Nikki Haley Finally Wins a Primary
Unfortunately for her, winning the Washington, D.C. primary is evidence that she is unfit for office
After winning the Washington, D.C. primary, earning 19 delegates, Nikki Haley’s spokesperson stated, “It’s not surprising that Republicans closest to Washington dysfunction are rejecting Donald Trump and all his chaos.” A more accurate take might be, the Republicans most responsible for Washington dysfunction are rejecting Donald Trump.
D.C. and parts of Virginia are the areas most beholden to the ruling regime, as that’s where most of the people who make up the regime live and work. These are the people most divorced from the rest of their fellow citizens across the United States as they live pretty well off of federal largesse. The economy is pretty good for those living off the rest of our tax dollars. Almost 63% of these voters chose Nikki Haley over Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee. In other words, the people who most want the GOP to go back to being the party of politicians like George W. Bush and commentators like Bill Kristol prefer Haley over Trump. If anything, that should be all the information necessary for the rest of the country to run screaming from the prospect of a Haley nomination, which is, fortunately, exactly what they are doing.
All that said, Donald Trump represents no genuine threat to the power or wealth of the ruling regime as his first term in office proves. “Drain the swamp” was a campaign slogan that had no basis in reality once Trump got into power. The regime’s intense dislike of Trump is not based on the fact that he represents any kind of threat to their power, merely that he cannot be relied upon to always do what he’s told. Why suffer a Donald Trump who does have a few ideas of his own that you would have to go out of your way to sabotage, like diplomacy with North Korea, for example, when you could have a completely mindless puppet like Joe Biden or Nikki Haley instead?
In 2008 and 2012, Ron Paul ran campaigns for the Republican nomination aimed at directly targeting the ruling regime in Washington, D.C. and severely limiting their power, and he had the record as a several term congressman to back up his rhetoric. Now the reality is that there is only so much even the president can do, so the entirety of his campaign platform, such as abolishing the Federal Reserve, was a pipe dream. However, as president Ron Paul would have been Commander-in-Chief, and he was campaigning on not only ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but on bringing all of the troops across the world home and refusing to engage in any of the other wars that we’ve seen the ruling regime agitate for since: Syria, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan come to mind. This is what a genuine threat to the people in power in Washington, D.C. looks like, not Donald Trump going off-script here and there.
There is nothing that Donald Trump did during his presidency that threatened the power of anyone in the U.S. federal government the way that a Ron Paul presidency would have done. In fact, Trump’s presidency did as much as any other to centralize even more power into the hands of D.C. bureaucrats, especially his COVID-19 policies, and he helped the Military Industrial Complex enrich themselves by setting the stage for the current Ukraine-Russia war by arming Ukraine and overseeing the expansion of NATO. The absurdly overblown opposition of Trump is nothing more than partisanship on the one hand, the ruling class is a much more natural fit in general in the centralized and homogenous Democratic Party than the current Republican Party, and simply having more reliably controllable options in Biden and Haley.