Steel Yourselves, Conservatives

My latest at American Greatness

My latest article is the feature on American Greatness today. It is a sober analysis of our current situation as conservatives but also a hopeful appriasal of the possibilities in our time.

Even if the Right can no longer win elections, that doesn’t mean we should give up hope for the future of the country. Instead of trying to assemble a “big tent” movement with liberals, moderates, and weak-willed “conservatives” I believe the Right should cultivate its base—namely white, Chrisitan, middle-class, men. That demographic is critical to the future of the country and has plenty of untapped potential politically.

Here is the piece itself:

The Democratic Party’s remarkable midterm election performance—arguably the best for a first-term president since FDR in 1934—despite Joe Biden’s declining popularity, economic headwinds, and growing social and political divisions, portends a dim future for the Republican Party. 

In the lead up to 2022, Democrats not only refused to moderate their support for unlimited abortion up to the moment of birth, transgender surgery for minors, critical race theory, criminal justice reform, and illegal immigration, they doubled-down. Voters rewarded them with additional governorships, four flipped state legislatures, an increased Senate majority, and minimal losses in the House.

The Left has zero reason to take the foot off the gas. Elections, legitimate or not, have consequences. 

The most likely outcome of the 2024 election is that Democrats retake the House, keep the Senate, and retain the presidency, regardless of who they run or what the economy looks like. As Joe Biden and Jon Fetterman proved in 2020 and 2022, respectively, Democrats don’t need to actually campaign in order to win political office. Nor do they need to be able to string together a coherent sentence.

In the wake of the Trump presidency, the Left has reached a new fever pitch of political intensity. The Left’s access to nearly unlimited money, total control over the media narrative, and an unparalleled national vote-harvesting operation make campaigning and candidate quality of only tertiary importance.

A recession likely won’t change these dynamics either. The economy boomed under Trump and experienced severe dislocations and inflation under Biden. But Democrats won big in both 2020 and 2022. Taking the state of the economy as a useful metric for political prognostication is largely a thing of the past. Liberal voters’ religious commitment to abortion and anti-racism is infinitely more important to understanding their political habits than measuring their material self-interest. 

So, is it simply over? Should conservatives pack it in and go home? Jump off the nearest bridge?

No to all three.

That the Right has lost (or may soon lose) the ability to win national elections is not an end but a beginning. It requires a fresh view of our true political reality.

Read the rest here

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