Inflation continues rising on top of 40-year highs, our commander-in-chief is deterring attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East as poorly as he’s keeping track of whether his secretary of defense is incapacitated, the left is using all its power to throw the 2024 GOP frontrunner in prison and bankrupt his family, and the border is a wide-open disaster allowing a record-setting 300,000 illegal immigrants to waltz into the country — not counting the known “got-aways” — in December alone. Democrat destruction abounds, so Republicans surely must be using the one lever of power they have in Washington to push back, slow Democrat progress, and boldly offer an alternative vision, right? Wrong. A losing streak continues as disarray seems to match the willful destruction caused by Democrat policies raising doubts that victory — any victory — is on the horizon.

Remember back in the late twenty-teens when things were going well? The economy was strong, the border was secure, and America’s enemies weren’t launching wars against the U.S. and its allies. Sure, there was a constant onslaught of hoaxes aimed at derailing the Trump administration, but conservatives were winning regardless and fueled by the unhinged opposition. The Supreme Court and federal judiciary were being transformed into an originalist-dominated branch of government, foes such as Iran, North Korea, and Russia were restrained to their quarters, and the U.S. grew into a net exporter of abundant American energy. Things weren’t perfect, but they were trending in the right direction and the future looked a lot brighter than it does now.

Then COVID hit. Most government officials in the U.S. — save for a few bold conservatives who told Fauci to pound sand — locked us down, set........

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