The Future of The Republican Party & This Country Has Arrived – Top 3 Takeaways – July 18th, 2024
- Gen Z will save this country. Millennials will make it great again. As the Republican National Convention reaches its climax and conclusion tonight with the former and future President of the United States set to take the stage, the night’s theme is to Make America Great Once Again. And without a doubt no one has been more important or is likely to prove to be more influential in doing so than the movement’s creator and leader Donald Trump. However, Trump alone can’t will it into existence, a generation alone can’t see to it that it happens. As Reagan famously said: Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. And that’s why it’s imperative that younger generations get it, embrace it and fight for it. This is certainly not lost on Trump as he named a Millennial, who is literally half of his age, as his running mate. Someone who is not just one but two generations younger than he is. This is key to saving this country and this is key to Making America Great Again. GenX by and large already gets it. In fact, polling has consistently shown that GenX, my generation, has become the most consistently conservative. This has also been documented in the book Generations, which studied the generational differences in the beliefs of Americans – leading the author to state: Gen X is the most Republican of the generations. And this of course is no random occurrence. This is the result of our generation having grown up during the original MAGA movement, Ronald Reagan’s. Starting with my analysis on October 22nd of 2021, I’ve often spoken of there being a generational opportunity to create a future generation of conservative voters born out of the lies and failures of the Biden administration. Just as Jimmy Carter’s failures brought us Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden’s failures are set to bring us the second coming of Donald Trump, but just as importantly a group of young leaders who both “get it” and importantly know how to communicate it. On that note, the two speeches I’ve been most impressed by at the RNC to date have been delivered by two Millennials Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump’s running mate JD Vance. As Ramaswamy said: What does it mean to be a Republican in 2024...it means we believe in merit, that you get ahead in this country not based on the color of your skin but based on the content of your character and your contributions. It means we believe in the rule of law...that means your first act of entering this country cannot break the law. It means the people who we elect to run the government ought to be the ones who actually run the government. Donald Trump is the one who will actually unite this country, not through empty words but through action because...
- Success is unifying, excellence is unifying. Isn’t that the truth. Our message to Millennials, yes its true, our government sold us a false bill of goods with the Iraq war and the 2008 financial crisis, loading up our national debt that falls on our generation’s shoulders, telling us that if we took out college loans, we’d somehow get a head start on the American Dream when it hasn’t worked out that way but we can’t just be cynical about our country because the United States of America is still the last best, hope that we have and we deserve a better class of politicians. Can I get an amen. Speaking of an amen he continued... And my message to Gen Z is this...You’re going to be the generation that actually saves this country. You want to be a rebel, you want to be a hippie, you want to stick it to the man, show up on your college campus and try calling yourself a conservative. Say you want to get married, have kids, teach them to believe in God and pledge allegiance to their country. Because you know what, fear has been infectious in this country, but courage can be contagious too. He’s right. On all of it. No two generations are more disapproving of Joe Biden as president than Gen Z (27%) and Millennials (35%). That’s because no two generations have been more screwed by his failures than those two. That’s the generational opportunity I spoke of three years ago. That’s the generational opportunity that’s in play for Republicans today. And that takes us to Vance...
- His vision is clear, is easily understood and effectively communicated. Quoting Vance last night... As always, America’s ruling class wrote the checks. Communities like mine paid the price. For decades, that divide between the few, with their power and comfort in Washington, and the rest of us only widened. From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people who govern this country have failed and failed again. That is, of course, until a guy named President Donald J. Trump came along. this moment is not about me; it’s about all of us, and it’s about who we’re fighting for. It’s about the auto worker in Michigan, wondering why out-of-touch politicians are destroying their jobs. It’s about the factory worker in Wisconsin who makes things with their hands and is proud of American craftsmanship. It’s about the energy worker in Pennsylvania and Ohio who doesn’t understand why Joe Biden is willing to buy energy from tinpot dictators across the world, when he could buy it from his own citizens right here in our own country. The absurd cost of housing is the result of so many failures. And it reveals so much about what’s broken in Washington. I can tell you exactly how it happened. Wall Street barons crashed the economy and American builders went out of business. As tradesmen scrambled for jobs, houses stopped being built. The lack of good jobs, of course, led to stagnant wages. And then the Democrats flooded this country with millions of illegal aliens. So citizens had to compete — with people who shouldn’t even be here — for precious housing. Joe Biden’s inflation crisis, my friends, is really an affordability crisis. And many of the people that I grew up with can’t afford to pay more for groceries, more for gas, more for rent, and that’s exactly what Joe Biden’s economy has given them. So prices soared, dreams were shattered. And China and the cartels sent fentanyl across the border, adding addiction to the heartache. President Trump’s vision is so simple and yet so powerful. We’re done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street. We’ll commit to the working man. We’re done importing foreign labor, we’re going to fight for American citizens and their good jobs and their good wages. We’re done buying energy from countries that hate us; we’re going to get it right here, from American workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and across the country. We’re done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we’re going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label, “Made in the U.S.A.” We’re going to build factories again, put people to work making real products for American families, made with the hands of American workers. Together, we will protect the wages of American workers — and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building their middle class on the backs of American citizens. Together, we will make sure our allies share in the burden of securing world peace. No more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer. Together, we will send our kids to war only when we must. But as President Trump showed with the elimination of ISIS and so much more, when we punch, we’re going to punch hard. Together, we will put the citizens of America first, whatever the color of their skin. We will, in short, make America great again. Reagan, was Reagan, forever shaping my generation. But the failure for Republicans and thus the country came afterwards – there was no one to take the torch and run with it. History won’t repeat itself this time. The Republican Party’s bench has never been deeper. The Party’s message has never been clearer or more on point. The future of the Republican Party and the country is being prominently displayed and presented right now. And on that note... When JD Vance becomes the next Vice President of the United States, Vivek Ramaswamy needs to be selected as the next Senator from Ohio to replace him.