It was a remarkable week, destined for the history books on so many levels: The Republican National Convention of 2024.
Six months earlier, the Democrats were salivating. They truly had mastered the “science” of political science. Judges in Maine and Colorado would keep Donald Trump off their state ballots, and that would start a tsunami of state judiciary rulings barring Trump from running. Beyond that, he would be tied up in so many court cases all over the place — from New York to Georgia to Florida to Washington, D.C. — that his head would be spinning, unable to discern up from down. He would be barred from competing even for his party’s nomination, and, if perchance he would be too stupid to realize he is all washed up, then his party’s leaders would consult internally, gather him for an intervention, and read him their riot act: “Sorry, we insist that you step aside. You had your time and your presidency, and now you have to face the music. Your train has left the station.” (READ MORE: Trump Accepts Republican Presidential Nomination)
It was all so perfect, even better planned than Hillary’s criminally fraudulent Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Foolproof. Children would be reciting a new Mother Goose ditty for years to come:
Biden and Jill went up Capitol Hill
To prepare Trump for the slaughter.
On Jill’s way down, she secured her crown,
With Biden mumbling after.
It all was so perfect.
And then it wasn’t. The case in Manhattan was conducted with so much obvious legal corruption that, by the time it ended, the big news was not the pointless 34 felony convictions that will be overturned by the appellate courts summarily, whether on the state level or in the United States Supreme Court, but the record tens of millions of dollars raised by the Trump campaign in the aftermath of his lawfare martyrdom. In Georgia, the spotlight focused not on the case but on the clown of a district attorney who was engaged in an ongoing sexual tryst with another woman’s married man, and who had him filing for divorce and traveling with her around the world. And, oh yes, by the way, she had hired him at a huge pay level to take on an assignment for which he was in way over his head: prosecuting the former president of the United States now running for reelection. So that flopped. All eyes turned toward the D.C. and Florida cases, where a legal interloper was prosecuting the same president without proper authority.
Imagine you don’t like Joe Biden and happen to have a law degree. So you decide to google stuff, read the report of the Nancy Pelosi Jan. 6 committee, get a guy in the White House cabinet to OK you doing so, and then bring your own lawsuit against Biden on behalf of the American people. Huh? OK, let’s try it this way: You are 12 years old. You grab your Dad’s keys to the car and drive around. When Dad gets home and can’t find his car, he is about to call the cops, but you show up first. (READ MORE: Want to Be a Rebel? Be a Conservative.)
“Were you driving my car?”
“Yes, Dad.”
“Are you out of your mind? You can’t do that. And you didn’t even ask first?”
“But I did ask for permission, Dad, before I took the keys. I did ask. And Betty said it would be OK.”
“Who? Betty? Your eight-year-old sister? Are you nuts? She doesn’t have the authority to let you drive my car!”
That’s Merrick Garland and Jack Smith. Garland is eight-year-old Betty. Under the Constitution, he has as much right as Betty to assign Jack Smith to prosecute President Trump. The president is the only one who can do that — and he still needs the Senate’s confirmation. So those two litigations are shot. And, beyond all that, the United States Supreme Court then came out and ruled that all or most of these cases probably are null and void anyway because they are built around actions the president undertook as part of his executive duties.
So the lawfare scheme fizzled. And the Maine and Colorado courts were reversed.
Then came the debate at which Biden was going to wipe the floor with Trump and then take him to the woodshed. Only, he couldn’t find the woodshed, and he couldn’t find the floor. So, now, it is the Democrat party scheming to ambush Biden with an intervention to relegate him back to campaigning from the basement, only this time with the computer and Zoom unplugged. The Democrats are the ones in chaos three months before the election. To summarize the turn of events: “It’s all about the passage of time. The passage of time. You see, when you think about it, there’s great significance to the passage of time…. And there’s such great significance to the passage of time.” The passage of time.
Who could have known that those words spoken on March 21, 2022, would prove so wise and prophetic? The passage of time. All the planned lawfare is down the drain. Trump is on the rise. Biden is sinking. Republicans are celebrating with Amber Rose, the president of the Teamsters Union, and a black preacher from inner-city Detroit. While Democrats are in such a frenzy that they even have postponed the date for electing their presidential nominee. There is so much great significance to the passage of time. The passage of time.
With the close of the 2024 Republican National Convention, it now becomes crystal clear why truly brilliant minds like George Will have been all-out Never Trumpers for eight years since 2016. It seemed irrational on the surface: Really, George? You would prefer Hillary and Biden and loose cannons like Sonia Sotomayor and She Who Cannot Define “Woman,” schools that teach about pansexuality and half a dozen pronouns, laws compelling doctors to perform sex-change surgeries while forbidding school teachers from informing parents that their kids are undergoing gender crises? Really, you prefer open borders, defunding police, and ending bail? How can you, a conservative, be so blind in your hate for Trump?
It never made sense to me how brilliant minds like George Will could be so Never Trump. It couldn’t be the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) that plagues lesser minds. George Will is not a blind hater; he is an intellectual who enjoys engaging in opposing ideas. However, with the close of the 2024 RNC, it now is clear — and he indeed was wise in blanketly opposing Trump.
He and his circle perceived that Trump would be radically changing the Republican Party, leaving him and the Mitt Romneys and Koch Brothers without a home. He was right. Classic Republican Party “conservatism,” believing in reduced government interference and free markets, preaches that free-trade agreements are great because they make it cheaper and easier to import foreign-made goods at lower prices. Labor unions and other standard workplace benefits like health care and pensions raise the cost of American goods. By contrast, China and Mexico do not offer those protections, and so they offer cheaper goods. Soon, Americans are buying overseas products, so domestic businesses close. The owners of mega businesses move their manufacturing — and jobs — out of America for the same reason. All the Democrat billionaires in high-tech and Hollywood make their iPhones, computers, chips, and movies overseas. Chinese Nikes. Chinese Apple products. “Hollywood” has become an idiom, not a reality; no one makes movies there. Season 5 of “Fargo” was made in Canada. (READ MORE: Limited Biden Goes Terminal: Prepping a Supreme Court for Republican Feasting)
The classic Republican theology was for free trade to ensure cheaper products and greater profits for the ownership class, and open borders to bring in cheap Mexican and Latin American labor to create downward pressure on salaries. “You lower-tier Americans are not happy with your low wages and no benefits? So go take a hike; there are plenty of Mexicans here begging to take your jobs.” Classic Republican conservatism almost destroyed America’s iron and steel industries. Very few appreciated the implications. When World War II erupted, our Allies could not keep up with the demands for armaments to fight the Nazis. They begged us for weapons. We changed our production facilities overnight to a wartime footing. Automobile factories started making tanks instead. Throughout America, we manufactured our own rifles, guns, bullets, tanks, shells, fighter aircraft, and bombs. That took iron and steel. Can you imagine if all our iron and steel manufacturing went to China, as it was doing? When war erupts between us and China, what will we do — beg them for weapons to fight them the way Zelensky begs us for assistance to fight Putin? What will we do — use our iPhones to get on TikTok to watch our country get destroyed?
The RNC convention brought home that the GOP has changed. Free Trade Agreements no longer will be pursued blindly to drive out American businesses and jobs. If we have to impose tariffs on China and Europe — as they do on us already — we will do it. The border will be closed and illegal aliens will be deported to protect American workers and their wages. The Republican party has room for “right to work” advocates and for union activists. Blacks and Latinos are welcome because all that matters is a society devoted to honest work, merit, and character.
I get it now. For years, I voted for the Fords, Bushes, Doles, McCains, and Romneys because they were the lesser of two evils, but they were not really “my party.” I had no party. By contrast, George Will and the Koch Brothers had a party. Now I see what they feared: I now have a party — a party of Trump, Vance, DeSantis, Cruz, Cotton, Hawley, Pompeo, Huckabee, Peter Navarro, Abbott, Noem, and so many millions who cast votes to elect them. And now the Koch Brothers and George Will, whom I still love to read and hear, no longer have a party of their own. But I will always protect their right to country clubs.
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