A contributor to another forum recently circulated the following article from the National Review commenting on the failure of Republicans to deliver the promised “red wave” in the recent election and blaming it on Donald Trump:
Trump Establishment: A Disaster for Republicans | National Review
Another contributor immediately piped up:
"Yes, he [Trump] has got to go. It should be obvious to everybody now!"
Obvious to everybody? Pardon me, but this is total Trump-hating nonsense, ignorantly and wildly missing the point of what actually happened last Tuesday.
Brian Mudd is a conservative talk show host who occasionally stands in for Mark Levin. On Levin's show last Friday stand-in Mudd directly addressed and effectively debunked the assertion that Republicans fell short of their expected "red wave" because they put up bad candidates who had been poisoned by Trump's endorsement. In essence, this anti-Trump argument maintains that, as demonstrated in last Tuesday's election, the nation is turning against Donald Trump, his endorsed candidates and everybody else associated with him in the political sphere.
At a superficial glance, that would clearly appear to be what happened. After all, in the event, the Trump-endorsed slate of candidates did far worse than their pre-election "red wave" billing. The results speak for themselves, don't they? DONT' THEY?
The answer to that question is yes - and no. Yes, the performance of the Republican slate fell short of expectations, but, no, that did not happen because the electorate at large have changed their minds about Trump, have had enough of the man and his crew and threw them under the bus last Tuesday.
There was another key and determinant dynamic at work in the election that provides a more accurate understanding of what actually happened.
What Mudd did last Friday on the Levin podcast was conduct a post-election autopsy based on demographic categories of voters. He looked at voters over 60, voters between 45 and 60, voters between 30 and 45, and voters younger than 30.
Anybody want to stop right here and venture a guess what he found?
In all age categories over age 30, voters overwhelmingly voted for Republican candidates, and AT RATES HIGHER THAN THEY EVER HAD BEFORE.
Those under 30 years of age - notwithstanding the utterly catastrophic governance of the Democrats across the board since the illegitimate Biden regime took power - overwhelmingly voted for Democrat candidates, and AT RATES HIGHER THAN EVER BEFORE.
You can get the detailed numbers by age group by listening to Mudd's presentation here.
Does this analysis reveal the electorate's broad-based disenchantment with Donald Trump? Hardly. Does it mean that American conservatives and the Republican Party should jettison Trump and his supporters and find some other leader for the conservative movement? Not just no, but HELL NO!
What, then, do these statistics reveal? They reveal a profound and fundamental societal dynamic that is cleaving our people into two groups with the division more pronounced than ever in our history. One group - those with some age and experience under their belts - are possessed of overwhelmingly and intensifying conservative values, and the other - the greenies with limited life experience and judgment - vigorously and ominously reject conservative values. It was this latter group - those under 30 - and them alone that, against all real-world experience and reason, took the wind out of the sails of what, by any rational, real-world calculation, indeed should have been a "red wave" victory for Republicans.
In other words, referring again to the Trump-hating National Review piece, blaming Tuesday's Republican shortfall on Donald Trump is misdirection of the highest order. The blame properly lies not with Donald Trump but with an effete, pampered, gullible, ignorant, amoral, nihilistic demographic of intellectually, morally and spiritually defunct young people - useful idiots who have been corrupted by the Godless liberal onslaught served up for decades via the educational system, the entertainment industry and social media. They have been rendered intellectually, morally and spiritually insensate, devoid of the knowledge, life experience or the good sense necessary to recognize the demonstrated existential threat the Democrats pose to their freedom, their economic well-being, their very lives and the future of the United States of America. Seeing and understanding little or nothing in the real world, they mindlessly vote for Democrats while the devil laughs them to scorn.
This brings first to mind Winston Churchill's famous observation:
"If you're not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at 40 you have no brain."
Next called to mind is my long-standing observation that what is ongoing among us is, at its root, not a political contest, but a test of the collective intellectual, moral and spiritual substance of the people - a collective the brainless unfortunately play a weighty role in, as we saw last Tuesday. This is a test the Founders understood would determine the ultimate fate of our nation:
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Knowledge, virtue, morality and religion - the indispensable pillars of a free society.
One or two citations from the Book of Mormon are pertinent here as well, proving yet again that, because human nature never changes, there is nothing new under the sun:
"Now it came to pass that there were many of the rising generation that could not understand the words of King Benjamin, being little children at the time he spake unto his people; and they did not believe the tradition of their fathers. They did not believe what had been said concerning the resurrection of the dead, neither did they believe concerning the coming of Christ. And now because of their unbelief they could not understand the word of God; and their hearts were hardened. And they would not be baptized; neither would they join the church. And they were a separate people as to their faith, and remained so ever after, even in their carnal and sinful state; for they would not call upon the Lord their God."
-Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Mosiah 26:1-4, about 120-100 BC
And this one, in my view especially apropos to our country today, noting the inexorable consequences that flow from a free people choosing evil over good:
"For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted. Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked people, insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Helaman 5:2-3, about 30 BC
Lastly, let me refer the reader to my earlier Substack post that discusses the glaring illogic of the anti-Trumpers, especially those who claim to be conservatives:
No-Brainer - by Ronald T. Jones - TorqTalk (substack.com)
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, light vs. darkness, reality vs. fantasy, justice vs. injustice, liberty vs. tyranny, good vs. evil.
Time to choose a side. You will, one way or another...
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men's souls...
Torquemada
How do we justify supporting Trump who has cheated on every spouse, lied to the nation, lied to his followers, broken his word in business, and all around been the opposite of what the Scriptures say is a good leader? You speak of godlesssness, why would oir youth k ow God when we follow the godless? Would they not be what we teach them? What must he do before any question his validity? Is that possible? How many just men must say this man is not fit before we reconsider our support?