April 29, 2016 at 2:17 p.m.
Things don't go better with Koch
Things don't go better with Koch
For many years, the "conservative" pundit class and activist leaders such as Erick Erickson at RedState prided themselves on their roles as messengers for the conservative movement in America. They routinely condemned the big, bad Establishment.
And then a funny thing happened on the way to the 2016 election. The conservative movement - the actual voting base of the GOP, or at least of a good part of it - found a candidate in Donald J. Trump who has actually set out to destroy said establishment, rather than merely giving the cause good lip service.
As it turned out, a lot of the "conservative" pundits and activists were revealed to be a part of the establishment, a wing dedicated to trashing it publicly and defending it privately, mainly because their positions of power and privilege depend on it.
Trump forced them to choose sides in public, and so we saw "conservatives" make stunning admissions, such as when Erickson actually penned a piece entitled, "The will of the people is crap."
Well, it wasn't "crap" until the people found a candidate to actually demolish the establishment, but then the conservative political class was forced to reveal their true allegiance to ... the establishment.
The latest turn in this soul-baring comes from the Left's favorite conservative monster, Charles Koch. Turns out Koch - who is a political buddy of Scott Walker - might be a monster, but certainly not a conservative one.
As Trump steamrolls toward the nomination, Koch let it be known this week that Hillary Clinton just might be the best candidate for president, after all. The Republicans aren't sufficiently committed to tax reform, he said, as if Clinton is.
All this revealed Koch to be what he truly is, a member of the globalist establishment that has been redistributing America's power and wealth to the Third (and nondemocratic and anti-American) World for a long time, while stealing our jobs and debasing our standard of living.
True conservative pundit Ann Coulter took to Facebook and Twitter to denounce Koch, and in so doing she summed up the truth:
"A GOOD role model: Destroy American culture, just cut my taxes! Charles Koch trashes Trump 'terrible role model' Charles Koch imagines a libertarian paradise if only we could get another 50 million 3rd worlders voting in U.S! The flat tax and entitlement reforms in Somalia are AMAZING! Didn't they put a man on the moon? FLEXIBILITY!"
That was Coulter at her slashing, mocking best, and she spoke the truth: Charles Koch only cares about a candidate who is going to take care of him and his big-business enterprises.
That's apparently Hillary Clinton. Thus, per her agenda, he does not care about Main Street; he does not care about American values and identity; he does not care about having a corrupt politician in the White House; he does not care about open borders and terrorists coming into the country; he does not really care about big government or socialized health care or nationalized education.
Or the evisceration of the Second Amendment or who sits on the Supreme Court, for that matter.
Nope, Koch cares about none of it. Just take care of him.
To be sure, there are conservative and liberal wings of the globalist establishment, and, if given his druthers, Koch would no doubt pick the conservative wing. But, when pushed into a corner, when forced to choose between the Left wing of the establishment and a candidate who might destroy the establishment altogether, it's a no-brainer. Charles Koch goes with the globalists.
All of which brings us to the 2016 presidential election and what it has come down to.
That is to say, it is time for every person to answer the question, Which side are you on?
After past Tuesday's elections, the practical reality is, only two candidates can be elected president. That's Trump or Clinton. So people need to ask, which side are you on?
True, there is still a scenario, growing dimmer by the day, that Cruz and the establishment could steal the nomination away from Trump. But that doesn't change the above practical reality; it just seals the election for Clinton, for no one who takes the nomination from Trump now can ever survive the wrath that will come.
Consider these sobering statistics after Trump's massive victories this past Tuesday, as compiled by Politico: With such states as Indiana, New Jersey, and California to come, Trump has already amassed more votes than Mitt Romney got during the entire 2012 primary season.
That's right, Trump has about 9.9 million votes, or, Politico reports, 100,000 more than Romney got in the entire primary race, and he is poised to become the greatest Republican vote-getter of all time.
Right now George W. Bush holds the record, garnering 10.8-million ballots in 2000, but Trump's pace will likely eclipse it and John McCain's vote totals. Politico reported (via University of Minnesota political science professor Eric Ostermeier) the totals for past GOP candidates and they pale in comparison to Trump: Ronald Reagan, 7.7 million in 1980; George W. Bush, 7.6 million in 2004; George H. W. Bush, 8.2 million votes in 1988; Bush the Elder again with 9.2 million in 1992; and Dole, 8.4 million in 1996.
Do the GOP establishment and Ted Cruz really think they can march into a convention and deny the nomination to the obvious choice of the people and likely the greatest Republican primary voter-getter of all time and survive?
They cannot. And so it is time to pick which side you are on. You're either for the establishment or against it. You're either for America First or globalism first.
The truth is, the real conservative position is the anti-establishment position. It's the globalists who want to redistribute power and wealth abroad, to the delight of UN agenda 30 and its big-business allies. It is the globalists who prefer Clinton, who promises to continue Obama's agenda of collectivization.
Of course fake conservatives like Koch and all the others in the NeverTrump movement insist they are the true conservatives and Trump's rhetoric this year can't be believed. But the thrust of their support for Clinton if Trump is the nominee defies logic - why would you choose to not support a candidate because he might not be a real conservative and then pledge allegiance to a proven collectivist - and betrays their true agenda: the preservation of the establishment at all costs.
There's another point that proves that Trump is not part of the collectivist globalist cabal, like Koch is: the establishment's such obvious fear of him that they are willing to publicly embrace Leftism to stop him. If they thought he wasn't authentic and really out to destroy them, they wouldn't be so scared.
So, no, things don't go better with Koch, and it's about time someone forced him to show his true colors.
This morning, the practical reality remains, it's Trump or Clinton, the anti-establishment or the establishment, America First or globalism.
Those are the only two choices. Which side are you on?
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