During former President Donald Trump's term, it became shockingly clear how much better America could have been for decades. Under Trump, America was a country with no new wars, a booming economy, energy independence, low unemployment across all demographics, rising wages, renewed manufacturing and domestic production, and controlled immigration.

Unbeknownst to most of us, we had been suffering under the control of a uni party whose policies were crippling our country: hobbling the economy with oppressive regulations and taxes, exporting jobs and importing poverty, coddling criminals, poisoning foreign relations, starting -- but not winning -- wars in which America had no real interests, and sending debt skyrocketing with expenditures purportedly needed to "address" problems the government's policies caused in the first place.

Republicans told their voters that Democrats were responsible and that GOP control would solve everything. But in 2017, with neither a Democrat nor a RINO in the White House, Americans could see that the real political dynamic—at least since Ronald Reagan (and quite likely prior)—had been something else altogether: Democrats pushed for whatever policies they wanted, and Republicans made a bank pretending—sometimes—to oppose them.

Republican voters were baffled that their candidates could win elections and then magically lose their nerve. By way of a recent example, the GOP got control of the House in 2012, then said they needed the Senate. Voters gave them the Senate in 2014, then were told........

© Townhall