Opinion
By Ken Timmerman, American Thinker, January 14, 2021
On the anniversary of the January 6 protests, this 2021 article by a local writer and pundit still seems appropriate.
Millions of Republican activists in every state in the country are asking themselves, what can we do now?
All of our political lives we put our faith in our elections.
When we lost, we analyzed our mistakes and sought lessons for how next time to run a better campaign. When we won, we aspired to work with our former opponents for the betterment of the country. On both sides.
It’s what we’ve done in America for the past one hundred and sixty years.
Today it sounds quaint, but our differences ended at the nation’s shores. That quarantine around foreign policy and national security disputes dissolved during the Clinton years when deep divides over trade agreements and China split our country – not along party lines, but into globalists and what the global elites derisively termed the “nativists.”
Those “nativists” – the left-behinds of the Rust Belt, and those “old-fashioned” Americans derided by Obama for “clinging to their Bibles and their guns,” became the Deplorables that defeated Hillary Clinton and elected Donald Trump.
For four years, we watched with glowing expectation as our president actually fulfilled campaign promises. We watched as he stood up to Communist China, as he stripped away job-killing regulations, and as he faced down the global elites in the media and politics.
He spoke for us, not at us; and we were enthralled. We thought it could never end.
Read the full article here: Our Leaders Have Betrayed Us – American Thinker
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