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The Message Behind Putting Steve Bannon in Jail: Refusing to acknowledge that Trump was the official government, which he was

The real danger in the case against Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro from the January 6th Committee isn’t just in the jail time imposed on these former members of the Trump White House.  Of course, this is not the first in history where Congress pushed executive branch members to provide some testimony, and the claim of executive privilege was used to deny it.  Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress.  So was Lois Lerner, along with many others.  It’s normal to claim executive privilege when another branch of government is seeking information from another.  But there is something far worse going on here; it’s not just an argument about executive privilege that is going on behind all the prosecutions of President Trump and the people who worked directly for him.  It’s a denial that President Trump ever had the right to be president and that anybody from his administration could never claim such a right because they never existed.  That is the essential legal premise that was upheld by the appeals court, which rejected the conviction of Steve Bannon, the former strategist for the White House and the current voice of the Warroom podcast, which is very popular.  We are learning how much our current government is like the mob and how large it is.  The premise of destruction that they are putting forth is arrogant and audacious.  Yet it is their political position to go all in and attack members of the Trump administration, which sets a precedent for all future presidents that will only lead to destruction one way or the other of the other side.  This is more than a political gamble; it’s a desperate attempt to show mass force by the power of government over the representatives of an elected government, and its menace has been overt, to say the least.

When the January 6th event occurred, and the Congressional committee of the same name was enacted to investigate the circumstances, it was a political event.  It had nothing to do with justice, just as the cases against Trump have nothing to do with crime, but in using political force to keep a rival from running for office.  For those doubters about election fraud in the 2020 election, just study the intent behind the January 6th Committee of Republicans and Democrats, and it will become clear that if they could cheat in the election, they certainly would.  And they certainly had the means to cheat massively, because of all the newly adopted Covid rules that were essentially written on the back of a napkin and had absolutely no Constitutional validity.  Democrats had been held in contempt of Congress many times, so when the shoe was on the other foot and Congress put together an investigation into President Trump’s role in what they were calling an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro did what the established behavior was from the Executive Branch perspective and that is to refuse to testify.  If it had been me, I would have testified.  I think they should have testified.  I would have made a mess of their hearing with my testimony in ways that would have been far more destructive to them, the Committee members.  But I get it. Steve and Peter didn’t want to show any respect for a crooked court, and they used their Executive Privilege to protest that power over them as they had an established right to do so.  But, the committee representing the general sentiment of the Beltway culture refused to recognize that right, which is why these contempt charges were different and why Bannon is going to go to jail at a critical time in the election process of 2024, to get him off the table.  And Peter Navarro is already there. 

However, by all legal parameters, and this is where things get very dangerous and will have lasting effects for the future, either way, that same Beltway culture is refusing to acknowledge that the Trump administration even existed.  The purpose of the January 6th event and the following committee was to provide a cover story for a stolen government.  Trump was the popularly elected government at the time and was the authority.  Trump couldn’t have an insurrection against himself.  It was the Beltway culture of lawyers, politicians, political pundits, investors, and globalists who refused to believe that they did not have power over the people and that people would elect someone to office in the White House that they did not have control over.  So, by prosecuting Bannon and Navarro, there is more than a contempt charge going on here.  There is a message to the public that this government that took over through election fraud, a previously established government, was in charge.  And if they, too, didn’t want to rot away in jail, they better get on board and do what they were told.  The message couldn’t be more precise.  This stolen government was asserting power over the previous government by denying its existence and justifying its actions through some fake insurrection accusation when the Biden administration, controlled by globalist interests, had performed the actual crime.  And the January 6th participants who rioted against the Capitol on that day were upset.  They had a right to be.  Their government had been taken from them, and they were given Joe Biden, but they weren’t OK with it.

As with all authoritarian governments, particularly communist ones, shows of force like this are common.  This is not an unusual playbook.  However, through our checks on power and divided government, we have an assumption in America that we can avoid these kinds of problems, which provides a stable platform for a constructive society that is financially viable.  However, the premise behind attacking members of Trump’s White House and Trump himself as he runs for President this third time is that the enemy is perfectly willing to throw the baby out with the bath water to get what they want out of it.  And if that means the destruction of America, that’s just as good for them.  These are evil people using the same audacious display of power and control as we saw among mobsters in American culture, and they have hijacked our legal system as a cover for their intent to commit crimes.  And on this stage, we are talking about crimes through the force and security of global communism.  They don’t care that throwing political rivals in jail might make people mad because they have already declared war against those who voted for the Trump administration.  Like the mob, putting Navarro and Bannon in jail and anybody else they can get their hands on is a warning.  They don’t care about the fairness of it.  Or the legality of it.  They only want to destroy their political opposition by any means.  And that is how we need to talk about this case, and we certainly can’t put up with it.  These are some of the most significant crimes in the history of the world, and we can’t just turn our back on them.  The bad guys have to be punished severely.  And the bad guys are not Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.  But those who refuse to acknowledge that Trump was the legitimate government from 2016 to 2020.  2024, they will be more popular than ever because people want to pick their government.  They don’t like it selected for them by globalist forces who use the government as a cover for crimes against humanity, as evil people have always sought to do.

Rich Hoffman

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Democrats are Planning Not to Certify President Trump’s Victory: The domestic enemies of America are vicious and daring us to fight them

Let me explain something to you fools out there: that little show of solidarity that Speaker Johnston and others from Washington showed behind President Trump on May 14th, 2024, is about three years too late.  Sure, it’s better late than never.  But it clearly shows that many people don’t understand the fight we are fighting.  The Democrats are viciously evil.  They are not your friends.  Even as we speak, they are already making plans not to certify the election for President Trump should they win enough seats in Congress to take back the House.  Or, they are counting on enough RINO Republicans to get squishy and vote their way to not certify the election once Trump wins this November, which he is poised to do, and then some.   Yes, remember all that nonsense about Mike Pence doing the right thing, and certifying the 2020 election with the deciding vote, which put Trump out of the White House and gave us this stupid fool, the criminal Joe Biden, who just this week, his daughter proclaimed that the contents of her diary were true, and that she did shower with her dad as a young girl.  This was not a conspiracy theory.  These are bad, horrendous people, and they are playing for keeps.  And they are not planning to give back the reigns of power over a silly little ol’ election where the people pick their favorite representatives.  No, they are plotting and scheming our destruction moment by moment, and they think you are all suckers.  Even as people from the Trump White House are in jail or going to jail, and now, after many years, there are still many January 6th prisoners rotting away with no prospect at being released.  While Republicans sit around looking for fairness.  They play by the rules while the entire Democrat Party platform exists to break them. 

There are a lot of conservatives who have known for a long time that the game is rigged against us, and we are tired of it.  This placating evil thing has not worked out well, and think about what I’m saying here.  With all the spectacle that there was about getting Trump out of the White House, how Democrats used the rules to essentially establish a coup against a popularly elected President.  Knowing that they will lose power by that same voting system, they will attempt to block that certification process at every step of the way.  When Trump wins in November, the election, Democrats are not going to do what Mike Pence did and go through the routine of certifying the electors toward the politician who received the most votes in the electoral college.  They are going to attempt to burn down cities and send illegal immigrants home to home with a show of violence, hoping to cause as much chaos as possible to punish people for not voting for them.  Democrats are like the mobsters of old.  That’s why we don’t hear about the mob anymore; they went from illegal businesses into government, instead of fearing prosecutors.  They became the prosecutors.  They became the members of the House.  They became the President.  And if you don’t obey them, they will cut off a horse’s head and put it in your bed if they think they can get away with it.  They are ruthless, vicious, and plotting maniacal fools.  They are bloodthirsty.  And they have no intention of giving back power over a silly election.  That power will have to be ripped away from them.  And they will have to be punished tenaciously.

They aren’t intimidated by any Republican solidarity that was shown to President Trump forty years too late; they aren’t shaking in their boots.  They are laughing, because they know what they are willing to do, and they know Republicans won’t do it.  You watch.  It will be the day after the election in November of 2024 and the story will be that Democrats are planning not to certify the election of Trump for a number of reasons.  But it will be their only play after all the court attempts to destroy him have failed.  And all the attempts by the media to disparage him will have shown that Trump even won in heavily Democrat areas and that Joe Biden lost the election so badly that Jimmy Carter will have finally lost that title to the word “landslide.”  Everything will have failed for them, and they will have nothing else but to attempt not to certify Trump to the White House.  They will try to tie it up as much as possible, and in many ways nobody has ever seen before.  Because that is their nature.  They are vicious.  And they have every intention of showing their teeth and doing to us what they accused us of thinking of doing when we had the power not to certify the election and send it back to the states to keep Trump in office.  Democrats won’t just talk about it.  They’ll do it.  And they won’t feel one bit guilty about it as they do.  They will force us to fight them in the streets.  They will be happy to destroy our Constitution because they don’t like it anyway.  They are globalists.  They are communists.  They are thugs, liars, cutthroats, and, on a good day, criminals.  And they have no respect for Republicans because they have observed us for a long time and think they can get away with anything.

Way back in 2015, when people laughed about Trump entering the presidential race when he made the now-famous descent down the escalator at Trump Tower, I would explain all this to them, and they would look at me like I was just a disgruntled rebel who wanted a fight.  That our political system was sophisticated and righteous.  And I explained how far gone everything was to anybody who would listen, and they just giggled under their breaths and thought they knew better.  Well, it had to be Trump for all the reasons we have been seeing, and only now do people seem to understand these domestic enemies that we know as Democrats, finally.  Only now did Republicans show up to show support for President Trump during his New York trial with Fat Alvin and the gang of communist thugs who are running our judicial system there.  Punishment for the crimes that Democrats put forth and intend to utilize in the months to come can only go one way.  It has to be ruthless.  You can’t sit around crying about it, about unfairness, and how sad it is.  You have to get tough.  And you have to be willing to fight it out.  And when Democrats try to steal this election, too, as they did in 2020 when dumb Republicans thought that the real value was in following the rules and preserving our system of a peaceful transfer of power.  When Democrats refuse to leave the White House and all the other power positions they’ve managed to capture, they will dare us into violence, knowing we don’t have the stomach for it.  Which is why it will be likely that it will be our only option.  They’ll make it that way, and as we contemplate that inevitability, they are plotting our destruction with every breath of every word of insurrection that can be applied against the United States of America.  Because they don’t care about the country or its survival.  They only want more power so they can commit more crimes.  That is what we are dealing with, and that’s probably too nice. 

Rich Hoffman

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I Love the Debate to Make McCarthy Speaker: More fights in congress will only push honesty to the top and give corruption no place to hide

One of the biggest problems with progressives is that they expect that everything will “progress” along with their assumed trajectory of destruction. There has been a plan for the destruction of America from outside forces who long ago figured out that fighting the American military was not going to work for them, so they turned to sabotage, political subversion, and even election fraud to wear away the American government into global submission gradually. Communism and socialism are the foundations of the progressive political movement, so one of their greatest weapons has been to erode away the republic style of government in America into a more democratic form of mass rule with consensus building, and for the last one hundred years, that has been the basic premise of all our government, from the school board level to the debates in Congress in Washington D.C. With all that said, I found it amusing and astonishing how people reacted to the vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House during the first week of January 2023. It took debates all week and 15 different votes to get members of Congress to agree on McCarthy as the Speaker, which I thought was acceptable. I had no problem with the arguments; as I said, this is what government should look like. People should argue and push and shove while managing important matters because that’s how agreements on fundamental truths are determined. Yet I had many people asking me what I thought about the whole “speaker” issue because the media was reporting the whole thing as a travesty, and they believed what they were hearing, which was funny and sad all at that same time.

I have explained to Lynda O’Conner, president of the Lakota school board, the government school in my neighborhood, that government is not supposed to be centered on consensus building; it should be centered on honest debate. I had to laugh at her and some of the other school board members when they sat me down in a basement back in April of 2023 with some local Tea Party members and someone they thought was a great legal mind and tried to apply a new variation of the Delphi Technique on me, to get me convinced that the new school board member Darbi Boddy was bad for the school board and had to be removed. It was insulting to me because I have taught those techniques to hundreds of people for over two decades, and it certainly wasn’t going to work on me. Instead, I explained to them that I thought Darbi was great for the Lakota school board, we have been able to expose a lot of terrible stuff that we otherwise would have never known about because of Darbi, and I further told Lynda that this kind of contention and debate was how I liked to do things. Getting along isn’t the goal; I’ve been in meetings where chairs and computers are thrown, and holes are punched through walls, people get mad, they want to fight, and tempers flare. But that’s all good. I love it; it always forces people to work through their problems and get to the truth. I consider the consensus-building efforts she and others were trying to apply to me to be the evilest thing in the world, using friendships and peer pressure to whip up votes that don’t follow logic but sentiment. We left company that day to never speak again, with years of friendships tossed out the window. That is essentially what has been wrong with all government.

And that’s why I told everyone during the McCarthy vote that I was happy, not sad, by the process. We have a lot to do in the people’s House. There are many investigations into crimes that have ostentatiously occurred, the impeachments of Trump, the lies and manipulations that occurred under Nancy Pelosi, and the way that Congress grossly abused its power. We can’t play patty cake with these people. There have to be punishments for what occurred. And we still have to settle all the crimes that occurred with Covid. You can’t lock down society, conduct a coup against an American president, and deliberately kill people by denying them medicine for a government-controlled pandemic and just get away with it. There will have to be some complex discussions about where Covid came from, who made it, and who let it loose into the world. I think these are rhetorical questions at this point, but we need to ask them formally and take action correctly and legally. Then there is the Joe Biden mess, the laptop, the relationship with Ukraine, and the open border policy that is an open harassment of American sovereignty. Biden, at best, has committed sedition by not securing the border, either by sheer stupidity or purposeful insurrection. We must have a tough congress to ask those hard questions and overcome a media obsessed with consensus building who will try to sabotage the opinion of the American people the way I described the consensus-building exercise that school boards typically use to sell radicalism to the public. 

I was actually disappointed that things were settled by Friday night. I wouldn’t have minded seeing a month of debate, fistfights, and messy arguments. People keep saying that Marjorie Taylor Green has stepped over the line and is sleeping with McCarthy because she is so cozy with him. I see only good things coming out of Green. I met her a few times recently while she was campaigning for J.D. Vance. She knows what she is doing. If she can pull Kevin McCarthy from a RINO position into the Freedom Caucus and put her on some committees that will be investigating Joe Biden and others, that’s great. I hope that romance action isn’t part of under the sheet negotiations. With her, I don’t think so. But humans do those kinds of things. What I care about are the results. And the trajectory of change is not headed in favor of the progressives. Instead, it’s going the other way. I’m not particularly impressed with Speakers of the House and their third most powerful person in the world status. I have one living essentially in my neighborhood, John Boehner. I have a lot of mutual friends who love Boehner. I never have, not when he was at the height of his power, and certainly not now. Boehner realized what was cooking in 2015; the powers of consensus-building and progressivism were eroding and falling apart before their eyes. It’s not getting stronger. The same path of destruction occurred with Nancy Pelosi and Paul Ryan. McCarthy either gets right with the Freedom Caucus or will lose power. That is how it is and where it’s going. So I expected a fight. I also expected nobody but McCarthy to be Speaker.

There are still a lot of RINOs in Congress, but only 20 or so Freedom members. But that number is growing more and more each session. And eventually, it will primarily all be Freedom members. So there is no reason to play nice with Democrats and Progressives. Just don’t overplay the hands. And debate and fighting show the strength of the hand; that’s how you know what’s really going on. Playing nice and holding hands with consensus building will do nothing but create more corruption, and for voters, that’s what they are determined to see an end to. The debate shows that we are headed in the right direction. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Have to Face the Facts, Covid was a Bioweapon Meant to Destroy Capitalism: Working from home was one of the biggest mistakes of the lazy Administrative State

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You have to understand that part of the strategy of the Liberal World Order is to conduct their strategies so outrageously that any question of them would be considered a radical conspiracy theory. Yet, to identify what they have done and what they intend to do requires a proper identification of their vile behavior, and if it sounds crazy, it’s because the act itself was. The people who did the act were crazy, villainous, and way off the radar of acceptability. So talking about what they do can sound crazy and far-fetched because good-thinking people have a hard time believing it. Yet that is part of how they do their evil in society because their intentions are so bad that nobody believes it’s possible. And that certainly has been the case with Covid. Just as a warning, now that we’ve lived through that first, well-planned phase, if we don’t punish those involved, like the Dr. Fauci types who knew about the gain of function research and helped make sure public funding went to the people doing the work, and the Bill Gates types, who used their money to shape the media narrative, or Klaus Schwab who had his book for the Great Reset already written and ready to go when the planned Covid-19 virus was released out of China to create what they called a “new normal,” remember that I told you so in the early days of 2020 when nobody thought such an evil thing was possible. I said at the time that Covid was an attack by the Greenie Weenie types to keep people in their homes, keep people from using fossil fuels to drive a capitalist economy and that the virus was created in a Chinese lab by global forces to steal an election under the haze of panic, made by terrorists to gain control of the entire world, which is precisely what happened.

Now we have to face the facts that it happened on our watch. Once we get control of the House and Senate in America, we have to prosecute those who were involved because if they don’t, the next manufactured Covid virus may not be engineered to only kill under 1% of the world population but 80%, which was conveniently leaked information from a Boston lab just a few weeks from the election of 2022. I would say that the leak was a warning, a gun to all our heads of what is possible. These are people who will kill most of the world’s population if they find they can’t have control of it. They are not sane people and don’t plan to give power back through elections. They believe themselves to be beyond prosecution, they think they own the courts and world opinion through the media, and they are not afraid of judgment of any kind. And you better believe it, they didn’t want to kill everyone during the first Covid launch. They just wanted to get everyone’s attention.

Covid was manufactured in a lab paid for mainly by American taxpayer money to make a Covid virus that was very contagious but not very deadly. Just deadly enough to scare people. But not enough to actually kill them. The point of the virus was mass enslavement, to convince people to give up their sovereignty and turn everything over to the Liberal World Order and their Administrative State. It was their Great Reset, and they planned to use Covid to create a New Normal. And suppose they don’t get their way? In that case, they will manufacture the next virus to kill most of the population because they are crazy and believe that they must do so to save the planet from the infestation of humans that their radical religion of earth worship says is evil to the world. 

And you can see the panic in their actions behind the people who made Covid the first time. You can see the panic in Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates when he is doing interviews on liberal cable shows trying to reshape the Covid story, which never would have happened without him. Klaus Schwab is in a panic because of populism rising up all over the world. Larry Fink is trying to reshape the image of BlackRock now that people know what kind of scam they have been running. Zuckerbucks is trying to reshape the image of Facebook because they are contaminated with election fraud, as they were caught red-handed. Sure they have the courts eating out of their hands because they all sprinkle plenty of money around, but people know. Their New Normal has turned out to be rejected by people. People wanted to return to the Old Normal as fast as possible, rejecting the New Normal altogether. Never has it been more evident than in the work-from-home debacle. As we look around America at the slow supply chains and generally poor condition of workforce engagement, you can see the devastating results of the Klaus Schwab New Normal grotesquely. I thought it was bad before 2019 when they released Covid from China to steal the election from Trump and put Joe Biden in his place, a compromised fool they could easily control. I thought the American workforce was already terribly destroyed through their educations, through union activism, and the general erosion of socialist policies in the minds of traditional Americans. They had this lazy, work only 40 hours a week mentality and didn’t show up for work enough before Covid. After Covid, and the ridiculous CDC tried to rewrite all the labor laws with 10-day quarantines just for being near someone with Covid, and the work-from-home strategies meant to keep people from driving their fossil fuel-driven cars, the impact on the American workforce has been detrimental.    

The larger the company and the more woke they have been forced to be with influences such as BlackRock, the more loose they have become with their labor expectations. And these days, most companies don’t know when their employees are coming to work, especially on the white-collar side of things. The Covid push was to keep people out of the office, to decentralize corporate control, and to give that control to the Administrative State run by white-coat bureaucrats who work for the World Health Organization and are protected by the American military and our own FBI. But what the losers of the Covid movement didn’t realize, because many of them are rich and disconnected from how they became that way, is that work is a function of human interaction. And here they were trying to take the human interaction out of work, which was destined to fail. People need to see each other, even if they don’t like each other. They can’t sit around at home, do a few weekly meetings through Microsoft Teams or Zoom, and expect to get anything done. People working from home only work 15 hours a week instead of 40. I would argue a company should expect a salaried person to work at least 60 hours a week to be competitive in the world, and that clearly is not happening now. With the government intrusions into the labor market with Covid as the excuse, they have turned productive hours of employment into the typical lazy slugs of government employment. Companies are lucky if they get 20 hours of work from their salary people per week, and from their hourly force, they are lucky if they show up. Because of the Covid restrictions, many employees no longer think they need a doctor’s note to call off work; all they have to say is that they were near someone who was near someone, who was near someone with a positive Covid test, and they think they get to stay home for two weeks playing Playstation. It’s ridiculous and is the result of direct government tampering, the intentions of the Desecrators of Davos, and their micromanagement of mass society through what they tried to create, which was a “New Normal.” But now that their efforts have failed, people have rejected everything about them and are finally getting back to work, slowly. Be ready for this same group of people to unleash an even deadlier virus that they have manufactured using gain of function to do it. Yes, they will kill most of the planet rather than pay for their crimes. And if we don’t hold them accountable quickly, they surely will. 

Rich Hoffman

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“Timmy” Ryan from Ohio: The only real vote is for J.D. Vance

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Tim Ryan has been a House of Representatives member from Ohio before now running for senate. He is taking on J.D. Vance for that old Rob Portman seat and is attempting to make himself look as moderate as possible to bleed away votes from the MAGA Republicans. But outside his liberal incubator, as he has been trying to appeal to voters across the state, his efforts have increasingly looked foolish and even desperate. And after a barrage of commercials trying hard to look better than J.D. Vance, Tim Ryan has instead made himself look like the popular character from the animated series South Park, the little handicapped kid Timmy. The funny thing about Timmy from South Park is that he is so audaciously over the top because he’s too handicapped to know where the limit is. And people let him be because they figure he’s handicapped, and it would be politically incorrect to say anything to him. So they just let him go, which is the root of all the comedy. And that is the same thing for the Tim Ryan campaign; someone should have told him that he’s being ridiculous. But like the handicapped kid from South Park of the same name, Timmy, who wants to run for the Ohio senate seat based on the handicap of his own progressive politics, is making a fool of himself, but nobody will tell him because they fear it might be politically incorrect. Not even the media will do it; who is saying that the race is essentially tied and that J.D. Vance is fighting for his life with this one? Based on watching the many Tim Ryan campaign ads, I don’t think J.D. Vance has anything to worry about. 

The polling likely has more to do with the need of the media to keep the drama of the horse race in politics interesting rather than being reflective of any actual voters. It’s a common problem with polling, liberals pick up the phone, and Republicans, especially MAGA Republicans, don’t answer unless their smartphone tells them who is calling. Whoever is running the poll takes down the samplings of whoever picks up the phone, and that’s how the poll results are created. Meanwhile, there are a lot of unrepresented voters out there that nobody knows about on election day who show up and vote quietly, keeping their intentions to themselves. By then, it doesn’t matter to the media sources because they have sold a close race to the public for as long in the election cycle as they could have. And that means good ratings because people watch their programming keeping ad revenue up during the election cycle. When they are surprised with the election results, and someone like J.D. Vance turns out with a six to eight-point victory, they get some additional media interest in talking about the surprise for a few weeks after the election so that ad investment doesn’t just bleed off. That is the name of the game and clearly what is going on in Ohio with the Senate race. Tim Ryan is a big-time liberal, to the left of Karl Marx in a lot of measures. And Ohio voters aren’t that far left. 

That reality has pushed Tim Ryan to come across as overly enthusiastic about his chances leaving rational minds to giggle to themselves over the matter. But Timmy is like that handicapped kid from South Park. Nobody wants to do the politically incorrect thing and tell him what a fool he is making of himself. Nobody wants to tell him how ridiculous he sounds. And how stupid it is that they think enough people will forget how liberal he has been in Congress and that he is suddenly like a MAGA Republican on trade policy. Or that he’s some kind of tough guy. He can throw footballs at televisions, including images of J.D. Vance himself, and knock them down with a coy smirk on his face as if that subtle message was going to convey strength instead of a reminder of just how hostile the modern political left is. Then when you add up the efforts of Tim Ryan and compare them to the other losers running in this election as well, such as Fetterman in Pennsylvania, we are getting a collection of some of the most handicapped people ever to run in an American election, who have made their entire platform based on feeling sorry for them. It’s one thing to feel sorry for them and their intellectual handicaps in life. It’s quite another to let them run our lives, which is their proposal. They really think that voters are as handicapped as they are, and they are functioning along with that assumption, which has a comedic element to it. 

I would say that pressure from the MAGA Republicans has caused this handicap among progressives to become so obvious. Tim Ryan is trying so hard to overcome it that his efforts end up looking distinctly phony. And they are all desperate; in most campaign years, no political party would attempt to put up a guy like Fetterman with his hoody and tattoos, not to mention his lack of speech in the wake of his recent stroke. Add the Georgia race to the mix along with others, and the Democrat Party under the old fool Joe Biden looks like a demolition derby of handicapped underachievers from misfit island, and that’s the best that they can do. Democrats have no platform, they have lost their victimization positions, and their track record is abysmal. The first priority for all voters is economic well-being; on Biden’s watch, he has wrecked the economy. It took a few months into his first term after the controversy of a stolen election to destroy the economy, but we are now going into many consecutive quarters of negative growth and are headed for a depression. People feel it even if the media isn’t wanting to talk about it, to prop up the horse race to make things look closer than they really are. But because of the media involvement in making things look better than they really are, we now have all these handicapped politicians like Timmy Ryan who really think they have a chance to win. I would remind voters that cheating is still part of the strategy of all Democrats, and there will be cheating in this election, especially in places like Philadelphia, where there will likely be more voters voting for Fetterman than there are actual, registered voters. Democrats are going all in on this election because they know they are a party that is being completely rejected by the American public, especially after that stolen election in 2020 and their anger at the Biden administration destroying their 401K plans. Republicans still can’t take anything for granted. They have to go and actually vote, especially on election day itself. But understanding all that, Timmy Ryan in Ohio doesn’t have a chance, and it’s almost cruel to let him continue to make a fool of himself for the purpose of ad ratings on cable news. Intellectually he doesn’t measure up to J.D. Vance, the Trump-endorsed candidate in the Ohio Senate race and the only person who can do anything to Make America Great Again.  Tim Ryan, well, he’s just always going to be “Timmy.” 

Rich Hoffman

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The Lincoln Day Dinner of 2022: Battles coming, going, and brewing

It’s always good to talk about nice things, and the Lincoln Day Dinner for 2022 for the Butler County Republican Party was undoubtedly something good to talk about. Like I say all the time, politics is a blood sport. People aren’t always supposed to get along. So it’s not the function of a prominent Republican gathering at the Savanah Center in West Chester to just have everyone get along, even though they did. The goal of politics is to get the best people into public offices that can be obtained. Often the best management of any resource involves pressure applied to individual vision to draw it out for the public’s benefit. In Butler County, with Todd Hall as the party’s Chairman, it has undoubtedly been a success story. Butler County is a large, wealthy county in Ohio; it has over 400,000 people and a major national university. And every officeholder position in the county is held by a Republican. That is something to say and provides a good indication of what the people of Butler County are really like. But it’s not easy to manage all the ‘A type” personalities who get into politics for their communities. The people who run for office don’t tend to be the shy types, so managing all those personalities, especially when they sometimes get cross with each other, is quite a challenge, and Todd Hall does the job well, which culminated in the evening at that dinner which was nothing short of magnificent. 

Mike Pompeo came in to speak at this Lincoln Day event, along with the nationally bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy, who managed to find time between Fox News media appearances to give a rousing speech to a hungry room of freedom fighters. Warren Davidson, of course, was there and was instrumental in bringing Mike Pompeo in, fresh from the Trump administration, where we all had the feeling of reloading for the next round of political battles that were coming next. I had a chance to talk to Jim Renacci a lot as he came down from his campaign for governor of Ohio, which is going well. There were many people from all over the state of Ohio who came to this Butler County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner, which filled the Savannah Center into every crevasse. It was great to see so many friends in one place simultaneously. The battles that everyone fights for are worth it, especially on evenings like that one. During primary season, like the one we have this year where there are so many contentious races, such as the governor race where Mike DeWine is running for re-election, and Jim Renacci was challenging him, it would be easy to have factions of discontent which wouldn’t even be able to shake hands. But the event’s mood, led by Todd Hall and guided by the diligent hands of hundreds of volunteers who worked behind the scenes for the party’s best interests, provided an atmosphere that felt more like Mar-a-Lago from Trump’s Florida home than just another political gathering. Every last touch had behind it a love of country and an intention to do good in the world. Different people, of course, have different ideas about what good is, but the pursuit of it was apparent for all to see. 

It’s not like the Butler County Republican Party was playing things easy; they recently endorsed Jim Renacci for governor over the incumbent. In the audience was Justice Pat DeWine, the son of the governor.  Jane Timken was in the audience, and Mike Gibbons, who are both running for the hotly contested Senate seat soon to be vacated by Rob Portman. There were literally hundreds of contentious side stories that could fill novels that interacted in the halls of that grand event, but what impressed me was the candor with which it was all presented. Todd Hall’s management style with all these unique personalities allows for hotly contested debate and personal battles that still celebrates the achievement voters get in the end, and that is something special. Politics is tricky under the best of circumstances, but routinely pulling off successes like what Butler County enjoys is quite an accomplishment. Of course, behind the scenes come the unifying elements of Ann Becker, whom I’ve known for many years now, going back to the Cincinnati Tea Party, which she led. Debbie Lang who always brings energy to everything she’s around. Joe Statzer and Mark Murphy work on all the details. There is a long list of people behind the scenes who make the Republican Party of Butler County, such a great organization. I single out Todd Hall because it takes a unique person to give all these diverse personalities autonomy and to trust that people will find common ground and build from that position rather than break out in fistfights from the many different perspectives that so many officeholders have. Guided by a less skilled hand, everything could turn out to be a disaster rather than the success story that it continues to be. 

Ultimately, the Lincoln Day event is a good team builder, and they are always nice to go to when the people putting them on so much love what they do. But what the public gets is a strong party that represents them where it matters most. Contention in politics is good; it forces the best people and best ideas to the surface to manage on behalf of the voters, and Butler County is an example of how it should be done everywhere in the country. The Butler County Republican Party is the example that everyone should be following, especially in the newly Trump-led Republican party. The management style it takes to unify so many diverse personalities is the stuff success seminars are built on. To have an evening in the height of election season just to take a breath of fresh air is nice. But the reminder of why so many people get into public office and how an army of volunteers behind the scenes contribute their time and energy without ever thinking about pay tells a story that is worth recognizing. If not for them and the tireless hours of work that go on behind the scenes, there would not be a great Republican Party of Butler County. There would not be a Republican in every Butler County political office. The strength of the party is because of all the effort that countless people put into it, and by the leadership of Todd Hall to have just enough guiding force to keep people together just enough but not to impose on them any dictates which might threaten their unique gifts for which voters could then select as representatives. The whole evening was just as impressive as the Butler County Republican Party is itself. It reflected many thousands of hours of hard work and an ambitious eye toward tomorrow; whereas bad as things look on the national horizon, in Butler County, Ohio, all is great and getting better. If such a formula could project itself nationwide under the next Trump presidency, there is a lot to be excited about in the years to come. Because ultimately, politics is there to serve the Republic for which we all fight to make a stand, and the voters are in charge and respected by the guiding light of hard-working people who genuinely understand how to do it right.

Rich Hoffman

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A Review of ‘Our Time Together’: How great America was and can be again

Now that we are a year into the Biden presidency and can clearly see what many of us were warning about coming to fruition, people have great reason to remember the Trump time in the White House favorably and yearn for it again. The depression you feel was by design, after all. All you have to do is listen to Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum talk about all his recruits around the world who are doing their work, names like Justin Trudeau and Vladimir Putin, to understand the great robbery of global wealth that is going on from that collection of socialists and communists intent on taking over the world by controlling all the governments with money, instead of tanks and troops, to understand the scope of what has been happening in America. Few people can remember what life was like before The Great Reset of Covid when we had three good years of Trump and the world was working great for the first time that anybody could recollect. The hostile insurgents from that World Economic Forum, who have their controls in the media, in American and global politics, just couldn’t let such a good thing continue. Hence, they did what criminals always do; they sabotaged America from the inside out and did everything they could to destroy that Trump presidency and all those who voted for him. And now we see the results a year later with Joe Biden and a government out of control and trillions of dollars in debt. All the things that were hidden before they lashed out and exposed themselves to the light of day, which has been good so that we can see them without their masks. But ultimately, America we all know and love is and has been under assault, and we have been craving some memory of it.

Well, Trump and his family are pretty smart and great at branding. My wife has been feeling a lot of those melancholy feelings, so I understand all too well how many Americans are feeling. We traveled all over the United States in 2021, and I can say with great authenticity that I know America well, and most of America voted for Trump. At first, it was just a gut instinct after the 2020 election. But after traveling a lot and talking to people everywhere, it’s pretty clear that the Biden presidency was created in Davos by a media culture that only fluffed up its peacock feathers to make itself look bigger and stronger than it really was. But to many, they saw that display, and they believe that what they are dealing with is actually a terrible menace instead of a skinny, stupid bird under all those feathers. So I was one of the first to buy Trump’s new book called Our Journey Together, and I gave it to my wife for Christmas. It had a predictable result; she loved it. It was nice to see such a book capture the Trump years in the White House and do it in a classy way. It’s a beautiful book laced with all the kinds of class that always comes from the Trump name, especially on their managed properties. The book reflects the style of America that Klaus Schwab and many other hostile agents around the world are intending to destroy.   And by what we see on the nightly news with the spiking crime rates, the runaway inflation, the increases in gas prices, and many other terrors and treacheries, the intent is obvious. But Trump and his family captured their four years in the White House in a way that reminds us what life was like before Covid came along and torpedoed our nation and our lives in such an intrusive way. And it’s really just now sinking in for many just how bad it was. But with a book like Our Journey Together, we have a time capsule that lets us all know that it wasn’t just a dream; it was real. 

Little things that I didn’t expect out of the book were really nice touches. Trump shows in the book that he feels the same way as most of the rest of us, the more than 80 million people who voted for him. We know at least 75 million actual votes went for Trump out of our society. It looks like at least 5 million more were destroyed by post office workers and other malcontents. Now that Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania are all involved in legal actions, which shows many of the votes that went for Joe Biden were fake and can’t be verified with an I.D. of any kind, it’s well known that the election was stolen. For the attackers of America, the Davos crowd, and the politicians like Mitch McConnell were bought by their system to insert the Biden presidency to protect their many crimes committed from a justice-seeking Trump administration backed by the people of this country; they had to protect themselves somehow. They did so with voter tampering on such a vast scale that many of us have taken all this time to wrap our heads around it. The idea of such deceit to the good people of America just wasn’t a possibility until the evidence started pouring in that it had, in fact, happened. And that most of our political class, from Mike Pence to many in the Senate and Congress, showed that they were willing to play along with the scam to remove Trump from office and hopefully the Republican Party completely, and the relationship with the Davos Party could resume and continue to enrich them all as it has. And they wanted the gut punch to sting, to remind us that we are not a self-governed people. That our elections could be stolen and that we needed to shut up, put on the mask, and hide in our homes while they stole the wealth of the world for their own goals, and that we’d like it. 

It’s no wonder that the publisher of Trump’s book, Our Journey Together, is having a hard time getting paper, ink, and glue to produce the book. It’s continuing to sell well, even after the initial 250,000 produced for the Christmas holiday were shipped. People continue to flock to it for a memory of what we had and to nurture the hope that we could have it again, if not a lot more of it. I tend to think that what we get out of all this mess will be better because people now know it’s possible; it actually happened once. They know who the bad guys are, and they know that Trump was their representation of the good guys. The world was shocked when America picked Trump both times. The second time, the Davos Party and many other shady characters worked to stop that incursion into their global theft. So, they stole our election, and they were caught. They, of course, will do as all criminals do; they will deny and deny forever what they did. But the evidence only points in one direction, and justice will have to find its way to their doorsteps; otherwise, civil society is not possible. They will do whatever they have to do to prevent the kind of America that Trump shows in Our Time Together. The enemies of our culture didn’t want it the first time, and they are determined never to let it happen again. But for the rest of us who are actually in control of that future state result, we can at least know that we had it once and that our goal is to have it all again, only this time, much better and without any apology to anybody. 

Rich Hoffman

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Justice is Coming: We are one election away from Impeaching Joe Biden, and others

Justice is Coming

It’s a clear warning for those who are fighting against our Constitution. The time for justice is coming. Many of the crimes that the political left has deliberately committed over the years assumed that they would overthrow the Constitution before we arrived at this point. But the beauty of our Constitution, as I saw all the time, is that it is built for just this kind of justice. It takes time, but it’s better than the chaos of armed insurrection. But conflict is a natural part of all order, and when we are attacked, order, justice, and personal satisfaction are certainly expectations we are more than warranted to expect. And the crimes are mounting in 2022 for a massive groundswell of Republican gains in the House and Senate at the federal level and many state races that will purge the genuine socialism and communism emerging from the Democrat party. With Biden getting caught trying to stoke war between Russia and Ukraine alone is far worse than what the Nancy Pelosi-led House did to impeach President Trump. With that bar of impeachment lowered, the House will move to impeach Joe Biden in 2023 over several issues, and they will be more than justified in doing so. My purpose for this particular article is to lay out the case ahead of time for all those liberals who will certainly cry about how unfair it is. Well, they had their chance to swing the bat, and we saw what they did with it. They went for all our heads, and they played to kill. Thankfully our Constitution has held, and now the momentum will shift in the other direction, and there won’t be a lot of room for sympathy. I would say the impeachments, the investigations, and the general aggression that will have to come from Republicans in the House and Senate is better for Democrats than the violence that would otherwise be justifiably due. And when it does, the crying in the media won’t help them. It is time to pay and pay they will.

As I write this, the mail-in ballots from the Pennsylvania election in 2020 have been deemed unconstitutional, meaning the election results there were illegally counted. Democrats in that election pushed for the counting of all ballots, illegal or otherwise, and knowingly committed election fraud in order not just to win the presidency but many down-ballot races that have put in place many unlawful representatives. The most significant justification for a Biden impeachment is his handling of the border with Mexico. The Biden administration took an oath to the American Constitution that required him to protect the border. Still, instead, the Biden people have adopted an Open Border Society approach advocated by George Soros to poor millions of illegal aliens into our country essentially to vote and keep Democrats in power illegally. Biden has knowingly broken the law to commit election fraud by flying these illegal aliens into targeted population zones to affect the upcoming election. That is why Democrats generally do not want voter I.D. because they knowingly participate in this type of election fraud. And that is the key part of the case in Pennsylvania; how do you know that a mail-in ballot is the vote of a real person? You can’t; it’s too much of an opportunity to commit election fraud, which obviously did occur in Pennsylvania.

Additionally, that same type of fraud occurred in all the contested states, which struggled to find 45,000 votes to put Biden up over Trump in the 2020 election. Logic can only conclude if we were just looking at this one form of election fraud, using illegal aliens to prop up Biden in the last election, that this practice is typical, not unusual. The apparent attempt to do the same for the 2022 election, and forever forward until our country is destroyed as a Republic and crushed by a mob ruled Democracy that impeachment of Biden by a new House and Senate majority would be getting off easy. 

But more than that, to turn to Ukraine, which has been at the center of the Biden family corruption, and attempt to point the world’s attention to a much-needed war there with Russia, while Russia plays bad cop to the Chinese good cop in diplomacy is far beyond a crime of intention. Based on what the Democrats in the House did to Trump over his Ukrainian call, the call between Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky on January 28th was impeachable because it was an American president trying to stoke war for the prime purpose of political distraction domestically. With several Supreme Court losses centered around Executive Orders to force mandatory vaccines to fight Covid, which was created by Dr. Fauci in a Chinese lab and unleashed to the world—again during an election year to tamper with the results of that election, the actions of Biden just on this incident rise to the level of impeachment from office. Just this one thing. But of course, we know many things will come to investigation in 2023 that the Biden people will not be prepared to deal with because their assumption all along was that the American people would throw out the Constitution by the time we arrived at this next election. But, as we can clearly see, if the Constitution is intact and the rule of law applied, the Democrat Party will essentially be done for, and there will be a lot of cries about unfairness and tyranny. But the cries will fall on deaf ears because this time, people saw what the villains of our country intended, and they can’t hide their eyes from what they saw and experienced.

For those who are more soft-hearted and might be inclined to listen to the cries of unfairness that will come from ABC owned Disney, and CNN, MSNBC Bill Gates, and the billionaires at Davos consider yourselves lucky that Americans have waited and turned their need for satisfaction to the justice of our Constitution. I have said from the start of all this, even though the crimes were evident and terrible, that before we grab our guns and start a real war of violence against a grossly incompetent and malicious government domestically, and lots of foreign actors who have been given a key to our back door and have intended to destroy us all, what is coming from our replacement government Constitutionally principled, is getting off easy. They might think of it as the worst thing in the world as it’s happening, but history will measure us all by the justice of a Republic, led by law and order. And when those laws were broken, as they have been, the remedy was within the Constitution all along, and that makes it different from any other period in human history, which is magnificent. Sure, we could slay all these tyrants in a bloodbath, and for many, it has been tempting. But what we have coming will be much better than that. And as it’s happening, there is no reason to cry for the criminals in our government who will have to pay. They brought it upon themselves and can only look in the mirror as to whom to blame. We didn’t choose for them to do all these things, they did them intentionally and corruptly, and now they will have to pay. 

Rich Hoffman

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You Can Get it All with Thomas Hall: What good government looks like

Vote For Thomas Hall

Now that we’re in the primary season, it’s time for endorsements. This one for Thomas Hall is so obvious that I might not even think he needs one. But primaries can be tricky since there aren’t usually many voters who participate, so just for good measure, I wanted to say how excited I am to endorse Thomas Hall for the 53rd House District in Ohio. Some redistricting is going on, which might expand Hall’s district from Middletown into Liberty Township, which is presently going through the Supreme Court process. But whatever the case, Thomas Hall is one of the finest examples of what politics should look like. He certainly deserves another term to continue doing the excellent work that he has been doing. He’s a Trump Republican who worked for the campaign in 2016 when it wasn’t so popular to do so out of Madison Township, where he had been a two-term trustee. As he appears in the video above, Thomas seems to be too young to have so much political experience at this point in his life and running for a second term in the Ohio House, but let me tell you, this guy is a whiz kid. He’s been involved in a lot of undoubtedly conservative legislature. He has stood up to some severe bullying by influential political figures and not allowed them to sway him away from the voting public. He is one of the rare examples of a person who comes into politics with all the ideology of goodness and has lived it out in real life, which is exceptionally unique. He’s everything voters could want and more in a representative, and I look forward to more from him in the years to come.

I always refer to politics as a blood sport. One of the things I admire most about Thomas is that he’s been able to weather a lot of political current without losing himself to the tides of erosion. He is the same good person going into his second year as the first. He has a confidence that is unusual in people young or old, which has served him well as a political heavyweight in a brief period. Of course, that kind of competency would get attention and make political enemies. Having political enemies is a great thing; it means you are doing a good job and ultimately doing the people’s work. Many people get into politics for the wrong reasons, making it a weary point of conversation for most people. They’d rather not deal with politics because their experience with politicians is often very negative for that reason. But Thomas is the exception. He is like the classic representative from some far-flung Wild West town that greets all his voters with enthusiasm, shakes hands with everyone, including all the babies, and is sincere in doing it. And people love him. Going into January of 2022, I would think that Thomas Hall would be a slam dunk for re-election. But you can’t take anything for granted these days. Some people may not know Thomas yet, especially with the prospects of redistricting, so endorsements are an excellent way to learn more about him.

Thomas and I met to film the endorsement video in West Chester, Ohio, to the south of where he lives and works, just north of Middletown. The 53rd district consists of Middletown, Monroe, Trenton, Seven-Mile, Madison, and Oxford, so West Chester is in another political universe. When we were parking Thomas was like a rock star. People recognized him immediately and wanted to come up and shake his hand. Thomas Hall has, after all, been a part of most of the significant gun legislation that has been moving through Columbus, including arming teachers to promote school safety and constitutional carry. He certainly has the most conservative position on abortion in politics. To the political left, these may seem like extreme positions, but Thomas is far from any kind of extremist. His views are consistent with most people’s, and you can see when he speaks with those who greet him, that is the case. Hall comes across as a friendly young man who cares because he actually does. And it is that attitude that has made him so successful as a first-term member of the House. He’s doing the kind of work in politics that people have wanted to see done for a long time, but often politicians don’t dare to do it. But Thomas is fearless and friendly enough to have compassion for his political rivals. He doesn’t have to be mean or a sell-out. He’s smart enough to win without crawling through the mud, and people can see that. That much is evident when people approached him while we were going to film the video. People naturally like Thomas Hall because they can see that he’s not a phony. 

I’ve known Thomas for a while now; I have seen him at events all over town for years. I know how hard it is for me to attend political events because time is often short, and it’s hard to schedule in my busy life. Thomas is always at all those events, and he goes to a lot more of them than I do. And when he is there, he is always very polite, very respectful, interested in talking to the people around him. He’s always learning new things and applying them to his vast experience as a young man. For me, his first term flew by too quickly. Every time I have met with him, it was reassuring to know that a great person like him was in one of our House seats in Ohio. He is what government should look like, and I’d hate to see that condition change with an election. So for my part, it’s a slam dunk on Thomas Hall, re-elect him, and send him back to Columbus not just with the primary election but the general coming up in November.

The primary is in May. It may seem a bit far out, but we can’t take anything for granted. These things move fast. A good government takes more work than most people usually give to it. But it’s worth it when you get it, which is undoubtedly the case with Thomas Hall. When I think of his name, I think of good government. I think of someone who will stand up to corruption emphatically. He has the ideology of someone new to politics who wants to fight the bad guys out there. But he has the smarts to know how to do it without losing his soul. I would go beyond calling him, my friend. I think he’s excellent for Ohio, great for the nation, and really good for the Trump Republican America that is hatching as we speak. This movement only started to sprout during the first Trump presidency. Those who don’t like Thomas Hall in politics are the same kind of people who didn’t like Trump because both wanted to solve problems rather than use crises to gain more power. No voter could go wrong with Thomas Hall, and when it comes time to vote for him in the primary, I am very much looking forward to voting for him and making the world a better place with a second term.

Rich Hoffman

I Support Josh Mandel for the Ohio Senate: It’s all about making elevator rides uncomfortable

I Support Josh Mandel for Ohio Senate

The upcoming senate race for Ohio to replace the Rob Portman seat is coming up fast.  There were some good elections in 2021, but that’s all behind us now.  It’s time to go or get off the pot for endorsing someone for the Ohio Senate Race of 2022.  I like many of the candidates; I think they all have some great attributes.  The key to something like this, which still has many months of campaigning, is to pick the person who will best serve that seat a few years from now, not necessarily where politics is presently.  And I think, especially after reading The Nixon Conspiracy by Geoff Shepard and The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that the political world of tomorrow will be much different than what it has been over the past decade.  Picking candidates for the climate we are coming into is essential because the political terrain will be robust with political stunts, media hype, and the ability to shame candidates on the senate floor and still ride the elevator back to the parking garage after.  It’s not going to be for the political lite but rather those who can most withstand betrayal and scandal and support the Trump America First Agenda without hesitation. And my pick to be that guy is Josh Mandel. 

I like Jane Timken a lot, but after meeting with her a few times and watching her campaigning now for several months, she’s too conventional. She’s a bridge-builder, and we’re talking about a senate that needs to get rid of people like Mitch McConnell in the leadership and who will instantly harass Chuck Schumer right out of the gate.  Even sitting in the bathroom stall, they need to shame all the comfortable senate members like Lindsey Graham.  Retaking the Senate as a Republican majority is a war, including even the RINOs who are there now who have not been protecting the American Constitution the way they need to.  Jane talks about herself being a fighter, and I think she is, perhaps for some time in the past or the future.  But not for the 2022 race extending past 2025. She’s just too nice for that environment, for what has to be done.  I have nothing against her, she has done an excellent job with the Republican Party in Ohio, and I think she can work the Trump endorsement that she no doubt would get once the primary is over. Still, she’s just too conventional to excite people into action.  

The other guy I had been rooting for whom I was happy to meet is J.D. Vance.  His problem is that he was a Never Trumper, and in a Trump-heavy election, that is coming back to bite him.  He has a lot of money pouring in to support him, a lot of the big conventional money would rather have a Trump hater than a Trump copy, so J.D. Vance is raising a lot of money and has a shot to keep things close.  But what it comes down to is he’s too nice of a guy.  Like Jane, he might make a great senator in a different time when people played nicely together, and a legislative agenda was more important.  But these are not those times; what matters is America First and nothing else, and the ability to fight with peers on the senate floor the way Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are in the House.  Radicals have overtaken the Democrat Party, I would say for the last 40 or 50 years. 

The masks of communism are off now, but the radicalism is deep in their culture, especially as it extends into the media and global investment brokers.  To undo all that, it will take a lot of political theater and members on the Hill who will write legislation endorsed by the Trump White House and fight for it on the floor, perhaps even physically.  It’s not what you see on TV that anybody must worry about; it’s what happens in the halls, the offices, and during the commute that requires aggression and boisterousness.  The Democrats are the enemy, and the fight has to be taken to them.  J.D. Vance is a nice guy who does pretty well on Tucker Carlson and can come up with some one-liners.  But when it comes to fighting, he’s not the guy for the battlefield.  Like I said, maybe during a different time.    

The rest of them in the field, such as Mike Gibbons, are to the left of J.D. and Jane, and I don’t consider them relevant in this race.  They may make some noise, but they don’t have what it takes for this Senate seat that essentially needs to pressure Sharrod Brown’s supporters to fall off the earth.  None of this hand-holding that Rob Portman has started with the Brown camp is what Ohio voters have been wanting.  Democrat progressives need to be destroyed.  There were three things that Josh Mandel did that solidified my opinion about him.  He worked with Darby Boddi at Lakota in gaining the support of the growing number of angry moms there, and he did a fantastic job on 55 KRC with Brian Thomas to talk about it. I personally spoke to Josh at a Republican event privately and on stage in front of a really big audience with big-time Republican members in the audience such as Jim Jordan and Frank LaRose, about his commitment to the election fraud that robbed Trump of the Executive Branch in 2020.  And the third thing was an event at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe where he had the Tea Party religious right showing great support.  He appeared on stage with Jena Ellis from the Trump legal team and was very evangelical.  Now, that particular assemblage of the electorate is only about 30% of the total conservative vote, but they are passionate, and when they are winning, they are contagious.  When Trump gives out endorsements in the summer of 2022 after this primary race is over, it’s going to be Trump for Renacci for governor and Mandel for Senate, and these people will be the ground troops who fill the crowds. 

When people wonder if Josh Mandel can win the general election, as he obviously can win the primary, the answer to that will be yes.  Even though he will come across as weak and vulnerable in a general election to Democrats and media members, the people who actually vote will put everything on the table for a hard-core Trump supporter, especially as Trump does many campaign stops in Ohio during that election season.  Any scandal that follows Josh Mandel around, as he is a little on the wild side, won’t matter just as it hasn’t for Trump.  Mandel will have the evangelicals, and they will be his foot soldiers to success.  People in Ohio will vote for someone attached to Trump’s hip, and none of the candidates in this race has more openly embraced Trump than Josh Mandel by sticking to the election fraud issue more.  Trump will reward Josh with an open endorsement as he will be campaigning for Renacci anyway.  At that point in the race, the other candidates would be nowhere near as exciting to Ohio voters as someone who isn’t afraid of political stunts and sticking to them when the pressure is most significant.  And when it comes to taking the fight to the Senate floor in Washington D.C. I asked Josh the same thing. I asked the other candidates how prepared they were for the battle to come.  Only Josh Mandel gave me the correct answer about actually showing light in his eyes when the talk of fighting liberals personally and directly came up.  And I’m convinced that with Josh Mandel, there will be many uncomfortable elevator rides for the opposition in the years to come.     

Rich Hoffman

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