The Party of Trump lives on

The Friday Letter / No. 440 / Orlando, Florida

Constitutional (i.e. Trump) conservatives are understandably delighted that House Republicans  voted Wednesday to remove Liz Cheney as their number 3 leader. Her response explains everything:

“I will do everything to ensure that the former President never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” and she was not talking about George W. Bush. “We have seen the danger that he continues to promote with his language. We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the constitution and I think it’s very important that we make sure whomever we elect is somebody who will be faithful to the constitution.”

Constitutional Republicans had their own explanation. “Republicans are finally taking a stand and getting a backbone and removing people from leadership who do not promote the America First agenda, the Trump policies,” Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado told John Solomon on his podcast. “President Trump really pioneered the way for this new Republican Party, and he’s very much the leader of the Republican Party.”

From news reports we found, Cheney said nothing about stopping the Democrat war to destroy our freedoms, sovereignty, and security. Like those who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, she views Trump as the real threat to our survival – bigger than China, bigger than uncontrolled illegal immigration, bigger than our disappearing right to speak freely, assemble peaceably and to defend our families, bigger than the frightening collapse of the rule of law.

And like her pals on the left and in the squishy middle, Liz has never produced one example of Trump uttering a single word or taking a single action that violates our Constitution. Not one. In this regard she abets what the Media Left uses with astonishing effect about repeating a lie often enough so that it becomes accepted truth (often misattributed to Goebbels).

And yet, while her voting record falls short of Reagan’s 80 percent with me and we’re allies test, Cheney’s pro-constitution record is much better than that of her heir apparent, Elise Stefanik of New York-21. The American Conservative Union gives Cheney at lifetime favorable rating of 78, though it dropped to 57 last year as she became more obsessed with destroying Trump. Still, she beats out Stefanik’s lifetime rating of 43.64, placing Stefanik well to the left of center. What goes?

We aren’t sure, except to note that Stefanik, while casting appalling votes against constitutional law, stands with Trump – in her words. So Stefanik talks up the president while voting against him. Cheney talks against him but votes with him, sometimes. Guess who wins?

In politics, words speak louder than action, because most people get their information in fragments from television commentators they may be only half-listening to. How many people actually track their representative’s voting records at Gov Track?

Let’s see some examples:

·      Both Cheney and Stefanik voted for H.R. 6172, an anti-constitutional bill to increase warrantless surveillance of Americans through FISA reauthorization, without reforms.

·      Both voted for the currency-devaluating HR 133, $2.3 trillion in wasteful spending.

·      Both voted for H.R. 5084, which allows the federal government to interfere in private business by requiring “diversity” reporting.

However, Stefanik voted to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, which punishes the U.S. on carbon emissions while exempting China and India. Cheney voted against it.

In March 1919 Stefanik voted with Democrats to block President Trump’s emergency declaration to use military budget money to secure the southern border. Both then and in retrospect, Trump’s order shows why he is the essential president, even though Biden’s handlers have unraveled Trump’s progress in protecting our sovereignty as a nation with defined borders. In this, Stefanik joined the left in dismissing our crumbling borders as a national emergency, which it was, is now, and will continue to be as long as the socialist party remains in power.

Stefanik is a co-sponsor of H.R. 1044, described in this fact sheet as a bill that would eliminate the current limit on green cards being monopolized by a single country. It is seen as a gift to Big Tech and its practice of replacing American workers with lower-wage immigrants principally from India.

Two names being floated to succeed Cheney are Chip Roy of Texas and Mike Johnson of Louisiana. While an aide said Roy has never sought a leadership position, Roy sent this memo to GOP House colleagues: “With all due respect to my friend, Elise Stefanik, let us contemplate the message Republican leadership is about to send by rushing to coronate a spokesperson whose voting record embodies much of what led to the 2018 ass-kicking we received by Democrats.”

In the news . . .

One thing we can say with certainty is that higher education is doing a masterful job of making sure students learn nothing but absorb everything fed to them. Take the term racist, for example. Racism is the belief that one race – not necessarily even one’s own – is intellectually superior to some other race. Bigotry is the hatred of an individual just for the person’s race or ethnicity and for no other reason. And so, a person can be a racist, a bigot, both, or neither. If I say I love my other-race neighbor because he’s a great neighbor and loving father, but that I feel his race makes him inferior to me, that makes me a racist but not a bigot. If I say my neighbor is highly intelligent, highly skilled and a good provider but I don’t like him because he is of another race, that makes me a bigot but not a racist. If you see the difference here, you and I are in a very small club. I used to teach this in my rhetoric lessons. I will bet lunch that nothing of this sort is today discussed in any classroom on any campus.

“Racist” has become meaningless as a word in the English language. Ignorant people use it to describe anyone they don’t like for any reason.

Campus Reform reports that a child-student opinion editor on Northwestern’s student newspaper has declared that white people walk funny on sidewalks because of they are white supremacist racists. He said white children are taught that black people must yield to them as part of their training in Jim Crow law.

I don’t recall such a conversation at our dinner table growing up, but it must have happened. “Son,” Dad would say, “We live under the law of Jim Crow. This means that when you encounter a colored person walking down the street, you just keep walking, and he must step out of your way.”

Since Jim Crow laws began to fade after Harry Truman integrated the military services in 1948 and collapsed under the 1960s civil rights laws, and since history hasn’t been taught in U.S. schools for a half century or more, we have just one question: How do today’s college children know anything about Jim Crow and his laws? Could it have something to do with them returning in our expanding anti-white culture?

Short takes on the news

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama-5 will make his second run for the Senate, for a seat to be vacated next year by 87-year-old Richard Shelby. Books is a constitutional conservative – MSN News calls him an “extremist” for supporting President Trump – with a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 90.88. If elected, he would nudge the Senate rightward: Shelby’s lifetime rating is 77.26. Alabama voters rejected Brooks’ 2018 Senate bid in favor of Roy Moore, who lost Jeff Session’s vacated seat to Doug Jones. Jones lost his first full term election in 2020 to Tommy Tuberville.