Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer

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The last time I spoke to you on Patriot Home Funding Friday was 3 days after the election and today marks 30 days after we found out that President Trump won.

There have been many epitaphs written during that time, but to me the most interesting one that went under reported is how President Trump outperformed the down ballot nationwide. We reported on Patriot Home Funding Friday in the months leading up to the election that Trump was outperforming GOP senate candidates by an average of 7% in the states where the 2024 senate elections were most hotly contested, and sure enough, the GOP managed to lose very winnable races in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. Also, in the wake of Trump winning the popular vote and an electoral college rout, now that the smoke is finally clearing it looks like the GOP has managed to actually lose a net of 5 house seats. Trump went 7-0 in the battleground states, the GOP senate candidates went 1-4. 

So how does that happen? And how does what is transpiring on Capital Hill and in the media with Trump's cabinet nominations tie in to what happened in the election?

The smoke around the nomination of Pete Hegseth gives us a look into that, why Trump is having issues on Capitol Hill, and in my opinion will have major difficulty enacting his agenda despite his mandate, and why the GOP underperformed MAGA in the election. This isn't about the democrats or the media, it is about self serving RINO's, starting with Mitch McConnell, but he's hardly the only one.

The question is, who is Trump's biggest adversary?

Is it the democrats and their lapdog media? Or is it the establishment Republicans on Capitol Hill?

It is pretty much beyond debate that the Biden cabinet is the worst of our lifetimes, from Tony Blinken's disastrous tenure which has put us on the brink of World War 3, to Merrick Garland weaponizing the Department of Justice against Republicans and the January 6 witch hunt, to Alejandro Mayorkas's open border causing chaos nationwide, to Pete Buttigieg's chest feeding while a train wreck poisoned East Palestine, Ohio, to Lloyd Austin's embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning our military into a radical woke social experiment, and then going AWOL, to Janet Yellen not knowing that the price of eggs had actually risen, because to her, 20% cumulative inflation is transitory.

The absolute worst cabinet in American history, bar none. I just mentioned the most egregious examples but there are many more like Xavier Beccera, Jennifer Granholm, Miguel Cardona, Deb Haaland, and Richard eeeeerrrrr Rachel Levine, among many others. None of them capable, all of them disasters. The American people roundly rejected them en masse on November 5.

Tony Blinken received 28 Republican votes in confirmation, Merrick Garland got 20 Republican votes, Mayorkas got 6 GOP votes, Buttigieg got 36 GOP votes, Austin got 43 Republican votes, and Yellen got 34 GOP votes. There was not a single democrat senator who voted against any of those nominees. None, zero, zip, nada. All 48 democrat senators voted in lockstep with their president. Yet, many GOP senators voted against the peoples' best interests time and again, and are poised to repeat themselves. 

Mitch McConnell, who was senate minority leader at the time, and the candidates for senate majority leader in January, John Thune and John Cornyn, each voted for all six. Who are they representing? The people of deep red states Kentucky, South Dakota, and Texas- which Trump won by 31, 29, and 13.5% respectively, or the monied interests inside the beltway and on K Street, not the least of which is the military industrial complex?

Now we find ourselves in the midst of a fight on Capitol Hill between Trump, who got the most votes of any GOP candidate in history, who outperformed his down ballot, who was the first republican to win the popular vote in 36 years, and individual RINO senators from red states who are ignoring his mandate, over his cabinet nominations. Trump soundly defeated the Biden administration and its justice department, the mainstream media, and Kamala Harris in a historic victory but it seems like he has yet to defeat the backstabbing career politicians in his own party from red states that he overwhelmingly carried, even 9 years later.

These career politicians are not listening to the voters in their home states or the American people. They are voting their own corrupt interests. Jodi Ernst, for example, who has stepped in a steaming pile this week with her treatment of Hegseth, received money from major defense contractors Raytheon and RTX Corporation, and hedge funds heavily invested in defense contracting Blackstone and Apollo Management. She has a failing Liberty score and voted with democrats 38% of the time during the Biden administration. She also gave a speech honored George Floyd 4 years ago. Does she really represent the people of Iowa, who voted for Trump to the tune of 56%? By the way, Trump in 2024 outperformed Ernst who was re-elected in 2020, by about 7% in Iowa. Sound familiar?

She's just one of many who put their personal financial and political interests ahead of their constituents, but hardly the only one. She's one of many who have marketed themselves as conservative, but operated as a swamp rat or democrat lite. These red state RINO's would be wise to learn from the example of Liz Cheney as to what can happen when they stop listening to their constituents and forget where they come from.

So, the question is, who really is Trump's and MAGA's biggest enemy? Is it democrats and media or red state RINO representatives? That question will be answered in the next 100 days and with it, whether we as a nation remain mired in the government of the liberal elite running our country into the ground, or do we get what we voted for, which is a new common-sense government of, by, and for the people? And with it we will learn what the primaries will look like in 2026. 

And if Hegseth fails? Then watch out for what will happen to Kennedy, Gabbard, Patel, and Zelden.  They'll fall like dominoes. D-O-G-E will also be D-O-A.

Chris summed it up perfectly in his book "Politics and Pro Wrestling," nothing is ever settled, it just sets up the next match. 

And as for President Trump and his cabinet, they should heed the words of Michael Corleone, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."