Voters to DC: We've Had it With the Uni-Party

The latest opinion polling shows that President Trump has an approval rating around 40 percent.  That sounds pretty bad, until you take a look at the approval ratings of Congress and its leaders; which are even lower. 

 

One place where President Trump has a near zero percent approval rating is “The Swamp.”  He should wear that as a badge of honor.  Forget about the fact that the President received less than ten percent of the vote in Washington, D.C.  Many elected officials in his own party can’t stand him and neither can the members of the permanent bureaucracy, also known as the deep state.  They deeply resent the fact that he made a campaign promise to “Drain the Swamp.”   The swamp’s overwhelming disapproval of President Trump explains why much of his legislative agenda, especially when it comes to immigration, has failed to gain traction.  The idea of “America first” is a foreign concept to the Swamp creatures, who have spent years putting themselves first.  Some of these people share the far left’s desire to see the President removed from office before his term expires; although they talk about this desire far less openly than their Democratic counterparts.

 

Assuming that plan fails (and it probably will), the next best chance for the relentless “Never-Trumpers” to unseat President Trump comes in the form of a primary challenger.  Apparently, the “Never-Trumpers” have learned absolutely nothing from recent political history.  Primary challengers have never defeated an incumbent President in a primary but they sure can do a lot of damage to that President’s general election campaign.  Just ask Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.  They each faced a strong primary challenger (Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy and Pat Buchanan, respectively); who each had a core group of supporters consisting of the base of their respective parties.  In addition, the presence of major third-party candidates in Carter and Bush’s re-election campaigns provided an alternative option for the disaffected supporters of their respective primary challengers.  Both of those Presidents and Gerald Ford failed to win their re-election bids.  Every other President since World War II who has stood for re-election has won a second term.

 

An ideal primary challenger to President Trump will reflect the values of the “uni-party” that has governed our country for decades, which include a liberal immigration policy, support for the welfare state and a neo-conservative foreign policy.  Never-Trumpers can’t stand the fact that a Republican President would oppose amnesty and never-ending intervention in the Middle East.  Longing for the day when people valued their opinions, they fail to realize that many Republican voters have grown weary of those policies as well.  As exit polls from last year’s Presidential election indicate, nearly 40 percent of voters desired a candidate who could “bring change.”  Those voters favored President Trump by a nearly 6-1 margin.  The policies of the “uni-party” have led to an exponential growth in our national debt, low economic growth, stagnating wages, the outsourcing of jobs and wealth overseas and further instability in the Middle East.    Possible primary challengers include billionaire Mark Cuban, actor/wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse.  Any potential primary challenger would likely find support from Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, who just wrote a whole book denouncing President Trump. Flake said in a recent interview that “The direction he’s headed right now, just kind of drilling down on the base, rather than trying to expand the base –I think he’s inviting (a challenge).”  When asked if she thought that President Trump would be her party’s nominee in 2020, the Democrat’s favorite Republican Susan Collins said “It’s too difficult to say.”  One can’t help but wonder if Laura Ingraham had it right when she said that these people would secretly prefer a President Hillary Clinton over a President Donald Trump. 

 

 

Meanwhile, a group of Bernie Sanders loyalists, including Dr. Cornel West, want him to form his own party.  The “Draft Bernie for a People’s Party” movement aims to deliver a petition with 50,000 signatures to the Vermont Senator’s office by this Friday; asking him to attend the People’s Convergence Conference taking place in Washington this weekend. The leaders of the “Draft Bernie” movement have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and hope to create a “people’s party free from corporate and billionaire money.”  The fact that the Democratic Party’s most recent standard bearer referred to Bernie Sanders supporters as “sexist” in her blame-all memoir probably won’t help improve their view of the beleaguered party.  Apparently, these loyal “Bernie Bros” fail to realize that their dream political party already exists; it’s called the Green Party.  

 

Even if Bernie declines to fulfill the request of his most loyal disciples to form a new political party, he has shown that he will continue to serve as a spokesman for “The Revolution” that he tried to launch in his White House bid last year.  He has indicated that he will introduce a bill to create single-payer healthcare; one of the key pillars of “The Revolution.”   

 

While their solutions to the problems facing our nation differ in almost every case, both Sanders and Trump understood one thing that most of the other Presidential candidates did not: the American voters have 100 percent had it with the “uni-party.”  The American people hunger for politicians who genuinely strive to fix the country’s problems as opposed to pleasing the self-serving lobbyists who fill their wallets.  That explains why a very small number of Sanders supporters decided to vote for President Trump in the general election; rather than vote for Hillary Clinton, who represents the embodiment of the “uni-party.”                                

 

Nothing scares the “uni-party” more than eight years of a Trump presidency. They’ll have to sit and watch as their policies are phased out in favor of “America First” policies, which include a merit-based immigration policy, reduced government spending and the renegotiation of trade deals to better serve America’s economic interests.  They have always relied on their allies in the media to advance their agenda; although their influence continues to diminish as opinion polling indicates that the American people now hold the “fourth estate” in the same low regard as Congress.  Maybe some in the “uni-party” will eventually realize the merits of the "America First" agenda.  But that would mean alienating their donors that they rely so heavily on for all of their campaign cash.  So, some in the “uni-party” have decided that their best bet is to purge The White House of “anti-establishment” figures and replace the President’s inner circle with individuals who have the “uni-party” seal of approval.  While the voters have had it with the “uni-party”, the “uni-party” has made it clear that it will not go down without a fight. Those who have given up on trying to depose President Trump instead seek to co-opt him and convert him to their set of ideas.  I only hope the President has the courage to resist the temptations.