November 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Are Republicans Losing the War by Fighting the Wrong Battles? It's Time to Refocus
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Is the Republican Party fighting the wrong battles? In this bold and deeply personal #GoRight commentary, Peter Boykin calls out the growing hypocrisy, fear, and performance politics inside the GOP. Once the party of freedom and individual rights, too many Republicans have traded liberty for outrage and leadership for noise.
Peter shares his story as a gay conservative, Constitutionalist for Liberty, and former candidate for Lieutenant Governor, challenging the movement to rediscover its backbone and its heart. He reminds us that the future of the GOP is not about controlling lives but defending freedom.
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Peter shares his story as a gay conservative, Constitutionalist for Liberty, and former candidate for Lieutenant Governor, challenging the movement to rediscover its backbone and its heart. He reminds us that the future of the GOP is not about controlling lives but defending freedom.
It’s time to stop following the loudest voices and start thinking for yourself. Because true conservatism isn’t about conformity, it’s about courage, conscience, and constitutional principle.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What happens when the Party of Lincoln forgets what it
stands for.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I am Peter Boaken, founder of GACE Trump, Constitutionalist for Liberty,
and former twenty twenty four candidate for a North Carolina
Latic governor. Today I am taking on the hypocrisy eating
the Republican Party from the inside. This isn't just about
right or left. It's about leadership versus theater, truth versus tribalism,
(00:30):
and the freedom to think for yourself in a world
that demands blind loyalty. From my run for office to
the struggle of being openly gay and conservative politics, I
pull no punches. I expose the double standards, the fear
of quote identity politics, and the silence that too many
(00:51):
confuse with strength. This is a call to wake up
the GOP before it loses the Republic. It claims to
defend a war, a challenge and a reminder that freedom
is not just for those who fit the mold. So
are Republicans losing the war by fighting the wrong battles.
(01:13):
Continue to watch, listen, and share if you still believe
liberty belongs to everyone. This is hashtag go right with
Peter Boykin. Remember we fight for what's right, because it's
time to go right. The future of the GOP is freedom,
and freedom starts with thinking for itself.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Hashtag go right with Peter Boykin commentary. You know, I
look at where we are as a movement, and I
see a party that has forgotten how to lead. I
see people who once call themselves freedom fighters now acting
like moral referees. The same people who used to shout
quote small government now want to use that government to
(02:00):
control who you are, what you say, and how you live.
It feels like the party that once defended liberty has
traded it for outrage, and we have stopped governing and
started performing. We have allowed the noise of the world
to drown out the meaning of the constitution we claim
(02:22):
to protect. We say we believe in the individual, yet
we demand everyone act the same. We say we stand
for free speech, yet we attack those who speak uncomfortable truths.
We say we want unity, but we have built walls
inside our own ranks. I did not become a Republican
(02:43):
to join a club. I became one because I believe
this was the party that trusted people to live freely.
I hope I'm not wrong about that. But freedom is
not freedom if it only applies to the people you
agree with. When I ran for lieutenant governor in twenty
twenty four, I did it because I wanted to prove
(03:05):
that being gay and being a conservative are not contradictions.
I wanted to show that personal responsibility, limited government, and
love for country belonged to everyone. Yet even then, many
inside the party did not want to talk about it.
(03:26):
They told me, oh, you and your group. We don't
need to play party politics, and we don't have to
play identity politics. Funny that rule only seems to apply
to people like me. When someone else makes history, they celebrate,
but when we do, people like me, they go silent.
(03:50):
That silence is not strength, it is fear. The same
people who cheer diversity when it fits the narrative are
terrified of it when it challenged. Is their comfort, But
real leadership does not come from comfort, It comes from courage. Shocking, folks,
I am proud to be a gay Republican, and I
(04:16):
am proud to support a vision that values liberty over conformity.
I am proud to stand for a movement that should,
at its core, trust people to make their own choices.
But I am not proud of the hypocrisy that creeps
through our ranks are the bitterness that has replaced proverhood.
(04:41):
If the GOP is going to survive, it must stop
running from its own principles. It must stop confusing loudness
with leadership. The Constitution does not care who you love,
who you marry, or what church you attend, or even
if you attend it all. It cares that you are free.
(05:05):
Freedom is messy, It is uncomfortable. It asks us to
tolerate things we do not understand and defend people we
may not disagree with, and that is what makes it sacred.
Now let me be clear about who I am. I
am a Republican, yes, but I'm also mostly moderate. I'm
(05:29):
a constitutionalist for liberty, a devil's advocate for truth, and
a citizen journalist's been running go write news dot com
for a while who believes that freedom dies when we
stop questioning Powell. Being moderate or moderate, leading middle ground
(05:50):
does not mean being weak. It means having the courage
to think instead of react. It means being a conservative
about principles and possibly even liberal about compassion. It's pretty
sad when you say compassion is only going for liberals.
But it means refusing to be trapped by either extreme.
(06:16):
We have reached a point where people care more about
winning arguments than solving problems. How do you think we
ended up shutting down the government for so long? The
left performs outrage, the right performs righteousness, and the American
people are left in the wreckage. We are supposed to
(06:40):
be a government of by and for the people, but
somewhere along the way, the people became the audience instead
of the authors. Representation today has become theater. Politicians do
not lead anymore. They perform. They chase cameras, not convictions.
(07:02):
They read scripts written by donors and lobbyists instead of
listening to the people who hired them. That is not representation.
That is manipulation. And we, the citizens, are guilty too.
We have allowed ourselves to be pigeonholed in the corners
where our opinions have to match the team colors. We
(07:24):
act like being independent minded as treason when it actually
the most American thing you could be. The founders did
not build this republic for group fa They built it
for debate. They expected this agreement. They designed a system
that only works when the people are willing to think
(07:46):
for themselves. That is why I call myself a constitutionalist
for liberty, because I do not want a country run
by party loyalty. I want a country run by principle.
So that makes me a conservative on some things and
(08:07):
a liberal on others, at least by people's perspectives. I
believe in freedom of speech, financial responsibility, and limited government.
But I also believe in fairness, equality, and the right
(08:27):
of every individual to live as they see fit, at
least within the law. That balance is not confusion, it
is clearity, and it is what keeps freedom alive. If
we want to fix this country, we need more citizens
willing to question both sides.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We need more.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
People who defend free speech even when they dislike what
is being said. We need fewer politicians chasing polls and
donor money, and more citizens chasing truth. The day we
stop thinking for ourselves is the day the republic dies.
So stop letting parties, pundits and platforms tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What to believe.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Start thinking again, start questioning, and start remembering that the
word republic literally means public matter, the people's business. The
future of this nation will not be saved by the
far left nor the far right. It will be saved
(09:35):
by the honest middle, the thinkers, the skeptics, the moderates,
the citizens who love their country more than their political tribe.
We can protect children without vilifying adults. We can defend
God without weaponizing faith. And we can honor our history
without being trapped by it. This is what I believe,
(09:55):
and this is what hashtag go right stands for. Not
blind loyalty, not cultural warfare, but freedom. Freedom rooted in truth,
Freedom defended by principle, freedom guided by conscious This is
the America island. That is the America I fight for,
(10:18):
and that is the America I refuse to give up on.
Because the future of our GOP, the future of this republic,
the future of freedom itself, will not be decided by
who shouts the loudest. It will be decided by who
has the courage to think for themselves and stand firm
(10:42):
when it matters.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Most Oh, welcome to.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Go right with Peter Boykin, where truth still matters and
liberty still lives.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
They say, the party's fighting for freedom, but maybe we're
fighting the wrong war. Ross Story wrote about me.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Tried to define gay conservative impossible, they said, But I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Not defending a man I'm defending a truth that the
media forgot.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Trump never hated us, He fought from there.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
He gave us access, respect, results, while other soul slogan and.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Shadows, and now my party is losting noise, yelling about
drag queens while the bottle burns.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I said it before.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Trading on a caddy.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
We've teased strategy for around principal performances.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
True for television.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Stop the culture or cross.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Fires, stop fighting for freedom files, stop wasting.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
A amimonon each other to start a fiending all republic brothers,
both sides using fuel like currency, left check boxes, right chases, chaospitophiles.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
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most Americans to fauntrols.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
The freedom means leaving people alone, now force and.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Kids to carry on.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I remember deal at the RNC.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Proud of me, gay, proud of me, Republican, proud of
me American.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
That's the anthem we lost.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's the heartbeat we need back.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Faith without falce, freedom without be conserved, liberty.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Our mission is clear.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Stop playing moral referee because the t centle guardians proud
as freeze.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
This is go right with Peter Boykin, because when you
go right, you can't go wrong. Stop the cult.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Shot, walk across fires, stop by a freedom spy, stop
wasting a hamal on each other, to start defending all
republic brothers.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Go right with Peter Boykin, because when you go right,
you can't go wrong.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
You know.
Speaker 11 (15:18):
I look at where we are as a movement, and
I see a party that has forgotten how to lead.
A party that once called itself the champion of freedom
now acting like moral referees.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
The same people who.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Shouted small government, now I want to use that government
to control who you are, what you say, and how
you live.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It feels like the party that once defended everybody has
traded it for our age.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
We stock of the name started performing.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
The noise drowns out the meaning.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Of the constitution.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
We clean to protect.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
We say we believe in the individual. Yet queedom man
everyone at the same we said we stand up for
free speech.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Should we attack.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
Those just being uncomfortable truths?
Speaker 13 (16:21):
We said, we all again.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Believe. I didn't become a Republican to join the club.
I became one because I believed this was the party
that trusted people to live. Relieve, a freedom.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
Is a freedom.
Speaker 14 (16:43):
I been only a pleassion the people you agree on
the horizon see arison.
Speaker 15 (16:55):
We focus the message, reclaimed the mission because the future
of the key this is freedom, and freedom starts with
thinking for yourself.
Speaker 13 (17:06):
When I am for lieutenant governor in twenty four, I
did it to prove it being gay and conservative or
not contradictions, to show that personal responsibility, limited government and
love for cause.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
We belong to everyone.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
Yet even then any inside the party didn't want to
talk about it.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Bird.
Speaker 16 (17:29):
They said, we don't need to play identity politics. Funny
that rule only applies to people like me. When someone
else makes history, they celebrate. When we do, they go silently.
That silence isn't strength, it's fear.
Speaker 17 (17:46):
The same people who cheer diversity when it fits starts
terrified a bit when it challenges their comfort.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But real leadership doesn't come from comfort.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
It comes from comfort.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
I didn't see their Republican it's all come babyca one
because I believe that this was the party that trusted
people to live freely.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Freedom isn't freedom, and it.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
Only applies say but you agree with if you are
free with the rises, a single thing with the risin
said luck.
Speaker 17 (18:20):
I am proud to be a gay Republican, proud to
support liberty over conformity, proud to stand for removement that
should trust people to make their own choices.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
But I'm not proud of the hypocrisy that creeps through
our ranks or the biddenness that replaced brotherhood.
Speaker 17 (18:37):
If the KOP is gonna survive, it must stop confusing
loudness with leadership.
Speaker 18 (18:42):
The Constitution doesn't care who you love, who you marry,
or what church you attend, or even if you attend
it all.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
It cares that you are free.
Speaker 14 (18:53):
Freedom is messy, uncomfortable, and that's the allaright things we
don't understand, and if people may not agree with that's
what makes it's sacred.
Speaker 17 (19:15):
I'm a Republican, yes, but also will moderate, a constitutionalist
for liberty, a devil's advocate for truth, the citizen journalist
who believes that freedom.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Dies when we stop questioning power.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Being moderate doesn't mean weak. It means courage.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
It means thinking instead of reacting.
Speaker 17 (19:34):
It means being conservative about principles and liberal about compassion.
Speaker 18 (19:39):
We've reached a point where people care more about winning
arguments and solving problems. The left performs outrage the right
performs righteousness, and the American people are.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Left in the wreckage.
Speaker 18 (19:51):
We are supposed to be a government of, by and
for the people, but now the people have become.
Speaker 13 (19:57):
The audience instead of the authors.
Speaker 18 (20:00):
That's not representation, that's manfulation.
Speaker 14 (20:06):
That's manipulation.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The founders didn't build this republic for group think. They
built it for debate. They expected disagreement. They designed a
system that only works when people think for themselves.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
That's why I call myself a constitutionalist of liberty, because
I don't want a country.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Run by party loyalty.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
I want a country run by principle.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
The future of this nation won't be saved by the
far left or the far right. It'll be saved by
the honest middle, the thinkers, the skeptics, the moderates, the
citizens who love their country more.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Than their political tribe.
Speaker 13 (21:09):
We can protect children without feelibian adults.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
We can defend God with the weapon doesn't faith.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
We cannot around history without being trapped by it.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
This is what I believe.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
This is what's gone.
Speaker 14 (21:23):
Right stands for not fine loyalty, not countual, but freed.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Freedom, rooted, freedom defended by principles, freedom God if by conscious.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
That is the America Hollo, That is the America five for,
and that is the America reviews game.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Because the future of the Judope, the future of freedom itself,
will not be decided by who shouts the loudest, but
by who has the courage to think for themselves.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
They should wait, faith, he said, wait fall.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
The freedom's echo still shakes these walls.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
We were born to lead, not.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Just to a troad, to stand for truth and tell
the end a random.
Speaker 19 (23:30):
Sir, not till before to bring col before the storm,
but the silence what they fear, And I'm still standing.
Speaker 20 (23:41):
Him weary, say the reposticts ni nosens of life.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Let the people in.
Speaker 19 (23:58):
More than ablsday ride.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Were focus, rise and fight. They sent me quiet, they
set fit in selling sniff of made or swim. It's
(24:30):
not about fame of being the first. It's courage that
Quitch is the first. We're the foty that broke the chains.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
Now we're losing to our old games.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
And time to break this still and lead the fighters.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Wear weird focus, say the Republic tonight, tell the fear
in tonight, let the true frame brow with more than
divis nor spies. We focus, sho die.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And fight.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
No more shame, no disguise, freedom, the lives.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
When we open.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Ours from the past, we arise again, proud to be gay,
proud to be made. We focus, say the republics nine.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Focus stand for what's wrong? Ah the people?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
You we the people?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
We focus.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Him what.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Welcome Toco right whipper boy again?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
We demand the truth?
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Now? Is the tide.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Rite news?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Don com transparentsies, the call a constitutional republic, standing time.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
In traty.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
The trus we fight together, we if we stand questions
welcome springing long back down for transpeverancing. Let's bring it
to time.
What happens when the Party of Lincoln forgets what it
stands for.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I am Peter Boaken, founder of GACE Trump, Constitutionalist for Liberty,
and former twenty twenty four candidate for a North Carolina
Latic governor. Today I am taking on the hypocrisy eating
the Republican Party from the inside. This isn't just about
right or left. It's about leadership versus theater, truth versus tribalism,
(00:30):
and the freedom to think for yourself in a world
that demands blind loyalty. From my run for office to
the struggle of being openly gay and conservative politics, I
pull no punches. I expose the double standards, the fear
of quote identity politics, and the silence that too many
(00:51):
confuse with strength. This is a call to wake up
the GOP before it loses the Republic. It claims to
defend a war, a challenge and a reminder that freedom
is not just for those who fit the mold. So
are Republicans losing the war by fighting the wrong battles.
(01:13):
Continue to watch, listen, and share if you still believe
liberty belongs to everyone. This is hashtag go right with
Peter Boykin. Remember we fight for what's right, because it's
time to go right. The future of the GOP is freedom,
and freedom starts with thinking for itself.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Hashtag go right with Peter Boykin commentary. You know, I
look at where we are as a movement, and I
see a party that has forgotten how to lead. I
see people who once call themselves freedom fighters now acting
like moral referees. The same people who used to shout
quote small government now want to use that government to
(02:00):
control who you are, what you say, and how you live.
It feels like the party that once defended liberty has
traded it for outrage, and we have stopped governing and
started performing. We have allowed the noise of the world
to drown out the meaning of the constitution we claim
(02:22):
to protect. We say we believe in the individual, yet
we demand everyone act the same. We say we stand
for free speech, yet we attack those who speak uncomfortable truths.
We say we want unity, but we have built walls
inside our own ranks. I did not become a Republican
(02:43):
to join a club. I became one because I believe
this was the party that trusted people to live freely.
I hope I'm not wrong about that. But freedom is
not freedom if it only applies to the people you
agree with. When I ran for lieutenant governor in twenty
twenty four, I did it because I wanted to prove
(03:05):
that being gay and being a conservative are not contradictions.
I wanted to show that personal responsibility, limited government, and
love for country belonged to everyone. Yet even then, many
inside the party did not want to talk about it.
(03:26):
They told me, oh, you and your group. We don't
need to play party politics, and we don't have to
play identity politics. Funny that rule only seems to apply
to people like me. When someone else makes history, they celebrate,
but when we do, people like me, they go silent.
(03:50):
That silence is not strength, it is fear. The same
people who cheer diversity when it fits the narrative are
terrified of it when it challenged. Is their comfort, But
real leadership does not come from comfort, It comes from courage. Shocking, folks,
I am proud to be a gay Republican, and I
(04:16):
am proud to support a vision that values liberty over conformity.
I am proud to stand for a movement that should,
at its core, trust people to make their own choices.
But I am not proud of the hypocrisy that creeps
through our ranks are the bitterness that has replaced proverhood.
(04:41):
If the GOP is going to survive, it must stop
running from its own principles. It must stop confusing loudness
with leadership. The Constitution does not care who you love,
who you marry, or what church you attend, or even
if you attend it all. It cares that you are free.
(05:05):
Freedom is messy, It is uncomfortable. It asks us to
tolerate things we do not understand and defend people we
may not disagree with, and that is what makes it sacred.
Now let me be clear about who I am. I
am a Republican, yes, but I'm also mostly moderate. I'm
(05:29):
a constitutionalist for liberty, a devil's advocate for truth, and
a citizen journalist's been running go write news dot com
for a while who believes that freedom dies when we
stop questioning Powell. Being moderate or moderate, leading middle ground
(05:50):
does not mean being weak. It means having the courage
to think instead of react. It means being a conservative
about principles and possibly even liberal about compassion. It's pretty
sad when you say compassion is only going for liberals.
But it means refusing to be trapped by either extreme.
(06:16):
We have reached a point where people care more about
winning arguments than solving problems. How do you think we
ended up shutting down the government for so long? The
left performs outrage, the right performs righteousness, and the American
people are left in the wreckage. We are supposed to
(06:40):
be a government of by and for the people, but
somewhere along the way, the people became the audience instead
of the authors. Representation today has become theater. Politicians do
not lead anymore. They perform. They chase cameras, not convictions.
(07:02):
They read scripts written by donors and lobbyists instead of
listening to the people who hired them. That is not representation.
That is manipulation. And we, the citizens, are guilty too.
We have allowed ourselves to be pigeonholed in the corners
where our opinions have to match the team colors. We
(07:24):
act like being independent minded as treason when it actually
the most American thing you could be. The founders did
not build this republic for group fa They built it
for debate. They expected this agreement. They designed a system
that only works when the people are willing to think
(07:46):
for themselves. That is why I call myself a constitutionalist
for liberty, because I do not want a country run
by party loyalty. I want a country run by principle.
So that makes me a conservative on some things and
(08:07):
a liberal on others, at least by people's perspectives. I
believe in freedom of speech, financial responsibility, and limited government.
But I also believe in fairness, equality, and the right
(08:27):
of every individual to live as they see fit, at
least within the law. That balance is not confusion, it
is clearity, and it is what keeps freedom alive. If
we want to fix this country, we need more citizens
willing to question both sides.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We need more.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
People who defend free speech even when they dislike what
is being said. We need fewer politicians chasing polls and
donor money, and more citizens chasing truth. The day we
stop thinking for ourselves is the day the republic dies.
So stop letting parties, pundits and platforms tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What to believe.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Start thinking again, start questioning, and start remembering that the
word republic literally means public matter, the people's business. The
future of this nation will not be saved by the
far left nor the far right. It will be saved
(09:35):
by the honest middle, the thinkers, the skeptics, the moderates,
the citizens who love their country more than their political tribe.
We can protect children without vilifying adults. We can defend
God without weaponizing faith. And we can honor our history
without being trapped by it. This is what I believe,
(09:55):
and this is what hashtag go right stands for. Not
blind loyalty, not cultural warfare, but freedom. Freedom rooted in truth,
Freedom defended by principle, freedom guided by conscious This is
the America island. That is the America I fight for,
(10:18):
and that is the America I refuse to give up on.
Because the future of our GOP, the future of this republic,
the future of freedom itself, will not be decided by
who shouts the loudest. It will be decided by who
has the courage to think for themselves and stand firm
(10:42):
when it matters.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Most Oh, welcome to.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Go right with Peter Boykin, where truth still matters and
liberty still lives.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
They say, the party's fighting for freedom, but maybe we're
fighting the wrong war. Ross Story wrote about me.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Tried to define gay conservative impossible, they said, But I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Not defending a man I'm defending a truth that the
media forgot.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Trump never hated us, He fought from there.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
He gave us access, respect, results, while other soul slogan and.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Shadows, and now my party is losting noise, yelling about
drag queens while the bottle burns.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I said it before.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Trading on a caddy.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
We've teased strategy for around principal performances.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
True for television.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Stop the culture or cross.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Fires, stop fighting for freedom files, stop wasting.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
A amimonon each other to start a fiending all republic brothers,
both sides using fuel like currency, left check boxes, right chases, chaospitophiles.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
On gale straight the predators period, most transforms to sont fees,
most Americans to fauntrols.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
The freedom means leaving people alone, now force and.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Kids to carry on.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I remember deal at the RNC.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Proud of me, gay, proud of me, Republican, proud of
me American.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
That's the anthem we lost.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's the heartbeat we need back.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Faith without falce, freedom without be conserved, liberty.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Our mission is clear.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Stop playing moral referee because the t centle guardians proud
as freeze.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
This is go right with Peter Boykin, because when you
go right, you can't go wrong. Stop the cult.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Shot, walk across fires, stop by a freedom spy, stop
wasting a hamal on each other, to start defending all
republic brothers.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Go right with Peter Boykin, because when you go right,
you can't go wrong.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
You know.
Speaker 11 (15:18):
I look at where we are as a movement, and
I see a party that has forgotten how to lead.
A party that once called itself the champion of freedom
now acting like moral referees.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
The same people who.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Shouted small government, now I want to use that government
to control who you are, what you say, and how
you live.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It feels like the party that once defended everybody has
traded it for our age.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
We stock of the name started performing.
Speaker 12 (16:03):
The noise drowns out the meaning.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Of the constitution.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
We clean to protect.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
We say we believe in the individual. Yet queedom man
everyone at the same we said we stand up for
free speech.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Should we attack.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
Those just being uncomfortable truths?
Speaker 13 (16:21):
We said, we all again.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Believe. I didn't become a Republican to join the club.
I became one because I believed this was the party
that trusted people to live. Relieve, a freedom.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
Is a freedom.
Speaker 14 (16:43):
I been only a pleassion the people you agree on
the horizon see arison.
Speaker 15 (16:55):
We focus the message, reclaimed the mission because the future
of the key this is freedom, and freedom starts with
thinking for yourself.
Speaker 13 (17:06):
When I am for lieutenant governor in twenty four, I
did it to prove it being gay and conservative or
not contradictions, to show that personal responsibility, limited government and
love for cause.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
We belong to everyone.
Speaker 13 (17:20):
Yet even then any inside the party didn't want to
talk about it.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Bird.
Speaker 16 (17:29):
They said, we don't need to play identity politics. Funny
that rule only applies to people like me. When someone
else makes history, they celebrate. When we do, they go silently.
That silence isn't strength, it's fear.
Speaker 17 (17:46):
The same people who cheer diversity when it fits starts
terrified a bit when it challenges their comfort.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But real leadership doesn't come from comfort.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
It comes from comfort.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
I didn't see their Republican it's all come babyca one
because I believe that this was the party that trusted
people to live freely.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Freedom isn't freedom, and it.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
Only applies say but you agree with if you are
free with the rises, a single thing with the risin
said luck.
Speaker 17 (18:20):
I am proud to be a gay Republican, proud to
support liberty over conformity, proud to stand for removement that
should trust people to make their own choices.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
But I'm not proud of the hypocrisy that creeps through
our ranks or the biddenness that replaced brotherhood.
Speaker 17 (18:37):
If the KOP is gonna survive, it must stop confusing
loudness with leadership.
Speaker 18 (18:42):
The Constitution doesn't care who you love, who you marry,
or what church you attend, or even if you attend
it all.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
It cares that you are free.
Speaker 14 (18:53):
Freedom is messy, uncomfortable, and that's the allaright things we
don't understand, and if people may not agree with that's
what makes it's sacred.
Speaker 17 (19:15):
I'm a Republican, yes, but also will moderate, a constitutionalist
for liberty, a devil's advocate for truth, the citizen journalist
who believes that freedom.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Dies when we stop questioning power.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Being moderate doesn't mean weak. It means courage.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
It means thinking instead of reacting.
Speaker 17 (19:34):
It means being conservative about principles and liberal about compassion.
Speaker 18 (19:39):
We've reached a point where people care more about winning
arguments and solving problems. The left performs outrage the right
performs righteousness, and the American people are.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Left in the wreckage.
Speaker 18 (19:51):
We are supposed to be a government of, by and
for the people, but now the people have become.
Speaker 13 (19:57):
The audience instead of the authors.
Speaker 18 (20:00):
That's not representation, that's manfulation.
Speaker 14 (20:06):
That's manipulation.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The founders didn't build this republic for group think. They
built it for debate. They expected disagreement. They designed a
system that only works when people think for themselves.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
That's why I call myself a constitutionalist of liberty, because
I don't want a country.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Run by party loyalty.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
I want a country run by principle.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
The future of this nation won't be saved by the
far left or the far right. It'll be saved by
the honest middle, the thinkers, the skeptics, the moderates, the
citizens who love their country more.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Than their political tribe.
Speaker 13 (21:09):
We can protect children without feelibian adults.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
We can defend God with the weapon doesn't faith.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
We cannot around history without being trapped by it.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
This is what I believe.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
This is what's gone.
Speaker 14 (21:23):
Right stands for not fine loyalty, not countual, but freed.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Freedom, rooted, freedom defended by principles, freedom God if by conscious.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
That is the America Hollo, That is the America five for,
and that is the America reviews game.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Because the future of the Judope, the future of freedom itself,
will not be decided by who shouts the loudest, but
by who has the courage to think for themselves.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
They should wait, faith, he said, wait fall.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
The freedom's echo still shakes these walls.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
We were born to lead, not.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Just to a troad, to stand for truth and tell
the end a random.
Speaker 19 (23:30):
Sir, not till before to bring col before the storm,
but the silence what they fear, And I'm still standing.
Speaker 20 (23:41):
Him weary, say the reposticts ni nosens of life.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Let the people in.
Speaker 19 (23:58):
More than ablsday ride.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Were focus, rise and fight. They sent me quiet, they
set fit in selling sniff of made or swim. It's
(24:30):
not about fame of being the first. It's courage that
Quitch is the first. We're the foty that broke the chains.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
Now we're losing to our old games.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
And time to break this still and lead the fighters.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Wear weird focus, say the Republic tonight, tell the fear
in tonight, let the true frame brow with more than
divis nor spies. We focus, sho die.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And fight.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
No more shame, no disguise, freedom, the lives.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
When we open.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Ours from the past, we arise again, proud to be gay,
proud to be made. We focus, say the republics nine.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Focus stand for what's wrong? Ah the people?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
You we the people?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
We focus.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Him what.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Welcome Toco right whipper boy again?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
We demand the truth?
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Now? Is the tide.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Rite news?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Don com transparentsies, the call a constitutional republic, standing time.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
In traty.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
The trus we fight together, we if we stand questions
welcome springing long back down for transpeverancing. Let's bring it
to time.
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