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Nation divided, arguments, loud outrage over strategy, noise over truth.
Time to cut through the chaos. Lines are drawn the
crowding nights, everyone fighting over.
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Who is right, But the Constitution is calling out.
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Enough for the rage, enough for the down.
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From the sea stalls to Carol lot Knights, We rise
our farm, how we fight? Not for the honest puranny.
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Test, but defending what work.
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Fast lost, the message, lost.
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The frame, fining fingers, the signing, the flame, the small than.
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Asoga his accents. I said, no, supstead of up, stay
shot stay.
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This is.
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Welcome to the peta boy Cat.
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Where were the people still this side and the Constitution?
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Stay? It's a love.
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When loyalty becomes selective, does the go Op still stand
for anything? Welcome to hashtag go Right with Peter Boykin.
I am your host, Peter Boykin, and I want you
to check out the full article on go writnews dot
com titled When Extremism Eats its own From the United
States to North Carolina? Are Republicans forgetting how to win?
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Please share this.
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Now.
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Let's get straight into it, because folks, that's the question
hiding underneath every argument, every purity test, every social media
pylon and every internal fight we keep having. Let us
be honest with ourselves. This is not about one tweet.
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It is not about one candidate. It is not even
about one election cycle. This is about whether the Republican
Party still understands how to win and govern in a
constitutional republic or whatever. We have decided that ideological performance
matter more than results. We keep telling ourselves we are
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fighting the left, but too often we are really just
fighting each other. We tear down anyone who does not
perfectly mirror our personal priorities. We call it principle, we
call it courage, but most of the time it is
just insecurity dressed up as righteousness. Look at how selectively
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outrage is applied. Trump makes a poorly judged comment after
a tragedy, and suddenly we are told that this one
moment defines everything. Yet for years the Democrats and the
media normalized calling Donald Trump supporters fascists, maggots, traders, deplorables, garbage,
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and enemies of democracy. That rhetoric did real damage. It
fuelled anger, It just censorship, and it made violence feel
acceptable to people who thought they were morally superior. Donald
Trump was not wrong to point out that assess of
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hatred what people call tds. When everything becomes an emergency
and every disagreement becomes evil, people lose judgment. But here's
the part some do not want to admit. Extremism on
the right is just as destructive when we excuse it
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or cheered on. North Carolina's lived that lesson. We nominated
candidates who spoke recklessly about violence. We pretended it was strength.
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It was not.
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It was political malpractice. At the same time, we kept
a party platform that treats same sex marriage and other
civil rights, but same sex marriage in this case as negotiable,
even though it is unconstitutional to overturn. Then we act
shocked when voters see hypocrisy instead of principle. You cannot
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claim to oppose identity politics while practicing it selectively. You
cannot say the constitution matters while ignoring settled constitutional law.
And you cannot demand unity while pushing entire parts of
your own coalition out the door. Maggie used to be
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a big tent. Doesn't seem that much anymore.
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Now.
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This is where the conversation about Michael Watley exposes something uncomfortable.
The anger toward him is not really about competence. It
is not about effectiveness, It is about resentment. He did
not support Mark Robinson. He did not play cultural war theater,
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sided on Tom Tillis on equal rights, and for some
people that was unforgivable. Supporting civil rights is not social liberalism.
People being gay or defending gay Americans are just civil
rights and general folks is not a political ideology. Equal
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treatment under the law is a core Republican principle rooted
in individual liberty and limited government. When we pretend otherwise,
we are not defending conservatism. We are redefining it into
something smaller and meaner. People who conveniently forget what Trump
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actually ran on. In twenty twenty, many openly acknowledged that
Donald Trump governed with what they called a New York
state of mind. That meant he was not obsessed with
evangelistical culture wars. He was broadly fine with gay rights,
and that understanding exactly why gas for Trump exists and
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still exists. Back then, people said other issues mattered more.
The border mattered, immigration mattered, jobs mattered, trade mattered, free
speech mattered, national sovereignty mattered. But then COVID happened. I
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can talk about it now lockdowns happened, censorship happened, government
overreach exploded. The First Amendment was treated like an inconvenience.
People were told where they could go, what they could say,
and whether they could work. Questions about election integrity were
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shut down. Instead of debated, people were jailed, and instead
of staying focused on those abuses of power, the Republicans
fractured and lost the plot. It fractured so bad to
fighting over simple things that have nothing to do with anybody. Well,
the Democrats just sit there and take notes and laugh.
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Even Donald Trump saw that happening. He made a comment
about transgender athletes that got a standing ovation, and instead
of soaking that in, he pointed out something uncomfortable. He
said he wished people were that passionate about immigration. He
noticed no one was that loud about the border anymore.
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I was there. It was the North Carolina State Convention
a couple of years ago, and a dinner for Donald
Trump after a very rough re election from Michael Wantley.
Do their election system. I sat down. I didn't clap
for that, even though I'm not so keen about transgender athletes.
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The point is standing ovations for that. But yet, where's
that enthusiasm about issues that actually matter. And that's a warning,
but too many ignored it. I mean, they were laughing,
They paid no attention to what Donald Trump just called
them out on evangelistical activism. Rushed back into the driver's seat.
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And I'm going to stop there, folks, Because I talk
about evangelistical doesn't mean I'm not a Christian. It doesn't
mean I don't believe in God. It doesn't believe. It
doesn't mean that I don't have faith, doesn't mean I'm
a demon or anything. I have faith. I'm a Christian,
but I'm not an evangelistical extremist. And we do have
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a lot of people like that. But you have the
right to your freedom of religion. You have your right
to your freedom of belief, as other people have the
rights as well. And people need to recognize that movements
that were about limited government became about moral enforcement. Student
organizations that once encouraged civic participation became ideological gatekeepers, and
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labels like anti woken, anti DEI became weapons instead of arguments,
tunnelm is, those those terms are so vague, they mean
different things to different people, but once adopted, they became
tests questioning them and you're called a rhino talk unity
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and you're a liberal defend equal rights, and you're accused
of betrayal. I know that I get called all sorts
of names of the book, and lately I get more
calls nasty things from the right that's supposed to be
on my side. Then I'm getting from the left. That's
pretty bad. That's not conservatism, people. Liberty does not require conformity.
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A free societ requires restraint, humility, and respect for individual rights.
And then there's the selective Trump endorsement problem. When Donald
Trump endorses Phil Berger or Burger or whatever you'd call
his name over Sam Page, his endorsement is treated as sacred.
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Debate must end unity is demanded. Trump's judgment is absolute.
But when Donald Trump endorsed Michael Wantley, who's already ran
our North Carolina GOP, who already was picked by Donald
Trump to run the National Republican Party, and then when
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Donald Trump has now endorsed Michael Wattley to run for Senate,
suddenly that endorsement became optional. So many ignored it, are
explained it away, are minimalized it. There's so many people
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out there that claim unwavering loyalty to Donald Trump while
they dismiss his choices whenever they do not align with
your personal standards. I mean, I can understand that in
a degree. But you say you care about Donald Trump
and his principles, but do you follow them. That's not principal,
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that's opportunitism. Trump is either your leader or is a
convenient tool. I don't believe you can have it both ways.
Some people try to eat the cake and have it too.
Trump did not build his movement on blind conformity. Don't
you get me wrong. He did not build that movement
on blind conformity. We have no problem expressing, Hey, Donald Trump,
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you might have got that wrong. I always bring it
up to Ronald Reagan. Eighty twenty eighty percent my friend
and twenty percent my phone does not make you my enemy.
Donald Trump built this by challenging elites, not creating new
ones inside the party. And here's the hard truth. Purity
tests do not win elections. Outrage does not govern. Coalitions
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win elections. Discipline governs, and Michael Whatley has helped build infrastructure,
raise money, organize ground operations, and win races. That works.
Not flashy, but it is how principles turn into power.
Talking about power, big donors. They love the chaos. Conflict
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raises money, division keeps the base emotional and distracted. Meanwhile
real issues get ignored. Jobs, safety, free speech, economic stability,
national security, and equal treatment under the law. I might
not have I have thousands of viewers on my videos.
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I don't put the money to advertise in it. I
don't buy fake views. I don't talk about sensationalists distracting events,
except for maybe people in my own group that might
not like what I say. I don't try to play
on it because I'm not here for the views. I'm
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here to inform you. But you know what, the issues
that do decide elections are those issues, the jobs, the safety,
the free speech, the economic stability, the national security, the
equal treatment under the law. That's what decides elections. Whatever
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social media likes, that are not things that I talk about.
So the question remains, do Republicans want to win elections
in govern in a constitutional republic? Or do we want
to keep fighting amongst our selves selves while the other
side consolidates power. Trump never built his movement around moral purity.
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He built it around sovereignty, strength and resistance to elite control.
And when we replace liberty. With litmus tests, we weaken
the republic we claim to defend. The Constitution does not
belong to factions. It does not belong to donors, It
does not belong to the outrage merchants. It belongs to us,
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we the people, and any party that forgets that will
eventually consume itself. Folks, if you want daily commentary grounded
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Peace.
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We let the match and called it truths, burned the
map and blamed the uper every voice of loyalty, text,
every doubt, a scarll the letter priest. We stopped asking
how to win, started asking who to throw our necks,
built our walls inside our house. Called division righteousness. We
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traded plans for purity and facts for flags. We waved
forgot the fight wasn't liberty not which side screams the
loudest rage. What happens when the lad replaced the strategy
We purity test, killed the constitution, piece our peace, We
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shout our strength or bleed our grounds, and brother, it's enemy.
If this is what loyalty is, now, who are we
fighting for? And who are we supposed to be? Once
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we stood for law and limits power checked by we
the people.
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Now every issue is a weapon.
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Every crowd of judgments steeple, pick your side or lose
your name, question once and face the flame. Endorsements count
when we agree ignored. When truth cuts differently, we called
it courage.
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Costing more, but never asked the cost.
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You do not save a republic by deciding who gets lost?
What happens when our rage replies his stategy?
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What if you're eat fast skilled the constitution apiece by piece,
we shout our strength to bleed our grounds and brother
into anym If this is what Ayal team means? Now,
who are we fighting?
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Foreign?
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Who are we supposed to be?
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The founders warned us, Plain and clear, fraction, fear good,
rock the spine. Liberty dies from powers, speaks and silent
censors every line not.
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Left, not right, not holy rage, but limits written in
the page. If we forget why freedom stands, we handed
over by did that this was about perfection. It was
always about restraint. You do not win byself destruction. You
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do not cleans a nation this way. What happens when
the rage replaced strategy? If you are already chest stroud
on that everybody, we lose the elections, lose the threat,
lose the future for the past, We said, If the
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constitution still matters now, then prove it by what we defend.
Because movements die and they forget how to govern, let
and win, We the people still decide if we remember
who we are
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