The past year was supposed to be a Republican revival of sorts, yet it turned out to be an utter disappointment. Republicans barely clinched a House majority and failed to take back the Senate, even handing Democrats an extra seat in the upper chamber, despite President Joe Biden’s record low…
Former President Donald Trump, seen in reflection, announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. revival of sorts, yet it turned out to be an utter disappointment.
The questions Republicans must wrestle with as they head into a new year and the next election cycle is: What went wrong in 2022? And how do we make sure it never happens again?is a drag on the party. All but a few of his hand-picked candidates underperformed, even in states where other Republicans who had maintained their distance from Trump succeeded — for example, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
But the problem with Trump goes deeper. He has no clear vision for the party anymore besides making sure he’s the one leading it. Instead of focusing on immigration or the economy as he did in 2016, Trump obsessively complains about the 2020 election and insists on relitigating it every chance he gets. It’s not a compelling campaign message — in fact, it is a losing message, as the midterm elections proved.
Second, Republicans need to get serious about the culture war. The Left’s efforts to force toxic racialism and radical gender theory on the public, and to turn our major institutions into breeding grounds for woke ideology, are by far the greatest threat to the nation. If we are to gain back any of the ground we’ve lost over the past several decades, we need to be aggressive — not just rhetorically but legally.
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