It should have happened already in history, the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.  The problem most people have is that they have fallen in love with this notion of acquired power, preserved through bureaucracy and mindless red tape, which is the theme of Washington politics and the media culture that supports it.  Hey, we are dealing with unprecedented evil from the Administrative State; where are the investigations for the Wuhan lab leak, and what does the government know about it and when?  Where are the impeachments of the Biden crime family, and what about the election fraud that put him in office?  And the failure to secure the borders, you don’t play friendly with Democrats.  You do the job of the American people, or you should be removed from office.  Nothing is so sacred as a job if you are not doing the required work.  And Kevin got caught playing with Democrats, trying to destroy America with reckless debt.  I have news for everyone; this is nothing.  The goal isn’t to play nice with other Republicans to preserve Republicans holding more seats than Democrats for power and control of the House floor, as defined by the people trying to destroy our country.  No, we are in a period where actual achievement is required to do these jobs, and if people aren’t doing the job, they will be fired.  For too long, the focus has been on sitting in seats while politicians did the work of lobbyists, and people have grown tired of this nonsense, so this removal of people from office is only going to occur more often, and who is to blame?  The people who didn’t do the job, not the people who called out bad behavior for what it is.  By the nature of things, people should expect many more terminations of government positions if the expectation of actual performance drives the value of those positions.

I had an excellent opportunity to have lunch with Bernie Moreno, who I will be endorsing for the Ohio Senate, and I took away some exciting switches in sentiment for these types of races.  J.D. Vance has already come out and endorsed Moreno for what they are presenting as Team Ohio in the Senate, and from him was a clear understanding that life in Washington, D.C., had to change dramatically.  Moreno is a performance-based guy, a successful person before he ever became involved in politics; he represents an entirely different kind of politician that fits in well with MAGA Republicans as opposed to entrenched SWAMP creatures who grab power by telling everyone what they want to hear, then doing nothing once they get in office.  I asked Bernie why he wanted to run for such an office; he could be doing many other things now.  He responded that he wanted to give something back, which was almost precisely what J.D. Vance had told me a few years ago in the backyard of Nancy Nix.  I’ve been doing these kinds of political lunches with people for thirty years and only lately have I noticed this trend toward merit-based politics since Trump changed things so dramatically in 2015.  Because of Trump, there are now people like Bernie Moreno entering politics, people who have been successful before who are entering politics to bring success from their lives over into public enterprise.  They expect to do a good job; they aren’t going to these offices because they can’t hack it in the real world.  These are completely new types of politicians and that trend is increasing.  Kari Lake just announced that she is running for Senate so we are seeing a dramatic change in expectation as to what a politician should be, and people like Mitch McConnel and Kevin McCarthy are not it.

I also learned at that same lunch from Bernie that Rob Portman, a person I used to know pretty well until he turned to the dark side of Democrat politics, was having a fundraiser in Cincinnati for Kyrsten Sinema.  Of course, the disgust that comes from those kinds of meetings is politicians’ lack of respect for actually doing the job.  The belief is that it’s more important to reach across the aisle to play nice in the sandbox with rivals than actually to get the job done.  That kind of ridiculousness has given politics a bad name, and people are tired of it.  We don’t want bipartisan support with outright Marxists.  We don’t want our Republican politicians to hold hands with domestic enemies.  We want the job of representation done and done well.  And if things get a little rough in debate, fine.  The Republican Party is still the party of Trump, not the country club Republicans of the establishment who represent lobby power more than the boots-on-the-ground people they have always supposed to have represented.  Even though my lunch with Bernie was at a country club, it’s a shift in focus that has occurred over the last decade that he clearly understands.  There is nothing wrong with a good day of golf and talking about important things in politics.  But acquiring power so that a politician can be in such a club environment to make deals with people who do not have the best intentions of America in mind are days that have been over for a while. 

Bernie gets it, and so does J.D. Vance and many others entering the Senate and the House in the coming decade.  Washington, D.C., will have to be a very different place if we get spending levels down to where they should be and get our economy moving in the right direction once again.  That could mean cutting 75% of all employment in the Beltway culture, from the media to lobbyists to actual government employees.  Even after Trump comes and goes, I’m telling everyone now, people like Vivek Ramaswamy are going to be setting economic policy in America.  Things are never going back to what they were. People do not like the kind of government that has produced Joe Biden and his corrupt, sex-addicted family.  In the wake of another Trump term, the political trend will be to clean house, especially after everything the establishment politics has put him through.  They deserve what’s coming for all they did, and Kevin McCarthy is just the tip of the iceberg.  Kevin wasn’t doing the job people expected of him, and for all the House members who thought that the value of Republicans holding enough seats to maintain a majority was the game, they have turned out to be wrong.  When people make promises, as Kevin McCarthy did to obtain the Speaker role, they must live up to them.  Making deals with the Biden White House, who shouldn’t even be there, is not doing the job he promised.  Having the third most powerful position in the world isn’t worth anything if that power isn’t used to do what’s suitable for the people Kevin McCarthy represents.  We don’t need more hand-holding with Democrats to provide the illusion that everyone is getting along.  When we have the problems we currently do, we want results, not cosmetic media drivel, a stiff upper lip while the Titanic sinks to the bottom of the cold ocean.  We need passion in these political offices by people who will never sell out to domestic enemies who intend poorly for our country.  And those values will only become more prevalent in the months and years to come.

Rich Hoffman