New York Times Congressional correspondent Robert Jimison made a key point that's really about the state of the Republican Party right now. He said when he was talking about what does America First mean and what does Make America Great Again mean:
"This is the battle of the Republican Party right now. What does America First Mean and what does Make America Great Again mean. Whether than means supporting issues like tax cuts and health care... I think there's a broad consensus, a broad agreement that it's affordability that brought Republicans that resounding victory in 2024 and gave them The White House and both chambers of Congress. But they haven't yet seen the results of that materialize in policies that they want to see... (A close paraphrase)
As Erik Schneider wrote about populism last week:
"The point there is that populism in of itself, is not a political philosophy. Just like nationalism is not a political philosophy. This is not populism versus liberalism, or conservatism, libertarianism, or socialism, communism, etc. It's populism versus people who think that the powerful and the elite knows what's best for everyone else and therefor should be in charge of society, perhaps even the people themselves. How Populists vs the Oligarchs...
From The New Democrat
So that's the state of the Republican Party right now. You have 1 side who I guess represents the populists (led by U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene and others) who are talking about issues like affordability, and health care, where Americans have real issues with President Trump on. And you have the President representing the oligarchs and people who don't have to worry about those issues because they never affect them. So they don't worry about them and don't think about them at all, because they don't see them as their problems because these issues don't affect them personally.
The New Democrat has never viewed Donald John Trump as a populist. I mean that sounds like a joke: "The Populist Donald J. Trump". The only time he's ever had any ides what it's like to be an average American and trying to figure out how he's going to pay his own bills, is probably when he went through his last bankruptcy back in the mid 1990s and was borrowing money from his brother, just to pay for his own cost of living.
But there might still be a true populist wing in the Republican Party led by people who represent a lot of average Americans and people who come from average means themselves. And those are the people that U.S Representative Marjorie T. Greene is trying to speak for right now.
2 months ago I and the rest of The New Democrat would've viewed Representative Greene as an escaped mental patient, who wandered onto the U.S. Capitol and declared herself as U.S. Representative for the American people. But the last couple of months, she sounds like she's finally growing up.
Now maybe this is just an act and she truly wants bigger things for herself in American politics. Maybe she's finally back on her medication. (Ha, ha) But a true populist cares about the lives of ordinary people in their community. And maybe now that's what she really is.
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