Know what? It’s time for a GOP landslide in the 2022 mid-terms and a Reagan-like political reset in 2024. This is why Nikki Haley should be the Republican nominee for President. The time is right for her brand of practical conservatism to pull millennials into the GOP. She was pro-business as South Carolina’s governor, America-first as UN ambassador, and pragmatic with (and about) President Trump. My enthusiasm comes from five pro-GOP trends.
Election Integrity Laws – The GOP is leveling the playing field in 31 states with election-integrity laws that will affect the mid-term elections. Most Republicans, in spite of no proof in court, think Biden’s numbers were implausible in multiple swing states. By removing clutter (too many absentee ballot applications and drop-off boxes) and human subjectivity (signature verification), it becomes harder for Democrats to game the system in deep-blue precincts.
2020 Census Boost – In spite of Biden’s Commerce Department “correcting” the numbers, the 2020 census helps the GOP in 20 states, where they completely control redistricting of 187 House seats (Democrats control 75). After a 2019 Supreme Court decision banned federal judges from reallocating “political power between the two major political parties,” majorities can gerrymander before 2022, as long as resulting districts are similar in population.
Mid-Term Slump – For the last seventy years, every newly elected Democrat president lost an average of 40 House seats in in his first mid-term. That’s six different Democrats and no exceptions, going back to Truman. Bad policies, like Hillary-care, have ignited GOP voters, but it’s mostly a complacent Democrat base. This happened in 2018 to the GOP: animus toward Trump turned out Democrats, who flipped 41 seats. DNC strategists admit that, without Trump running, their base won’t turn out.
Too Much Tax and Spend – Most Americans want Republicans to check Democrats in Ways and Means, but DC is out of control. Biden has proposed myriad tax increases to pay for $7 trillion worth of “progress” that’s highly partisan (increase EPA budget 21%) or so dumb ($165 billion to transit and Amtrak) it flopped the first time. Plus, it’s risky to pour trillions onto a recovering economy (Q1 GDP growth of 5.4%) that’s already struggling with inflation and scarcity.
WUBAR (woked up beyond all recognition) – In sixty-six years, I’ve never seen so much parental anger – and why is that? Most parents think “equal outcomes” will lower educational standards, and asking second-grade kids to make LGBTQ gingerbread persons (true story) is wrong. Most parents want their kids to love their country and not feel ashamed of their family’s faith or race. By attacking America’s “national saga” and cultural norm, a WUBAR minority is stoking anti-left enthusiasm for 2022.
It’s time for the party of Lincoln to squash identity politics once and for all by nominating Nikki Haley. Many voters liked Trump’s policies (lower taxes and confronting China) and disliked his combative words. The media could spin Trump’s words as hate speech, but spinning Haley‘s combative comments as “hate speech” will look silly. Accuse the child of Sikh immigrants of xenophobia, throw a #MeToo punch at a Clemson coed, or call an Indo-Asian a “racist” Republican – and you’re the hater.
Mike Pompeo and Jim DeSantis are great, but Democrat crass over-reaction to Tim Scott’s national address begs the GOP to nominate someone other than another white, middle-aged male. Take “racist” and “sexist” out of a Democrat‘s vocabulary and get a liberal apologist like Jimmy Carter. Stupid Jimmy admitted he was ashamed of America, and Reagan squashed him like a soft peanut shell. This is precisely what Nikki Haley can do to either Biden or Harris in 2024.