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2022 Is Your Year for Action - Top Three Takeaways – January 4th, 2022
- This is your year to begin to take back our education system, to make local government responsive & accountable, and to work to restore sanity to Congress. 2020 took us by surprise and allowed the radicals who’d been playing the long game to win. That was true of pandemic responses, the Marxist BLM movement, along with their effective efforts to defund police and elect rouge prosecutors. It was especially true when numerous states suspended their election laws and allowed post-constitutional voting to take place in the name of the virus. 2021 was a year of awakening to the harsh realities of what all of that meant. We’d learned what was happening in the classroom. We’d learned the effects of defunding police and allowing criminals to walk free. We’d realized that lockdowns and government mandates don’t do jack diddly to stop a pandemic. We also had one heck of a reminder about elections having consequences which impact every aspect of our lives. That’s why this is your year. You’re empowered to put your voice and concerns...
- Into action. 2022 needs to be a year of action. Yes, we’d already begun to make progress last year. Putting school boards on notice, 14 states passing some form of enhanced election integrity measures preventing the 2020 shenanigans from repeating themselves in those states, etc. But the teachers' unions takeover of education happened decades ago and will require ongoing diligence on our part to turn the tide. Enhanced election integrity in 14 states is a decent start, not a conclusion. Consider, in Florida we passed election integrity measures last year, yet still have 156 voter fraud cases which have been referred to prosecutors but not acted on by them. Local elections are prevalent and of course the midterm elections are critical. And speaking of the midterms, as important as the general elections are in November, the people who will be running in those races matter most. That’s why active participation in the primary process is critical so we have the best candidates possible on the ballot in November. So now is the time to begin to get informed and to stay engaged. Do you have local elections? When are they? Who are the candidates? When it’s time for the primaries vet the candidates. And all throughout the year see to it that you put your voice and concerns into action. This year is...
- Highly consequential and the opportunity for generational change is here. President Biden’s approval rating is as poor as any president at this stage since the onset of the polling age. That includes being six points worse than Trump at this point nationally and ten points worse in Florida. Yes, Republicans are in position to ride a wave election if anything close to the current mood of the country holds, but rather than Republicans winning elections, which over the past couple of decades have generally only slowed the decaying of our society, there’s a generational opportunity to reach young adults who’ve been lied to by the Biden administration and congressional democrats about how their lives would be better if they were in power. As I’ve discussed, Biden’s the first Democrat president to have the lowest approval ratings with the youngest voters in American history. Biden’s approval rating is now just 28% with voters 18-34. That displeasure with Biden, and elected democrats in general, doesn’t inherently turn them into conservatives but it does cause a reevaluation of what they’d thought to be true politically. Just as the great policies of President Reagan brought about a generation of young conservatives, that’s the generational opportunity out there right now if there’s the right leadership. It’s one more reason republicans need to be focused on vetting and electing great candidates in primaries and not just on winning elections in November. It’s all part of what makes this year highly consequential.