Want to fix the right? Christopher Rufo explains what we must STOP doing.

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The Blaze

BlazeTV Staff
April 19, 2024

“America’s Cultural Revolution” author Christopher Rufo has warned that “the right faces an inflection point.”

While there are real issues — like changing policies and culture — that conservatives face, some on the right have leaned into “conspiracy theories that lead nowhere.”

“Given the dynamics of online media advertising audience building, and then just the dynamics of kind of general tech and media trends, some people are being generously rewarded with clicks and attention who don’t actually offer anything substantive,” Rufo tells Glenn Beck.

This, Rufo believes, get’s the conservative audience into an “outrage cycle,” where listeners are “outraged for outrage sake,” without being guided toward anything constructive.

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Recently, “America’s Cultural Revolution” author Christopher Rufo warned that “the Right faces an inflection point.” Instead of focusing on actually changing policies and culture, he argued, some on the Right have leaned into “conspiracy theories that lead nowhere.” Some of these, especially related to Israel, have caused massive debates. But how should we approach this divide? And what’s causing it? Christopher and Glenn make the case that the answer is self-discipline, NOT censorship, and providing better content than just “cheap attention” tweets. In order to win against the progressive elites, conservatives must get their own house in order firs

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Triple threat: Gosar joins MTG and Massie on motion to vacate Speaker Johnson
Rachel Schilke
April 19, 2024

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) became the third Republican to co-sponsor a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shortly after the House advanced the speaker’s four-pronged foreign aid plan to a final passage vote.

Gosar joins Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) in supporting vacating Johnson from the top leadership position after Democrats helped Johnson push a procedural rule vote over the finish line — a sign that certain House Republicans are growing frustrated with the speaker’s leadership.

“I have added my name in support of the motion to vacate the Speaker,” Gosar said in a statement. “Our border cannot be an afterthought. We need a Speaker who puts America first rather than bending to the reckless demands of the warmongers, neo-cons and the military industrial complex making billions from a costly and endless war half a world away.”

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Democrats bail out Johnson as foreign aid clears key House hurdle
Rachel Schilke
April 19, 2024

The House advanced Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) four-pronged foreign aid legislation through a procedural vote on Friday, largely thanks to House Democrats who helped push it over the line, setting up for a final vote on the package this weekend.

Though rule votes historically fall along party lines, several hard-line House GOP members have weaponized the rule vote over the 118th Congress to push back against legislation with which they do not agree. On Friday, over 50 House Republicans voted against the rule, but ultimately over 160 Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the rule, allowing it to pass, 316 to 94.

This is not the first time Democrats have bailed out Johnson for this package. Three GOP members — Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Chip Roy (R-TX), and Thomas Massie (R-KY) — voted against the rule during a late-night meeting of the House Rules Committee on Thursday. All four Democrats on the committee voted in favor of the rule, allowing it to advance out of committee, 9-3, and head to the floor for a full-member vote.

“The world is watching. It is time for Congress to act. And act we must,” Rules Committee ranking member Jim McGovern (D-MA) said during debate ahead of the vote, reminding members that Democrats are providing the votes necessary to bring the bills to the floor.

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Why Mike Johnson Is Correct
Ben Shapiro
Apr 18, 2024

Being Speaker of the House with an extraordinarily slim majority is a really tough job. You have to cut deals because you have no other capacity to get anything done. That’s because given the fact there is a one-vote “motion to vacate” rule that is in place in the House of Representatives, any one member of the Republican caucus can challenge the job of the Speaker of the House at any given time.

It also means if a bunch of headline-grabbing people in the Republican caucus are more interested in being on television than in actually governing, maintaining a majority, or growing that majority to get big things done, that can hold up the works.

All this is coming to a head because House Speaker Mike Johnson has now put forward a series of bills related to foreign aid. 

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Foreign aid represents well under 1% of the federal budget of the United States nearly every year. Yet I have been noticing a lot of people screaming to the heavens about the cost of foreign aid: “Oh, I can’t believe how much this is costing.”

There are some people who are consistent libertarians. There are some people who say the government shouldn’t be spending on Social Security, disability, welfare, and foreign aid. That is, at least, a consistent position. I think it’s wrongheaded because America’s foreign policy interests require that we have strong allies who eventually will be able to take care of themselves.

But there is also a group of people in the Republican Party who are taking the view that foreign aid is a uniquely bad spend, that we’re wasting taxpayer dollars.

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Now, is this going to be a perfect bill? No. There’s going to be a bunch of crap in the bill you don’t like. There’s going to be a bunch of crap in the bill I don’t like. Is this bill perfect? No. Does it have a lot of problems? Yes. Is this bill necessary in order to preserve the strength of America’s allies? Yes.

That is why Johnson is right to move the bill forward. There’s also a politically important reason to do so: If you want Republicans to win a broader majority and actually make the serious kinds of cuts to government that are necessary, you need to win Congress by more than three votes. In order for that to happen, you have to win purple districts.

And the bill is relatively popular in purple districts, by every available polling metric.

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