Dear Ms. McDaniel:
As I’m sure you’re aware, there was talk of Donald Trump abandoning the Republican Party and forming a new “Patriot Party,” but instead he chose to focus his post-presidential activities on winning the House and Senate back from Democrats in 2022.
While Trump never publicly stated his desire to form a new political party, there mere idea that he was mulling it over should come as no surprise to anyone. Trump won the White House in 2016 despite a not-insignificant number of Republicans publicly opposing him and his candidacy. Trump’s leadership of the party and the country throughout his four-year term was met with withering resistance from these Republicans in concert with the Democrats; indeed, it was a wayward Republican senator that dramatically cast the deciding vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
Then, a virtual tsunami of voting and election irregularities started becoming evident even before Election Day 2020. States implemented changes to their election processes not by legislative action as the state constitutions demanded, but by fiat and judicial decree. Big Media deliberately blacked out any real mention of Hunter Biden’s shady foreign dealings. Numerous sworn depositions were taken from election officials, postal workers and others, recounting blatantly illegal actions they witnessed in attempting to unfairly tip the scales in favor of the Democrat candidate. Significant statistical improbabilities were seen in the vote counting. Chain-of-custody documentation was incomplete or missing entirely. Pristine and uniformly-marked mail-in ballots without creases were counted. The list goes on.
What was the Republican reaction? Not much. No calls for a special counsel, no loud demands for investigations, nothing. It seemed that most Republicans were happy to unconditionally accept the results of the election and welcome Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.
Here we are months later, and there’s still been no attempts by our representatives in government to provide We the People with answers to, or explanations for, most of the anomalies that were observed around the election. This ho-hum response from elected officials on both sides of the aisle enraged Republican voters and even some Democrats. Voters on both sides of the aisle have lost confidence in our electoral process and believe the election was rigged. Not only this loss of trust unacceptable, but it is poisonous.
The culture and politics of the United States continue to creep ever leftward. In the last decade or two it’s been more of a brisk walk than a slow crawl. One key reason for this is disciplined Democrats successfully executing a long-term strategy, infiltrating many of the nation’s institutions of mass influence -- such as education, media, and entertainment -- and polluting them with leftist ideologies. Millions of Americans are tired of this and believed Donald Trump was the man who could lead the party in the direction necessary to reverse this longtime trend.
Could he have been successful with the strong support of fellow Republicans? We’ll never know. What we do know is that he didn’t have that support.
Republicans have been embarrassingly ineffective at slowing or stopping this leftward slide towards the abyss. If there is any hope for the Republican party to remain viable and strong, you and your leadership team need to broaden your focus beyond fundraising and come up with a successful strategy to address this erosion, sooner than later. If you don’t, there will be more talk and eventually action to create a new party that will address this problem, and the Republican party will join the Whigs in the dustbin of history.
