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Pollster friends of mine are telling me Republicans are going to lose the House and maybe the Senate, because not enough traditional Republicans are going to come out and vote. In other words, Mr. Trump has always had the support of MAGA Republicans, but the mistake at the Dallas Convention was not wooing so-called traditional GOPers.
Well, I’m not sure what a traditional Republican is. Or why any Republican, or for that matter any sane person would want to vote in a bunch of Democratic party big government socialists. They will reopen the borders, end fossil fuels, and impose Medicare for All — which means you lose your private healthcare, and will wind up paying for free healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Democratic wins would promote lawfare and weaponization, such as Senator Elissa Slotkin has proposed, risk more crime, or $10 gasoline, or ending gasoline-powered cars altogether. Or going back to woke, DEI, and antisemitism. Is that what so-called traditional Republicans want? Is that what any sane person would want?
I worked for President Reagan, who was a supply-sider, tax cutter, a deregulator, who ran against the swamp at D.C. And then decades later I worked for President Trump, who was a tax cutter, deregulator, and was against the swamp at D.C. Does that make me a traditional Republican? A Reagan Republican? A Trump Republican?
How about: I’m a free enterprise pro-growth conservative who believes in traditional American values. This election strikes me as too important to hinge on semantics.
What we really want, apart from these unhelpful labels, is the kind of Newt Gingrich optimism. As he is writing about America’s golden age: the triumph of free enterprise, the coming era of limitless possibilities, and how economic growth will surge while inflation falls, and advanced technology prevails.
I was there outside Atlanta when Mr. Gingrich won back in 1994. Maybe we’re all Gingrich Republicans right now. The point I want to make to you folks, in my next 11 Kudlow TV broadcasts, and two Sunday morning shows, I want to persuade you to vote for free enterprise, not socialism. For patriotic values, not American hatred. And for defending our country against any and all encroachments from the outside. It’s never too late to turn this story around. There’s still time.
