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How Going Against Trump Affected Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson has been called one of the most powerful conservatives in America. He hosts the radio show “Atlanta’s Evening News with Erick Erickson” on WSB-AM and has guest hosted “The Rush Limbaugh Show.” Erick previously served as the editor-in-chief and CEO of the conservative political blog RedState, now runs the conservative website The Resurgent, and is a political contributor for CNN and Fox News. He took a stand against Donald Trump, even disinviting him to a Red State candidate forum. He speaks frankly about receiving threats during the 2016 election while battling serious family health issues, the alt-right, and political correctness. Erick, who is currently completing his Master’s of Divinity, analyzes cultural conservatism and the “church wing” of the Republican party and whether it had an impact in 2016. Where is he now on Trump? Watch to learn what’s changed. (Filmed aboard the 2016 Post Election Weekly Standard Cruise.)
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After the nomination to lead the Party is the point where anyone who now wants to have a voice that Republicans will listen to needed to show support for Donald Trump. Any Republican or one who tries to act as such who did not support Trump once he was the nominee and who yet has a compulsion to criticize needs to set that aside now as this process of appointing the cabinet and cabinet-level members of the administration goes forward because they will not have my ear. Those who have been supportive are welcome to express any reservations they may have regarding transition matters. Those are the people who I will turn to at this stage to be watchful of the peoples interests. I’m describing here my own personal thoughts on how I will treat these actions and statements during the transition. Without some evidence of rehabilitation and in the face of reasonable performance by President Trump, I will continue this personal view and not look to those anti-Trumps for opinion. I feel certain that we have plenty of watchers from the ranks of original Trump supporters and reluctant Trump supporters to know if something is going terribly wrong and I will look there for opinion. I used to read opinion written by the likes of George Will, Bill Kristol, and Erick Erickson but those will be set aside for now.
who was the head of the Republican National Committee.
I rest my case.
In fact, I’ll go out on a limb here and say that I suspect Trump himself knows this, and it is one reason he is going on his thank-you tour.
He ran one time as the nominee of the Reform Party, Ross Perot’s party, and abandoned the run. He learned firsthand how hard it is to get a national political party together.
I think he has taken an interesting stance with the Republican Party since the election, borne perhaps out of his two divorces. We may hate each other, but we need to work together to raise the kids. And it is surprising how much we all agree on.
Facts don’t require your conviction lowtech. Trump supporters identified a candidate who dismantled the Clinton machine. Could another candidate have won? Perhaps. Rubio and Walker seem likeliest.
But would any other candidate have brought the crazy to the Democratic Party and coastal cognescenti like Trump has? Would any other candidate have broken through the 80/80 state wall in the Midwest and captured the blue collar wildings for the GOP?
Maybe, but early Trump supporters demonstrated real on-the-ground political nous.
Our comforting conjectures are not really as valid.
Ricochet is — and always has been — a place that blurred the boundaries between professional pundits and private citizens. That’s why the Main Feed includes content from both. It’s one of the site’s strengths and what drew a lot of us — including, I imagine, you — to it.
Amen. The only thing these self-righteous, hypocritical Nevers have succeeded in doing is emboldening the opposition on the left who are attempting to influence the Electoral College and taint his presidency.
No way anyone other than a tough guy like Trump could have fought effectively against the Clinton dirty trick machine, IMHO.
That would be logical, and there is some small attraction to some professional pundits, but I prefer the folks who did something in life and then give their opinion. Peter is very good as he comes from a background of experience. I find the amateur pundits at Ricochet to be the real drawing card once you get a feel for the place. Dave Carter is a great example. Many members have deep backgrounds and I find their opinions to be based on very different foundations than the normal chattering classes.
Unfortunately, our media has become a self selected idiocracy with the occasional exceptions. When we inflict news readers on the public with pretty much zero experience other than in camera angles and have them prattle, it becomes quite tedious.
I posit that Ricochet’s true strength lies in the gifted amateur pundit with strong life experience, with a few headliners who can keep up with them. I would bet we have one of the more challenging comment sections on the web for a professional pundit.
Indeed.
It negates (or at least questions) the premise behind it. If people in the media are so powerful, how come Clinton and Obama were elected in spite of “the most powerful conservative voice out there” weighing in on their fitness for office? Of course, I’m talking about Rush . . .
The American citizen is the most powerful consumer (voting with their pocketbooks), the most powerful taxpayer (voting with their feet), and the most most powerful voice in elections (voting, period). People in business (particularly in entertainment) forget this, state governments forget this, and politicians on all levels (local up to national) forget this.