“I do not think they’ll take over, but if you want to use the model of the Republican Party as a stool standing on the three legs of strong defense policies, fiscal conservatism, and social conservatism, I think that America First could likely become a fourth leg,” Anuzis said. (My quote from an article below about the new Trump voters.)
Left vs Right – Finding their Ground: Conservatives and the Republican Party are growing stronger every day. Yes, there are growing pains, but that’s a good thing. Millions of new voters were brought into the party by Trump’s America First agenda and many more found a cause that made them more comfortable voting Republican. Some of these agenda items are in conflict with some of the party’s more traditional philosophies. However, IF we are to create a lasting center-right coalition that is going to win elections in order to govern, we must accept, tolerate and in some cases compromise with one’s political allies.
The Republican Party has changed and we are most definitely bigger, broader, more diverse than ever before…and that’s a good thing. It won’t be easy and there won’t be agreement on everything, but honestly it has always been that way and the party has been successful in spite of those growing pains.
The Progressive Left Wing of the Democratic Party has now taken over their party. They are pushing far left policies of open boarders, “wokism” & cancel culture, massive deficit spending, anti-gun ownership, defunding the police and “easy voting” that challenges the core of democracy and fair elections at its core.
John F. Kennedy (and possibly even Bill Clinton) could NOT get nominated in today’s Democratic Party. They have gone way off their mainstream, working class roots. This is NOT your parents Democratic Party.
As each party finds itself and settles into this post Trump era, I believe the conservative movement and Republicans in general have a great opportunity to permanently grow our party, increase our ranks, expand our coalition, and win back many suburban voters. We lost many women and suburban voters for some real and many wrongly perceived issues that have now come back to haunt mainstream America.
The left has gone too far. They are too far out of the mainstream. America is ripe for a mini-revolution at the ballot box, where Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in reaction to these crazy progressive left’s overreaching policies.
Let girls play with girls in their chosen sports, let kids and parents chose the books they want to read, let students on college campuses express and debate a broad range of political thought, secure our borders, and support law & order for all.
Let’s Hope for Change…the time is now!
HR. 1 Disaster: After the election fiasco of this last presidential election, Democrats in Congress are trying to make things worse. Most of the irregularities, confusion, fraud, and errors were largely due to the rapid expansion of mail-in balloting and other suspensions of state election laws.
Congressional Democrats, run by the progressive liberal wing of the party, are trying to institutionalize the ability for those willing to cheat and to do it with impunity. They actually eliminate the ability for recounts and the chance to confirm votes by not allowing paper ballots to be saved or used for recounts.
Please folks…pay attention to these crazy policies virtually EVERY Democrat is blindly supporting. Ask the questions, hold them accountable…otherwise our country will pay!
Balance Budget Amendment: With Congress and the White House in the hands of progressive liberals, now more than ever we have to complete the effort to call for an Article 5 Constitutional Convention to pass a Balance Budget Amendment.
Join the effort at with the BBA Task Force which explains: The U.S. national debt ($24.6 trillion) is now 7 times federal revenue ($3.6 trillion), a serious imbalance that will cost us over $600 billion (16.5% of federal revenue) in 2020. We’ve already seen a $1 trillion spike in the 2020 deficit in just the last month as the Corona-virus stimulus starts to add up. It is hard to calculate where we will be at the end of the year, but the one thing we can say for certain is that it will be on for the record books.
The root cause of the problem was best explained by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee when it concluded, “the many statutory constraints enacted over the years to control spending failed because no Congress can bind a succeeding Congress by simple statute.” Therefore, only a balanced budget amendment (BBA) will do. Given Congress’ 75-year failure to propose a BBA, the states must do so by calling an Article V convention.
Join this fight to get a Balance Budget Amendment and it will be much less important as to what political party controls Congress.
–Saul Anuzis
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60 Plus Weekly Video Rewind
In this week’s video rewind- Congress approves bloated COVID-19 spending bill, Pelosi & Schumer attempt to permanently retain Democrat power with HR1 legislation, and Biden forgets the name of his Secretary of Defense?
Links to the articles discussed in the video:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-spending-on-covid-relief-poised-to-hit-6t
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/09/joe-biden-cant-remember-who-his-secretary-of-defense-is/
What’s Scarier? Biden’s Totalitarian Promises, or the Number of Americans Who Willingly Acquiesce?
Joe Biden’s Wuhan Flu anniversary speech was insulting and disturbing in many ways. He started out by lying about President Trump’s actions at the beginning of the pandemic, then went through a list of everything we lost during these draconian lockdowns – attempting to convince us that he sympathizes with what we’ve lost and that We’re All In This Together™.
Watching Biden lie to us and hearing him insult us is annoying and, frankly, boring at this point – because we expect it. But in this speech Biden went far beyond annoying and straight onto a terrifying new path, the path of complete government control.
He led into his plans with a bit of communistic propaganda by speaking to a “common purpose” our hands must turn to before informing us that he’s “using every power [he] has as POTUS to put us on a war footing.” Symbolism?
Knowing that people expect that, since the number of positive China virus cases have plummeted and that many states are well on their way to fully vaccinating their high-risk populations, the country will fully open soon and that masks and social distancing rules will be a thing of the past, Biden sought to manage expectations. As long as there’s still a silent, deadly enemy circulating (spoiler alert: there always will be), and as long as Biden can reassure people that he’s keeping them safe by Following The Science ©, he can keep complete control of our lives. Biden has no interest in “beating” the virus any time soon, it seems:
We Must Stand Up to Leftist Lies
The truth is worth fighting for, as recent books by Joshua Mitchell and Rod Dreher forcefully demonstrate.
Why did a decisive block of people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 not vote for him in 2020? Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio surveyed voters in 10 swing states and found the answer was simple. Trump lost “largely” because of the coronavirus, apparently mainly because he was not aggressive in mandating masks, restricting gatherings, and enforcing ever-changing rules from experts.
In other words, these vote-switchers were frightened by COVID-19, and, as voters do for most things these days, we tend to blame someone else, particularly incumbent presidents. This resulted in a “double digit erosion” of support for Trump among college-educated whites, whether they had previously voted for him or not.
Forget that states that had fewer restrictions seem to have had lower rates of hospitalization and death than those with stricter shutdowns. We comfortable and well-compensated upper-middle-class types wanted to punish someone for disturbing our happy demeanors and protected lives with inconvenient truths. Indeed, very few people seem willing to confront fears and truths these progressive days.
Two recent books prove to be refreshing and invaluable exceptions.
The French Revolution Is Attacking the American Revolution
“That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and on.
Dr. Seuss is suddenly persona non grata, six of his books removed from publication because they are “racist” and “hateful.” That’s insane!
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has become a widely reviled personality because she claims that boys are born male and girls, female? That’s insane!
Statues of Abraham Lincoln are being torn down and schools named after the Great Emancipator renamed in the cause of fighting racism. That’s insane!
Woke educators decry mathematics education focused on getting “the right answer” as an expression of white privilege and patriarchy. Suddenly math is about social justice. That’s insane!
No. Actually, it’s not. “Canceling,” as it is called, is a coldly calculated strategy implemented with malice aforethought. The goal isn’t to persuade. Social excommunication, media deplatforming, and the trashing of venerable traditions doesn’t seek to reform institutions or promote societal improvement. Rather, the point is to destroy every traditional religious, social, and political institution judged guilty of constructing Western Civilization, toward the end of rebuilding society in the image of Woke.
Let me put it more simply: The French Revolution is attacking the American Revolution.
The French Revolution? Am I nuts?
I don’t think so. Sure, circumstances are different. Antifa and their allied corporate wokesters are not attacking a king living in splendor as the common people starve. And to be sure, no guillotines have been installed in public squares chopping off heads. Well, at least not literally.
‘We’re going to lose fast’: U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack
Last fall, the U.S. Air Force simulated a conflict set more than a decade in the future that began with a Chinese biological-weapon attack that swept through U.S. bases and warships in the Indo-Pacific region. Then a major Chinese military exercise was used as cover for the deployment of a massive invasion force. The simulation culminated with Chinese missile strikes raining down on U.S. bases and warships in the region, and a lightning air and amphibious assault on the island of Taiwan.
The highly classified war game, which has not been previously made public, took place less than a year after the coronavirus, reportedly originating in a Chinese market, spread to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, taking one of the U.S. Navy’s most significant assets out of commission.
Then in September in the midst of the war game, actual Chinese combat aircraft intentionally flew over the rarely crossed median line in the Taiwan Strait in the direction of Taipei an unprecedented 40 times and conducted simulated attacks on the island that Taiwan’s premier called “disturbing.” Amid those provocations, China’s air force released a video showing a bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons carrying out a simulated attack on Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam. The title of the Hollywood-like propaganda video was “The god of war H-6K [bomber] goes on the attack!”
In case the new U.S. administration failed to get the intended message behind all that provocative military activity, four days after President Biden took office, a large force of Chinese bombers and fighters flew past Taiwan and launched simulated missile attacks on the USS Roosevelt carrier strike group as it was sailing in international waters in the South China Sea.
15 Insane Things In Democrats’ H.R. 1 Bill To Corrupt Elections Forever
Here are just some of the unconstitutional, absurd, nakedly partisan, and crime-indulging provisions in this bill that 220 House Democrats voted for.
On Wednesday, House Democrats passed an 800-page bill that would mandate insecure voting processes and subject voting tallies to partisan manipulation. It’s a slap in the face to the half of Americans, including many Democrats, who believe the 2020 election was riddled with fraud and errors, largely due to the rapid expansion of mail-in balloting and other suspensions of state election laws.
“It is difficult to imagine a legislative proposal more threatening to election integrity and voter confidence,” write 20 Republican attorneys general in a Thursday letter about the ridiculously named For The People Act of 2021, or H.R. 1. Democrats have made the bill their top priority this Congress to permanently cement their current unified control of the federal government.
The bill “would (among other things) implement nationwide the worst changes in election rules that occurred during the 2020 election; go even further in eroding and eliminating basic security protocols that states have in place; and interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls, secure the fairness and integrity of elections, and participate and speak freely in the political process,” says a Heritage Foundation analysis.
What’s Going to Be With the GOP? (Saul Quoted in Article)
Family feuds can be the most difficult to resolve. The present struggle over how the Republican Party will define itself in the wake of the Trump presidency seems to fit the mold.
As former President Donald Trump’s candidacy became an ever more likely possibility in 2016, the lines between those who embraced the MAGA movement and those who felt it was a departure from conservatism were stark. Yet, after Mr. Trump’s unexpected victory, the vast majority on both sides coalesced into an occasionally uneasy coalition working to advance largely overlapping agendas.
Now, after the former President and his most ardent supporters spent months advancing claims of a “stolen” election punctuated by the Capitol riots, the split was torn wide open…
…Republican political consultant Saul Anuzis thought that, ultimately, the same would happen with the largely rural and working-class voters that Mr. Trump attracted.
“We’ve had several times when a new batch of passionate voters came in; most of them integrated and made the party stronger. I think that’s what will happen here. These are cultural conservatives not unlike some of the Reagan Democrats from the ’80s. Church-going labor guys, very anti-establishment, who like their guns — but they are not partisan and were not really members of any party until now,” he said.
While the religious right became absorbed into the GOP establishment, during the ’70s and ’80s, conservatives became dominant, redefined the party, and ultimately pushed out the northeastern liberal “Rockefeller” Republicans. Mr. Anuzis said that the party was indeed going through “growing pains,” but felt that the strident populists would integrate.
“I do not think they’ll take over, but if you want to use the model of the Republican Party as a stool standing on the three legs of strong defense policies, fiscal conservatism, and social conservatism, I think that America First could likely become a fourth leg,” he said.
A survey of Republicans shows 5 factions have emerged after Trump’s presidency
The Republican Party in the era following Donald J. Trump’s presidency is comprised of five “tribes” that have ranging affinity for the former president and different desires when it comes to seeing him continue to lead the party, according to a new survey by Mr. Trump’s former pollster.
The survey of 1,264 voters, who are registered Republicans or identify as Republicans, is the first comprehensive one conducted about G.O.P. voter sentiment since Mr. Trump left office, and as he considers running again in 2024. It was conducted by the Republican polling firm Fabrizio and Lee — which worked for Mr. Trump in his 2020 campaign but does not any longer.
The former president “still wields tremendous influence over the party, yet it is not universal or homogeneous,” the pollsters wrote in their summary. “We found that there are clear and distinct ‘tribes’ of Trump supporters within the G.O.P. and, not surprisingly, a small Never Trump group.”
Those “tribes” were identified as “Trump Boosters,” “Die-hard Trumpers,” “Post-Trump G.O.P.,” “Never Trump,” and “Infowars G.O.P.” The latter group, among other things, was described as viewing QAnon conspiracy theories favorably and believing in many of them.
Why Did Republicans Outperform the Polls Again? Two Theories.
Pollsters are perplexed. Many believed that the polling errors we saw in 2016 had been adequately addressed in time for the 2020 presidential election. But once again, the polls underestimated support for Donald Trump (and support for Republicans across the board). Now, more than three months out from the election, we still don’t have a great sense as to why.
A number of theories may offer some clues, though. For instance, one popular explanation is that pollsters’ likely voter models were off. Survey screening for likely voters may have failed to adequately gauge voter enthusiasm. Or attempts to contact inconsistent or infrequent voters — who tend to be harder to reach in surveys — may have failed in reaching those more favorable to Trump. Also, due to the pandemic, Democrats chose to limit typical methods to increase voter turnout, like door‐to‐door canvassing, which may have affected actual turnout. Then again, maybe the polling error was due to sampling problems. If Democrats were more likely than Republicans to stay at home during the pandemic, they would more likely be available to take surveys. Of course, it’s not necessarily an either‐or situation. Both of these theories could be true (not to mention a whole host of other explanations), but it’s also possible that something bigger is at play here since the polls misfired in similar ways in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections: Pollsters may be systematically missing certain types of Republican support.
This is a relatively new phenomenon, but pollsters have increasingly found evidence of partisan nonresponse — that is, particular types of Republicans are just less likely to take surveys, so these voters’ opinions are not reflected in survey data. This was especially relevant in understanding Trump’s support, too, as many of these voters broke for him and other Republicans in 2020.
Chris Frye is helping stage New Castle’s comeback
In January 2020, Chris Frye was sworn in as the first Black, Republican and youngest mayor to ever hold the seat of this predominantly white, predominantly Democratic city.
For over 100 years, the sprawling Shenango China plant warmly greeted just about every person who entered this Lawrence County city. Its 30 acres of multipane windows reflected off the Shenango River when they entered the city.
It was one of the largest dinnerware manufacturers in the country. China made here was hailed for its craftsmanship. It graced middle-class family tables and the state dining rooms of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon Johnson.
The plant was a place where skilled artisans and union labor workers made a good living. They took advantage of local natural resources: the clay deposits used to make the pottery and the abundant soft coal used to fire the beehive ovens. That soft coal was also used for making steel. One hundred years ago, New Castle was such a significant player in iron and steel manufacturing that it was often referred to as “Little Pittsburgh.”
Today, it is only decaying. A factory abandoned and ravished by time and fires likely caused by addicts scavenging for copper wiring. Thirty years after its closure, the complex has boxes of china never sent, and weeds grow, pushing through cracked floors.
The decay was likely one of the first things 10-year-old Chris Frye saw when his family moved here from Virginia. The 32-year-old father of three described his first impressions after arriving in this post-industrial setting from an expanding D.C. suburb.
“I remember asking my mother, ‘Who is in charge of all this stuff?'” he said. “When she asked me what stuff I was talking about, I told her, ‘These potholes and buildings and bridges. Who is in charge of them? Because they are all falling apart, and someone is not doing their job.'”
The Andrew Cuomo of the Midwest
Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s governor, is avoiding accountability for her deadly coronavirus nursing-home policies.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer addresses the media in Midland, Mich., about the flooding along the Tittabawassee River, May 20, 2020. (Rebecca Cook)
Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s governor, is avoiding accountability for her deadly coronavirus nursing-home policies.
Last August, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer joined New York governor Andrew Cuomo in a statement blasting the Trump administration’s Justice Department for daring to request data related to nursing-home deaths in their respective states.
The governors — both Democrats — claimed this was “nothing more than a transparent politicization of the Department of Justice in the middle of the Republican National Convention.”
Whitmer and Cuomo complained that the federal officials simply were targeting their states and several others under Democratic control for partisan purposes.
That wasn’t the reason. Rather, it had to do with governors who put in place dangerous policies impacting nursing homes in their responses to COVID-19. Governors such as Whitmer and Cuomo have acted with tremendous power for the past year, unilaterally making decisions impacting their states in the name of combating a health emergency. And they have a lot to answer for.
Whitmer may now regret her chummy relationship with Cuomo. Given the recent bombshell that Cuomo and his staff fudged New York’s numbers to make the state’s nursing-home deaths appear rosier than they were, it’s extremely apparent that public officials can’t be trusted to be open with citizens, regardless of how many times they say “science and data” (one of Whitmer’s favorite catchphrases) are guiding their decisions.
Naomi Wolf: We’ve Reached ‘Step Ten’ of the 10 Steps to Fascism
In her 2008 book, “End of America,” Naomi Wolf outlined the 10 steps those in power use to close down democracies. Sadly, she writes today, as governments use the pandemic to justify the suppression of civil rights, America is now in the throes of “Step Ten.”
In 2008, I wrote a book, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.” In it I warned, based on my study of closing democracies in 20th century history, that America needed to beware of an all-too-possible slide into totalitarianism.
I warned that would-be tyrants, whether they are on the left or the right, always use a map to close down democracies, and that they always take the same ten steps.
Whether they “Invoke an External and Internal Threat” or “Develop a Paramilitary Force” or “Restrict the Press” or the final step, “Subvert the Rule of Law, these steps are always recognizable — and they always work to crush democracies and establish tyrannies. At the time that I wrote the book, the “global threat” of terrorism was the specter that powers invoked in order to attack our freedoms.
The book was widely read and discussed, both at the time of its publication and over the last 12 years. Periodically over the last decade, people would ask me when and if we had reached “Step Ten.”
We — my brave publisher, Chelsea Green, and I — are releasing videos of me reading the first and last chapters (see videos below) of “The End of America” now, in 2021, for free. And I am calling the sequel to this book, which I am now writing, “Step Ten” — because as of March of last year, we have indeed, I am so sad to say, arrived at and begun to inhabit “Step Ten” of the 10 steps to fascism.
Though in 2008, I did not explicitly foresee that a medical pandemic would be the vehicle for moving the entire globe into “Step Ten,” I have at various points warned of the dangers of medical crises as vehicles that tyranny can exploit to justify suppressions of civil rights.
Today, a much-hyped medical crisis has taken on the role of being used as a pretext to strip us all of core freedoms, that fears of terrorism did not, despite 20 years of effort, ultimately achieve.
In 2015, I was widely mocked in mainstream news outlets for warning about the hysteria that accompanied Ebola reporting, and I cautioned then that infectious diseases could be used as a justification for ushering in the suppression of liberties, always under the guise of emergency measures.
In 2020, I showed in my book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love,” how infectious disease epidemics, such as cholera and typhus, had been exploited in the 19th century by the British state in order to crush freedoms and invade people’s privacy. I wrote about how the first anti-vaccination movements arose among British parents in the Victorian period.
That book was initially cancelled, and its message of warning continues to be assailed. But that book, too, was prescient: In early March of 2020, of course, a global pandemic was announced — COVID-19.
In the immediate wake of the announcement and narrativization of that pandemic, most of the elements of a locked-in, 360-degree totalitarianism have been put into place in most of the countries of the West, including in what had been robust democracies. It all happened very quickly and comprehensively.
In the U.S. we now have:
Emergency measures in many states, which suspend due process of law. This is the hallmark of a police state. COVID-19 is invoked as the reason for the introduction of emergency law — but there is no endpoint for lifting these emergency laws.
The closures of schools, which break the social contract with the next generation.
Bills being passed for “vaccine passports,” which bypass the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution by allowing the government and Big Tech companies to intrude on medical privacy, and to create a comprehensive digital surveillance state. (Indeed, the fact that tech stocks rose by 27% each quarter of the pandemic shows one driver of this war against the human: Every minute human beings spend in a classroom, at the pub or restaurant or in a church or synagogue, is time that tech companies lose money by being unable to harvest that data. COVID-19 policies driven by “COVID-19 Response” — actually, by Big Tech companies — ensure that humans are not allowed to connect except via digital platforms. The reason is profit as well as social control).
Forced closures of businesses. By intervening directly in the economy and allowing certain businesses to flourish (Amazon, Walmart, Target) at the expense of small businesses, Main Street shops, restaurants and sole proprietor businesses in general, the State has merged government and corporations in a way that is characteristic of Italian fascism and modern Chinese communism.
Restrictions on assembly. Some states such as California are fining people for seeing their friends in their homes, and making it unlawful for kids to have playdates with their friends. Massachusetts restricted gatherings of more than 10 people at a time, forcing synagogues and churches to stay closed, in spite of a Supreme Court ruling against states forcing churches to close. Parks and playgrounds and beaches have been closed. In countries such as Britain, people are fined for leaving their homes for more than an hour’s exercise a day.
Forced face coverings. In Massachusetts, people are fined if they are not wearing masks outdoors — even children as young as 5 are forced to do so by law. Again, this mandate has not been undergirded by peer-reviewed studies showing medical necessity. And there is no endpoint proffered for these extraordinary violations of personal freedom.
Suppression of free speech. Big Tech companies are censoring critics of COVID-19 policy and vaccine policy, as well as censoring views that are on the right hand of the political spectrum. Incitement, a word that has a long history in the 20th century for closing down free speech, has been weaponized by the left to shut down First Amendment freedoms of expression. In other forms of censorship and management of speech and public debate, tycoons such as Bill Gates have been funding major news outlets, with millions of dollars directed to “COVID-19 education.” As a result, dissenting voices are marginalized and shamed, or even threatened with legal action or job losses.
Science being hijacked in the interests of “biofascism.” By heavily funding scientific commentators such as Dr. Fauci in the United States, Imperial College and SAGE in the U.K. and Dr. Christian Drosten in Germany, a dominant set of policies and pronouncements about COVID-19 that benefit a small group of bad actors — notably tech and pharmaceutical interests, acting in concert with governments — have built an army of secured, credentialled supporters. But when other scientists or institutions seek debate or transparency, they are threatened with job loss or are reputationally attacked, as in the case of Dr. Simon Goddeke of the Netherlands, who was told to keep quiet by his university when he challenge the flawed COVID-19 PCR test protocols.
Data being hijacked to serve the interests of this biofascism. This manipulation of truth, which I foreshadowed in “The End of America,” is typical of the Soviet censors. COVID-19 platforms such as the COVID Tracking Project and Johns Hopkins University, funded by technocrats such as Michael Bloomberg, serve unverifiable COVID-19 data that directly affect the stock markets. Again, while this un-American merger of corporate interests and public policy is reminiscent of Italian fascism, the twist provided by digital data presentation and its relationship to the stock market is very much of the 21st century.
Attacks on religious minorities. The orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn and Christian churches in California have been singled out for punishment if they do not follow COVID-19 rules — a targeting of religion that is characteristic of communist policies on the left, especially in China.
Policies that weaken bonds between human beings and weaken the family being introduced and policed. This is the most serious development of all.
The new biofascism, very much driven by Big Tech leaders, is a war against human beings and the qualities that make us human.
