This is a mystery that I thought was strange, even back in 2016.  We had an event in West Chester for Trump, and all the big players were invited, but many didn’t attend.  At the time, they were worried that John Kasich would be angry with them because he was running for president and he was from Ohio, and people thought he was going to be the guy.  I never thought Kasich would be the guy, neither Ted Cruz nor any others.  To understand why, you had to know what voters were looking for, and this was a trajectory that I remember well going back to the start of Barack Obama’s first term in 2008, after a feeble performance by John McCain.  The way Sarah Palin was treated by everyone back then started a chain reaction that led to Trump.  Another weak shot at the White House in 2012 by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan was particularly embarrassing; where they thought this high-brow approach of letting the opposition make fun of you, but that we were supposed to be like Christ and hang ourselves on a cross for crucifixion wasn’t going to cut the mustard.  People wanted to fight, and they wanted fighters in politics.  That has always been my position, and any time someone has tried to apply these woke rules to me, some social game like the rules of high school, where the popular kids wouldn’t like you if you didn’t do what they said, it hasn’t worked out well for them.  And that was the platform of the GOP before Trump, and people left that old way.  They embraced Trump as soon as possible and have not looked back ever since.  Because people just got tired of watching the Republican Party lose, and Trump promised wins, which he gave us in large amounts once elected.

And with the same understanding, I knew the Never Trumper movement would fall flat, and Paul Ryan has been at the center of that as an advisor to Fox News.  That he and his gang never understood the political base of the Republican Party, given all the resources they had to work with, is astonishing.  How could they not understand?  But they didn’t and somehow thought that if they kept putting people like Ron DeSantis out there, and Nikki Haley, people who sounded like Trump but weren’t Trump, that people would be stupid and pick who they selected for us.  They had so little understanding of what voters wanted that they didn’t see the frailty of their premise.   And I would talk to people about Trump and tell them that Trump would be the guy many times over the last three years, and people didn’t see it.  I told them people were tired of this shell game, where politicians said one thing to the public but became members of the uni-party as soon as they were elected; that wouldn’t cut it anymore.  It never did.  The problem was that people trusted in the past, but now that they’ve been let down, they were looking for representatives who would fight on their behalf against a system obviously rigged to take power and get rich off the results.  People were sick of it and Trump offered himself as that guy to fix it.  And in 2016, it was just him against the world, and a few people joined the fight early on to help him.  I was one of the early ones, as early as possible since before Trump went down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York. 

Paul Ryan apparently just figured all this out because he stated that MAGA Republicans are the new mainstream as if that is a news flash.  As if that just happened.  He and Mitch McConnell have been functioning all this time without understanding the details of what the Republican Party was.  People would not accept it being a captured asset of the political left.  It became apparent to me when my local congressman, John Boehner, became Speaker of the House, and we saw what he did with all that power.  We knew him and were perplexed that he didn’t seem able to do anything to help our country but go through cosmetic nonsense.  Obama was destroying our country, and Boehner was crying about it.  That became the face of the Republican establishment.  I remember I had a special invite to be with all those Republicans in a get-out-the-vote rally with Kid Rock back in 2012, where Romney, Ryan, Boehner, and Kasich were all going to be on stage together.  And I was given VIP access to all of them.  I politely declined because I was already done with all those losers, and now, ten years later, look just how right I was.  At the time, people looked at me with wide-eyed astonishment.  I knew those guys were not the Republican Party I wanted to be a part of.  They liked losing too much and were far too liberal for me.  As governor of Ohio, John Kasich was an idiot, a major letdown.  I was a fan when he first became the governor, but once he lost that public sector union debate in a 2012 election, he quickly turned away from Tea Party politics and snapped right into loser mode. 

So, it was never my option to pick anybody but Trump.  I thought George Bush, both of them, were too far to the left for me; I worked hard in 1992 to get Ross Perot elected, and even back then, people would tell me I was betraying the Republican Party.  No, I want business executives running the executive office, people who know what they are doing and understand how money works, and what a capitalist country is supposed to perform.  They are not a bunch of lying losers who tell us what we want to hear, then rob our tax money and sell us all out to globalists around the world in the realm of centralized banking.  Even this past Memorial Day, I was with many people at a remote location who were going on and on about Ron DeSantis, and I told them, “No, he’s not going to go anywhere.  People are tired of the lies.  Trump will be the nominee, and no jail or phony charges will stop him.”  All the trouble that has been thrown at Trump has only confirmed just how far down the rabbit hole we always were, and people like Paul Ryan, and other “establishment Republicans” were keeping us from solving the problem, which made people like me very, very angry.  And everything I told everyone about this Trump in 2024 situation has come true, just as I said it would.  So why did people like Paul Ryan still think they were the establishment, and all these highly paid people at Fox News and the Beltway culture fail to see the obvious?  How could they all be so stupid?  Well, it’s because they were corrupt, where they viewed government as a path to easy money, and if there were people like Trump in it, that easy money would be harder to get.  And that’s what the game has been for a long time.  Now, many more people are willing to admit that about their government and demand change.  But the Republican Party establishment was never with the thieves.  The people of the party always wanted results.  But that former establishment lied to them, and for some reason, they thought that behavior would continue forever.  Instead, people stopped listening to them, and Trump became the establishment, along with other MAGA candidates.  And that is the way of the future.  Losing is for losers, and Trump supporters aren’t losers.  They have been abused.  But they never accepted loss as the definition of their Republican Party.  And history will remember these important lessons for many thousands of years. 

Rich Hoffman

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