I know that the title of this commentary seems contradictory, but the Truth is, some of President
Trumps’ greatest opposition come from within the Republican Party.
Not the New MAGA crowd, but the old-guard Republican Party establishment wonks hate Donald Trump. They are angry with him because he has been so successful at separating the sheep from the goats in the Grand Old Party.
Interloper…wasn’t that the term that Rev Al Sharpton used nearly 2 decades ago to describe a Jewish business man who had opened a business in Harlem? Webster’s defines interloper as “One who runs into business to which he has no right.”
Make no mistake about it the establishment Republican Party hates Donald Trump. The career politicians who have spent their entire careers in the smokey-back rooms cutting deals with their “friends across the aisle” resent that this wealthy businessman has ventured into the political arena where he jumped the shark on all of the career politicians who had carefully planned their journey to the top of the Political Hill know as Washington DC.
The hate Trump not because of who he is or what he has done. No, the hate him because he jumped to the front of the line. In middle school we used to call that “dipping” into the lunch line. Nobody liked dippers. That was Trump’s most egregious behavior…jumping to the front of the line ahead of all of the good-ole-boys who had labored climbing up the political ladder.
In a city governed by the ambitious they hated that this “deal maker” had not paid his dues and they resented his interloping into their territory. All of the favors that the Establishment had sold to their donors went flying out the window when DJT ascended into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Heck, he wasn’t even a real Republican. Over the years, as a businessman, he had purchased loyalties within the House of Congress having friends on both sides of the aisle. Both parties loved him as a businessman because of the financial resources he controlled. They ALL loved “Mr, Apprentice” until he came messing in their porridge. How dare he crowd his way to the front of the line.
The Establishment Republican Party has never forgiven him. How in the hell did he get elected President when he really wasn’t part of the Club? How are we ever going to control him?
Damn interloper. They would not say that publicly….but that is what all the Big Cheese Elephants thought.
That’s why the Republicans didn’t really fight for him in the aftermath of the clearly-corrupt 2020 election. The Republican Establishment had spent 40 years rebuilding the Party after Nixon and Watergate destroyed the brand. And finally, after years of polishing the brand, Donald Trump butts his way in and starts riding on top of the elephant.
“Blasphemous” was the silent cry of the Bush, Cheney, Romney, McConnell, and Pence wings of the GOP establishment. They lifted not a hand to investigate the clearly corrupt election and sat silently as Mr. Trump endured more trials that the Capone mafia. The Republican Establishment hates MAGA and the man behind whom it was formed. But what is that old saying…if you shoot the King you better make sure you kill him.
But MAGA is alive and well. Before Trump, most conservatives only voted for Republicans because they hated Democrats. Everyone hated Washington. Except those who ran Washington. As we have been so often reminded, the Republicans and Democrats are simply two wings of the same bird. Or as George Carlin famously said…”Washington is one big club and you aren’t in it.“
But there are cracks beginning to appear within the Republican Party. Mark Levin recently called some MAGA supporters “Jew haters…anti-Semites…Nazis.” He and Tucker are crossing swords over America first rather than Israel First. Candice Owens and others are stating that Charley Kirk was killed because he would not cater to the “Zionist” mafia. Tucker and Levin have their swords drawn…not at communistic Democrats…but at each other.
What is it the Scriptures say….”a house divided AGAINST ITSELF cannot stand?” It is hard to fight the enemy at the gates when the crossfire is happening within the camp.
Please understand what I am trying to tell you. The ESTABLISHMENT is both parties full of career politicians who have spent their entire time in DC feathering their own nests. BOTH parties hate MAGA.
The Republican Party is in for a huge awakening. Those Americans who elected Donald Trump did not vote for REPUBLICANS…they voted for MAGA…to Make America Great Again…most hate BOTH political parties.
Their failure to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” is stalled at the backstretch. DLT has been in office for 10 months…and nothing seems to have changed. Could it be that those in power and those donors who support them like the way things operate in Washington. Could it be that the the Republican Establishment are doing their best to “run out the clock” until they can get a “company man” back in the Oval Office?
One final thought. As I often say on my daily podcast at www.CoachDaveLive.com no-one truly knows what team President Trump is playing on. He does a lot of things that make me scratch my head. But I can tell you one thing, the Republican Party is in control of both houses of Congress because of MAGA…not because tvoters support the Republican Party.
It is sorta like when my wife and I go shopping people look at us and smile. I used to think it was because I was such a good-looking guy, but now I have come to realize that most of them are trying to figure out how a squatty guy like me got such a beautiful wife?
The Republican Party establishment hates Donald Trump and those he represents. They’re just trying to find out how he got such a beautiful wife….
Can America Be Great Again? Buckle up. We are in for quite a ride.
