Guest Post by Sundance
Perhaps a little focus on the foundation of the issue is in order.
Ever since the professional Republican apparatus decided to target, eliminate and destroy the grassroots movement known as the Tea Party, there was always going to come a time when the battle for the heart and soul of the GOP Club would take place.
CTH has been calling this battle ‘The Big Ugly‘ for around a decade.
The Big Ugly battle is essentially the fight between the grassroots working class base of MAGA voters and the professional political snobs in control of the Republican Club boardroom.
Some call it the ‘base’ -vs- the ‘establishment’. There are other names and catchphrases, but the essence of the dynamic is the same. A scruffy voting base, who, prior to Donald Trump, had no visible leader to represent their internal interests around the mahogany table.
Ordinary voters were in an abusive relationship with the people around the GOP boardroom. The Club needed our votes, and our money (less so after the Citizens United decision) but had no intention of ever actually delivering on the priorities of the voters. The Republican political establishment played Lucy with the football for years, and We The People always ended up flat on our backs, continually frustrated and feeling used.
In the same year the Tea Party rose up, the Supreme Court gave the GOP Club legal access to unlimited corporate money with the 2010 Citizens United decision. Mitch McConnell used the newly unrestrained campaign finance mechanism to further diminish the influence of the unwashed masses and eliminate the movement; it’s all well documented.
For the next several years we watched and participated in a political pantomime with highlights to include the 2012 installation of Club member Mitt Romney to represent our interests. Yeah, whatever…. It was a hot mess. Bumper Sticker:
The base voters watched the GOP Corporate Club do nothing to block Obamacare, even after we gave them the House in 2010 midterms. Obamacare was another Lucy and the football scenario, while the Senate wing of the Corporate Club created “comprehensive immigration reform,” including amnesty with Marco Rubio. Eventually, the bloom wore off the ruse, and we dispatched Virginia Club official Eric Cantor as a message to the Corporate Club to knock it off.
The Corporate Club didn’t and doesn’t care. Instead, while they sold out the working-class to the multinationals (TPA, TPP, Paris Climate, etc) they fought harder, gaslight more, and made even more promises they never intended to keep. Lucy had an unending supply of footballs.
Then in 2015 things changed. The voting base found a weapon for use against the Republican Club, the weapon’s name was Donald Trump. From the very first poll conducted after his 2015 announcement Trump was leading the charge, and that lead steamrolled 16 other Club approved candidates. The Club remained furious and vowed to remove the disrupter we sent into the boardroom.
Candidate Trump and President Donald Trump tried to deal with them fair and square on our behalf, but they rebuked him and us.
The Club schemed against him, connived in their little corporate groups to get rid of him, joined with the communists in common cause to cleanse the Club boardroom of the smell from oil, tar and fuel oil, and wanted that vulgarian representative of the dirty fingernail working class eliminated. They want only the “approved Republican” presence.
So, it was always going to get ugly.
It was always going to get Big Ugly.
The Club’s enlistment of former TPP approving congressman Ron DeSantis as a foil against the MAGA leader is transparent. DeSantis, funded by massive contributions from the Wall Street approval committee, replaces the prior approved candidate, Jeb. This Big Ugly battle was always going to end up with vulgarian Trump -vs- the next Jeb. The Club has selected DeSantis as Jeb.
Now, let’s be clear. The Republican political establishment, which includes the entirety of the multinationals in/around it, hereafter just called ‘The Club’, doesn’t give a damn about actually winning the 2024 presidential race. The Club didn’t give a damn when Romney was used either.
What the Club wants is full control of the Club agenda, that’s where the money is. The color of the flag atop the Capitol Hill dome is irrelevant to the activity that takes place beneath it. To understand, remind yourself of: The 2017 Obamacare repeal vote, 2015 TPA and fast track approval, 2015 Corker-Cardin amendment for Obama’s Iran Deal, 2014 Gang-of-Eight amnesty bill, or more recently the 2022 unlimited Ukraine funding.
Under the Capitol Hill dome both Club wings of the UniParty apparatus feed the multinational corporate vulture, regardless of the color of the flag atop the spire.
The Republican Club has no interest in Ron DeSantis becoming President of the United States. The Republican Club has interest in Donald Trump NOT becoming President of the United States. Ron DeSantis is the foil, nothing more. It’s not about Ron DeSantis, it’s about the Club, the mechanism behind Ron DeSantis – the same mechanism that put $200 million into his campaign as enticement for his usefulness.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis -vs- California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2024 is simply two clubs playing the illusion of choice game.
Ultimately, using history and modern politics as the perspective, if you really boil down the political sauce to its reduced state, what you find is… With DeSantis the DNC Club needs less ballot collection to defeat him. However, that’s irrelevant to the intent of his usefulness for the GOP club.
For the professional GOP Club, as openly expressed by the establishment politicians within it, the donors behind it and the media who promote it, the goal is to remove the populism within the club and bring back the multinational Club alignment with the corporations. That alignment was severely damaged by President Trump and the America First economic agenda.
The core of the Big Ugly battle is a Club motive based on money, power and boardroom affluence, in essence, GREED.
For ten plus years on these pages, I have written extensively about how there was always, always, going to be a point where the Big Ugly battle was going to have to be waged. We have waited and waited, looking at each moment, each conflict, each disparagement, each slight and snub, in hope the spark would ignite.
If the Big Ugly arrives in a contest between President Trump and Governor DeSantis, well, great; it needs to happen.
The bottom line is we need this Big Ugly fight. Not only does the future of the GOP reside in the outcome, the future of a constitutional republic free from corporatism is contingent upon it.
Yes, this fight is going to be big, and it’s going to be ugly… and in the aftermath, hopefully lots of free footballs.
Bring it!
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A packed SCOTUS to eliminate a few pesky amendments along with 87,000 IRS agents looking for everyone’s stash.
Oh, and the plan was put in place ten years ago.
Who is that standing behind Obama?
Pearls. But it’s talk, talk, talk. What are the steps for regaining, if we even ever had, good government? We’ve seen massive crowds demanding good action yet nothing changes at all. The media is pilloried and mocked yet what changes other than that suspicion has turned into conviction that we are being had? The money flows like never before. Abrams had $100 million smackers to play with and even though she/it lost, what the hell difference does it make to D.C.’s wantonness?
In Washington, Patty Murray, “the brainless,” whipped Smiley 57% to 43% even though the polls had them dead even by the election. What a surprise. Mail-in voting is all you get here and all you will ever get here as Communists control from the top down. What’s Trump going to do for that problem? What can I do?
Secession has to be the plan and the only plan. To start: Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, most of Idaho, a large part of Montana, and northern California need to secede and let the morans run their country of their choice. Wouldn’t that be a treat to watch?
It makes you wonder how long until people just quietly refuse to go along. Our gov. is like having a large version of the Sopranos fuking you and taking your money. I don’t feel represented in any way. I ask people what anyone see’s in the Biden administration and get crickets.
I’ve always had the gut feeling the GOP never wanted to win as then they would have to take responsibility for their under-performing actions. I’m old enough to remember Hugh Scott GOP Senator from Pennsylvania and GOP minority leader in the Senate late sixties into the seventies. After each loss where the Democrats got everything they wanted. Old Hugh would come out smoking his pipe addressing the press about the latest GOP loss. I swear as soon as he talked to the press he would turn around and say “let’s go see what in is the congressional cafeteria for lunch”…..
Bullshit.
The Big Ugly will be when the people begin voting from the rooftops.
Not before…
Mark Bradman, aka “Sundance” does some stellar work exposing the deep state and dark DC politics. But the website commenters are an echo chamber for Trump. I go there often but after years of spouting about “The Big Ugly”, nothing in our country has changed.
The comment here about rooftop voting is spot on.
I strongly suspected the Trump presidency would be a bust in April of 2017 when he signed the first of many continuing budget resolutions that didn’t include funding (or enabling legislation) for his signature campaign promise: the border wall. Ryan and McConnell promised they’d do it next time. He went along with them like a dumbshit. He may be an idiot-savant, but that means he’s part idiot.
I agree with Sundance that the establishment was totally opposed to Trump and still is. That doesn’t mean that if he got back in, he’d accomplish any of the things he talks about. He didn’t last time, why would he the next time?
The fact that DeSantis is the establishment candidate doesn’t change that fact that Trump probably wouldn’t get shit done if he got back in. Would he even swear off letting Jared Kushner have any involvement? Doubt it.
tl;dr vote harder
. mistake – sorry
I might re-register just so I could write-in vote for, The Sopranos.
The GOP Club better end Vote Fraud like DeSantis did in Florida or the Democrat Machine will liquidate the worthless GOP like the Tea Party , the Bull Moose and Wig Parties. We The People have lost our Democracy (the democrat coup has nailed that change by voting door closed) and now we have to fall back onto the Declaration of Independence.
Ah yes, a billionaire man of the people. He was never in your side