Republican Leadership Strays Far From Its Conservative Roots

What is conservatism? Is the Republican Party truly conservative? Why did the Republican Party drastically alter its platform? Conservatism is a buzzword that is thrown around in an attempt to elicit votes. Politicians often rely on the alphabet to win their elections. It is a successful campaign strategy because many voters simply vote along party lines. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that those being elected will adhere to conservative values, and it is very important to note that those Republican Party values have seemingly changed significantly.

Let’s take a closer look at what this means for voters.

The 2016 National Republican Party Platform painted a vastly different picture than the current platform. The document was reduced from 66 to 28 pages, omitting the following excerpt, among others: “believe that federal funds should not be used in mandatory or universal mental-emotional screening programs, health, psychiatric or socio-emotional screening programs. The federal government has pushed states to collect and share vast amounts of personal student and family data, including the collection of social and emotional data. Much of this data is collected without parental consent or notice. This is wholly incompatible with the American Experiment and our inalienable rights.”

This particular excerpt has always been included in my seminars. It is important because the party claimed this was something they were opposed to. However, the Republicans were actually participating in all that was listed. It makes sense that they would remove this excerpt from their platform, because not only were they propagating everything they were claiming they were against, they were and are continuing to expand on all of it.

What does this expansion look like?

President Trump has announced his plans to partner with Palantir in order to create a federal master database on every citizen. Palantir’s Centralized Database system is “embedded in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), where Palantir engineers are constructing a searchable database of taxpayer records. Expansion talks are underway with the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Education.” There is no turning back. You can read more about this on thenewamerican.com.

Equally as concerning is that now the Army has sworn in four tech leaders as colonels. The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

Total control will be the result.

Additionally, embedded in the Big Beautiful Bill is a 10-year moratorium on preventing regulation of AI. This means all states must comply. No state or its powers can interfere with its implementation. Does this sound like smaller government?

As our nation’s children are being diagnosed at alarming rates and regularly data-mined, that data is being loaded into interoperable databases. We have been warning about this for years, but to say we have reached a critical point in America doesn’t seem to do it justice. The powers that be are going to try to convince you that this is for national security and it is for your own good. Don’t fall for it. They are creating a police nation focused on surveillance and keeping you in line. This will affect every area of your lives with potentially dire consequences. Is this the new version of conservatism?

The seven core principles of conservatism include individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law (each branch of the government should adhere to the Constitution), peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets and human dignity.

Individual freedom and limited government do not exist when citizens are being tracked and under surveillance by Big Brother. Is this the new rule of law? Are our branches of government adhering to the Constitution? Do you consider the massive data harvesting an invasion of your privacy? Does human dignity no longer include the right to privacy?

Fiscal responsibility does not exist when states are adopting school choice programs that burden citizens by forcing them to fund multiple streams of education including both public and private education. Free markets do not exist when the government is funding private businesses. Private schools are increasing tuition and the prices of resources once utilized by home-school families are exploding because these private businesses are now on the government dole.

Is any of this truly “Making America Great Again”?

President Trump also doubled down on his appointment of Penny Schwinn as U.S. Secretary of Education amid major backlash. There are also major issues with his education policies that I wholeheartedly disagree with. This is one of them. When I was interviewed by Linda Jacobson of The 74 about Schwinn’s nomination, I responded with the following:

“Penny Schwinn stated that Trump said he was looking for a solid conservative education leader and her track record in Tennessee exemplifies that.

It amazes me that President Trump would consider Penny Schwinn conservative. She expanded Critical Race Theory in Tennessee by promoting the Grow Your Own Initiative that “focused on a national model of recruiting and retaining diverse grounded teachers of color. The program is committed to creating long term local diverse teachers who dismantle institutional racism and work towards educational equity.” She is also a member of the left-leaning Chiefs for Change. Penny has been very clear that one of her core values centers on equity. In her testimony, she alluded to laws that were passed in Tennessee during her tenure focusing around prohibited concepts. The law has never been enforceable and CRT is still engrained in our schools and teachers continue to be trained via Grow Your Own. Penny was also behind the Well Being Child Check Taskforce in Tennessee which would have given the government the ability to enter the homes of all children birth to age 18 regardless of how they were being educated.

Schwinn stated in the hearings that a primary focus for her is still mental health. This should concern every parent in the nation. Penny was a disaster for Tennessee and Texas and the fact she was even considered for this position is egregious. There has been major outcry over her nomination. She is not conservative and her confirmation would be a threat to true conservatives, and parental and educational rights.”

This appointment should have never happened.

Again, I implore, what is conservative about any of this?

Maybe I missed the memo, but living in a police nation and being fleeced to feed the beast was not on my list of things I willingly wanted to participate in.

The million-dollar question is how much will Americans tolerate? Have they already been so indoctrinated that they do not realize the water is reaching the boiling point?