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Americans Want Republican Leadership That Acts

Trump understood something the consultant class never did: Americans do not want timid caretakers of decline. They want leaders and fighters.

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Over the past few weeks, the redistricting battles have revealed something important about the state of American politics: Republican voters are not recoiling from a fight. They are running toward it.

Fights that the old Republican establishment would have treated as too aggressive, risky, or impolite have instead unleashed grassroots energy across the country. Why? Because Republican voters are starving for political courage.

Republican voters have seen what courage looks like in their states. They want to see it in Washington. For too long, Republican politics was defined by caution masquerading as wisdom. Voters sent Republicans to Washington to stop the left, only to watch too many of them obsess over decorum, consultant-approved messaging, and the approval of people who despised them anyway.

Meanwhile, the country they loved was slipping away: Factories closed. Towns hollowed out. Borders collapsed. Crime surged. A managerial class of self-appointed elites had burrowed their way into positions of unaccountable power. They dismissed America’s existence and founding as sin, treated mass migration as inevitable, and told citizens that objecting to the upheaval of their own country was a moral defect.

Voters sent wave after wave of conservative Republicans to Washington to fight back. But every time those conservatives tried to fight, they were told by their own side to calm down, compromise, and accept “political reality.”

But here’s the truth Republicans are finally discovering: political reality is not fixed. It is created by people with the courage to fight to shape it.

The Establishment Approach

President Trump understood this before anyone else in modern American politics.

The old Republican establishment approached politics like managers overseeing a slow and orderly decline. Conservatism became, as many voters saw it, “Leftism driving the speed limit.” Republicans would........

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