I think they’ve invested too much of themselves into Trump’s personality and delusional “reality” to ever let go of him without a serious identity crisis.”
That’s pretty funny, Comrade Greggie, when in reality, it is your side of the aisle that can’t stop talking about Trump. But then, in reality, Biden is so damn bad that you cannot talk positively about him so you have to rail about someone who is no longer in office as a diversion. Do you really think we are so stupid we don’t understand why you never talk about what a great job you think Biden is doing?
Another delusional/denial of reality problem with this continued “Biden is so damn bad” and the propaganda machine claims of damaging the country is it simply isn’t true.
Most credible polls even including Fox et al is that his approval is above 60%, quite a number in this hyper hostile political age. Americans in huge numbers loved the last stimulus package-even to the point that many GOP lawmakers are trying to take credit for a bill they voted against. Infrastructure is also popular AND something Trump and the GOP promised but never delivered AND something they are now against. Some type of gun reform is very popular.
Now considering Trump never much reached over 45% approval and his only initiatives were to rob for the rich (shifting $2 trillion to them in his tax scam and then another $1,5 trillion through a so-called COVID relief bill) assault innocent and peaceful people in the street for a photo op, admitting to a live audience in Tulsa that he ordered slowing testing because more reported cases made him look bad, followed by his own administration admitting that COVID was hitting Democratic areas hard so withholding assistance was politically advantageous in order to blame Democratic mayors and governors (an actual crime against humanity) as well as surrounding his administration with crooks, plutocrats, and white supremist that created a swinging door from the White House to a prison, it’s hard to understand precisely what you’re talking about when you say Biden is all that bad.
But of course, it’s understood you buy into the lies fed to you from QAnon and the Trump cultist bullshit machine. And it’s also understood that if you miss some of their lies, you will invent your own. That’s what the cultists/basket of gulibles do-believe any eat-babies-for breakfast and drink their blood nonsense they command of you which is why you cannot conceive any valid argument that might go against your need to believe the election was stolen or why you cannot find a single discrepancy in the AZ recount as long as it points to Trump’s favor. This is why you believe Trump did such a great job with the economy even though the deficit was exploding and manufacturing jobs were hemorrhaging even before COVID and that Trump left office with the economy in ashes.
The basket of gulibles simply refuses to accept anything that is true or real if it reflects negatively of their Mango God or if it reflects favorably of a party they’ve been ordered to hate, even when it’s right before their eyes (which they’ve also been directly ordered by their master to not believe what they see with their eyes or here with their ears).
Again, listening to the basket of gulibles is an amazing experience.
“Most credible polls even including Fox et al is that his approval is above 60%,”
Really? And what polls, outside of the Hill/Harris X has ever given Biden a 60%+ favorability? And when did Fox ever give Biden a 60% favorability? Or do you think no one will proof your lies?
Then you go on to spend 100’s of words all about your programmed hatred of Trump, not spending one word touting what you think is the achievements of Beijing Joe Biden. It obvious you are so concerned about 2022 elections you have to continue your propaganda from the last four years.
And not one honest, credible sentence in his repetitive post.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-biden-100-day-milestone
https://www.fox13news.com/news/bidens-approval-rating-hits-63-bolstered-by-pandemic-response-new-poll-finds
From first link:
As Joe Biden closes in on the 100-day mark of his presidency, a Fox News poll finds a 54 percent majority of voters approves of his job performance.”
54% is less than 60%.
From the second link:
” President Joe Biden is plunging into the next phase of his administration with the steady approval of a majority of Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey shows Biden is buoyed in particular by the public’s broad backing for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the fourth month of his presidency, Biden’s overall approval rating sits at 63%.”
The 63% comes from an AP-NORC Center poll, not a Fox poll.
Not only are you a hater, you’re a hater with a reading comprehension problem.
A heavy sampling of Democrats results in a majority supporting the idiot Biden. Even then, it is driven by his following Trump’s COVID policies and continuing Trump’s administration of vaccines. His support tanks, even in the Democrat-weighted sampling, in regards to his self-made disaster at the border and the oncoming economic disaster he is inducing.
Provide a credible poll that shows him above 60%. While you’re at it, back up your claims of Trump’s racism. We know idiot Biden is a racist; his career proved it and YOU supported him. But, show us evidence Trump is, as you claim, a racist.
The border is a disaster, unemployment remains high, racism spreads more, more leftist violence (none, notably, committed by those “white supremacists, whoever they are), high inflation, EXPLODING debt, economic collapse and Middle Eastern violence. That’s idiot Biden’s accomplishment and, since it is bad for America, no doubt it meets with your approval.
You are invested in a racist, raping, groping, corrupt liar that has sold the US out to the CCP in order to allow his drag-on-society crack-head son to make a living. Trump succeeded where Democrats failed. Trump worked for the American people while Democrats bloat legislation with pork, waste and debt so they can enrich themselves.
Have you started actually believing idiot Biden’s lies about the southern border being closed and under control? How about the lies about the green jobs to replace the energy jobs idiot Biden destroyed? Are you satisfied with his support for terrorism over our ally Israel?
Who would have thought we’d have a president* that is so incompetent, lame and stupid that his puppet masters won’t let him answer questions that aren’t provided in advance and scripted?
* through a stolen election rife with Democrat fraud
In liberal-speak, “bipartisan” means another Mueller-style “investigation” funded by taxpayers to find information useful to Democrat’s political goals. No, we won’t find out how the Officer Sicknick lie got propagated. No, we won’t find out who killed Babbitt, why or see justice for her death. No, we won’t find out why police just ushered the protesters (peaceful protesters) into the Capital, thus negating the charge of trespassing.
The purpose would be to find something that links the riot to Trump and, failing that, a premise to continue that false accusation. The purpose would be to paint all the protesters (except for John Sullivan, the “journalist”) as “white supremacists” and justify more suppression of civil liberties. The purpose will be to support the procession towards a true police state.
What would be revealed? That the police let the intruders in? That there was no violence? That there was no armed insurrection?
If there was an inquiry that involved Democrats, there would be suppressed facts, skewed reality, lying and corruption of the truth. Just like with the Mueller “investigation”. Just like Schiff’s “investigation” for the first faux-impeachment. Just like Pelosi’s “investigation” for the second faux-impeachment. Anything that Democrats touch turns to corruption.