Are Republican politicians on our side?

(This is the first installment of a four-part series on how conservatives should view the upcoming national midterm election. We will publish subsequent installments each Monday between now and Election Day.)

If the Republican politicians are our friends, who needs enemies?

There is a common theme in discussions with conservative friends who believe that Republican politicians — particularly those residing for very long in the District of Criminals — are cowards or become cowards who are afraid to stand up for conservative causes. It’s also a message regularly delivered by Republican-loving scribes and talking heads who claim to be conservatives.

An example of this trope appeared this week recently on the website American Greatness. Author Brandon J. Weichert writes:

There are times I forget the Republican Party won the 2016 election. The reason is simple: because most of the establishment GOP continues the loveable loser act. The Republicans appear to be appealing to some invisible referee who will wade into the great debate between those on the American Right and those on the Satanic Left and adjudicate the arguments fairly… If elected Republicans stood together the way the Democrats somehow manage, there is no policy that the GOP could not push through. Yet the Republicans struggle because their leadership is weak and malleable.

The Republican Party has well earned the appellations from conservative voters the “Loveable Loser Party,” “the Stupid Party,” the “Coward Party”  or “weak” — all terms I’ve heard or seen used by Republican voters — based on its abandonment of moral and genuine conservative principles as well as its inability to lead in Congress. Not that the Democrats are any better, mind you, because their claims to morality and principle are even more ludicrous!

The abysmal Republican failures in Congress, most notably their inability to repeal Obamacare, unwillingness to reduce government size and spending and fumbling over the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court seem to give weight to the premise. But this is a page right out of Republican Party politics 101, which promises conservativism to its followers but delivers unmitigated collectivism.

Republican politicians, for example, profess pro-Christian, anti-big government ideals but join the Democrats in faith-destroying, socialist legislation to expand the welfare state. The Republicans are not stupid, fickle or cowardly, they are hypocrites. They are not more effective, much less more trustworthy, than the Democrats in preserving your liberty.

Republicans have long claimed to have the corner on genuine conservatism, much as Democrats claim to have the corner on genuine liberalism. Both claims are untrue but are perceived as true thanks to mass deception. Today’s conservatism and liberalism are but twin pincers of the same, dynamic, ever-changing, collectivist dialectic.

I want to limit my examination to the conservative side of the problem because today’s pseudo-conservatives are particularly adept at leading astray large numbers of middle-class Americans, especially Christians, patriots and other good folks. Also, if not for the consistent acquiescence of Republican “conservatives” to the collectivist agenda, America would have retained its limited, constitutional Republic, even in this “sophisticated” day and age.

Note that in a federal government dominated by a Republican majority, the federal leviathan grows in power, coupled together with New World Order. Note, too, that Republican judges and juries continue to rule for the state; codifying into law the evil practices of the progressive left such as socialized “healthcare,” sodomite “marriage” and the right to murder the soon-to-be-born.

The Republican Party was born of corporatism and nurtured on bloodshed, and that continues to this day. As the historian Bruce Catton wrote in The Civil War, in 1860, Abraham Lincoln wanted to be the nominee of the Republican Party — a party that consisted of an amalgam of former members of the defunct Whig Party, Free Soilers (those who believed all new territories should be slave-free), business leaders who wanted a central government that would protect industry and ordinary folk who wanted a homestead act that would provide free farms in the West. “The Republican platform, however, did represent a threat to Southern interests. It embodied the political and economic program of the North — upward revision of the tariff, free farms in the West, railroad subsidies, and all the rest.”

In the early 1860s, the Republican Party’s flurry of new laws, regulations and bureaucracies created by Lincoln and the Republicans foreshadowed Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” for volume, scope and questionable Constitutionality of its legislation.

The term “New Deal” was only co-opted by Roosevelt. It was first coined to describe Lincoln and the Republican agenda by a Raleigh, N.C., newspaper editor in 1865.

“Lincoln’s massive expansion of the federal government into the economy led Daniel Elazar to claim, ‘…one could easily call Lincoln’s presidency the “New Deal” of the 1860s.’ Republicans established a much larger, more powerful, and more destructive federal government in the 1860s,” Mises.org explains.

Already a fascist party (as evidenced by its long history of corporatism and its embrace of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” bailouts, big government and perpetual wars), the Republican politicians have slowly and almost imperceptibly abandoned any pretense to adhere to conservative first-principles while positing the notion that what was once true conservativism is now extremism.

True conservatives reject statism, embrace small government and abhor confiscatory taxes. Conservatives believe in a strong military for the nation’s defense (not military adventurism). Conservatives defend innocent life. Conservatives advocate liberty and personal responsibility.

The Republican Party is ruled by CINOs (conservatives in name only), pseudo-conservatives who bow to the will of their corporatist masters while playing the fools.

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