The day the Republican Party became a formidable fighting force

 

By Lee Cary
CanadaFreePress.com

Conflict is the greatest incentive to unite a diverse group that shares the common goal of Victory.

That union of purpose happened to the Republican Party on February 6, 2020.

When Hillary Clinton was campaigning for the Presidency, then President Barack Obama said she was more qualified than anyone who had ever run for the position.

Donald John Trump emerged as the undisputed leader of the Grand Old Party

The grandiose exaggeration of that claim rendered it thoroughly absurd.

There was no candidate better prepared for national American leadership in the 20th Century, and into the 21st, than General Dwight David Eisenhower.

The photo of him surrounded by the men of the 101st Airborne Division preparing to launch the first attack of the Normandy Invasion is a classic portrayal of leadership. 

Looking at it today, we wonder how many of those men would die soon, or in the weeks and months ahead, before the war ended. 

At noon, Washington D.C. time, on February 6, Donald John Trump emerged as the undisputed leader of the Grand Old Party. The mood in the room told us that. 

Leadership for the GOP had been a long time coming. Absent since Reagan.

It wasn’t necessary to be in the room to sense what was happening.  Even from afar, it could be seen, heard and felt. 

Few among the media—most of whom have never been part of much more than a team of reporters—likely sensed what happened.

Dropping ridicule on the heads of those who drove the narrative that led to impeachment

The liberals among them will criticize Trump for taking a victory lap after his acquittal, and for dropping ridicule on the heads of those who drove the narrative that led to impeachment.

Most in the media will miss that the event was not about Trump.  It wasn’t him doing an ego pump. It wasn’t his victory. 

He, personally, won in not losing. It’s the people in the room that enabled the win. He made the moment about them. 

In short, it’s wasn’t an “I” win.  It was a “We” victory. 

Trump did more than acknowledge the role of many individuals who rebutted the positions of the opposition party.  He remembered the innocent others, the collateral damage, whose lives were hurt in the onslaught of hostility aimed at him, planned before he was elected, and begun 20 minutes after he was inaugurated.

He labeled his corrupt and hate-filled aggressors with language that will scandalize the talking heads on the liberal news networks, and even some on conservative sites. 

The English language is well equipped with strong adjectives for those times and places where only certain words are able to convey the force required by circumstances.  And when they are required, anything else falls short.

Everyone in the room now knows that progressives do not surrender. Never

It was a celebration, but not of a war won.  It heralded a battle well fought and won. Punctuated with the codicil that other such battles are likely ahead. 

Everyone in the room now knows that progressives do not surrender. Never. They drop back.  Rest. And plan for their next attack. Democrats in the House of Representatives are already planning.

Trump didn’t speak as a Hitlerian-like figure.  Or a Monarch. As some liberal commentators will claim. He spoke like a coach of a sports team that won a national championship. The credit went to the players in the room, collectively and individually. 

Those who watched the various stages of the televised impeachment circus, that began in the House and ended in the Senate, already knew who Trump would individually call out.  They were the key players who led the opposition. 

The opposition may not know it yet, but they will need to ramp-up their game because they’re no longer playing against the GOP of Old.

The Republican Party has,  finally, become a force that will fight.