Will this plea matter for Republicans?
New York Times Op-Ed….
There’s a strong case for President Trump to face a Republican primary challenger. I know a thing or two about insurgencies. I entered Congress in 2011 as an insurgent Tea Party Republican. My goals were conservative and clear: restrain executive power and reduce the debt. Barack Obama was president then, and it was easy for us to rail against runaway spending and executive overreach.
Eight years later, Mr. Trump has increased the deficit more than $100 billion year over year — it’s now nearing $1 trillion — and we hear not a word of protest from my former Republican colleagues. He abuses the Constitution for his narcissistic trade war. In private, most congressional Republicans oppose the trade war, but they don’t say anything publicly. But think about this: Mr. Trump’s tariffs are a tax increase on middle-class Americans and are devastating to our farmers. That’s not a smart electoral strategy.
It’s one of the many reasons Mr. Trump is ripe for a primary challenger. In fact, it would buck the historical trend if he didn’t have one. More often than not, unpopular presidents face primary challengers.
Since leaving Congress in 2013, I’ve been the host of my own conservative talk radio show several hours a day, five days a week. The only time a majority of my conservative audience has noticeably broken with the president is when he signed the omnibus spending bill in 2017 that ballooned the deficit. Fiscal responsibility is an issue the American electorate cares about but that our elected officials disregard from the top down — including the Tea Party in the Trump era.
“Will this plea matter for Republicans?”
Honestly I think it depends on whether the economy stays strong. It starts to slip and some Republicans will start saying “you know I never was comfortable with Trump”
Funny how that works.
I have always said that In ten years or so?
It will be difficult to find anyone who will admit to having voted for Donald Trump.
He, he, he
So True Jack…..
Like waking up from being in a trance they’ll try to sell….
The economy is AREADY slipping….
It’s gonna have to fall…..
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has officially ended his presidential campaign which never gained any traction.
Hickenlooper said he may challenge TrumpRepublican Sen. Cory Gardner who is considered one of the more vulnerable GOP incumbents.
They are on Beto’s case back in Texas To do the same…..
Over the next few months it’s gonna become crunch time for MOST of the Democrats ….
Should come down to Bide, Warren, Sanders and Sanders…Which is actually good for Biden….
I imagine Yang and Steyer and few others maybe could actually hold on into the primaries
I have actually voted to send Joe Walsh to Washington D.C. (and co-hosted an event for him).
Something to be proud of these days… (at least more so than I was at the time.)
As an aside, last year, Walsh’s wife was appointed to fill a vacant seat in the Illinois House. She is also someone who has said some very provocative things over the years on social media, etc, and even though she is Jewish herself, was painted as a Trump-style white nationalist, which was probably quite unfair, considering the way her husband has turned on Trump. She very narrowly lost the district in November (by five votes or something) amid a very strong year for Democrats in suburban Chicagoland.
in hindsight CG?….Yea