There are occasional times that I wish I was a Democrat. Easy peasy. No self-examination and no accountability. Republicans are constantly taking their own temperature and unpacking our psychological baggage. Truly, I know we are better off, but sometimes, oof. Writing in the American Spectator, Daniel J. Flynn posits “Trump Failed as a Party Builder”. The subhead is “He takes away more than he gives.” Maybe. Have any of our Presidents been party builders – Republicans, I mean? Trump is a creator. Before there is creation, there must be destruction.

Mr. Flynn begins with a football analogy:

In politics, football by other means, the owners — the people who constitute the party — do everything to avoid firing the “coach.” This is especially true if he once won a big game. The phenomenon helps explain why teams in politics can endure numerous disastrous campaign seasons helmed by the same leader — or even the same type of leader — before they call for a change. Lame excuses, to include Russia stole the election or he’s an illegitimate president because he was really born in Kenya, rob parties of the ability to learn from mistakes.

The problem is we have people telling us we can’t win or we are wrong (We, the little people.) The types who have never won the big game. Senator and former Presidential Candidate and his running mate former Speaker Paul Ryan are two with their fingers in the pie. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is so addicted to losing, he freezes at the idea of winning. So many in elected Federal Offices don’t want to rock the boat. They won’t hear of any change in the system.

More from Flynn:

For those grateful to Donald Trump for appointing constitutionalist judges, recognizing our soldiers as neither the world’s policemen nor its social workers, and understanding a country without borders isn’t a country, the reckoning that the high-rise builder stinks as a party builder comes as a painful one.

That is a short list of Trump’s accomplishments. It doesn’t include our energy independence or booming economy. And, of course this is a clever bit: “the reckoning that the high-rise builder stinks as a party builder comes as a painful one.”

Okay, let’s play. The site of Trump Tower NYC was once occupied by the flagship store of retailer Bonwit Teller. Before Trump could create his vision on Fifth Avenue, construction workers had to come in and demolish the old building. What would have happened if every night workers would have come and partially built back the old building? Nothing would move forward, the rotted old building would still be there and the idea of a modern beautiful (not the Soviet style crap) would never come to be.

He was delayed by two pieces of stonework he has promised to preserve:

Trump is trying to build a Republican Party for the future and the party elites are trying to preserve the rot. Let it go, baby. Then, Flynn writes:

Fixating on personal grievances regarding 2020 rather than fixing the country’s problems, like the jilted Miss Havisham wearing her wedding dress every day, alienates many inclined to vote Republican. Acceptance of his view of 2020 as a stolen election — rather than one he blew by making Anthony Fauci the president — as a precondition for his support in primaries ensured Republican defeat in general elections. No fair, you cheated works as a psychological trick to salve fragile egos. It does not work to put losers back into the win column.

See, I see the Republican Party as Miss Havisham. By the way, she didn’t wear her wedding dress every day, SHE ALMOST NEVER TAKES IT OFF. Miss Havisham in the rotted gown surrounded by rotted food and dried out decorations which led to a conflagration that destroyed her perfectly represents the Republican Party of the Bush Family. “Please clap”. I don’t want that for the Republican Party. We are the preservationists of the Constitution and ideals of the Republic. We are living. We are vibrant. Trump touches that in people around the country who aren’t afraid.

But every time Trump tried to move us forward the party elites slammed on the breaks. They should today be screaming about the lawfare being waged against Trump, but are silent. Silent like they were six years ago with the Steele Dossier. Best way to lose is to refuse to stick your neck out. Republican voters see this. Trust me.

Just a bit more:

Trump remains a charismatic figure with good policy ideas and the courage to withstand inevitable leftist onslaughts. One grasps why he engenders a following. Coming to grips with why this following cannot countenance any criticism of their favored candidate proves a more difficult task. Heresies against people and not principles exist in cult of personalities, so acknowledging his utter failure as a party leader hopefully strikes as an unpleasant truth rather than a precursor to excommunication.

Beg pardon, but we have been this way for a while. As in no criticism for John McCain a-while.

Look, I am 100% for Trump, but I am going to vote for the Republican candidate no matter, even Chris Christie. I want to win again. Go Trump 2024.

And, I hope someday he gives us a good answer for Fauci. I don’t get that one.

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