Republican establishment prefers being minority party.

DON'T ROCK BOAT, JUST ENJOY THE GOVERNMENT PERKS 

RULING IS MORE HAZARDOUS THAN BEING A BACK BENCHER

We continue to hear the refrain from the republican establishment, both in the house and the senate, that they have a higher sense of honor and want to preserve the integrity and the history of the institutions of government. That it is more important to appear in a good light rather than make any changes in the direction of the country. Appearance and acceptance by the opposition and the media is what really counts, even if they are a minority party in perpetuity.

The opposition just keeps stroking them and praising them for their honor and integrity, all the while laughing as they transform the country into something we have yet to understand. They would never dream of stooping as low as the democrats to become a majority party.

History bears this out, the republicans were a minority party in the house from 1955 to 1995. While they were able to win the presidency a few times, they never were able to change much. President Reagan was an outlier, not the first choice of the establishment, they prefered George Bush the 1st. Reagan attracted the attention of the people, both democrats and republicans and the republicans won the senate from 1981-1987. He actually brought a renewed interest to the republican party.

It was the aggressive actions of Newt Gingrich and a few other house members, along with the overreach of the democrats that gave the republicans the majority in the house and senate in the election of 1994. First republican majority in both houses in 40 years. Gingrich was not afraid to rock the boat. The big issues were national healthcare and gun control. Gingrich and Bill Clinton worked well together and had a very successful working relationship. It allowed Clinton to win his second term. 

The republican establishment claimed that Gingrich was just too divisive, too aggressive. He often used  democrat tactics to win. They proceeded to force him out of the speakership and replace him with pedophile Dennis Hastert in 1999.  Hastert could be controlled, one must wonder why? The republicans held the house from 1995-2007. The republicans regained the house from 2011-2019 not because of establishment nominee's Romney or McCain but because of the tea parties grass root outrage at the democrat overreach. Republicans no longer could support candidates who wanted to go the same place as the democrats. 

Now we hear establishment republicans, the media and, of  course, the democrats counselling the republican party that they must reject the policies of Donald Trump, because they are just too divisive, too aggressive, too much like the strategies of the democrats. Donald Trump was the candidate that grass roots republicans had been waiting for since 1988 and if he should run again he will win the nomination of the party. IT IS THE POLICY STUPID, what ever they want to say to demonize Trump, his policy is what motivated the republican party. His policies were tailored to be in the best interest of the country, the whole country. The United States, not China or those, who along with their whole relation, are perpetually living off the teet of the country.