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As someone who quite successfully ran political campaigns before I got into punditry, no disrespect intended, but this partisan political take is badly flawed. Let me tell you why I respectfully disagree with Matt Walsh. Image
The Republican Party, which "will [not] keep up the united front and defend their guys no matter what" controls the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court.

We control 56% of state legislative seats in the nation.
We control 41.5% of state trifectas, i.e. control of legislatures and the governor's mansion compared to 36.5% for the left.

The GOP has 27 governors to the Democrats 23.

The right is not a victim and we should stop whining about being victims.
Additionally, our success is our greater willingness to police ourselves. The Left failed to drive out the communists, the antisemites, the trans agitators, etc. Now, they're descended into madness.

The public has moved right because the Left does not police its own.
In short, we are winning because we do not behave like the Left, and should we start behaving like the Left, the American people will reject us.

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Y'all remember Heidi Przybyla right? She's the genius Politico reporter who declared "Christian Nationalists, not Christians" believe our rights "don't come from Congress or the Supeme Court, but from God." Yeah, her…
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*Taps Microphone*

Attention, members of the American press corps. Could I have your attention, please?
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The subtitle of this Politico reporter's books is "The fight to restore American foreign policy after Trurmp."

He has a clear editorial bias against Trump and Politico continues to let him write as a supposedly objective reporter who ends, very predictably, defending Biden.
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I am not of the left. I expect those I support to have higher standards. I believe if i don’t work to clean up my own side, the voters themselves will do it. One cannot belong to a party that claims family values and stocks it full of philanderers, adulterers, and deviants.
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In early 2016, I used a phrase you might have heard of, “Never Trump,” in a piece that went viral and led to me being unable to fill in for Rush Limbaugh any more.
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I understand you may think there’s no crime. But damn this should be disqualifying. Three years ago a Chinese spy trespassed into Mar-a-Lago. Two years later, Trump is leaving classified docs on a ballroom stage.
Your kid is a special operator in the military, and Donald Trump might be showing off secret locations in Africa, where we have troops that no one knows about, where your kid is.
These weren’t love letters to North Korean dictators. These were very classified pieces of information. You can say it’s no crime, but it is highly irresponsible.
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