Patriot,

While we sit in suspense for the final results of the midterm
elections - an inexcusable and intolerable period, to be sure -
it's worth bearing in mind that no matter the final result and to
what extent fraud may have played a role, this election was a
huge disappointment for Republicans compared to the midterm in
2010.

What explains the difference?

As I note in my latest column below, Republicans in 2010
campaigned on the issues that mattered the most to the liberty
movement and concurrent "Tea Party" movement. Republicans in 2022
largely did not.

But when the economic meltdown inevitably occurs, our liberty
movement will swell its ranks, and we need to be ready to lead
the effort to return to limited constitutional government,
individual liberty, and peace.

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Ron Paul
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Campaign for Liberty


A Tale of Two Midterms

Those searching for an explanation of why there was no "red wave"
giving Republicans huge gains in Congress in this year's midterm
election should compare this year's election with the midterm
election of 2010. In 2010, Republicans gained a net 63 House
seats. While Republicans then did not gain control of the US
Senate, they did gain six Senate seats.

These Republican victories in 2010 were propelled by the Tea
Party and the liberty movement. These movements became prominent
during the waning days of the Bush administration. The liberty
movement was advanced by grassroots supporters of my 2008
presidential campaign. The liberty movement's focus was, and is,
on restoring constitutional government in all areas, ending our
interventionist foreign policy, and changing our monetary policy
by auditing and ending the Federal Reserve and legalizing
alternative currencies. Early on, the Tea Party largely focused
on opposition to the 2008 bank bailouts.

There was overlap between the liberty movement and the Tea Party
as many members of both groups fought for auditing and ending the
Fed, ending bailouts, and preventing Congress from passing
Obamacare.

Many Republican candidates in 2010 appealed to Tea Party voters
by not just promising to repeal Obamacare. They also promised to
work to restore limited, constitutional, fiscally responsible
government in all areas. In contrast, in 2022 the average
Republican candidate offered little in the way of a substantive
agenda. In fact, few Republicans called for reversing President
Biden's massive spending increases, much less for restoring the
federal government to its constitutional limitations. Despite the
controversy over new critical race theory and transgender related
policies in government schools, there has not been a renewed push
to shut down the Department of Education.

Many Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm election also
failed to make an issue out of their Democratic opponents'
support for mask and vaccine mandates and other instances of
covid tyranny. Those who did oppose the covid tyranny, such as
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and my son Kentucky Senator Rand
Paul, won landslide victories.

The Tea Party's success in forcing the Republican Party to focus
on a more pro-liberty, limited government agenda was short lived.
Soon after the 2010 election, the Republican establishment
returned to its big spending ways. Spending and debt continued to
rise under President Trump and a Republican Congress. Republicans
even failed to deliver on their signature promise: repealing
Obamacare.

The 2010 midterm election showed that people will respond to
candidates offering serious pro-liberty ideas and policies.
However, the Tea Party's rise and fall also shows the danger
facing ideological movements that become too close with one
political party. These movements will start pulling their punches
when one of "our team" begins casting bad votes. The argument
goes that we must support big government Republicans or we get
REALLY big government Democrats.

Fortunately, the liberty movement has remained committed to
principles. As the failure of the welfare-warfare state to
deliver peace and property - and the failure of the Federal
Reserve to fulfill its mandate of ensuring stable prices and low
unemployment - become clear, more Americans will join the liberty
movement. Support for the liberty movement will accelerate when
the inevitable economic meltdown occurs. This meltdown will be
precipitated by a collapse in the dollar's value and the
rejection of the dollar's world reserve currency status. It will
bring the end of the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money
system. Hopefully, the liberty movement will ensure the
welfare-warfare state and fiat money system are replaced by a
return to limited constitutional government, individual liberty,
and peace.



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