The Last Refuge
Electability boils down to the right kind of approved candidate.
That is an accurate context for this midterm election cycle. Factually, the income stream for the RNC improves if they have the ability to campaign against the opposition club. The larger the outrage, the more substantial the fundraising. The corporation makes more money in defeat, or in the minority, than it does when it wins or holds majorities.
As a result, there is a disconnect between the financial incentive of the corporation and the expressed intent of the corporation. When the RNC club wins, they have a more difficult time raising money, because people who previously contributed are now looking for results.
Combine that business model reality, with the accurate statement from Steve Deace about the club perspective of MAGA, and you begin to see the weird dynamic that surfaced in Georgia in the first week of January 2021. Did the club want to win the two senate races? Or was the club content to let deflated Trump voters see a lackluster club response to the 2020 election issues in Georgia, a frustration which led to wins by the opposition?
The same dynamic is established now. Senator Mitch McConnell and the GOP club corporate donors are not happy with the unapproved candidates winning many of the 2022 primary contests. They are not hiding their disdain, nor are they hiding their shift in midterm expectations as a result of their desire to see the unapproved republican candidates defeated.
However, there is a more looming scenario that we have been discussing.
As we have seen from their non-response to the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the GOP club would not be disappointed to see the DOJ take down Donald Trump prior to the midterm elections.
In a national version of the Georgia result, there would likely be widespread voter anger and frustration, if the DOJ indict President Trump and the republican leadership pull the Ron DeSantis routine and stay hidden and silent.
The GOP gets rid of the issue of Donald Trump, and a 25% drop in MAGA voter turnout – the result of anger and disenfranchisement – leads to overwhelming victories for Democrats in the midterms. The result, both Donald Trump and MAGA are essentially removed from the RNC/GOP structure. Nothing would make that group happier than to return to the status quo of controlled and approved party candidates. [Insert Ron DeSantis here]
In the biggest of big pictures, the important issues for the club to control surround trade, finance and economic policy. There are trillions at stake. The multinationals and Wall Street in general would both benefit from the elimination of a political movement based on America-First national economic policy (ie. Main Street USA).
The common bond amid all of the diversity within the Trump coalition is the working-class economic connection. No other republican politician of significance has any national economic outlook unfavorable to the multinational corporations who finance the club priority. The only economic nationalist in the republican party is Donald Trump. Remove him and the America-First policy is removed with him.
Let us also not be naïve or intellectually dishonest with each other. The decision on whether to indict or not indict Donald Trump is going to be made by Democrats and Republicans alike. Personally, I worry that decision has already been made, sometime around early June when the DOJ first inspected the documents at Mar-a-Lago, as part of a larger collaborative midterm strategy, noted above.
The picture would essentially be, have the DOJ remove Donald Trump; have the republican leadership do nothing except express faux outrage at the outcome; and then watch as a blue wave midterm election benefits both Democrat and Republican clubs.
Democrats advance their radical agenda, republicans gnash their teeth and fundraise off the radical agenda, and the 2024 presidential candidates pull out the fainting couches, gasp in horror, bewilderment and outrage over the events, while reminding the republican base that supporting law enforcement, and following the constitution, means sitting quietly and voting harder…
…. cue Ron DeSantis.
Keep a close eye on Ron DeSantis, as he could be the Establishment Republicans’ trojan horse. – The Liberator
Noticing the lackluster support of the RNC for the Trump endorsed candidates has kept me from donating to anything which smacks of the establishment class. One would think that the Repubs would be happy to help to defeat the dems/commies in the midterms. The lackluster response to the Mir-a-lago invasion by the feds by the RNC just served notice to me that they want him, and us, his supporters, long gone from the DC scene. I suspected as much when they had both houses handed to them with Trump’s victory in 2016, then proceeded to sit on their hands for the most part. Now, they have cemented in my mind that they can’t be trusted any more than the less than the honorable opposition. For the most part.
Ron DeSantis? I only see what he is accomplishing for the folks in Fl and approve heartily. Makes me wish the governor of my state had the same kind of chutzpah to take on the morons in my state. I’ll hold judgement until I see otherwise.
I do think that should the feds decide to press for indictment of DJT they are really wading into deep and dark waters. At their own peril. They are not really realizing how many folks there are out in this nation who are truly fed up with their antics. I suggest that there are not enough guns nor ammo in the alphabet agencies to counteract the blowback which may result in such a move on their part.
Not a threat, just an observation.
Thanks for the article, “Liberator”. Gonna get interesting, ain’t it?