Josh Hawley Gets It

The Senator from Show-Me delivered unto Heritage a helluva good speech.

He makes it crystal clear that the Republican Party had better re-form its thoughts in the face of a Cultural Marxism (atheist, materialist, racist) Democrat onslaught. 

...Thirty years on, the verdict is in. The New World Order has failed. The pursuit of economic globalism has failed. The pursuit of empire has failed.

It has cost us shocking sums of money, but that is the least of it. It has fueled the rise of our most serious adversary, China. Most Favored Nation status was a colossal mistake. China has built their military on the backs of our middle class. We have helped them do it.

But worse even than that, the politics of New World Order has cost us a way of life, a working class way of life. The economic policy of the last thirty years has hollowed out American industry. Sent millions of jobs overseas. Blue collar jobs that once provided a good living for a family. The loss of good paying work for working people has meant fewer marriages. Falling birth rates. It has disrupted whole towns and communities....

Didn't we just talk about "Fair Tax" vs. "Flat Tax"?  Apparently some Wisconsin Pubbies are still operating under the delusion that Country Clubs 'R' Us.

... For decades, Republican policies undermined the very people who are today the most important bulwark against cultural Marxism. I mean the working class, and the working-class way of life. 

Ours has been a working-class nation. This country’s culture has been defined by working people.

We hear a lot of talk now about the breakdown in consensus—that consensus, and the moral convictions of the nation, were forged by working people. It was a middle-class consensus. Working class, middle-class institutions have defined American life: family, neighborhood, church, nation. Working class values have centered on those institutions.

And they are exactly the institutions under full-throttle assault by the left: exactly the institutions, preserving exactly the values, that today’s new Marxists define as the obstacles to progress and wish to sweep away.  ...

It was quite easy to get here, actually; simply send working-class jobs to China, or Mexico, or Viet Nam.  What happens then?

...A job means independence. Independence means strength. But Republicans helped to steal that strength from working people. Think of this: For much of our history, corporate bosses had to reckon with American worker power. Why? Because they needed workers. In the factories. On the assembly line. On the farms. Because they were needed, the views of workers had to be respected.

But ruinous trade deals, open immigration policies, and corporate consolidation changed all of that. Cheap foreign labor, in many cases slave labor, replaced Americans....

Note well:  not all of that was "corporate greed."  A LOT of the move out of US plants was caused by horrifically expensive Government mandates and regulations.  China doesn't have the Fair Labor Act, the EPA, the EEOC, nor workers' comp, unemployment, Social Security, Medicare......nor the millions of silly little local regs and zoning laws.

Come to think of it, China doesn't have too many lawyers, either.  We digress.

...The only way to rebuild the middle-class consensus is to rebuild the institutions of middle-class life. If Republicans want to save this nation, they must move immediately to higher ground. We must abandon the ruinous politics of the New World Order. It has been a failure across the board, but an unmitigated catastrophe for blue-collar life.

We must defend—and swiftly—the working people of this nation. Their families. Their neighborhoods. Their schools. Their churches. They are our most important bulwark against the cultural Marxist threat.

If we lose them, and the culture they have created—American culture as we know it—we lose the nation. 

The whole of our policy—at home and abroad—must be geared to protecting family, neighborhood, church, nation. Abroad, this means an end to liberal imperialism. It means acting for American interests....

Hawley is clearly a descendant of the Patrick J. Buchanan school of Americanism.  PJB (like Sen. Moynihan, a Democrat) understood the absolutely critical import of culture.  That distinguishes Hawley, et. al. from Trump, to whom the dollar is primary and culture.........well..........that's what we find on TV, right?

You notice that nobody is pushing Hawley, in contrast to the mega-bucks crowd pushing DeSantis.

Interesting.