Blue Blood over Blue Collars: The Battle Cry of the Bush, Cheney, McCain and Romney Wing of the GOP

Liz Cheney, her neocon father, the remnants of the Bush family and the other snobs who loved keeping the Republican Party a forever-minority party are not happy. They’re apparently angry that the party they lorded over for decades is moving away from their elitist kingdom. In what is good news for the party and country, the time of dominance of these blue bloods has passed, but they are convulsing in response to the new GOP and the citizens who are dispatching them with great haste and well-deserved disdain.

As a seminal election is about to take place—maybe THE MOST IMPORTANT election of our lifetime—the Republican Party outside of the Washington, DC, bubble is coming to grips with how far the Party has drifted from what it once was and now realizing what it needs to become again. This new Republican Party is again the party of middle America, and the blue bloods and patrician snobs who lorded over it for decades hate what is happening.

Everything has a context, so a quick look back is in order. In 1980, Ronald Reagan appealed to the greatness of America. He appealed to patriotism and the exceptionalism of our country. He crushed Jimmy Carter in 1980 then decimated Minnesota’s Walter Mondale in 1984 with the same simple theme—that America is a great place and that her best days are ahead. Though the Reagan years were great years for our country, he made the mistake of allowing the George H.W. Bush people into his camp. GHW Bush was a patrician and certainly not a conservative. He never understood nor embraced the ideals of Reagan. Within months of Reagan leaving office, Bush had steered the ship back in the direction of the blue bloods who had run the party into the ground for decades. Bush was a decent man, but he raised taxes and coddled the left in an effort to become what he called “a point of light.”

Bill Clinton realized Bush had abandoned the middle class that Reagan had defended, and the man from Arkansas took up that mantle and sent Bush home.

Between 1992 and 2016, the GOP went up and down, with fits and starts. Newt Gingrich and Haley Barbour brought on a mini-Republican revival in the mid-1990s by reviving the Reagan themes. In fact, Gingrich’s efforts put the Republicans back in charge of the US House for the first time in 40 years by appealing to the nation’s common sense, patriotism and need for good government. But along came the Bush family again in 2000. Many of us thought at the time George W. Bush was bringing a revival of conservatism to the White House. Yet, like his father, he was a moderate at best, and appeared at times to be a detached elitist who didn’t understand nor care
about middle America.

Bush and his team of New World Order neocons pushed the GOP into a veritable and literal ditch with their forever wars and failures to exercise good judgment across a range of issues. They pushed the Republican Party into a political desert and helped usher in a litany of terrible GOP candidates (John McCain and Mitt Romney) and treacherous leaders (John Boehner, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell).

The old guard of the Republican Party are disappearing as their efforts to re-take the GOP have failed. Re-emerging slowly since 2015 has been a Republican Party that serves middle America and the working class. America First is winning. The old guard true knuckle draggers convulse in trying to paint the current cadre of conservative Republican leaders as the knuckle dragging extremists and seditionists. The blue bloods are no longer running the party. Thankfully.

And yes, Donald Trump is at the center of it all. He’s not a politician and doesn’t think or act like one. THANK GOODNESS! He’s not beholden to any of the patrician class. He doesn’t care about the ways of Washington. Trump is the leader the people of America have been waiting for. He’s not perfect. He’s flawed, in fact, just like every single one of us. But he exhibits and speaks of a love for America that Democrats and elitist Republicans simply can’t comprehend.

Trump is not afraid of Russia. He’s not afraid of China. Both of those countries know they need to fear and respect President Trump, and thus respect us as a nation when he is at the helm.

Trump is not afraid of the Democrats and their accomplices in the dinosaur media.

Trump is not fearful for his own life. He was shot in the face and he is still campaigning with all his might.

Trump doesn’t need the money. He doesn’t need the job. He’s not beholden to anyone.

Trump speaks for middle America. He speaks TO middle America. He speaks of liberty, of economic opportunity and the one theme Democrats and elitist Republicans simply cannot fathom: America First.

To most Americans, our president should put America First. Trump does. The Democrats haven’t for a long time. The GOP blue bloods apparently never have. The old GOP and the Democrats believe they know best how to run our lives for us, better than we know ourselves. They want us to just shut up and send them our hard-earned money.

Liz Cheney, her dad, crying Congressman Adam Kinzinger and their ilk chose the blue bloods over the blue collars a long time ago.

When voting begins on November 5th , we’ll find out who the American people choose. I pray we choose wisely.

Chuck Owen is a State Representative from Louisiana and a founding member of the Louisiana Freedom Caucus