The atrocious Senate bill on immigration and funding Ukraine and Israel is emblematic of what is wrong with the traditional wing of the Republican party (the rinos). From T.L. Davis at tldavis.substack.com:
I wrote the preceding mea culpa to get back to the serious business of the border. While I respect the value of signaling the support for any given movement within the United States and using that as a means of getting people to realize the power they have within themselves, nothing is “solved” by demonstrations or rallies. That’s not their purpose. As corrupt as our politics are in the age of George Soros, the UN and the federal reserve the power of exerting one’s voice with representatives still works. Exhibit A is the Border Security Bill negotiated and raised by Senate Republicans. This was a disaster, but the text was hidden by those negotiating it with the idea of springing it unread on the Senate and forcing a vote before they had a chance to digest it, because it seemed like a good bill.
Without being too overly cynical, I know that one senator does not swing the vote, nor are Republicans necessarily interested in the views of those they represent. I know that politics in America are largely sorted out at the top levels and we’re all left out of the dialog. Donors of one sort or another hold all the power. All of those things can be true and still arrive at a groundswell of anger and frustration that kills a bill so disastrous that not even the sponsor nor McConnell may ultimately vote for it. That’s what has happened since staffers leaked the text to a couple of friendly reporters that brought it to the wider attention of people like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino. Lost in the discussion was all of the MSM, who are laying people off at a record rate. There’s a new media and it isn’t communist. That’s what this really says.
Thank God for Substack, GAB, SLL, and all the other Freedom Fighters.
Anything that stops “the Firm” Chuckie and CCP Turkey Neck McConnell is a victory.
I’ll pass on two people deciding what’s what for 330+ people, democracy schlomacracy.
“The Government is what we call Revolutionary; and some men are à la hauteur [up to the task], on a level with the circumstances, and others are not à la hauteur. But the Anarchy, we may say, has organized itself: Society is literally overset; its old forces working with mad activity, but in the inverse order; destructive and self-destructive.”
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)