CONSERVATIVES MUST ACT AS A 4TH FORCE –
NOT AS AN APPENDAGE TO THE GOP OR MAGA
CONTINUED #2
Last week I explained how the Conservative Movement is a fourth force in American politics.
In the 1950’s two new forces independent of the two major political parties entered American politics — liberals and conservatives.
The liberals quickly captured control of the Democrat Party.
Thus, today’s Democrat Party and liberals, progressives, socialists are one in the same.
They removed God from their platform, inserted the LGBTQ and radical abortion agenda and wanted the government to control most everything in our lives from health care to education.
Conservatives started much slower in the 1950’s, picked up speed with the 1964 Barry Goldwater for President campaign, and became a full-fledged political force in the 1980’s under President Ronald Reagan.
Until recently the Republican Party was still under the control and leadership of the Republican Establishment, including people like Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bob Michel, Howard Baker, Bush 41 and 43 (as well as hundreds of their family and friends, such as Jeb Bush, James Baker, Karl Rove, Dick Darman, Dick Cheney), Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Perhaps nothing expresses the weakness and failures of the Republican Establishment more effectively than the first speech Jerry Ford gave to the Congress after he was sworn in as president.
On Oct. 4, 1974, Ford went before a joint session of Congress declaring, "My motto toward the Congress [Democrat-controlled at the time] is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation."
In other words, Ford went before the Democrat-controlled Congress to surrender to the opposing party’s agenda!
Today, the surrender caucus is no longer in power.
For most of the last 75 years conservatives acted as an appendage, or an arm, of the GOP.
The conservative cause did not achieve significant success at the national level because most conservative leaders failed to lead — attaching themselves to the Republican Party and its leaders.
Next week I’ll give you a few examples where Republican political leaders have failed us.
