{ americanthinker.com } ~ At a time when the Left has “progressed” from calling for socialism in the face of an economic boom to calling for the defunding of police in the face of mob violence, anyone not knee-deep in the fever swamp of radicalism should be rallying together to defend civilization against the barbarians. Yet, a number of prominent politicians whose egos blot out the sun are working instead to spread chaos under a false flag of “conservatism” in order to avenge petty slights and advance narrow personal ambitions. They are striking the ancient pose of fiddling while Rome burns.
One such group has formed a political action committee to elect Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden. They dare to call their creation the Right Side PAC, a name that cannot pass any truth in advertising test. A loose lips liar liar-Biden administration would throw open the door to the left at its peak of revolutionary zeal and destructive policy proposals. Prominent among this group of nominally Republican operatives from the camps of the late rino-John McCain and the Bush family is Anthony Scaramucci, who served all of ten days as communications director before President Donald Trump fired him. Scaramucci’s vision of the world does not extend beyond his mirror. His years as a hedge-fund manager on Wall Street do not sit well with Main Street, but he never-the-less claims to be “very confident that we can convince a large group of Republican voters that loose lips liar-Biden is the right person to vote for if they want to stay true to their principles and to the legacy of the Republican Party.” A legacy is a term usually associated with the dead and Scaramucci and his ilk represent a shallow wing of the GOP that is breathing its last in terms of abusing public trust to advance private gain.
While it is easy to dismiss this group as small-minded malcontents, there is more than personal pique at work here. This can be seen in the main policy disagreement with President Trump that leads them to loose lips liar-Biden. That is “Free Trade” in general and economic ties to China in particular. Scaramucci has criticized President Trump’s “trade war” with Beijing, asking “What would be nonsensical for the United States? To create a Cold War with China. We have a strong bilateral relationship with China.” He is the voice of transnational businesses that plunged heavily into China looking for profits on the advice of liberal intellectuals and libertarian economists who claimed such ventures would foster world peace through interdependence; a “ChinAmerica” globalism. The Chamber of Commerce has been the head cheerleader for this notion with a certain brand of country club Republicans happy to chant along.
The Chamber still says its “policy and advocacy efforts are guided by the belief that commercial engagement and the expansion of trade and investment ties between the United States and China benefit both countries and their business communities.” The Covid-19 pandemic has postponed the Chamber’s 11th China Business Conference, but it still held a virtual “U.S.-China CEO Dialogue” on June 18. After paying lip service to Beijing’s unfair trade practices and its growing geostrategic threat, the Chamber rejected the use of tariffs that would disrupt the supply chains that have made so many major domestic industries dependent on state-run Chinese partners. It then concluded, “Despite recent tensions and the clear challenges of working with China, a functional relationship between the United States and China is in the fundamental interests of Americans, and of peace and stability in the world.”
rino-Mitt Romney also falls into this category. Though the Utah Senator has not gone all the way to endorse loose lips liar-Biden, he has declared he will not vote to re-elect President Trump. He did vote for one of the articles of impeachment against the president, the only Republican to do so. It should be remembered that the last time the left was on a rampage of today’s scale was fifty years ago when a GOP President was impeached and resigned. The result was the chaos of the 1970s, one of the worst decades in our history, marked by defeat overseas which led to the slaughter of millions across Southeast Asia and stagflation at home which ruined the lives of millions. And there were some foolish Republicans then, as well, who aided and abetted the catastrophe.
rino-Romney is miffed that after running for president for six years he lost a race he could have won. It would be easy to dismiss rino-Romney’s chagrin over Donald Trump’s success, but there is more to it. rino-Romney made a fortune at Bain Capital, which prides itself on directing Western money into Chinese development. Its Beijing office was “Inspired by the vast potential of the Chinese nation and its people, Bain was the first foreign strategy firm to plant roots in Beijing. For more than 25 years, our team has partnered with change-oriented clients.” Bain Greater China also has offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong. But then Bain operates all over the world; a true transnational firm with no allegiance except to itself. rino-Romney fit right in.
rino-Romney has been inconsistent in recent statements about China, but in a familiar pattern. He has warned of the growing Chinese threat yet has opposed actions to meet the threat. When President Trump imposed tariffs on a broad array of Chinese goods in 2018 based on national security concerns, rino-Romney proclaimed, “I’m not a fan of trade wars. I hope the tariffs… can soon be removed and replaced by a mutually agreeable trade agreement.” In other words, continuing business when the strategic situation requires a decoupling of the U.S. economy from Chinese influence and the rebuilding of hollowed out domestic industry.
loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s record looks like an attractive alternative to President Trump’s confrontational approach to China for those who do not want to see commerce and investment affected in a world returning to Great Power competition. After leaving the vice-presidency, loose lips liar-Biden set up the Penn loose lips liar-Biden Center in association with the larger Penn Global network, which has deep ties to Chinese institutions. At the Penn loose lips liar-Biden Center website, China gets mentioned in a section titled "Advancing the Dialogue of Globalism." The section opens with a photo of Vice President loose lips liar-Biden meeting with then-Vice President Xi Jinping as they tour an irrigation project in China. This image presents the key theme of "partnership." It is claimed that "Populism and nationalism may slow the tide of globalism, but they cannot stop it." These are golden words to the Scaramucci/rino-Romney set whose opposition to President Trump is rooted in their distaste for the nationalism he expounds.
Rogue Republicans who think that by electing loose lips liar-Biden they can turn the GOP back to a pre-Trump orientation are exhibiting a blindness to how the world is evolving both at home and abroad. President Trump tapped into trends that developed independently of his candidacy and will continue to grow beyond the 2020 election. The Left’s virulent campaign against President Trump stems from the fact that he represents an approach different from the standard Republicanism that the left has grown confident in beating. President Trump’s stress on national unity and the common good strikes directly at the left’s class warfare model with its dangerous tactic of provoking racial discord that rejects the very concept of America. The left prefers opponents who accept their assigned role in the class warfare narrative as selfish bastards with no social conscious or higher loyalty.
In contrast, a leader who elevates his vision to providing “sovereignty, prosperity and security” to the American people as a whole, a people who are united because they all have the “same red blood” regardless of class or race as President Trump has stated time and again poses a challenge the Left cannot handle. If their response to “Make America Great” is that America does not deserve to be great, the left will lose. It is the positive, national message that must become the core conservative principle if anything is to be conserved worth the effort. Those who do not understand and embrace it can no longer claim to be part of the movement; they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Time has come. The choice is clear FREEDOM OR COMMUNIST AMERICA. I SAY CHOICE 1 THANX. IF U HATE FREEDOM BIDEN IS YOUR CLEAR WINNER. HE IS NOT MINE.
Romney is an idiot and how he got elected is beyond me.
Trump is one man and thank God our president but WE need to do our part. BIDEN MUST NOT EVER WIN. period or America will die or be in the next civil war for sure. Time to vote out DEMS AND RINOS.
Bonnie
So correct...Freedom is are choice and it has always been. And yes rino-Romney is much more than a idiot for sure.
It is easy to understand why men like Romney and Bain Capital invested in China's markets... such men put wealth and power ahead of reason and loyalty to the Nation that gave them access to such power and wealth. Instead, they saw an opportunity in China, and the 3rd world, to leverage slave wages, and non-existent environmental and labor law to make massive windfall profits... Profits based on exploiting market disparities, thru free access to US Markets. However, that free access to OUR MARKETS was not free. It cost the US millions of manufacturing jobs and untold damage to the middle class.
So-called free trade stripped America of its heavy and light industry... along with the key LABOR SKILLS needed to support a world-class industrial base. The dismantling of America's industrial base was done with the full understanding, knowledge, and approval of greedy men like Romney and the members of the US Chamber of Commerce. Today, America is recovering but it will take decades to retrain machinist, skilled foundry and tool and die workers. Decades more to recover market share, and all because a few GREEDY and reckless individuals wanted more... More power, more wealth. Leaving the rest of America to watch their standard of living threatened, wages stagnate, and manufacturing jobs move overseas... putting millions out of work, and abandoning thousands of small towns to a legacy of poverty and a dead-end.
It is men like Romney who hold no loyalty to the United States that area attacking Pres. Trump... the Bush dynasty and hundreds, if not thousands of wealthy families, fail to see the significance of their short-sighted vision for America. Good jobs that pay well, lead to consumption, which drives the economy and a rising tide of wealth for all. Instead, these miscreants, of a new age aristocracy, would shackle the world in the chains of feudalism and claim it their right to do so. These same individuals ignore the blood-soaked earth that produced the economy and provided the stability and security for a thriving US economy. They ignore the millions of common men and women who have died to guarantee the right to practice their businesses without paying tribute to every warlord and 3rd world dictator. The American market and economy are the product of both labor and capital; as such, each needs to be equitably treated. Tariffs and Imposts are the historical economic tools that governments historically use to level the playing field in a free market.
Heavy and light industry are the engines of wealth... America and China did not build their wealth by serving hamburgers or marketing insurance and financial services to foreign corporations... No, America and China built their wealth on MANUFACTURING AND FAIR ACCESS TO WORLD MARKETS... neither of which the Globalist and Progressives want in America. Why? Because a viable and thriving manufacturing sector would break their hold on the economy... and their access to wealth and power. The return of heavy and light industry would create greater economic dispersion of the nation's wealth and a booming consumer economy. An economy where true competition and ingenuity rewards both workers and investors with shared gains ... a better world for all... not just a few.
Ronald
Can't disagree...you are correct on the mention of our ecomony and who were making millions with the dealing with China.