For decades, Republican Party elected officials have tried to make nice with their Democratic Party colleagues, the liberal media and deep state bureaucrats. Instead of acting like courageous conservative leaders, they ended up delivering policies that were Democrat-lite.
This capitulation led to the catastrophe the country is now facing under the Biden administration. President Joe Biden entered office after a disputed election, with no voter mandate, but that did not stop him from launching the most left-wing agenda of any administration in American history. His first year in office has been an utter catastrophe, the worst start of any American President.
Despite his disastrous results, in one respect, Republicans need to learn from Biden and his fellow Democrats, who do not compromise with their political adversaries or capitulate. They always push forward with an increasingly bold assault on our freedoms and our constitutional rights, while enhancing the power and authority of the government, raising taxes, issuing mandates, and engaging in more unlawful surveillance of the public.
Republicans tend to compromise and surrender, which usually enrages their loyal base of small donors and grassroots supporters. It is one of the reasons that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016. Republican voters were eager for an outsider, not a captive of the corrupt political system in Washington D.C.
In the last year, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has done incredible work advocating a freedom-oriented agenda while battling the media, the Democrats, and the Biden administration. Hopefully, the same type of courage will be displayed by the newly elected Republican leaders in Virginia. Fortunately, all the recent signs are very encouraging.
Since 2006, Virginia had been moving to the ideological left. Their voters elected Democrats to the United States Senate and awarded their electoral votes to Democratic presidential candidates. With the influx of more government employees into northern Virginia, the state had turned reliably “blue” in recent years.
Fortunately, that disastrous trend ended in November of 2021 with the election of Republicans to the top three statewide positions and the GOP taking control of the Virginia House of Delegates. Republicans beat the heavily favored Democrats and won these elections in a series of massive upset victories by focusing on education, inflation, and public safety.
These victories showed Republicans across the country the blueprint for how to win and turn the tide against the liberal Democrats. In the 2021 election, the GOP took back the education issue from the Democrats in Virginia. For decades, Democrats won on the issue of education by focusing on teacher pay, spending more money on school facilities and growing the government bureaucracy.
In the election of 2021, Republicans won by standing with parents against teachers and administrators who were peddling the damaging Critical Race Theory curriculum to their children. Republicans maintained that it was parents who had primary authority over their children, not educational bureaucrats.
Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin espoused these commonsense positions. It helped him defeat his Democratic Party opponent who had previously served as Governor and was supported by the President, celebrities, the media, and most of the Virginia state bureaucracy.
Youngkin won by being a bold gubernatorial candidate and he is ready to govern in that way as well. On his first day as Governor of Virginia, Youngkin took decisive action. He issued nine executive orders and two executive directives. The measures involved a variety of issues such as public education, COVID-19 mandates, climate policy and the economy.
His first order, “delivers on his Day One promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education.” Youngkin’s order also emphasized the importance of allowing students to think for themselves, instead of being indoctrinated. In the order Youngkin declared that “Virginia must renew its commitment to teaching our children the value of freedom of thought and diversity of ideas.”
Eliminating Critical Race Theory was an outstanding start for Youngkin, but he was not finished. Among his other orders, Youngkin eliminated the mask mandate in schools, declared the state “open for business” and removed Virginia from the “Regional Gas Greenhouse Initiative.”
In addition, his two executive directives were outstanding. One reduced “job killing regulations” by 25%, while the other one eliminated the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for state employees.
Youngkin made clear that his aggressive start was the fulfillment of his campaign promise. He said, “we are going to work just like we promised.”
Not only did Youngkin begin his term as Governor with a flourish, but the new Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miyares, also showed that he is going to act decisively. The day before his inauguration, he fired thirty state government employees, including seventeen attorneys, from his office. His spokesperson noted that Miyares and the former Attorney General had “very different visions for the office.”
Unlike his predecessor, Miyares pledged to prioritize public safety, after Virginia experienced a massive increase in crime. It is a major reason state voters elected him. In a recent essay, Miyares made it clear that he intends to fulfill his campaign promises and will end “the criminal-first, victim-last policies that have led to Virginia’s highest murder rate in decades.”
Fortunately, the new leadership team in Virginia is serious about changing their state and taking courageous actions. They are showing Republican Party elected officials how to decisively fulfill campaign promises. These resolute Virginia leaders should be the role models for the Republican Party in 2022 and beyond.
The days of playing nice with socialist Democrats must end. It is imperative that Republican Party leaders understand the stakes involved in the upcoming elections. The future of the United States of America will be determined in the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Republicans can no longer govern by making corrupt deals with progressive Democrats and trying to impress their enemies in the left-wing media. GOP voters want to save America and Republican Party elected officials must lead or get out of the way.
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Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs nationally on Real America’s Voice Network, AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 a.m. CT and from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at [email protected]
It’s been said in war innocent people die. The left has no problem killing whoever gets in their way while trying to complete satans plans. Republicans think they can win by playing safe and not democrat dirty. That has not worked so far but prayer can overtake even the most evil and corrupt government this country has ever had to endure. Please get on your knees and ask God to overturn this evil empire America is being consumed by. Our last breath will be right before we go to heaven, their last breath will be right before eternal damnation.
AND we need to treat this as an IDEOLOGICAL WAR..
Stop caving in.
Stop apologizing
STOP ‘compromising’…
CRUSH THE DEMS< or we will eventually see them rise again.
History has shown that when you compromise with the Devil or a Democrat, you are halfway on the road to hell. Our cpmpromises with them are only returned with “My way or the highway”,,,,again, their highway being the highway to hell.
AND History is rife with examples of the dems saying “JUST GIVE US THis, and we will do X for you later”.. BUT a single bloody time, have they, EVER held up THEIR end of the bargain… NOT ONCE!!!!
Jeff Crouere made the point the entrenched leadership of the epublican Party missed when we modest rank and file supporters sent a message by nominating Donald Trump in 2016. We were tired of the same old bland, innocuous nominees they supported against real tough candidates they muscled out early in the primaries leaving us Romneys and Cheneys and RINOs to vote for with noses pinched shut. In 2020 they stifled the enthusiasm and lost so Biden is the product of Democrat chicanery and Republican leadership attitude toward Donald Trump. Younkin and DeSantis have to be the new norms for the Republicans like us, my great grandfather became a Republican before the 1860 election, so some of us have history!
Democrats are liars and the epitome of destructive evil. Virginia has been blessed with a decent man who is looking out for Virginians not his political cronies.
When the public gets hit in the Billfold with higher pricessand empty grocery shelves thats when theyy starting paying attention as to whom is in charge of the Government and the Administration in charge and. Their policies. The democrat party has brough this country down with their policies of providing WELFARE fo everyone that applies and wil vote for the democrats at election time. But the middle classof working Americans have been awakened and they’re going to vote for more conseritave Government Canidates next election to turn this country around, ” Made America Great Again. !
This article is right ON! I’ve watched with growing fury how the GUTLESS Republicans repeatedly CAVE to the conniving Demmunists, even throwing in with them and helping them pass their TOXIC, anti-American and unconstitutional agenda bills! When Trump was elected in 2016, these same GUTLESS RINOS did exactly NOTHING to help him. On the contrary, Pres. Trump had to not ONLY fight the conniving Demmunists, but the back-stabbing members of his OWN PARTY to get things done. They were all their usual GUTLESS selves after the conniving Demmunists brazenly STOLE the last Presidential election, and put Obama’s fraudulently elected SENILE SOCK PUPPET in the White House, when they did EXACTLY NOTHING to try to prevent the obviously FRAUDULENT election from being confirmed. I don’t think these gutless, clueless RINOS yet understand what is at stake here, and what is going to happen to our country, if they don’t stop trying to “play nice” with these power-mad COMMUNIST interlopers who have ILLEGALLY seized control of our gobvernment, grow a spine, and start actually pushing BACK against the power-mad Demmunists.
That is why if i had my way, EVERYONE of those gutless rinos, would be swinging fro the GALLOWS< right alongside every DEMON-rat traitor out there.
We need to elect Trump or someone with the guts to stand up to Marxist democrats and China. Australia and other European countries went to China to see how they handled the pandemic. Lock down everyone and that’s happening today in Australia!
Over the past 3 years, i’ve seen a LOT Of yanks, who moved TO Australia.
I wonder, how many of them are BEGGING TO COME BACK TO america!