Republicans： Fight Back or Be Destroyed ｜ 6⧸6⧸24
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Summary
How did the shining city on a hill devolve into a system so corrupt that it would make the dictator of a banana republic blush? There are a lot of answers, but one of the main reasons has been that conservatives have an aversion to the basic idea of political opposition. In Federalist 51, James Madison recognized that men are not angels, and that simply appealing to their better natures was insufficient.
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By the measure of most polls, Donald Trump is the leading candidate to become the next
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And as of last Thursday, he also stands convicted on 34 family counts.
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The former President won't be sentenced until July 11th, four days before the Republican
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Convention, where he will presumably be nominated as the GOP candidate.
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Joe Biden, or whoever runs his social media accounts, posted no one is above the law on
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Twitter in response to the sham conviction of his political opponent.
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That's an amazing statement for the father of prostitute-banging, crack-smoking, money-laundering
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The left has abandoned any remaining pretensions to constitutional rule and has embraced a very
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The United States prides itself on the rule of law and the orderly transfer of power.
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Our ruling class lectures the leaders of other nations on the importance of constitutional
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So how did the shining city on a hill devolve into a system so corrupt that it would make
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There are a lot of answers to that question, but one of the main reasons has been that conservatives
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have an aversion to the basic idea of political opposition.
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In Federalist 51, James Madison recognized that men are not angels and that simply appealing
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition, as Madison wrote.
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But this political equilibrium can't be struck if one side has made shunning the use of power
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A balance of power is always predicated on the idea that if one side violates the norm,
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Ronald Reagan understood that the strategy of mutually assured destruction rested on the
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plausible threat that if a red line was crossed, he would act to restore order by exercising
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Not only have conservative leaders completely abandoned the idea of checking ambition with
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ambition, they've sacralized the principle of total surrender by demonizing any exercise
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Conservative commentators have turned politics, which was always a contact sport, into a debate
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club, believing that the best argument will win the day.
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While the founders certainly believed in free speech, they understood that ultimately it
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was only power that can check power, not lofty speeches.
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Persuasion rests on a shared religion, morality, and history.
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The farther away a polity gets from these organic bonds, the less capable they are of mediating
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their differences through discussion and consensus.
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Many people, even some on the right, hate Donald Trump.
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They hate his weakness in the face of a security state that intends to destroy him.
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I'm not here to defend these undeniable aspects of his character, but Trump is only the most
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visible target of a wider campaign to criminalize political opposition in the United States.
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Universities today aren't just neglecting real education, they're actively undermining
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America was made for an educated and engaged citizenry.
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is here to help.
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ISI offers programs and opportunities for conservative students across the country.
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ISI understands that conservatives and right-of-center students feel isolated on college campuses
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and that you're often fighting for your own reputation, dignity, and future.
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Through ISI, you can learn about what Russell Kirk called the permanent things, the philosophical
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and political teachings that shaped and made Western civilization great.
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ISI offers many opportunities to jumpstart your career.
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They have fellowships at some of the nation's top conservative publications like National Review,
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The American Conservative, and The College Thinker.
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If you're a graduate student, ISI offers funding opportunities to sponsor the next great
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Through ISI, you can work with conservative thinkers who are making a difference.
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Thinkers like Chris Ruffo, who currently has an ISI researcher helping him with his book.
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But perhaps most importantly, ISI offers college students a community of people that can help
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If you're a college student, ISI can help you start a student organization or student newspaper
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or meet other like-minded students at their various conferences and events.
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ISI is here to educate the next generation of great Americans.
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On Friday, Joe Biden's DOJ succeeded in getting a 73-year-old woman sentenced to over two years
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in prison for praying during a protest at an abortion clinic.
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Due to her age and medical condition, her family is worried that she'll die in prison.
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Douglas Mackey is currently facing jail time for posting a meme that insulted Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump's lawyers and many former officials inside his administration have faced prosecution
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as an intimidation tactic to make serving the former president impossible.
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Any political party that seriously opposed the current administration would understand this attack
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on its voters and its presidential candidate as an existential threat.
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Outside of the impotent pointing and sputtering that's become the Republican standard response,
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Many congressmen and senators have made outraged tweets.
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The average voter vents on social media because they have no other place to be heard.
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If those that hold official office resort to the same behavior, it can only mean one of three things.
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One, they're cowards, unwilling to take action.
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Two, they have no real power and they lie to their constituents about it.
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Or three, they're complicit in the destruction of our nation.
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Many conservatives have now turned their hopes to November 5th,
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believing that the procedure of an election will rescue them from having to take any form of substantive action.
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This religious devotion to process is what has made conservatives the perpetual victims of a progressive establishment
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that has mastered the art of manipulating procedural outcomes.
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If Republicans extract no political price for the jailing of their candidates, functionaries, and constituents,
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it's insane to believe that an election would somehow magically solve this problem.
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Hunter Biden is a drug addict with a long history of hiring prostitutes,
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It's almost certain that he's committed a crime within the jurisdiction of a Republican prosecutor.
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The left has played fast and loose with jurisdiction and the statute of limitations
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And Hunter Biden is far from the only corrupt Democrat
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who has escaped justice due to the deference of Republican officials
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Prosecutors should be spinning up cases against every dirty Democrat they can find
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and should make it clear that these actions will continue
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until Trump and other political prisoners are pardoned.
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Strong GOP governors should also be applying pressure by enforcing immigration law immediately.
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The Biden administration is encouraging an illegal invasion of the country
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with the goal of permanently altering the demographics of the nation
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and fundamentally changing the electoral balance inside the country.
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who have already shown a willingness to buck corrupt federal dictates,
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should lead the way by closing the borders of their states
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The Republican House should end all funding for foreign wars.
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In fact, they should stop funding the administration entirely.
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Conservatives might be uncomfortable with the idea of political enemies.
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They might think that it violates their principles to recognize
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that actors within their country are hostile to their way of life.
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But those people don't disappear just because you close your eyes
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Whether the right likes it or not, they have enemies.
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And in many cases, those enemies have already succeeded in making it a crime
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there's nothing that'll stop the left's march towards total control.
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Republicans must exact a price from their political enemies
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or complete their inevitable slide into total irrelevance.
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