What did Romney mean in his screed.

the Romney screed was a declaration of war.  For much of the past 70 years, the conflict inside the Republican/conservative orbit was managed.  On a rare occasion or two, conservatives would win and the established elements would publicly support the winner while working overtime to undercut them.  The globalist, big government zealots — masquerading as believers of the limited government Republic majority impulses — held sway.

What the election of Donald Trump did was rip the scab off in one bold move.  Yes, he mistakenly allowed the denizens of Congress to convince him to allow the RNC to staff his government.  But slowly he is ridding himself of these people.  And, yes, for all his skill in many areas, he has naively believed the hucksters and con-men too many times.  But his instincts are strong.  And those instincts are what millions of Americans are willing to fight for — an agenda of ending the nightmare of American Empire and returning to a foreign policy of self-interest, an end to the crony capitalism that dominates the Democrat as well as the establishment GOP, honor and respect for traditional culture, trade and economic policies that build the American middle class, not ship all the assets to Mexico or China, and most important, defending the borders and sovereignty of the United States.

Romney and his clan of misfits, over-educated dreamers and party hacks oppose all of this.  What had been a polite fight over policy or position is now what it was always going to be — out and out warfare for the survival of America.  And should the Romney crowd prevail — should they drive Trump from office and reassert their control over the dead husk called the Republican Party — it will gain them nothing.  The people will not go back.  This is realignment — messy, dangerous and unsettled.  But it has been a long time coming.  Many of us are glad it has arrived so that stench of Romney-style Republicanism can be washed away once and for all.

That is what the Romney op-ed — in the pages of the most anti-American, crypto-socialist rag in the nation — was saying.  And the message was not lost on anyone.

- Ed Martin

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