Did you think congressional Republicans would be emboldened by the election results to change their tepid ways of doing business? Think again. They actually elected the same failed leadership and focused on a ridiculously banal agenda for their first week back after the election.
In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, Daniel focuses on the opportunities that lie ahead for conservatives. What should conservatives focus on in the coming months and what should they leave for future administrations or to the states?
Daniel explains why tax reform is not something we should expend all of our capital on now because it is not a triage item and we usually wind up making things worse whenever we touch it with this crop of Republicans. It’s better to deal with that issue wholesale through a Convention of the States and repeal of the 17th Amendment.
Rather we should focus on 3 categories of issues: 1) immediate triage items that we have a mandate to change, such as Obamacare, religious liberty, refugees, and open borders (get your copy of Stolen Sovereignty for a blueprint) 2) systemic governmental reforms, such as judicial reform and term limits –issues that are easy to message and 3) devolving core functions, such as transportation, education, and welfare back to the states.
By empowering the states and focusing on systemic reforms, conservative can form a permanent firewall in state governments. We call them rainy day reforms, political victories that will last for us even when Democrats inevitably win back the federal government.
Meanwhile, there will be opportunities to work with the Trump administration on foreign policy, national security, and immigration while hopefully steering their focus away from some of their liberal domestic policy agenda.
Key Quotes:
“We must use this narrowing window of electoral viability to focus on rainy day reforms so that we are never one election away from losing our liberty.”
“Everyone talks about entitlements except for the one true entitlement – that we are all entitled to a republican form of government, irrespective of who wins an election. This is our Constitution and our inalienable rights. We shouldn’t have to be one Supreme Court justice or one court decision away from losing our Constitution. Time for wholesale judicial reform.”
Important Show Links
The election is over! House GOP celebrates by passing a new tax ... on concrete
The battle for the courts part 1: We still have a major problem that requires wholesale reform
