Commentary

In my most recent commentaries, I have promised to look ahead to the future of the Republican Party and the role President Trump might have in it going forward.

It’s a bit early, but there are already some signs that prove to be interesting. 

Following pollster Frank Luntz’s post-Capitol riot, post-impeachment finding that 91 percent of President Trump voters would vote for him again, comes word that 77 percent of a Cincinnati focus group, using clickers that registered on a big screen, proclaimed that they liked the president more in the past week.  And, interestingly, not one had a lower opinion of him.

The question whether President Trump will run again is being weighed, with opinions leaning toward a major role in the party.  “He will have a voice, but he won’t run,” suggests Jeff Dunetz in The Lid. 

“Donald Trump may exit the White House, but he will not exit the stage,” writes Varad Mehta in the Washington Examiner, while noting, however, that “a majority of Republican voters would back him in 2024, according to recent polls.”

“The Make America Great Again coalition is the most diverse, widest and deepest part of the entire American electorate,” was a belief that emanated from the Cincinnati focus group in a piece that appeared in The Last Refuge.

“President Trump’s army consists of every creed, color, race, gender, ethnicity and orientation.  It is a truly color-blind coalition of middle America patriots and voters that cuts through the political special interest groups.  Seventy-four million angry Americans resolved to a common objective is not something to be trifled with.”

“Retired presidents are eminent figures, but not prominent ones,” wrote Mehta. “Defeated presidents are often neither, yet Trump aspires to remain the preeminent figure in the Republican Party.”

Mehta envisions Trump in a position that is European in practice, but hasn’t existed in American history; that of an identifiable, bona fide leader of the opposition.

While Trump is not fond of European politics, it would keep him at the center of American politics in a way few of his predecessors have tried and failed.  He could have a profound impact on American politics, something I believe he wants.

He’s already made it known that he wants to see the House change hands in 2022.

With his impeachment, the left raised its middle finger to half of America, and warned us never to preempt their power again. It’s not going to work. “We expect Trump voters to lick their wounds, suck it up, roll up their sleeves, and return to the fight in a patriotic fashion as conservatives always do,” wrote David E. Attwood in American Thinker.

For example, why did so many thousands of individuals choose to take time off from work, spend considerable resources, and inconvenience themselves in order to visit the nation’s capital January 6.

I’ll tell you why.  They’re tired of being labeled as racists, bigots, xenophobes and capitalist pigs. They suffered eight years of scandals, insults and divisiveness under the Obama-Biden administration only to have to endure the last four years of attacks on the man they voted to change things in Washington by vengeful Democrats in the House and Democrats and turncoat Republicans in the Senate.

They’re disgusted with the manner in which Deep Staters, who used their positions in the DOJ and FBI to bring down President Trump, have escaped accountability punishment.

And they’re aware of the hatred and utter contempt the left has for them, dedicated supporters of President Trump, as evidenced by the blacklisting of anyone ever associated with him, even if only as a voter.

Most recently, they have lost faith in the election process they believe to be corrupted by fraud in swing states.  Meaningful election reform needs to be a top priority going forward on a “to do” list I will soon be sharing with you.

In whatever role President Trump takes, he needs to stick to his guns and carefully avoid establishment figures, who have worked against him.  You know who they are. Instead of standing strong with his president, Sen. Mitch McConnell is unsure of his position on an impeachment trial.

“Establishment Republicans do not know how to win,” a writer from PointsandFigures.com notes. “They do not know how to hold and consolidate power.  They don’t know how to use power effectively.”

May God continue to bless the United States of America.