What We’re For
Republicans stand for more than you do, Joe
MR. President, you asked in your press conference last week, “What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they’re for.” Unfortunately, your cheap rhetoric is emblematic of your unwillingness to obtain advice from anyone beyond your handlers. Mr. President, it is you who appears bereft of ideas to solve our nation’s crises.
Republicans fight to preserve the American way of life and our traditions laid down in our founding documents. Abraham Lincoln was our party’s first president. Along with Martin Luther King, no single person in history fought harder for the freedom of America’s children. Republicans comprehend that prejudice can never be fought with more prejudice.
Treating all persons as individuals, not as part of a subset of Americans, is the means to vanquish group injustice. Though a stifling political class represses duty, honor, wholesomeness and faith, these traits are the heart of America: Their beat is strong for those who have ears to listen. We are for them.
Republicans realize freedom is in jeopardy, for the self-anointed ruling class that bankrolls the Democratic Party to cloak their own greed does not understand liberty. These usurpers pocket the hard-earned money of citizens or print it, causing inflation, the most regressive of taxes. The cost of basic goods food, gas and shelter constitute the greatest proportion of wages for working Americans who do not have letters after their names.
Republicans hold these truths: Liberty, as promised in our Declaration of Independence, is our birthright, but it is only possible under limited government; expansive government, acting recklessly, subverts individual agency and choice.
Republicans believe that the free expression of faith and the sanctity of the American family are prerequisites to happiness and its pursuit and to our nation’s enrichment. Any governmental program that circumscribes faith or hurts families is unacceptable, yet Democratic politicians inflict a cascade of actions against these central institutions, intent on substituting
the veneration of an all-powerful state for our love of God and the blessings of those we hold dear.
Republicans know parents and families are central to civilizational success. We are for them, while you, Mr. President, seek to mandate that our children wear masks and are taught that our nation is predicated on a racist understanding of our founding.
Republicans believe that we must reinvigorate our schools and learn from history, not destroy it, and that parents should choose where their children are educated.
Republicans believe that each life is precious and every person deserves respect, for each is a gift of God.
Republicans believe that the free market is the engine of economic growth for America and all the world. True innovation and the unleashing of human potential are never accomplished by dictatorial bureaucrats, who fancy themselves the creators of tomorrow, though they cannot manage the present.
Republicans believe that we must preserve our environment. American energy independence is necessary to ensure clean air, clean water and the vibrancy of our heartland and cities, for abundant power is essential to create the jobs and the prosperity necessary to address environmental concerns.
Republicans believe, as George Washington did, that a strong defense is the surest means to secure peace, for timidity in the face of belligerence invites conflict and, with it, the loss of life.
Republicans believe that China is an existential threat and cannot be trusted. Beijing hid the origin of a vicious plague, permitting it to reach every corner of the globe, killing millions and wreaking devastation.
We must thwart China’s theft of American jobs and intellectual property. Communist China cannot be placated; it must be confronted and its deceits and crimes exposed, but this is impossible for an administration that does not believe in American exceptionalism.
Republicans hold that a pillar of humanity is nationhood: Those who seek to upturn it speak of a past that never was and a future that must never be. We must finish the wall because sovereignty matters.
Mr. President, you promised to burnish other nations’ respect for America, but you are the architect of the deadly and calamitous retreat from Afghanistan that has both armed and invigorated our country’s enemies. Republicans are for supporting friends like Israel, while you sit in Vienna with the butchers of Tehran negotiating with theocrats seeking to destroy Jerusalem, the birthplace of our Abrahamic traditions.
US energy independence is lost, for you put Russia and Saudi Arabia in charge, with predictable results. Inflation is rampant, and our economy is in tatters.
Will you change course, sir, or will you preside over the collapse of our principles, our traditions and our civil society?