Trump Is Reshaping the GOP to Eliminate RINOs, along with their Progressive Friends in the Swamp and Media

We pray for and support everyone in Texas touched by the rampage of Hurricane Harvey. BUT, THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS ABOUT TRUMP TAKING HOLD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Progressive Democrats and Republicans in Name Only call President Trump's tweets and attacks a sign of chaos in the White House and a President "unfit for office." Nothing could be farther from the truth. • • • THE REAL REPUBLICAN PARTY IS RISING. Just ask Arizona's Representative Paul Gosar, a dentist who ran first in 2010 as a Tea Party Republican and is a member of the House Freedom Caucus who fought off a primary challenger backed by national GOP allies in 2016. He says the GOP Senate is a major disappointment, with the failure to address Obamacare as the prime example of its inability to get things done. Gosar, who represents rural Arizonans, told WND RADIO on Saturday : "There isn't one meeting I don't have where people are going off" on Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake. Gosar is fully behind President Trump’s demand for full congressional funding for a border wall and both he and his constituents are exasperated with the state’s two Republican Senators for offering no solutions of their own to overhaul or repeal Obamacare. Gosar asked WND : “What has the Senate done? They copped out on Obamacare. And to my Senators (Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake), if you didn’t like what the House put forward, where are your ideas?” He says while politicians are posturing, people in his state are suffering from Obamacare : “We’re catastrophically moving down this pathway where we’re seeing Americans getting a 40-90% increase in their premiums coming up. Obamacare is failing. There’s not enough money to fix it. We’re seeing Medicare being implemented in all the group plans, so it behooves us to be big boys and girls and have that conversation." • Gosar doesn't blame President Trump : “I have represented most of the rural parts of Arizona. They’ve got a piece of paper that says they have health insurance but they can’t afford to pay the co-pays and deductibles. It’s a travesty....Whether it be tax breaks, tax cuts, getting government out of the way, this President has done his fair share with the Congressional Review Act and with executive orders to streamline the regulatory process. Now Congress has got to respond. It can’t continue working in a broken, dysfunctional fashion.” Gosar says no one should be surprised by Trump’s blunt tactics : “This gentleman is not built as a politician and that’s why America voted him in. He’s a disrupter. The business as usual has got to stop. We’re $20 trillion in debt....I don’t think I would cross the President and I don’t think I would cross the American people. This is something the American people want. So far, the Senate has let them down....They don’t see solutions but they see a man that’s struggling to make sure that he honors the promises that he made to those people." For Gosar, the issues of border security and NAFTA are very closely linked. Gosar says : “I think these are all interwoven and I think the President has a good thought process about how to drag all these together to get what he believes the American people want because they voted for him. He made no qualms about border security and building the wall." Gosar also applauds Trump sending more border patrol agents and immigration judges to stem the tide of illegal entries and to adjudicate cases much more quickly. • For Gosar, the House is doing a better job than the Senate : "We’ve got over 200 bills over there waiting on the Senate to take a look at. The atmosphere is going to be very confrontational. It’s going to be very high stakes. But once that first brick falls, a lot of this stuff is going to fall right in line.” • Representative Paul Gosar is one of the voices of Trump Republicans. Repealing and replacing Obamacare, building a wall, tax reform, renegotiating NAFTA. These are the Class of 2010 Republicans who went to Washington to provide conservative leadership in a Congress badly out of tune with an America opposed the ProgDem Pelosi bulldozer passage of Obamacare and spend-and-tax ProgDem government. They are fiscal conservatives who want a reduction in the national debt, lower taxes, more jobs for Americans, reduced regulatory strangleholds on the economy, trade deals that give America a chance, and a healthcare sytem that works. • That is what President Trump is all about, and he is winning the battle because there are many other Paul Gosars in Congress and waiting in every state, who are ready to clean the Swamp, including getting rid of RINO Swamp Creatures. • • • PROGRESSIVES ARE LOSING THE POLITICAL BATTLE SO THEY PROMOTE VIOLENCE WHILE BLAMING TRUMP FOR IT. TheHill published perhaps the most ludricrous article of all on Sunday. It was written by Melanie Zanona and was titled "Threats of political violence rise in polarized Trump era." Zanona, and obviously her editors at TheHill, seem to think that President Trump -- who consistently and often calls for Americans to love each other and learn to live together in peace -- is responsible for violent attacks on statues and monuments led by Antifa and BLM, both extreme Left marxist organizations. Who does Zanona go to for support in this fake news article? Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the extreme Left group that likes to put anyone and anything conserviative on its "fascist" list. Cohen did not disappoint. He said : "When there seems to be no room for compromise and no appetite for listening to the other side, the potential for violence is higher. And the Confederate monuments are the obvious flash point.” Zanona concluded : "At the center of it all is President Trump, whose heated rhetoric has angered opponents while firing up his supporters, magnifying the sense that the political divide in the country is growing wider." And, who did Zanona use as an example of increasing political violence? : "Even before the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville...there was already heightened concern over the threat of violence amid a hyper-charged political environment in the country. A lone gunman shot up a baseball field earlier this summer where Republican members and staffers were practicing for a charity game, leaving House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in critical condition. And the first half of this year saw an alarming uptick in death threats against lawmakers, with Capitol Police investigating more threats in the first half of 2017 than all of last year. Many lawmakers have refused to hold town halls this year, claiming they feel it is too dangerous." • I suppose it is a waste of time to point out to fake journalist Zanona that the gunman who shot GOP Representative Scalise was a Left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter, or that the violence at townhall meetings is caused by BLM and other Soros organizations intent on keeping Republican lawmakers from having a dialogue with their constituents. Naw -- for Zanona, "even after taking office, Trump has generally stuck to the same street-fighting style that energized his base and helped propel him to victory." Zanona again seeks support for her triade -- in Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, who told her : "He himself is kind of more inflammatory, and he tends to react to things in this more aggressive manner. That can be good for a campaign and welcome in a primary, but it’s complicated for trying to build unity. The more the President foams up this dissent, the worse it is to try to unify the country as a nation and to heel these wounds.” NEED WE TELL the dear professor that it is "heal" not "heel," and that "kind of more inflammatory" is illiterate street talk not fit for a university professor. • Enough. • • • REAL VIOLENCE FROM PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS. Leading Democrats in Missouri are calling on state senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal to resign following an August Facebook posting hoping that President Trump be assassinated. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the post : “I hope Trump is assassinated!” Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat, quickly deleted her post, but not quickly enough. By midafternoon, the political verdicts of her own Democrat Party were rolling in. And, Republican Governor Eric Greitens said in a statement : “We can have differences in our country, but no one should encourage political violence. The senator should resign.” • Chappelle-Nadal admitted she wrote the offending line before deleting it, and then fell back on every ProgDem's excuse when trapped in an outrageous anti-Trump attack. She said : “I didn’t mean what I put up. Absolutely not. I was very frustrated. Things have got to change. It was in response to the concerns that I am hearing from residents of St. Louis.” • Chappelle-Nadal has been given until September 13 to resign or be removed by the Missouri Democrat State Committee. She apologized to the President but said : I am not resigning." So, Chappelle-Nadal joins the growing list of Democrats who have in one way or another called for President Trump's assasssination -- Johnny Depp, Madonna, the always unfunny Kathy Griffin, and the incident in Central Park, when government-supported New York Theater's production of “Julius Caesar” savagely stabbed a Caesar who looked remarkably like Donald Trump. • These presumably rational Progressives -- they aren't in a psychiatric hospital...yet -- who support the Democrat Party and its vendetta on President Trump must surely realize that there are non-rational people out there who hear their words, and not their "I didn't mean it," and could become the next James Hodgkinson who was so inspired by Bernie Sander's incendiary rhetoric that he tried to assassinate a couple of dozen of Republican lawmakers. As President Kennedy remarked a few weeks before his own assassination, a determined assassin willing to give their lives can get to a President anytime. As these calls for killing Trump escalate, the danger will only increase. • • • NOT JUST PROGDEMS WANT TO DESTROY TRUMP AND THE GOP. American Thinker's Christopher Chantrill says "the left and the Deep State establishment just do not appreciate how dangerous things are...their left-wing activism is a rehearsal of civil war. That is what marches and peaceful protests mean, that if the system doesn’t meet our non-negotiable demands we will take to the streets....When you are spending 40% of GDP on your supporters, and burying ordinary Americans under the power of the administrative state, and your PC police make everyone fear for their job for a careless word, and when a redress of grievances cannot be obtained by ordinary legislative process, then you are heading for the moment when the racist sexist homophobes say: We Don’t Care, and we will strike back against the left and its we-get-to-protest-but-you-don’t culture." • But, the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare rests with the Republican Senate and its Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The GOP Senators who blocked Obamacare's repeal are RINOs so deep into the Swamp that they see draining it as a direct threat to their future elite position. Of course, the likes of McCain and Collins and Murkowski couch their opposition to the President as being independent thinkers standing up for their constituents. Nothing could be more hollow. These RINOs are really Democrats, and like Democrats, they think that they can fool Republican voters, blame Trump for taking everyone’s health care away, and then ride to victory in the 2018 mid-terms. • Chantrill's conclusion is right : "See, if I were the Mr. Big of the Deep State I’d get up every morning worrying about the ignorance of my supporters arrogantly visiting injustice on the people, mindlessly stirring up a head of rebellion. I’d be careful to keep my activists in their barracks, rather than out on the streets. I’d think that the way to extend my heavenly dynasty would start with hiding my mailed fist in a velvet glove. So I’d be very reluctant to sicc a special prosecutor on the opposition." • • • AND THAT BRINGS US BACK TO TRUMP AND THE RINOs. President Trump and his supporters have been viciously attacked, with no lie too big or ridiculous for the Progressive propaganda arm mainstream media to use if they think it will help overthrow the Trump presidency. The Russian collusion fake news has faded after months of constant ProgDem and MSM lies. The complete lack of facts didn't stop them until it became clear -- despite the illegal unmasking, the Mueller investigation, the Awan family, Seth Rich, and Donna Brazile -- that their lie machine at Fusion GPS was revealing that the real colluders are Democrats. The coup that had been operating in plain sight -- enemies of the Republic, including many in his own party, were plotting to overthrow the constitutionally elected President -- is losing steam. • McCONNELL. But, instead ofsupporting Trump, Republican Senate Majority Leader McConnell expressed open doubt that Donald Trump’s presidency can survive. There is no way to explain Mitch McConnell's recent attacks on President Trump -- the doubt had been preceded by Mitch calling Trump a newcomer to the political process with no understanding about how long it takes to get things done -- except to call them attacks of a member of the Swamp elite determined to undercut and destroy his own Party's leader. The absolute lack of loyalty from the man who undoubtedly owes Trump bigtime for still being a Senator and holding a position of power is almost unique in modern American politics. The only other example is that of another Republican Senator and Senate Majority Leader -- from Tennessee -- Howard Baker, who coined the notoriously anti-Nixon question : "What did the President know and when did he know it?" • As backgrond, to a large extent, the Civil War was fought in Tennessee -- Shiloh, Stones River, Chattanooga, Nashville, and Franklin -- only Virginia saw more battles. However, Tennessee was the last of the Southern states to declare secession from the Union since a substantial portion of Tennesseans were against seceding; but its rivers were key arteries to the Deep South, and, from the early days of the war, Union efforts focused on securing control of those transportation routes, as well as major roads and mountain passes such as the Cumberland Gap. Tennessee was also considered "the Bread Basket" of the Confederacy, for its rich farmland that fed both armies during the war. Tennessee was one of the most divided states in the country at the outset of the war. Before the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Tennessee was staunchly pro-Union. The situation changed after Fort Sumter when Lincoln made the call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion. Tennesseans saw this as a threat to their "southern brethren," and the only remaining pro-Unionism was in the eastern part of the state. In fact, Tennessee would furnish more troops for the Union than any other Confederate state. However, over three times that number volunteered for the Confederacy. Interestingly, General Nathan Bedford Forrest -- now reviled for his pro-slavery sentiments -- voted against secession, but later fought for his state when it seceded. This history will perhaps be important for historians who try to understand why one Republican President was driven out of office and a second one is being frontally attacked by two Senators from Tennessee. Is the ambivalence of the civil war period now re-emerging in the guise of Tennessee leaders who resist Trump's effort to pull the GOP back to its Lincoln roots? • • • THE FUTURE OF THE GOP IS IN TRUMP'S HANDS. Ironically, the Republican Party was formed as a third party in a similar moral crisis, as the home for those willing to take a stand against slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the new third party, and the Whigs, who refused to take a stand on the burning issue of the day, went into the dustbin of history. The same thing could now happen to the current Republican Party that led the fight against slavery, and it is ironic, since Donald Trump as President is the leader of the party, and he is falsely smeared as a racist every day by the propagandists in the media. Knepper says : "If those currently plotting this coup decide to move forward, the shock waves are going to make the eyewall of a hurricane pale in comparison. A new civil war, and a new party to carry the hopes of conservatives, are just two of the predictable outcomes. Never-Trumpers, geriatric office-clingers, and country-club Republicans better choose well which side they are on." • When the current political civil war in America is viewed as the battle between Lincoln's Grand Old Party and the extreme Left determined to destroy Trump and the Republic, President Trump's lashing out and vilifying not only Progressive Democrats but their #NeverTrump GOP fellow travelers makes over-arching sense -- Trump is at the head of the branch of the Republican Party that wants to drain the Swamp, bring back constitutional government and give America back to Americans. • Trump last Tuesday railed against the press at the Phoenix rally, calling journalists “dishonest people” who “don’t like our country.” He said journalists should want to make America great again : “They are sick people. You know the thing I don’t understand? You would think...they’d want to make our country great again. And I honestly believe they don’t.” Trump called out CNN and saying “you wonder why CNN is doing poorly.” • Of course, Trump does understand. Trump and the media have been locked in a death struggle for almost two years. In Phoenix, Trump lambasted the “damned dishonest” press. The President accused the media of exacerbating racial divisions, attacking ordinary Americans, giving a platform to hate groups and of “trying to take away our history and our heritage." He said : "If you want to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media." The reaction was swift and brutal -- CNN's panel of seven commentators, led by anchor Don Lemon. Lemon accused the President of “trying to ignite a civil war” : "He’s unhinged. “It’s embarrassing....His speech was without thought, it was without reason, it was devoid of facts, it was devoid of wisdom, it was devoid of gravitas. There was no sanity there....[Trump is] clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, meaning the business people and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office and whether he is stable.” Obama's DNI James Clapper, who is now a CNN national security analyst, questioned Trump’s “fitness to be in this office. This behavior and this divisiveness, intellectual and moral and ethical void that the President of the United States exhibits. And how much longer does the country -- to borrow a phrase -- endure this nightmare?" On MSNBC, Joe Scarborough called Trump’s address “frightening” and likened the President to a fascist : “This was a hateful, derisive speech. It was a frightening speech. He sounded like an autocrat trying to dehumanize his allies.” The New York Times, which Trump called “failing,” and the Washington Post, which the President described as a “lobbying tool for Amazon,” unloaded. The Washington Post’s house conservative opinion writer Jennifer Rubin said the address was “horrifying, dishonest and raises issue of mental stability.” Axios political reporter Mike Allen warned in his newsletter that Trump had endangered the safety of reporters covering the rally by pointing them out to the crowd : “In this fevered environment, some journalist could get beaten, or worse." So, it is perfectly all right to call for Trump's ouster for mental incapacity and to give air time to those who have threatened the President with assassination -- but when the media is targeted, they cower and complain. • Trump’s supporters saw the latest skirmish as just more media hysteria. Breitbart News rejoiced in the President’s media attacks. Ben Shapiro, the conservative founder of The Daily Wire, argued that the media’s reaction plays right into Trump’s hands. And, in a string of tweets this week, even conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who has long since abandoned Trump for the Swamp, argued that disdain for the elite media is so thorough that it acts as a near-impenetrable buffer against Trump losing his base. • Sean Hannity rose to the challenge of confronting the MSM’s fake news on his Wednesday night Fox News show and dealt a serious blow to the lies, misrepresentations, and omissions of the nation’s press, standing out once again as a defender and practitioner of fair and balanced reporting, said Barry Chowka in his Thursday American Thinker article. Chowka wrote : "For anyone interested in fair and balanced reporting, or God forbid, who is a supporter of President Trump, it was a frustrating day to watch two of the three cable television news channels. In contrast, it came as a pleasant surprise to see how Hannity chose to present the issue on his Fox News show Wednesday night. During his longer than usual opening monologue, which ran for the entire first 19-minute long segment of the program, Hannity began by playing a wide range of video clips from the other two news channels illustrating their sick obsession with piling on Trump. But then, nine minutes into his program and his monologue, Hannity made the first use of a new feature : As he introduced a montage of sound bites and clips of Trump criticizing and disassociating himself from white nationalists, the KKK, David Duke, etc., Hannity explained that a tone would sound each time Trump leveled a definitive criticism aimed at one of the groups the media claims Trump is coddling or sympathizing with, or has not criticized enough to the MSM’s satisfaction." It worked to perfection. By the end of the monologue, it was abundantly clear -- we knew it would be -- that the mainstream media has it in for Donald Trump and is completely misrepresenting -- lying about or not reporting at all -- what he has actually said over the years about these sensitive topics. • America understands and is firmly on the side of President Trump. • • • TRUMP'S GOAL IS TO UNITE THE GOP. That may sound odd, but it is absolutely true. Trump unites conservatives and constitutionalists and Americans who want their country to be freed from the Progressive Newspeak dog whistles about racism, white supremacy and xenophobia -- because Trump knows something that Progressive Democrats cannot understand or accept. Americans are conservative. • The Battleground Poll conducted by George Washington University published its latest findings on August 24. It shows that America remains a profoundly conservative nation. Americans who describe themselves as "very conservative" or "somewhat conservative" outnumber all other groups combined who gave a response to the pollsters. Excluding "moderates," conservatives outnumber liberals in America by 57% to 43%. Even including moderates wiht liberals, the poll findings show that conservatives outnumber liberals and moderates by 53% to 47%. If moderates split roughly equally between conservatives and liberals, that would leave conservatives and moderates who lean conservative outnumbering liberals and moderates who lean liberal by 56% to 44%. The Battleground Poll findings have shown the same thing for twenty years. The Gallup Poll findings -- and every major poll over the last two decades -- shows the same ideological advantage for conservatives in America. Even polls by organizations that clearly despise conservatives show a strong conservative edge over liberals in America. And, small and medium states are much more conservative than the 57%-to-43% conservative to liberal split in America today. The Gallup poll in January revealed that 32 of the 50 states have a conservative-over-liberal advantage of 10% or more, and the vast majority of these 32 states are small or medium in population. If conservatives had all voted for Trump in the last election, he would have won a majority of the popular vote and carried half a dozen other states. If President Trump can unite conservatives, it will insure his re-election and let his coattails pad the Senate majority by enough seats to close filibusters. Trump may seem to ignore ideological labels and embrace pragmatism and nationalism, and that may confuse some of the conservative majority in America who worry less about economics or national security than about the moral decline of America. • • • DEAR READERS, Trump's attacks on the media and on RINOs like Mitch McConnell and Jeff Flake are his way of championing conservative values without raising a fresh firestorm about "right-wing fanatics" governing the country. Trump is a master at dealing with the media and so his approach is to "take them on on their turf and blow them away with their own words." And, it is working. Sometimes we forget that President Trump grew up in New York City, surrounded most of his life by pragmatists and leftists, and his personal conservatism is framed by his response to those he dealt with in the Big Apple. He knows how to goad them into shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak. And they are too trapped in their East Coast - West Coast Corridor Progressive bubble to realize they are being had out. • Neo-conservatives keep calling on him to "commit himself unequivocally to conservative values and principles." What has that strategy gained them in the past 50 years?? -- one Republican conservative in the White House who got there despite their calling him a Goldwaterite in GOP clothing -- as if Barry were not a Republican. Trump's strategy to win over the Republican Party is to attack the politicians and media that Republicans hate -- those who are the destroyers of the Republic and the Constitution. Trump does not care a whit whether his supporters are Republican or Independent or nothing political. He cares that they are Americans ready to take back America from the Swamp and restore the Founders' vision. The overwhelming majority of Republicans are conservative, and if conservatives are overwhelmingly behind Trump, then RINOs in Congress will be obliged to follow him. That is the Trump political strategy. So, attacking a do-nothing GOP Senate leadership is part of the plan. Trump's commitment is not window dressing. If you want to read a 21st century conservative manifesto, google Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican Nominating Convention in July 2016. It is all there. • Whatever happened to the conservatism of Paul Ryan, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Jeb Bush, and the rest of the RINOs?? Maybe they just enrolled in the wrong party to begin with. Maybe they should switch parties and get on with becomong card-carrying Swamp Creatures instead of mere fellow travelers. Citizens want our immigration laws enforced. They want a wall. Only numbskulls would deny that. And, as Trump keeps reminding them, the Republican leadership in Congress is so consistently on the wrong side of their stated principles that they are numbskulls. They have made common cause with the cynical Senator Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. RINOs despise Trump. They aren't even clever enough to disguise it. They will continue to sabotage the President, even if it means they lose their majority, even if it means they contribute to the takeover of the country by the totalitarian Progressive Left. They are apparently okay with restricting free speech and the refusal to identify Antifa and BLM as terrorist groups. Corruption??? Hey, that's okay if it's the Clintons, the Obama Deep State holdovers and George Soros. And, bring on Robert Mueller and his Progressive witch hunt -- #NeverTrump Republicans will cheer if Mueller finds something against the President. They don't realize how deep is the contempt the millions of Americans who voted for Trump feel for each one of them -- or they don't care. Their constituents are disgusted with them all. They should be glad that President Trump is giving them one more chance to shape up and become Lincoln Republicans by repealing and replacing Obamacare, enacting tax reform and funding the wall. If they do that before 2018's elections, they will be saved from the wrath of Donald Trump and America. If they fail, it will be the last nail in the coffin of neo-conservatism that has done nothing but sidle up to Progressivism since 1988. Trump will then have the mandate to start a new Republican Party -- not by destroying the old GOP but by ridding it of its traitorous Swamp Creatures -- the 2018 elections will be the rebirth of Lincoln's party and the Founders' vision.