The Devil's Bargain
Establishment Republicans team up with Democrats against conservatives
Last week, the Texas Senate acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton on 16 charges brought by the Texas House of Representatives. This impeachment was the latest salvo in a war between the right and left sides of the Republican Party, a war that shows no signs of cooling down.
According to the legacy media, Paxton was corrupt. However, Paxton says that he was targeted for standing up to the Republican establishment. Click here to watch his interview with Tucker Carlson. It’s true that Paxton has taken a leading position against both the Biden regime and the establishment in his own state. Outside of Idaho’s own Raúl Labrador, Paxton is probably the best attorney general in the country.
One of the reasons Paxton was able to be impeached is because the Democrats essentially control the Texas House. There are 150 representatives — 86 Republicans and 64 Democrats. However, the last few years has seen a dozen or so leftist Republicans consistently make common cause with the Democratic caucus, allowing them to make sure one of their own is always elected Speaker.
Thankfully, Idaho does not have the same situation. The Republican caucus in the Idaho House chooses the Speaker, rather than giving the Democratic minority veto power over this important position.
However, there are signs of an alliance here in the Gem State between moderate Republicans and Democrats against conservatives. Legislative leadership pushed through several bills, including the Idaho Launch Grant, with minorities of the House Republican caucus. This is a quiet change from the so-called Bedke Rule, in which then-House Speaker Scott Bedke refused to bring legislation to the floor without support from a majority of Republicans.
This burgeoning alliance grew much stronger this month as former three-term Republican Governor Butch Otter endorsed the jungle primary / ranked choice voting initiative. As you know, this plan makes it much easier for moderates to hold on to power, which benefits both the Republican establishment and the far left Democrats, who both fear a conservative insurgency.
It’s never a good idea to make deals with the devil. It makes you wonder about men such as Butch Otter or Jim Jones — how many of their principles were real, and how many were masks they wore to win elections? Remember when a whole group of supposedly conservative pundits turned against Donald Trump in 2016? At the time they said it was all about principles, but in the following years they ended up allying with the left against nearly every issue they once claimed to hold. That is why we say that Trump’s greatest accomplishment was in enticing so many grifters in our movement to take off their masks.
How many politicians in Idaho are wearing masks? How many Idaho Republicans would love to impeach our own champion of liberty, Raúl Labrador, if they thought they could get away with it?
Conservative voters must pay close attention to the games their elected representatives play, because it reveals both their character and their intentions. With the survival of our state and nation at stake, we don’t have time for politicians who are interested in little more than their own power.
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Brian is no Wayne Hoffman but these two seem to, like most others, stay in their lane about what they know and although one could appreciate this, there are times, when relying what others know outside of their comfort zone should be welcome and necessary if we truly care about what is happening. Keeping people between the "right and left" paradigm is not helpful and I would say is rather dangerous. As I mentioned in comments previously when they wrote about the library issue, although decoupling may be important, it seems to have been contained to the fact that if we vote republican or decouple the library from the ALA, it will solve our problems. - no mention ALA's admission of supporting the United Nations Agenda 2030. The problem with this understanding is that it is short-sighted when in one more easy step they could have exposed that the UN is in our back yard and that this garbage is not a conspiracy theory and that conspiracies exist and our running not only your country but the globe. I don't expect everyone to know what I study or even believe it but to at least consider it when people finally connect the dots. In other words, if we do not care enough to connect the dots why fight? Yet in keeping us between the sideboards of right and left, they even admit that there is a uniparty but don't mention it in those terms much less talk about who is running it. Make no mistake my friends, this country has been hijacked a long time ago and the party system is working together with all other elements toward our global enslavement. Anyone know that our Founders never wanted political parties? Why do we still want to fix our country but by doing what our Founders never wanted? Does anyone realize the party labels are backwards and that the parties were created to maintain division and that they have not only been infiltrated but the establishment GOP are actually not RINO's at all but Neoconservatives? Does anyone know how this happened? Why is it that no one in the party bothers to explain this to others in that party? Finally, with all due respect intended, and just for the sake of asking questions, how do we know if someone is legit or controlled opposition? If I had to guess, I would explain it this way: There are people that will say the truth for what it is regardless of opposition. There are those that may tell you part of the truth because they don't know better, to maintain legitimacy or to control the information. If people don't know better, they should be willing to rely on what others know (like we do with them) and if they are unwilling, they should at least suggest there may be more out there that they don't know and offer resources. If they prefer to control information, they may be no different than anyone else wishing to enslave their people. Did anyone know that not only Otter but Little both support Climate change? DO you know this is an admission of supporting the UN Agenda 21/2030? Yeah, let's try to step a bit farther outside of the party garbage people because no "good candidate" elected by the people that themselves don't know any better will fix our problems. If you are unwilling to consider what I said, just remember I said it.