Jim Bratten
Republicans who hated Sarah Palin are some of those who called Donald Trump’s primary election supporters hayseeds, bigots, rednecks, etc. Many of these GOP establishment types voted for Hillary (a “known quantity”) with the #NeverTrumpers because they really agree with Democrats on spending, the national debt, open borders, liberal immigration policy, and some foreign policy issues, just on a smaller scale… They prefer the concept of “policy” to the concept of “law.”
They’re really mad now. Donald Trump won the election by cobbling together a Third Party made of disgruntled Republicans, independents, conservatives, and Reagan Democrats (and abandoned Bernistas who couldn’t stomach Hillary). He then used the GOP banner to win the election. The establishment doesn’t like him, at all.
But one has to ask, who is advising President Trump on healthcare, tax cuts or any other type of reform? Secondly, why is he listening to them and not his base?
Last Thursday, President Trump began his day with the usual Tweets, except the first two were grossly inaccurate.
First: “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!” (No matter that the Republican “agenda” does not match President Trump’s, and they arenot on his “team.”)
Then Tweet of the Day #2 shot out; more personal, naming names, concentrating blame, and again seriously misplaced:
“If @MarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform. Where are @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador? #RepealANDReplace #Obamacare” (President Trump needs to comprehend that the Freedom Caucus is “on board” the Trump Train, but not the Paul Ryan Express.)
Donald Trump needs to understand that, in hostile Washington, DC, HE is the enemy. He is the despised Outsider and, without the Freedom Caucus and Senate Conservatives, he is an Army of One.
He must stop slamming the very people who stood by him in October, 2016 when House Speaker Paul Ryan and many others in the establishment Republican Party leadership were demanding he step down. Paul Ryan sold Trump a healthcare deal that was dead on arrival with 83% of the nation (only 17% favored it) and doubtful in the Senate.
Members of the Freedom Caucus are those who have his back. On “The Wall,” enforcement of immigration law, corporate tax cuts and individual tax reform, reining in a rogue EPA, taking handcuffs off the U.S. energy industry, etc., the Freedom Caucus is in Trump’s corner.
Then President Trump made a wrong turn – toward the Democrats now in positions of power inside the federal government who are NOT his “friends.” These hardened leftists want him gone; out of office. And they’re not planning to wait until the next presidential contest in 2020. They want him impeached; some have said they want him in prison. Why on earth would Trump want to deal (compromise) with those who don’t simply disagree with him on details, but don’t believe in the most basic rules? Like the U.S. Constitution…
He’d better turn around fast, reassess his shoot-from-the-hip error, and stop attacking the people who are backing him. They are needed to keep pressure on the real problem he has: the Washington, DC Republican Establishment. They’ve been in power for years and are determined to preserve the Swamp they helped construct.
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