When I was 23 years old, I had the great fortune to work with an amazing family of grassroots Liberty-loving Americans on the @RonPaul 2012 campaign.

We were just a bunch of ragamuffins, but we stood together and shook the foundations of the rotten political establishment.
We didn’t have political experience or pedigrees. We just had love for this idea that human beings deserve to be free.

It felt true, what @RonPaul said, “An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.”
The establishment became afraid, so they beat us down and kept kicking.

They stripped us of our delegates and changed the rules to stop a grassroots Revolution in the GOP from ever happening again.

But they failed.
The grassroots came back in 2016, but with less love of Liberty and more hatred for the corrupt establishment.

Instead of Rand Paul, the grassroots choose Donald Trump because clear solutions mattered less than taking a wrecking ball to the corrupt SOBs.
The very rules the GOP establishment put in place in 2012 against Ron Paul made it impossible to stop Donald Trump in the primary in 2016.

And the outrage against the establishment was so great that Americans put him in the White House later that year.
Just like the GOP establishment in the aftermath of Ron Paul, the larger Washington establishment has failed to learn any lessons in the aftermath of Donald Trump.
The Washington Machine treats the people they steal from and send off to war with disdain and contempt.

This is why the pattern will repeat itself.

Donald Trump was just a warning shot to Washington — restore our liberties now because the next wave will be even bigger.
These next few years will be hard.

The Washington establishment knows that it’s us or them.

That’s why they are beginning to crack down with everything they have — laying the groundwork for a domestic War on Terror, shredding civil liberties to go after political dissidents.
Just remember that these are the reckless actions of desperate people who are losing control of the narrative.

Keep pushing forward.

“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.”

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