Republicans post-2026: Destroy liberty, defend Donald Trump and the Party
If you thought that Donald Trump and the Republicans would change course following their humiliating defeat in the 2026 midterm election, you’d be wrong. Instead, they will continue working on ways to destroy liberty while they defend Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
The soon-to-be Republican minority in Congress will talk about ways to repair the damage done they cause to liberty over the past two years, and they’ll continue making appeals for money that contain flowery language about liberty, conservatism, and other values they know nothing about. Unfortunately, the army of MAGA-ites and faux conservatives who support Donald Trump are already buying into their rhetoric.
To begin with, Republicans put the lame in lame duck when they elected Rep. Jim Jordan as the leader of the Party for the next two years (via The Washinton Sun):
Once dubbed a “legislative terrorist” by former Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Jim Jordan was elected to take the reins of the House Republican Conference as minority leader in January. It’s a turn of events for Jordan, who often served as the poster child for those criticizing Republican leadership.
In his conversations with members to get their support, Jordan argued he was the best fit for the job because he could staunchly defend President Donald Trump and push back against the countless investigations House Democrats are expected to launch next year.
“Over the next two years, House Republicans will fight for American families,” Jordan told reporters in his first remarks after the vote. “When Democrats offer more government, we’ll offer more freedom. We will bring that fight in committee, on the floor and on the stump every single day. I want to thank my colleagues for their support.” (Emphasis mine)
Did you notice Jordan’s Orwellian reference to “more freedom” even though Donald Trump and the Republicans who worship at his feet have controlled the whole show for the past two years and have failed to protect liberty, reduce spending, end endless wars, and “drain the swamp” of political corruption? Jordan didn’t run for the Republican leadership job on the promise to do any of these things. Instead, he ran on the promise to “stanchly defend Donald Trump” and to “push back against the countless investigations House Democrats are expected to launch against him.”
Jim Jordan will try to convince conservatives that Donald Trump and the Republicans are on their side. If he succeeds, not even liberty itself will remain, but the party will be preserved.
Most are too busy to pay attention to the minutia of all the “evolutionary” social statics and dynamics at work in politics, but the politicians that make up the two-party system and are desperate for power live and die by them. So, whichever way the prevailing political winds blow — in this case, in the direction of Donald Trump and self-preservation — so goes the members of the Republican Party. That is, if he/she wants to keep his/her job.
This means that regardless of how you and I define liberty, and despite the lip service Jim Jordan gives to “preserving” it, most everyone in the party has made peace with liberty’s demise because there simply isn’t any political power to be had for those who oppose Donald Trump.
Shortly after Jim Jordan was elected as Republican Party leader based on a promise to defend Donald Trump from Democrat investigations, the orange-man himself gave us a picture of what that will look like when he threatened Democrats with criminal prosecution if they “harass” the president by investigating his legally questionable behavior (via The New Republic):
The White House is threatening Democrats in Congress, warning them that investigating President Donald Trump could cross the line into criminal action.
Punchbowl News reports that White House counsel Will Scharf sent a letter on Monday to Democratic Representative Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, saying that congressional investigations “must further a legitimate executive task; Congress cannot employ them to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary.”
Garcia and his fellow Democrats have made “it abundantly clear that any forthcoming investigative processes will be deployed to harass and aggrandize, rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end,” Scharf claims, citing statements by incoming Democrats calling for the prosecution of ICE agents, trials for tech executives, and hearings for Cabinet secretaries like embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The letter is an extreme attempt to intimidate House Democrats into backing off Trump and his legally questionable actions, and it makes a mockery of the constitutional separation of powers, as well as checks and balances between the three branches of government. Scharf is taking a questionable Republican position that effectively says that Congress has no critical oversight over the executive branch. (Emphasis mine)
Since 2009, faux conservatives have radicalized themselves with the prison yard extortion tactics of Saul Alinsky’s confrontational politics in the name of growing Republican political power. Unfortunately, it has worked. The nationalism and fascism embraced by Donald Trump and Republicans — which is no different than the Marxism and socialism of the Democrats — is no longer subject to the moral check of liberty, so their “ends justifies the means” approach to growing raw, political power has been very effective.
Election 2026 was just the start. We need to say goodbye to the elitists running the Republican and Democrat parties who use the two-party stranglehold on America to destroy liberty, but that doesn’t mean we should be politically indifferent. We need to commit ourselves to being politically active on the state and local level if we ever want to see things change in Washington. We need to do so with the awareness that unless we act and think as truly free people, we’re never going to be able to change a single thing.
We need to get busy while there are still some people know and understand what true liberty is and what it isn’t before our efforts are forced underground. The sooner we get started the better.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties. He the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty.
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