The GOP Without Trump Is Like All in the Family Without Carrol O'Connor

Establishment's hopes crushed in Virginia

My dad wouldn’t miss All in the Family—until the end when Carrol O’Connor rarely or never appeared. Without Archie Bunker, the show was nothing but limousine liberal propaganda.

Likewise, without Donald J. Trump, the GOP is nothing a country club cocktail party.

The Karl Rove wing of the Republican Party—once its only wing—bet the farm on Glenn Youngkin.

Their plan was to ride his sweep of the Virginia legislature elections into the Republican primaries, propping up Youngkin as the only viable alternative to Donald J. Trump. It’s the kind of complicated scheming Republican strategists live for, but one that seldom succeeds.

And losing continued last night.

Youngkin not only failed to take over the Virginia Senate, he lost the House of Delegates in what can only be described as a complete failure for Karl Rove, Paul Ryan, Ronna McDaniel, and the Murdochs.

Ronna McDaniel Is a Democrat Plant

Across the western border of Virginia, Daniel Cameron might have upset the hard-left governor of Kentucky, but the GOP ignored Kentucky. Cameron lost. Just like in 2022, when McDaniel and the Republican donor class refused to support MAGA candidates, pushing instead a plate of lumpy, boring career political insiders in losing races across the country.

John Solomon of JustTheNews.com noticed that calls for McDaniel’s resignation or ouster have intensified:

Lawyer Rogan O’Handley, one of the more influential young conservatives on social media who uses the handle “DC Draino,” offered a similar sentiment. “Tonight is yet another reason Ronna Romney McDaniel should resign in disgrace She does nothing except help the GOP lose,” he wrote on his social media.

McDaniel is, of course, a Romney, the family that undermined Barry Goldwater in favor of Lyndon Johnson in 1963, supported Ed Brown against Ronald Reagan for Governor of California, and worked hard to block Reagan’s presidential bids in 1976 and 1980. The Romneys, like Bush’s, see politics as a private club, not public forum. They lust after an aristocracy, not a republic. For 30 years, their callous and cynical embrace of founding wisdom fooled the Republican base—but that base is dead.

Trump or Bust

The reality Fox News must now embrace is that Trump is the GOP and the GOP is Trump. The Trump base is larger than the Bush-Rove-Romney base and is far less interested in clever strategic schemes that involve playing nice with the opposition. This new base is based. It has a foundation, and it demands leaders who stand firm on that foundation and give ‘em hell.

Contrast the convoluted platitudes of the establishment with the marching orders President Donald Trump delivered to Kash Patel as his Deputy National Security Advisor:

• Kill al Qaeda senior leaders

• Wipe out the emirs of ISIS

• Bring home American hostages

• Safeguard our border

• Kill the cartels

Watch (at 27:00)

Boom, boom, boom.

Bold, decisive, clear, focused.

To those who still think any of the “Keebler Elves” is a stronger candidate than Trump, remember this: at least 20% of people who voted Republican in 2020 will not vote at all if Trump is not at the top of the ticket. That means even the Missouri legislature could turn blue without Trump.

You can decry his mean tweets all you want, but that just makes you a sore loser. Unite around Trump now and begin rebuilding a new America.