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By Eric Lendrum - amgreatness.com
Imagine a war taking place between two fictional countries, in which one emerges completely victorious over the other.
The losing nation has been decimated, its armies nearly wiped out, its largest cities destroyed, its morale reduced to zero, and all of its leaders are either dead or have surrendered. The victorious nation has now taken over its enemy and is prepared to move forward consolidating absolute power.
But then, suddenly, a small group of sergeants and lower-ranking military officials within the victorious nation have decided, for inexplicable reasons, to switch sides and fight for the already-defeated enemy nation.
That is the situation in which the Senate GOP is about to find itself, leaving many observers absolutely baffled as to why they think now is suddenly a good time to turn against their conquering hero after he just achieved the most decisive victory in modern history.
President-elect Donald Trump's historic comeback victory has not only resulted in him returning to the Oval Office. It has swept the entirety of the GOP back into power in Congress, winning 53 seats in the Senate and retaining a House majority, for their first trifecta of the federal government since 2016. And he achieved this by winning the biggest popular vote total ever for a Republican and the biggest electoral victory in almost 40 years.
President Trump's America First agenda now has a resounding popular mandate, clearly favored by a majority of the American people. Through this, Donald Trump has completely taken over and reformed the Republican Party, reviving a party that was nearly on life support and instead putting it on the brink of a new era of political dominance.
Yet now, a significant number of Senate Republicans, who apparently like to practice masochism in their spare time, have decided to virtue-signal against President Trump by way of criticizing his Cabinet selections. The primary target of their moaning and wailing is Congressman Matt Gaetz, the president-elect's choice for attorney general.
Not only is Gaetz loyal to President-elect Trump, he has a strong personal motivation to upend the shadowy regime that has led the DOJ and the federal bureaucracy as a whole. When he became a threat, the powers that be tried to silence him with bogus accusations of "sex trafficking." Due to the endless parroting of the same talking points by the mainstream media, a regrettably large portion of the population still believes, to this day, that Gaetz is actually guilty.
A quick review of the facts, however, shows that even Joe Biden's DOJ, as corrupt as can possibly be, ultimately concluded that there was not enough evidence to prosecute. Gaetz was exonerated by even his political enemies.
But pesky little facts apparently haven't deterred the Senate GOP from preparing to shoot itself in the foot. Reports now suggest that some Republicans in the upper house may vote against Gaetz's nomination. Once the false accusations are eliminated as a factor, their primary motivation essentially boils down to the fact that Gaetz has said mean things in the past about fellow Republicans - namely, the disgraced former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, who was rightfully, and almost singlehandedly, vanquished by Gaetz.
The reason why the Senate GOP is so bitter about Gaetz's nomination is precisely why President-elect Trump chose him and also why he is perfect for the job. He is not afraid to take on both sides of the political establishment and will root out corruption at the swamp-rat-infested Department of Justice, from top to bottom.
While Gaetz remains the biggest lightning rod of all the Cabinet nominees thus far, there are certainly other candidates who are beyond excellent choices by the president-elect.
In the one announcement that most shocked many people, including yours truly, Fox News host Pete Hegseth was selected as the nominee for Secretary of Defense. His nomination has riled up many in the Pentagon brass, their friends in the military-industrial complex, and, of course, his rivals in the mainstream media. The fact that the left has already turned to rolling out the tired "Me Too" routine of suddenly, and conveniently, accusing him of sexual misconduct many years after the (alleged) fact is all the proof you need that Hegseth is the best possible choice.
There is also something to be said about his noble willingness to serve in this position: Not only is he subjecting himself to unprecedented scrutiny, but he would be taking a massive pay cut by leaving his gig at Fox News to take up the thankless job of running the Pentagon. Like President Trump, he's an outsider who is prepared to make such sacrifices for the good of the nation and is absolutely more qualified for the position than many career-obsessed officials who would be clamoring for the job.
Other top-tier choices include two of the most unorthodox Cabinet picks in recent memory: Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The left has unloaded numerous vicious attacks against these two as well. But through all their wailing and gnashing of teeth, it is plain to see why these two especially aggravate the Democrats. Their nominations serve as the most painful reminder possible that, up until just a couple of years ago, these two individuals were once Democrats and prominent Democrats at that. Tulsi was a high-profile congresswoman, the vice chair of the DNC, and a brief but notable presidential candidate. And Kennedy is quite literally the heir to the most famous dynasty in Democratic politics, sharing the exact name of its second-most famous member.
Yet, the left's increasingly insane radicalism drove these two stars out of their party and straight into the arms of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. For all the Democrats' empty platitudes about "bipartisanship," President-elect Trump is assembling the most truly bipartisan Cabinet in modern history. But instead of choosing establishment Democrats, he chose outsider Democrats who have done a better job representing the interests of the American people than the party they were forced to leave behind.
It may remain one of the all-time most baffling questions of today's political world, one that could be pondered by historians, political scientists, and psychiatrists for many years to come.
Why? Why, after President Trump just gave Republicans the most monumental victory in recent memory? Why, after Republicans have just been given back the keys to absolute power over the federal government for the first time in eight years? Why, after earning the most resounding popular vote mandate of all time, with a clear majority of Americans firmly behind the America First agenda?
Why would Senate Republicans be so inexplicably stupid as to stand against President Trump and his popular mandate now? They have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by passing every single aspect of his agenda, from his legislation to his nominees. Voters in their states overwhelmingly elected him and thus chose his agenda. Republicans in the Senate have absolutely zero excuses to oppose him at this point.
It could be ego, still stinging from the fact that their party is now completely controlled by a political outsider. It could be a desire for attention, with their stonewalling being the only way they know how to stay remotely relevant or have even one chip in this game. It could be a desire to be loved by the very same mainstream media that has called for violence against Republicans for almost 10 years now.
President Trump should use every last inch of the power he now wields over the Republican Party. He should sit all 53 senators down in a room, behind closed doors, and hit them with a verbal and rhetorical nuke that would even put The Lyndon Johnson Treatment to shame.
Most bluntly, he needs to simply remind them that 77 million Americans voted for him and his agenda, not for more pointless obstruction and empty virtue-signaling from the octogenarians in the Senate. He should also remind them that the Democrats would never pull the kind of stunt that these Republicans are now threatening; the other party would most definitely fall in line behind whatever their president wants. There is no reason why the Republicans shouldn't do the same.
The Republican majority, he should say, will vote for his nominees. Not "should" vote, not "have to" vote; they will pass everything he wants, and that will be that. Any and all RINOs who stand in the Trump Train's path will be run over in their next primary, courtesy of Trump's endorsement and Elon Musk's war chest.
As it just so happens, a number of the most vocal Republican skeptics and critics in the upper chamber are indeed up for re-election in just two short years. This includes Markwayne Mullin in Oklahoma, John Cornyn in Texas, Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, longtime RINO headache Susan Collins in Maine, and even the disgraced former Senate Leader himself, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.
The warning for the Senate Republicans who are faltering on any aspect of Trump's agenda could not be clearer: This is Donald Trump's party now. You're all just living in it.
You will vote for everything Donald Trump wants. Or else.
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The swamp rats in both parties are still coming to terms with a new reality. Maybe they'll finally realize their time is up.
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