Principles for a Grand Alliance of Centrists

Principles for a Grand Alliance of Centrists. By Edward Ring at American Greatness.

There is a common thread shared by most disillusioned voters. They believe that America’s ruling class has abandoned its fellow citizens. They’re right.

Notwithstanding notable recent defections, America’s elites view ordinary citizens as no longer necessary.

  • Because of globalism, they are replaceable.
  • Because of automation, supercharged by AI, they are superfluous.
  • Because of environmentalism, they are unsustainable.

A plurality (at the least) of America’s elites have decided the nation’s middle class is disposable, and this is the real reason they continue to push woke degeneracy and extreme environmentalism, designed to lower birthrates and reduce standards of living. …

While America’s tradition of assimilation is under attack by an elite-driven obsession with racial segregation and mutual resentment, marketed as multiculturalism, America nonetheless remains the robust product of more than 250 years as a successful melting pot. …

Build a coalition to oppose our hostile ruling class:

We have merely to unite those millions of Americans who want to save their nation from an elite that has declared war on their way of life and their future.

This isn’t as hard as it seems for two reasons. First, most Americans don’t want to live in a divided nation, and they don’t want to live in a culture that has devolved to cater to society’s lowest, most abnormal, deviant, hedonistic, psychotic, sociopathic, dishonest, crooked, lazy, defiant, bizarre, militant cohorts of individuals, regardless of the fact they’ve become politically organized and demand equality of outcome in every imaginable context. Most Americans understand the inherent necessity and benefits of nuclear families, hard work, and immutable standards for achievement and recognition.

 

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Second, America’s culture of common sense and unity is threatened by a fractious coalition of fanatics and lunatics who are relatively small in number and who harbor an innate antipathy toward each other that is only held in check by rivers of money flowing to them from globalist billionaires, opportunistic corporations, environmentalist pressure groups, and government unions. Their resources are money and anger. They win elections because all that money, and all that anger, is used to brainwash voters into thinking that tolerating decadence and chaos is compassion, that people who oppose extreme tolerance are bigots, and that recognizing the indispensability of fossil fuel is, somehow, “fascist.” Trump’s victory in 2024 is proof that this brainwashing, in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence, is wearing thin. …

The old Reagan coalition is no longer functioning:

During the final decade of the Cold War in 1984, President Ronald Reagan was reelected by a landslide. His “big tent” approach brought together fiscal conservatives, neocons, and conservative Christians. Scarcely a generation later, in 2004, George W. Bush also won a decisive victory by unifying these same factions.

But the model that worked then will not work today:

  • Conservatives who claimed to favor smaller government have to answer for their failure to stop a bipartisan public debt binge that started in 1980 and has gotten progressively worse.
  • Neocons have to answer for a foreign policy that has, among other things, destabilized the Middle East, created a surveillance state at home, and delivered endless wars with no exit strategy.
  • As for conservative Christians, the Left has unfairly but successfully defined them as anti-woman, anti-gay, and anti-“trans,” and is using them to stereotype all conservatives as dangerous extremists.

Populist leaders like Trump, Farage, and Hanson are — perhaps accidentally — building new centrist coalitions:

Trump recognizes something the leftist leadership of most Big Labor unions deny — the vast majority of their workers love America, believe in traditional values, and want politicians who will first protect them before prioritizing economic refugees that arrive illegally by the millions.

What captured media institutions desperately call “far right” are in fact commonsense reforms that most Americans support. …

What unites the populist Left and populist Right is a recognition that America’s business and political elite share a vision that abandons normal citizens. They correctly recognize that we have been governed by a donor-fed uniparty, dominated by special interests for whom profit and power are acquired because of failing bureaucracies, punitive regulations, scarce and expensive commodities, a massive dependent class of citizens and noncitizen permanent residents, and corporate consolidation of wealth.