I can\u2019t predict the future. Don\u2019t ask me where the stock market will be a year from now, or who will win next year\u2019s Super Bowl. One thing I can tell you with absolute certainty, however, is that we\u2019re not going back to politics as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
American politics were fundamentally changed the moment Donald Trump came down that golden escalator more than a decade ago. He captured the frustration of millions upon millions of Americans who believed their country had been stolen from them\u2014stolen by a government bureaucracy that saw them as numbers on a spreadsheet, stolen by big corporations eager to push DEI, ESG, and other anti-American ideologies, and stolen by an immigration system that prioritized illegal aliens over American citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those American patriots saw their champion slandered, attacked, impeached, and indicted, all for the crime of standing up for them. Donald Trump was absolutely right when he said they\u2019re not coming for him\u2014they\u2019re coming for us, the American people, and he\u2019s standing in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are still a few lonely holdouts in politics who believe we can return to a pre-2015 normal once President Trump leaves the scene. They desperately want to go back to a Republican Party full of beautiful losers who agreed with the other party\u2019s definition of \u201cprogress,\u201d only at a slower pace. They want to do to MAGA what they did to the Tea Party\u2014co-opt it into the establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Folks, that\u2019s just not going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This primary election season is proof that Republican voters have no intention of allowing elected officials to return to the \u201cgood old days\u201d of campaigning one way and voting another. When several Indiana state legislators refused to consider redistricting because they thought President Trump was too mean, voters kicked them to the curb. When longtime U.S. senators Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn failed to get the message and work with Trump on issues such as election integrity, voters rejected them too. And when Congressman Thomas Massie fought Trump on the One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump fought back\u2014and now Massie is headed for retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, look at Idaho. Rather than fighting President Trump, Sen. Jim Risch has enthusiastically partnered with him to carry out the will of the people. That partnership has been good for Idaho. Remember: on Day One of the second Trump administration, Risch told the president he needed to stop the planned wind farm at Lava Ridge\u2014and Trump made it happen. Trump\u2019s endorsement can make or break a candidate, even powerful incumbent senators, which proves that grassroots Republicans still trust our president and his vision for this nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his first inaugural address, President Trump said that his victory was our victory, and that the people once again had control of their government. It has been a long and painful process, and the work is not yet complete. But we are moving in the right direction\u2014and we\u2019re not going back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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