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August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bobby Jindal, where have you been these past eleven years?
For those of you who’ve forgotten who Bobby Jindal is — and I don’t blame you — may I remind you that he was the Governor of Louisiana from 2008 until 2016. During that time he was touted as a possible top-tier contender for president.
But Jindal, an Indian-American who converted to Catholicism in college, saw his star crash and burn literally overnight after delivering an abysmal response to President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2009. He tried to run for president in 2016 but gained next to no traction. Eventually, he endorsed Marco Rubio.
Jindal has remained largely quiet during the Trump presidency. He wrote an article in December of 2019 about “populist patriots” rejecting the establishment. But other than that, he’s been rather muted. Until this past weekend.
In an essay published in the Wall Street Journal Sunday, Jindal argued that the “new world order” touted by George H. W. Bush in the 1990s is “no longer relevant.” He urged Republicans to reject the party’s old talking points about trade, immigration, and foreign policy. Voters are looking to “back candidates that pledge to continue [Trump’s] fight against elites in both parties,” he declared. Republicans should embrace his nationalist platform.
Although Jindal has largely been relegated to political obscurity, he’s clearly betting on the growth of the America First movement within the GOP. If he becomes more boisterous in his support for Trump’s brand of populism in the coming years, he might just add an element of intrigue to what’s shaping up to be a titanic battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party in four years.
What will 2024 look like?
As it stands currently —if Trump doesn’t run — his ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, is without a doubt the Deep State’s pick for president. She’s the Jeb Bush of the party. Neocons and the establishment love her. Fox News and CNBC went gaga over her speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention this week. An imperialist through and through, she’s made the rounds to every major interest group on the right over the last few years, including the influential American Israel Political Action Committee.
The nationalist lane to the nomination would be a bit more crowded. It’s arguably composed of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Josh Hawley, and potentially Marco Rubio.
Deranged Never Trumpers desperately want the party back. Their desire to drag the country into endless wars and flood the American market with cheap immigrant labor is insatiable. The open borders, Chamber of Commerce crowd will do anything they can to get someone elected who’ll reverse President Trump’s anti-globalist policies. Look for Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, and the likes of Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw to carry water for the old guard over these coming years.
The evolving GOP
I’ve written before about why the Republican Party needs to maintain the new coalition of socially conservative, blue-collar voters President Trump has forged together. Whereas the GOP can and should move to the center on economics — while also maintaining their law and order, pro-life message — Democrats can’t moderate on any social issues without infuriating their base. They’re beholden to the radical left. It’d be a monumental blunder for Republicans to not solidify this once-in-a-generation realignment.
Donald Trump Jr. seemed to get that when he told The Hill newspaper recently that, “we’re still the party of endless wars and there are still some neocons who are really into that and we are not. My father is not … I just think that mentality is really out of place in the Republican Party right now but there are going to be those dinosaurs who do not evolve.”
He’s absolutely right. It’s high-time America First, religious conservatives kicked to the curb once and for all establishment, weak-kneed, country-club RINOs who treat the US like a multinational corporation and who only care about the size of the Gross Domestic Product. The future of the party, and arguably the country, depends on it.
