Just posted analysis from Red State blog The Actions of the Establishment Interests in Washington Reflect Fear of the Political Coalition Formed By Donald Trump By Shipwreckedcrew | Jan 13, 2021 8:00 PM ET President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) What we are witnessing in Washington DC this week is a concerted effort — by the establishments of both parties — to remove Donald Trump from the map of politics in the United States, to delegitimize everything done by the Trump Administration for four years as justification for a rollback, to validate all the claims made against him by his opponents — in both parties — and to brand his supporters as undemocratic and anti-American in an effort to fracture the non-traditional coalition of interests he brought together between 2015 and today. This is an effort –by the establishments of both parties — to render Trump and his coalition ineffective going forward as a political movement by making it radioactive to any conservative politician who might try to harness it in the pursuit of a similar policy agenda in the future. Entering the Capitol by acts of violence was an existential threat to the established order. That cannot be tolerated or condoned. Not that it should be. The Members of Congress present in the Capitol on January 6 were assembled to perform a function they were obligated to perform by the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. They were acting — on both sides — under legislation passed by Congress in 1887, the Electoral Count Act. The legitimate performance of obligations imposed by the Constitution, confirmed by the Oath of Office, cannot be obstructed without consequence. The identification and prosecution of those who did so — regardless of motives — is a non-ideological course to take, and the Department of Justice, headed by Donald Trump appointees, is doing just that. But what is happening now in Washington is a combined effort by the Establishment interests to stuff back into the bottle the Genie that Donald Trump let loose with his campaign and victory in 2016. With very little structural organization or outside funding, Donald Trump effortlessly destroyed a large field of GOP aspirants to the White House. In large part, he did so by hammering in a “take no prisoners” fashion the three prior winners of the Republicans’ contests to be the GOP leader — Pres. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. The message was clear – he didn’t want to inherit the GOP establishment as the party’s next candidate; he wanted to gut the GOP establishment and replace it with one he believed better reflected the coalition he was assembling with a non-traditional mix of political and economic issues. The message resonated as only he predicted it would, to the frustration of the Establishment and the consternation of the press. He next defenestrated the quasi-monarchical head of the Democrat Party. Hillary Clinton’s coronation as the first female President of the United States had been planned for years — although Barack Obama forced a delay of that inevitability and robbed it of some historical significance at the same time. But the nomination by the GOP of Donald Trump to be its candidate for President was seen by the Establishments and the media as a farcical final act of a moribund GOP sliding further into permanent minority status. Only that didn’t happen. A potential existential threat to the Establishments of both parties became a reality in January 2017. Donald Trump seized the GOP agenda, and the extreme left of the Democrat party seized the agenda of the Democrats in reaction to Donald Trump. The voters who elected Donald Trump and then increased their vocal support for his policies for the next two years, reflecting a new coalition of interests stitched together by Trump’s rhetoric and policy priorities. Probably more than any other single feature of his first two years in office, Trumps willingness to act in ways consistent with his rhetoric — long a shortcoming of GOP Presidents — won him the increasing adulation of GOP AND other conservative voters who had suffered for over 30 years at the hands of GOP politicians who talked a good game but shrank from the fight with the political opposition once it was joined. You did not need to agree with Pres. Trump, on every policy or statement to develop some amount of appreciation because he brought to the Office of President the kind of “make progress” demands common in corporate boardrooms but lacking in government conference rooms. The mid-term elections of 2018 derailed the Trump Administration’s ability to act through legislation by putting the Democrats in control of the House. But Trump’s coalition saw he was willing to compromise to make progress. His Presidency was “transactional,” not “ideological.” He would give ground to gain ground. When Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer fully realized that to be the case, their overriding concern became to not allow for any Trump Administration policy victories that it could champion in 2020. That meant gridlock for political ends was their only option. Beating Donald Trump in 2020 was the only item on the Democrat policy agenda. But it still took the combined effects of a more than three-year-long baseless investigation about collusion with Russia, a worldwide pandemic that shut down most of the US economy, an unrelenting willingness of the media to negatively characterize every issue regarding the Trump Administration and re-election efforts, a willingness by the media and “Big Tech” to actively suppress the distribution of information harmful to Joe Biden, a complete lack of interest in the media to Joe Biden’s physical and mental fitness for office, and unprecedented changes in the way voting was conducted to improve Biden’s chances of winning. The final step is to label GOP and conservatives’ coalition that Trump assembled as illegitimate and un-American to fracture it as a political force going forward. This is necessary to prevent another Republican from making an effort to harness it once again in the months and years ahead. What the Democrats and their media enablers cannot know — and only time will reveal — is the degree to which their efforts over the past 24 months will drive the Trump coalition members to the polls in 2022. The issues that animated that coalition is not going away. Hence the need to stigmatize the coalition itself. https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcre...-the-coalition-formed-by-donald-trump-n309286 .
Looking from this side of the pond I don't see a last minute reprieve. We must prepare to walk to Calvery. Keep the faith and keep our eyes on Jesus.
I've posted the above word/vision (post 7716) twice before on MOG. The last time I did so, Quis ut Deus followed with a personal post which touched me to the heart concerning his Dad. We must now more than ever look to our heroes, saints or relatives, who have set an unimpeachable example for us. Stand firm in spite of the darkness! Isaiah 50:10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the LORD and relies upon his God?11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who set brands alight! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the brands which you have kindled! This shall you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.
Christy, I like the article you posted but you don't say where it is from. A search on Google and Duckduckgo both bring up distressing and partisan results which bear no resemblance to any of the wording in the article.
It seems that President Trump is using this speech to make it very clear that he has never condoned violence and rioting and never will. But the leftists continue to blame him for everything and will no doubt say that the (expected) protests and any violence surrounding the planned Biden inauguration are due to Trump's instigation. I haven't given up hope that this is still part of Trump's plan. He did say that "our incredible journey is just beginning". May God come to his aid through the intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary. +
To be honest, while I prayed the best I could and completed the Consecration to Jesus through Mary with the intention of petitioning Almighty God to bring about a successful election for President Trump and the Republican party, with their purported upholding family values and life and liberty. I prayed God would wake up the looney left and frustrate their evil behaviour. There is a certainty that the Christina Gallagher prophesy on 29th October meant the election outcome was not to be in favour of the Republican party. It is with devastating sadness I share this news; because the next prophesy seemed to me to indicate the two Republican candidates would not be successful in the election just after the New Year. And so we have the double whammy. Well and truly in the bowels of the anti of Christ. The moral of the story, trust in God, keep your eyes on Jesus Christ and Keep Watch and Pray. It is always darkest just before dawn.
Hi Clare A, Which post? There is one from the Red State blog, with the web link at the bottom. The YouTube video was on YouTube. .
Yes, what I watched on the news today was disturbing. The gloating about the second impeachment was hard to take. By Saturday there will be an unimaginable 20,000 troops in DC. How heartbreaking that the United States of America has arrived at this moment.
Keep the faith and hold the line... he has many aces up his sleeve and, just like always, he’s ten steps ahead of everyone else!!
Before I have seen John MacCain and ISIS chief Al-Baghdadi having a photo too. Do you remember the ISIS photo on the beach beheading the Christian prisoners wearing orange suits? Have you thought where did the ISIS get those orange suits? Only in America! A very poor organization like ISIS would never let their prisoners wear those cute orange suits! Yes, that was made in a studio with CGI effects! We are being toyed by the New World Order my friends! Bin Laden and ISIS were created by NWO to produce expensive wars in the world!
And there was I thinking the American government armed and trained ISIS to use as a tool to take down Assad so they could get their greasy little paws on the oil. Trump could see it was a futile effort and ended the charade, because Russia got in on the act and it was a war behind a war, with Russia getting their greasy little paws on the booty. IMHO
This tribute is so beautiful and so heart rending to all of us who deeply love and have said goodbye to our dads and moms. Thanks be to God we will see them again in the Light of God and our joy no one can take from us.
Nothing is what it seems. Smoke and mirrors. I have been rereading the letters of St Peter--a guide for the times we are in!
