It’s past time to pass the torch

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Connecticut Reupublican election-return watchers, were stunned last Tuesday when their already Blue-Captured state slid deeper into the abyss on a degree matching that of the national blue tsunami. When the dust settled, CT Republicans held but three state senate seats in the 36-seat body! In the State House, Republicans will hold 35 of 151 seats, and be outnumbered by Democrats 3:1.

Now we know those numbers in no way represent the political perspective or desires of the CT citizenry, but after about 20 years of unmatched Democrat hegemony, here we are. For clarity as I often say, life is not merely a stack of everyone’s opinions – there is a reality here which marches on with alacrity, regardless of anyone’s opinions about it.

The torch of CT GOP leadership needs to be passed to a new generation - the Millennials. They’re now the largest voting-block in the nation – and Boomers don’t have the vaguest notion how to speak to, or motivate them. We’ll examine exactly how CT Republicans have been driven into irrelevance, and what it’ll take to begin the tough slog back.

But first – let’s focus perspective, and summarize how the nation devolved into its severe economic predicament, and now into its current crisis, where two generations rightly feel the American economic dream is out of reach or already passed them by.

National Crisis Backgrounder

For the past 75 years or so, America’s ruling political parties pushed and pulled at each other to advance both visible and hidden agendas to win elections and sustain power. Along the way they’d take massive whacks at the economy in the form of costly legislation and excessive deficit spending. Their central belief was that no matter how vicious a beating they’d give to our amazing capitalist economy, it will return us to prosperity like an unstoppable well-spring rising up from the bowels of the earth. And that model held, every single time until the great recession of ’08, which their actions created, erupted across the global landscape. They stood in amazement at the dry hole they created, and in a publicly visible panic, they turned on the faucet of printed money in place of genuine prosperity.

The national debt was $5 trillion when G.W. Bush took office at the turn of this century. That represented the cumulative national debt since the beginning of the Republic in 1888. Then in the past 25 years it has grown to $40 trillion. That is an abominable attack on the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar by the ruling political and financial elite. In the past 25 years the Congress has run deficits of $35 trillion, which have been converted into printed dollars by the Federal Reserve’s machinations. Those printed dollars are by economic definition the source of today’s affordability/inflation crisis. There are oil crises, supply-chain squeezes, commodity shortages, and other economic events which are continually exploited by political players to gain advantage, but make no mistake, the root cause of it all is congressional deficit spending and the resultant
Fed money-printing.

In Connecticut, its federal representatives Murphy, Blumenthal, Himes, Larson, DeLauro and Courtney, each and all have voted for every dollar of $30 trillion of those deficits and printed money. Their votes, camouflaged with verbal gymnastics, and endless deceptive rhetoric are the cause of the nation’s economic crisis - period. Then these charlatans and the rest of the CT Democrat elected officials have continually gaslighted us, going out and campaigning against the economic mess they have wrought. All under cover of CT-based corporate media enterprises that keep the citizenry asleep, confused, or cheering on these entrenched frauds. The strategy is not new, it’s laid out in books authored in the past 85 years by Communists Gramsci, Marcuse, Alinsky, and Marcus Raskin, father of Jamie Raskin, who’s now about to take the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Let that sink in.

To the national Democrat Party, Connecticut is the perfect state petri-dish for testing collectivist programs: 3.5MM population, five congress reps, and two senators. There’s a reason it is called California-East. The project of gaining total control kicked off with John Rowland’s resignation as governor in 2004. Though Jodi Rell managed to prevail in ’06, two more congressional seats fell to the Democrats that cycle, and the curtain was pulled down with Himes’ election on Obama’s coattails in ’08. The federal representative project was complete in four years.

The national Democrat initial “branding” of Republicans as climate-deniers, Islamaphobes, Iraq war mongers, and failed economic stewards was getting big-time traction. After the ’08 Obama blue-wave the Republicans still held 12 CT Senate seats, with the CT House almost the same 3:1 Democrat advantage as it is today. As ’09 developed, Republicans were now openly being branded as racists across the country.

Connecticut’s Political Terrain

It was in the ’09-’10 cycle that the Tea Party emerged. It was inevitable that oxygen-breathing realists in the citizenry would peacefully (there was never a tea-partier arrested anywhere) take to the streets and call out our ruling political class for its ruination of the economy and fraudulent political posturing. I was a vocal and active Tea Party organizer in CT. Our principles were individual liberty, limited government, and
fiscal responsibility – the bedrock upon which America’s spectacular and rapid rise to dominance was built. We saw no mention of these principles from CT Republican Party.

Tea Party people read Obama’s resume, and immediately saw him in action as the pied-piper of Socialism, recognized the fundamental danger, and demanded the RNC and CT Republican Party stand up, call it out, and counter it on all fronts. Establishment Republicans just wouldn’t see it, didn’t believe it, and were deathly afraid of the blowback should they dare to make such stark statements in public. Some nibbled at the edges, if at all.

It was time for some stark truthful branding of the Democrats, in light of their transformation under the Obama regime. On more than one occasion I told John McKinney, then Senate Republican leader, and Larry Caffero, then House Republican leader, and other Republican officials, to start branding the newly energized CT Democrat policy agenda. I recommended calling the most onerous Democrat proposals as ‘Socialism,’ and the most vocal and extreme Democrats as ‘Socialists.’ I figured in five years or so, we’d have the party permanently branded as Socialist-Democrats. It would have given us an incalculable electoral advantage because Socialism was still a highly negative label, and most devastatingly of this breed – TRUE. Today we’d have been justified to publicly advance that branding to straight-up Communist.

Democrat success both in CT and nationally, in no small measure, is the result of the evolving branding of Republicans so negatively as to currently suggest we’re simply unacceptable to hold public office. You can see it emanating from the attendees of Occupy, BLM, Indivisible and No Kings rallies over the years, and right into the mouths of Democrat officials in CT and nationally. And the Democrat Party continues to use the latest iteration of these groups as its source of electoral energy.

But in Connecticut, for the past 20 years, Republican leadership have simply been accommodative of the delusions of the Democrats – the delusions in their heads and the deceptions in the policies they advance. Republicans continually buy into the false premises advanced by the Democrats, craft weak alternatives to Democrat proposals, often lose the debate in the legislature... or, simply vote with the Dems. And the national Leftist agenda becomes enacted into law, while citizens seeking a fight from the Republicans become completely discouraged.

The Democrats’ only proffered solution to any challenge is to compensate those fitting their definition of “economic losers” from the state treasury, e.g. SB 1 from the ’21 session declared “racism a public health crisis” in CT. Seven of 12 Republicans voted with the Dems on this insane enabling act for wealth transfers – and rank & file Republicans took a stunned note of it. After years of such debilitating votes, the result – CT now ranks in the bottom five of every metric comparing the 50 states, and was just ranked the second most “financially distressed” state in the nation. This is what an accommodative and apologetic defensive posture delivers. Now that we’re clearly at rock-bottom, there is absolutely no downside to be expressed by the utterly feckless leadership of the CT GOP. A stark change in strategy is the order of the day.

This CT GOP “leadership” needs to be removed and replaced with leaders who recognize the country is in a revolutionary era. We didn’t ask for it, but it must be recognized - we are here. Those who supervised our Party’s decline are by definition, disqualified to lead the Party’s revival. The old loyal-opposition CT Democrats have become infested with Marxists who are growing in number and driving the agenda for the last 20 years. They need to be called out publicly at every turn, and their policies need to be exposed in the how and why of detail, as advancing their subversive collectivist agenda - all designed to turn a free people into serfs. We must finally speak the hard truth to the public. No doubt it will take time for the citizenry to see the complete picture – particularly in light of a suffocating corporate media, which has acted as the PR arm of CT Democrats. Though another story entirely, I did address that corporate-capture media operation in my Iron Cloak article.

Simultaneously, new leadership must both express and demonstrate with action, that the CT GOP’s identity is one of individual freedom, prosperity, self-reliance, fiscal discipline, traditional values, and local control. We are one of the nation’s most highly-educated, resourceful states in the nation, and Nutmeggers continually express at their doors that they don’t need any more laws, regulations, taxes, and controls from Hartford. Also, often expressed is a roll of the eyes when it’s suggested Republicans will do anything about it. Anyone who does not recognize this reality is deluding themselves.

The Millennial generation, and the rapidly rising Gen-Zers (anyone in their 20s) are now the largest voting block in the country, and will be for the next couple decades. We’ve met many young Republicans working for campaigns in the last couple cycles, and they are Conservative, America-First types who recognize the very real perils facing our Constitutional Republic. They are clearly, and most closely in touch with their generational peers’ political and economic views, needs, and interests, because they are of them. They are best positioned to sort through and align the specific issues under an umbrella strategy of restoring the Republic, effectively rally the citizens, take the fight to the other side, and prevail electorally. You will find their ground troops in American Destiny, CT Young Republicans, and Turning Point USA-CT. Several of their generation ran admirable campaigns for State Rep and State Senate seats across Connecticut in the past cycle. These are smart, accomplished and capable young people who are quickly getting seasoned in the political arena.

We need to tap this rich pool of seasoned young talent to step up to effectively lead the CT GOP back to relevance and success. We specifically called out to them in the book I co-authored, The Seventh Crisis. Boomers need not apply. We must now recognize that time and events have eclipsed our generation. We can no longer accommodate the view that CT Republicans are different, and in effect, cannot handle the truth. These young Republicans see the insidious subversion being perpetrated by the Democrat Party and know how to call it out and prosecute the case. They’re positioned to re-set the CT GOP on a foundation that clearly sees just what the citizens face. By speaking truth and facing reality, with our help they will build a coalition of deeply committed citizen voters, who will not shake loose and drift away in the face of the fraudulent fear campaigns and deceptive messaging, perennially offered by the Democrats.

The time is late, but the time is now. The CT GOP must now stand up, face reality and proceed to defeat the poisonous collectivism that has engulfed the Democrat Party. The hour has now come to “pass the torch to a new generation,” for most-assuredly we have nowhere to go, but up from here.

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