The Republican Establishment Wants Power Back. MAGA Has Other Ideas.

I decided it was time to write a political commentary article. I am watching the games being played in Washington D.C. after the midterms and we can’t fall for it again America. Wake up and smell the coffee.

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The 2028 Campaign Nobody Needs Right Now

Apparently, we cannot even get through the current administration without the political establishment, the left, and their friends in the media trying to decide who the next Republican presidential candidate will be.

We are barely into this administration, yet the conversation has already shifted toward 2028. Names are being floated, candidates are being compared, political loyalties are being questioned, and the media is busy trying to convince America that MAGA is falling apart.

Why?

There is absolutely no reason to be picking presidential candidates this early. It accomplishes nothing for the Republican Party, does nothing to help the current administration, and gives our political enemies two more years to dig for dirt, manufacture controversy, and destroy candidates before they ever have a chance to make their case.

But there is a reason some people are pushing it.

The left and much of the political media want a Republican candidate they believe they can defeat. The Republican establishment wants a candidate it can control. Unfortunately, those two objectives have often produced the same results.

Just look back at the Republican presidential candidates of the past. Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and George H.W. Bush. George W. Bush was the last establishment Republican I believed had a real chance of winning, and even he won by a razor-thin margin in 2000.

The establishment has a history of choosing candidates it believes are acceptable to Washington rather than candidates who can inspire the American people. That is precisely the thinking that helped create the political environment that gave rise to MAGA.

Now they want to do it again.

The Attempt to Divide MAGA

MAGA supporters need to pay attention. The establishment and its media allies are already beginning to poison the well against the very candidates who could carry this movement forward.

These are the younger Republican leaders President Trump has elevated, supported, and helped position for the future. They represent a generation that could continue the America First movement long after Trump leaves office.

And that is exactly what the old establishment and the political left fears.

They are already trying to turn good people against one another, taking individual comments, opinions, and disagreements and turning them into supposed evidence that MAGA is finished. Placing Trumps good people against one another when nothing could be further from the truth. Their real goal to confuse and divide MAGA supporters, making them believe someone turned on President Trump, and they should hate that person forever. People that loyal.... does that sound finished to you?

Names are being floated, Marco Rubio, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whom I personally admire, is being mentioned. Ron DeSantis, whose results I respect, is being discussed, although I question his ability to connect with voters as a presidential candidate at this time. Then there is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another Republican who seems far too eager for the job.

There will be many more names before this is over.

And eventually, after the media has spent months or years promoting its preferred candidates and tearing down the others, an old establishment Republican may suddenly emerge as the reasonable alternative.

By then, much of the damage may already be done.

This is the old divide-and-conquer playbook. Turn our own people against each other, create divisions where none need to exist, and convince the public that the MAGA movement is dead and it is time to return to the old guard.

It doesn't matter who announces first, who is right, or who gets the most attention today. What matters is that we do not allow our enemies to turn a movement into a collection of competing personalities.

If you trust President Trump and believe in the America First movement, then wait for his lead. Listen to what potential candidates actually say, not what someone else claims they said, meant, or thought someone else meant.

We have two years to see what this administration can accomplish. That is where our attention belongs.

Now is the time to hold fast, watch, and evaluate results. It is not time to fight among ourselves over who might run for president. Or who people are saying has turned on President Trump and the MAGA movement.

If we want to win, we need to be smart enough to recognize the difference between a real political disagreement and a manufactured division.

Look at the big picture, not the snapshot our enemies want you to see.

And that brings me to something else we need to understand: who exactly are these people fighting to take our party back, and how did they acquire so much control in the first place?

The Republican Establishment's Ideal Candidate

The Republican establishment isn't simply looking for someone to carry the party banner. It wants someone controllable, someone who will play by Washington's rules, protect the existing power structure, and never seriously threaten the establishment itself. The liberal media has its own interests. It can promote, praise, and legitimize a Republican candidate it considers acceptable, even when that candidate may have little chance of winning a national election. When those interests align, the result can be a candidate who satisfies Washington but fails to inspire the Republican voters needed to win.

Stop Speaking for MAGA

I believe there is a difference between JD Vance blaming and expressing his opinion about what caused the 2025 election losses. Nowhere did JD Vance say we should not have done it or that he believed it would have been OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Nor did he say he was against MAGA. JD Vance is still behind Donald John Trump 100%.

If he feels that way, if he changes, let him say it.

Stop saying it for him and trying to position the candidate you want in 2028. As always, it is someone who either cannot win or is an old establishment buddy you can control, depending on which news outlet or talking head is speaking for someone else's agenda.

The establishment Republicans believe everyone is like them and that their only goal is to control their party.

The new narrative the establishment Bush Republicans are spreading is that there is a rift in MAGA and that they are done. Nothing could be further from the truth. We know the real reason for the election results was the lack of performance from the same old establishment, Congress. I believe mostly the Senate who could not even pass something as simple as the Save America Act that 80% of Americans from both parties supported.

Before we go any further, however, I want to explain what I mean when I use terms such as the swamp, the uni-party, RINO, establishment, and deep state.

Defining the Terms: RINO, Uni-Party, Establishment and Deep State

I not only call people names I explain what they mean. We have come up with some good names, but now everyone throws them around until they lose their meaning, become confused, and turn into labels with no relevance. By the way, competitors do that on purpose. Just like Democrats and cancel culture.

What Is a RINO?

A RINO is not just a negative Republican name we throw back and forth like any other insult. It is an acronym for Republican In Name Only.

What does that mean? It means people who are Republicans but vote and act more like Democrats. They are members of the uni-party. Their motto is, "Go along to get along," or perhaps, "We build nothing but ourselves."

What is The Uni-Party?

Ahh, the uni-party. Let's go there next.

The uni-party consists of people from both parties who play a shirts-and-skins game and pretend they are on different sides. In reality, they are all buddies who share the same agenda of power, control, and taking money from the taxpayer.

In public, they act like bitter enemies. When the cameras are turned off, they go drink a beer and laugh at the dummies who do not get it, keep voting for them, and allow them to become rich on the taxpayer's dime.

They only say what people want to hear. They don't fix anything or want change of any kind. They protect the system they live on.

Most are One World Order believers. Why, you ask? Because a One World Order would allow them to play the same uni-party game on a worldwide level. That is a much larger pie for them to eat and get fat on the fruits of others. It would also lead to complete control over mankind, and they would win.

Who is The Establishment?

So, what is the establishment?

It is a group of career politicians and the system that protects them and guards them from legal consequences or punishment. The establishment will stay in office no matter what they need to say, do, or think.

They have no visible moral compass or sense of right and wrong. They consume power, money, and control.

They are the people who, in their entirety, make up the uni-party. The establishment is the system for both parties, protected by the media and the deep state. It is the system that rewards the visible faces of Washington, D.C.

What is The Deep State?

That brings us to the deep state. Just who are these people whose name we hear slung around by every side, seemingly calling each other names that have no meaning?

The deep state is simply the system: the unelected bureaucracy that is really in control of the people in government agencies.

There are 15 major departments, all of which have law enforcement powers. No matter who is in power, most of the people working in these departments keep their jobs, except for a few at the very top. Those at the top often have little control or knowledge of what goes on inside their departments.

They are in charge like the "mushroom principle." It has something to do with keeping them in the dark.

What does politicizing the justice system mean? It simply means putting people in charge who will enforce your agenda, not the Constitution.

That is where the swamp begins.

What on earth is the Swamp?

So, let's dive right into the swamp, shall we?

They are the people in government positions, most political appointees, friends and family who make up a large portion of Washington, D.C., residents earning a great living from government while dragging the clock and gaming the system.

Many have never returned to the office after COVID. I hear it has been about 10% since Trump came into office. Before that, it was still approximately 50%.

These employees are not held accountable to achieve results. As a matter of fact, there is not even a tool or system to evaluate their results, progress, or effectiveness, other than other government groups such as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

These federal employees are protected by over 100 government unions, all part of the same system and run by even more government employees.

How is that for a government run by and for the people?

Of course, doing anything sensible, like a government audit by unrelated, nongovernment agencies, is out of the question.

Think about the fact that every audit or finding presented to the public is done by the same system it is supposed to examine. The CBO, CRS, GAO, and so on are just more government people run by the same system.

How about a federal reserve audit? When Mr. Trump tried, the world went crazy.

Every one of the audits is rigged, figures manipulated and slanted towards someone agenda. Talk about lipstick on a pig. They say they hire independent agencies to conduct them. Guess what? They are still being controlled by the government because of the huge contracts they receive. Your government pays for the answers they want to get. By the way, these companies are generally being paid back for earlier favors.

Washington's Growing Wealth and the Cost of Government

Going back in history, only two counties around Washington, D.C., were listed among the top 10 richest counties in America.

Forty years ago, D.C.-area wealth was concentrated in just three close-in counties: Fairfax, Montgomery, and Howard. Today, that affluence has expanded outward across roughly 10 to 12 outer counties. From 1980 to 2025, the area increased by roughly 100%.

In 40 short years, Washington, D.C., which creates nothing, builds nothing, produces nothing, and does nothing except politics, has become one of the wealthiest places on the planet.

It now ranks 13th wealthiest place on the planet.

Thanks to your tax dollars.

There are someplace close to 500 government agencies. That is an estimate because, during my investigation, the question was finally answered with the statement that "the real number is difficult to find."

That means they do not even know themselves.

These approximately 500 agencies are comprised of some 2.677 million employees, with an average salary of $112,475 a year.

Shall we talk about affordability now, or wait?

Let's wait, OK?

None of these swamp figures even consider private industry or its lobbyists. Nor does it include any public-private partnerships, for which I was told there is no official registry or count.

Oh, I know. Let's talk about fraud and abuse.

Well, maybe we should wait.

Because we would have to look at international agencies. You guessed it: they don't keep track of those either.

None of these figures include military members in the DOD or Pentagon, which adds another 40,000 or 50,000 people in Washington, D.C.

I would add them into the total wage amounts, but I was told that number is not published because public federal payroll databases redact a large portion of defense records for national security reasons.

Whose security? The swamp?

You can't make this stuff up.

The Republican Establishment Wants the Party Back

Let's go back to the subject of the Republican establishment now that you understand the terms and definitions.

These establishment Bushies have one purpose, and that is to take back the GOP so they can regain the power and control they had during the time they developed the deep state, the swamp, and the uni-party.

That is the establishment's goal.

They want to go back to the time that got America a $40 trillion debt to pay, allowed fraud and abuse to get out of control, and created a government that no one from either party trusted.

Now they will say, "No, Bush Republicans have not controlled anything for 20 years."

Tell that to John Thune, Mitch McConnell, and all the establishment RINOs in the Senate, along with the large number still in Congress who pretend they are on Trump's side.

Citizens must be smart enough to see what has happened here.

The establishment, the deep state, and the swamp are alive and well. They have created this midterm election crisis, not simply to get Trump, but to take back power and begin a new agenda by pretending to be someone new.

IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

MAGA is less interested in the election results and more interested in saving America and keeping America first. We are not about control. We are about constitutional freedom and saving this nation.

Personally, I have found a bright spot in all this election confusion. At least we got rid of some more establishment GOP members.

The Real Political Divide

Get it through your establishment heads. Stop being like the Democrats. Stop trying to redefine people, their thoughts, and their opinions.

We don't care what you think. We don't care what your media lackeys at Fox News think. And we will not stop. We will not go away.

Stop speaking for people you cannot speak for. If JD Vance thinks something, let him say it.

Stop the bullsh*t of pretending you know what someone other than yourself thinks.

Report the news, not your opinion or your agenda.

We will not allow the uni-party and the deep state to rise again.

Look, even if we lose every election from now until the cows come home, sooner or later people will have had enough of socialism and put a stop to it one way or another.

Going back to what caused this is not an option.

It was the uni-party's refusal to change or put America first that caused the rise in socialism. Your direction of allowing open borders for 30 years has created the environment for socialism. Your allowing the educational system to fester with indoctrination and socialist liberal thinking is what caused this to happen.

Your uni-party's out-of-control spending caused inflation. Your uni-party thinking developed the ruination of the suburbs, replacing single-family houses with government-controlled, high-density apartments.

Your uni-party's lack of results is what has given birth to socialism in America.

Not Trump. Not MAGA. And not the people on the street.

We have no intention of accepting your One World Order dream. Nor will we become a socialist, communist, or Islamic nation.

We will not allow you or anyone else to destroy our Constitution, our freedom, or our future.

We don't care how many losing elections it takes, how many laws you pass, how many judges you own, or what establishment program, organization, or party you control.

We know who you are and what you are trying to do.

If anyone believes there are old GOP senators who really care who won the election and were working for America rather than for the establishment to regain power, you are an idiot.

Go down the line. People, look at their records.

Some GOP senators were just smart enough politicians to ride out the Trump administration, trying to stay elected and lay low until they could rise again.

They were never excited about fixing this nation, destroying the swamp, or dismantling the uni-party they created.

The Democrats Have Their Own Establishment Problem

Let's analyze both parties while we are on a roll.

The Democrats are the same, except they knew they didn't have enough voters to win another election. They saw that America was tired of and distrusting the status quo and would soon change it.

So, they decided to try the Big Tent marriage and allowed socialists, communists, Muslims, and every fruitcake ideology in the world into their party at the expense of constitutional freedom.

Now their party is lost.

They have lost control of their party, but being hopeful, the old establishment has decided to hang on and hope it goes away.

Are you seeing the gravity of all of this?

Do you understand what is meant when we say that no matter what, we are bringing this to an end?

If the GOP is not careful and does not win this internal battle soon, we will be controlled the same way as the Democrats, by some group that comes along and overtakes the group of really old people in charge.

Most of these political relics probably don't even know who, where, or why they are there. They are being run by their offices of bureaucrats who have seized the office and position, much like the Biden administration did.

Some old man or woman who thinks they are still important or relevant is being used to control the Senate and the House.

It is the same with all the fruitcakes just elected. These people are so stupid they don't run anything. They show up, smile, and do what they are told.

Come on, people. Figure it out!

The Price of Political Loyalty

Look, establishment, I know the game.

I am not cheap, but I could be bought.

Yes, my readers would notice that all of a sudden, my op-eds got shorter. They changed tune abruptly. It would look like I had had a breakdown or a stroke, my views would have changed so much and so fast.

Oh, wait. That sounds like Tucker, Candace, or maybe Massie.

HMMMMMM. Interesting.

See you next time, my friends. And no worries, no one wants to buy me.