The Utter Fecklessness of One-Chamber Congressional Power Without the Presidency
A Trump win in 2024 would put to rest the absurd idea that Americans want left-wing progressive policies that make their lives harder, poorer, and less secure.
Another day, another “I’m mad as hell” letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. James Comer, Sen. Ron Johnson, or Sen. Chuck Grassley. Another day, another hearing in the U.S. House that generates little more than fundraising clickbait and Twitter threads for both sides. I love Senator Mike Lee, but his constant tweets about the Uniparty™️ are wearing thin. If the Right has learned anything over the last three years, it is that one-chamber congressional power is largely worthless, especially if it is the U.S. House (controlling the U.S. Senate is worthwhile if only for judicial appointments). To the detriment of our country — and I mean that regardless of which party holds the keys — the presidency is now where the true power lies, which isn’t what our Founding Fathers intended.
That said, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats with just one-chamber congressional power sure got far more done than Republicans have managed to do. As I’ve talked about for years, too many Republicans remain stuck in a Victorian Era mentality while the Democrats engage in no-holds-barred cage match fighting with whatever weapons they can get their hands on. Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis remain about the only elected officials on the Right who get that and fight back on their terms, which is why so many Americans love them.
What does this mean for 2024?
Quite simply, it means control of the White House is THE most important race this year. Period. Yes, it would be great to retain control of the U.S. House and it would be amazing to also grab control of the U.S. Senate from New York’s Chuck Schumer, but, without the presidency, control of Congress by Republicans just means more saber rattling, smoke blowing, useless hearings, and tiresome tweets. Until Republicans remove themselves from the Victorian Era mentality they live in, they’ll never wield power as ruthlessly and relentlessly as Pelosi, Schumer, or Adam Schiff. The unfortunate reality is that the only way to restore Congress and the federal leviathan to functioning entities is to join the Left in the cage with every weapon necessary and attack them as viciously and aggressively as they’ve been attacking the Right. The Left needs to be pummeled into submission so they cry “uncle” and agree to end their extraconstitutional ways, abusive lawfare, pathological lying, and dangerous denigration of half the country as terrorists and white supremacists. If they don’t, you can be certain America won’t survive as the fifty state country that it currently is.
By retaking the White House, Trump can execute with or without Congress’s help on all the policies required to tame inflation, fire up the economy, secure the border, confront China's and Europe’s unfair trade policies, drive energy independence based on science versus zealotry, defang the federal bureaucracy, and stabilize the world again. If the Right can use its power in 2025 and beyond to deliver once and for all for the American people, there is no reason those people won't reward the Right with continued control of the federal government, as well as state governments (outside of the crazy hard blue states from which people and businesses are fleeing), for a decade or more. A Trump win in 2024 would put to rest the absurd idea that Americans want left-wing progressive policies that make their lives harder, poorer, and less secure.
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P.S. As a parent of a daughter who attends Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas, I have to share a picture from campus this weekend. Unlike the crazy anti-semitic, anti-American protests and riots at “elite” schools mostly on the East and West Coasts, SMU stands strongly with our allie Israel in its fight against terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iranian-funded proxy groups who engaged in the slaughtering of innocent women, children, and the elderly on October 7, 2023. Yes, I feel sorry for the noncombatants in Gaza and the West Bank, but for too long those noncombatants have allowed themselves and their children to be indoctrinated to hate Jews and America, especially in a post-Internet world in which the truth isn’t hard to find. As the Civil War and World War II taught us, noncombatants who support bad actors when they engage in war must suffer the consequences of that support, as that is the only way to truly secure the peace.
P.P.S. I know this might upset some of you, but I’d love nothing more than hearing and seeing far, far less of bombthrower and suburban women alienator Marjorie Taylor Greene and far more of Elise Stefanik. Yes, Taylor Greene throws those who need it lots of red meat to chew on, but she is just hard to watch. She reminds me of the uber-intense and highly annoying mom on your kid’s soccer team who is constantly screaming on the sidelines, jawing at the refs, and getting into the face of the coach when her "D1-bound" kid doesn’t get the playing time she thinks she should get. You’d love nothing more than if another mom throat-punched her into silence. Stefanik, on the other hand, is always measured, never shrill, and far more likely to attract rather than repel the suburban women the Right needs more of. Taylor Greene in outburst mode reminds me of an orangutan, which is probably an insult to orangutans. The national media love her because she helps them paint the Right as unhinged radicals with her constant shenanigans. Ohio media did the same thing during the rise of the Tea Party. Instead of interviewing rational, coherent representatives like Chris Littleton, they ran to the frothing-at-the-mouth guy who always delivered with conspiracies and wild claims that marginalized what those of us in the trenches were trying to do.
