GOP would be in a much stronger position if we stopped propping up 80+ year-olds running for their 4x-5x terms.
The protectionist swamp power games, backroom deals, and political self-preservation at the expense of the American people needs to end.
The primal screams that have been suppressed for ten years are finally coming out and no, they don’t make a lot of sense when translated into little essays and arguments.
Less talk about "candidate quality." More talk about "party quality."
Politics is not as local as it once was. Susan Collins lost! The national brand is everything.
So, we have to ask ourselves three questions:
Why didn't voters vote for the Republican Party? Can we imagine those voters ever voting for the Republican Party? What do we have to do to get those voters to vote for the Republican Party?
To Republican Senators and Senate Staffers.
Stop overthinking. If you have good bills, just throw them on the floor and get to a vote as quickly as you can. See what happens.
The more exciting and interesting the bills, the bills the base likes, just throw ‘em up. I’m not talking about the bills some lobbyists are pushing. You know they’re going to fund you because the Dems are going to attack basically every profitable industry. You don’t need to win them over.
Maybe you haven’t caught on yet, but it’s the voters you need to win. This is your one shot to show your voters you can do something. So, do something — frankly anything at this point is better than the status quo.
What have you got to lose? You’re probably not going to win again until 2032. For most of you, this is your last chance to do anything meaningful in your boxed-in, overscheduled, highly wrangled careers. Be a dragon and breath some fire. Anyone can blow smoke.
Nominees? Don’t put them through a rigorous process — make sure they’re good and go. Don’t worry about the democrats not confirming any nominees in the next Congress. They probably won’t confirm people you like. Or maybe they will. But if they do, it has nothing to do with you. Just confirm them all. Get it done.
What else are you going to do? Another codel? You’ll have plenty of time for those in the next Congress. Let’s be honest, we both know you won’t have much else to do then.
You don’t need to fundraise or campaign right now. You already lost. Do you wanna be a loser? Show us you can win.
Gotta get home to see your family? Okay, yeah I get it. But they don’t want you to come home and do nothing. They want you to go kill it. They didn’t sacrifice all that (YOU KNOW) they sacrificed so you can be a wimp loser and sit at home in the recliner watching stronger men run the ball on ESPN. They want to watch YOU run the ball on c-span. Even if they say they don’t, trust me, they do.
Now this isn’t directed to the ones who are fighters. They don’t need this advice.
But the rest of you, let’s go. Launch some grenades. Smell the napalm. Kick some ass. Don’t play patty cake with the Dems. Play like you’re in the jungles of Vietnam and you’ve only got a machete to get you home.
You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
If you can’t do that, then maybe just go lick a ski lift in January and ride it round and round until you get frost bite. Probably more fun than doing nothing in the Senate.
American Ascent (@AmAscent_) featured in @MichaelRWarren's Next Right newsletter for @thedispatch. In another section, he included a graphic that stoped me in my tracks:
51% of Republicans want to end the war in Iran.
32% of Republicans want to end Trump's tariffs.
NEW: Stephen Miller wants to win back the young men who helped elect Trump in ‘24 but swung toward Dems in ‘26
What he’s telling allies about his priorities: https://t.co/0Ry9SBY9kL
Spoke to @NewYorker about the long game.
"The Trump Administration is the most youthful, meritocratic Presidential Administration of my lifetime...
The message @americanmoment hammers continuously into our young people is that they have the power to change the country."
Generational renewal isn't about young versus old.
It's about honoring the sacrifices of those who came before us by restoring the promise of a better life for those who come after us.
That's why we launched American Ascent.
Stable families. Safe neighborhoods. Strong nation.
Generational renewal isn't simply about replacing old politicians with young ones.
It's about raising up statesmen who understand that America is an inheritance worth defending and a promise worth keeping.
That's why we launched American Ascent.
Our ascent begins now.
Generational renewal isn't simply about replacing old politicians with young ones.
It's about raising up statesmen who understand that America is an inheritance worth defending and a promise worth keeping.
That's why we launched American Ascent.
Our ascent begins now.
“If we want to bring young Americans, my peers, back into the Republican coalition, we cannot let the hawks spin themselves out of their own mess.”
https://t.co/08AOYzE9Ty
Every responsible American must make a plan to save their community, state and country in 2028.
The answer isn’t less activity or less working together
Inactivity will destroy us