By Staff Writer
Republicans in Washington seem to believe that waiting out this moment of political upheaval will somehow keep them safe. It’s a dangerous illusion one that history has punished before, and will punish again. The Left’s campaign of lawfare, surveillance, and intimidation is not a temporary convulsion; it is the new operating system of American power.
The establishment GOP doesn’t seem to comprehend this yet. Many in Congress still speak as though the old rules of fair competition and institutional respect still apply. They don’t. The Democrats have made politics existential for their opponents, not for themselves.
Spying and Lawfare Are Not Politics as Usual.
We now know that the surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign and the subsequent years of political prosecution were not aberrations; they established a precedent. The intelligence community, corrupted by ideology, learned that they could interfere in domestic politics under the pretext of national security and be rewarded for it.
The same playbook has been refined and expanded. Bureaucrats leak when it’s politically useful, censor inconvenient information under the banner of misinformation, and coordinate with media outlets that act as unregistered extensions of party machinery. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice once expected to operate above partisanship has been selectively mobilized against private citizens, journalists, and public figures who stand in the way of regime stability.
The lesson is simple: this apparatus will not stop until it is dismantled, or until every dissenting voice is silenced.
The GOP’s Cowardice Is Enabling the Decay.
The Republican leadership’s failure to confront this reality is inexcusable. Every time a committee hearing ends with a sharply worded complaint but no indictments, the message sent to the American people is that the system is beyond redemption that even the alleged opposition has accepted its subjugation.
Too many GOP lawmakers believe they can keep their privileges if they just stay quiet long enough. They think if Trump takes all the heat, the Left’s campaign of political vengeance will burn itself out. But it won’t. Lawfare doesn’t end with its first target. It expands, metastasizes, and consumes whatever opposition remains.
Republicans should take a lesson from history: silence in the face of authoritarian tactics is complicity. What begins as selective punishment for one man will end as institutional persecution for an entire movement.
Power Must Be Used, Not Feared.
If the GOP truly believes in the Constitution, then it must start acting like it. Hearings must produce results, not just soundbites. Oversight committees should no longer function as political theater but as instruments of genuine accountability. The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the intelligence networks involved in domestic manipulation must be confronted not accommodated.
There should be consequences for officials who authorized spying on a presidential campaign, who interfered in elections through censorship collusion, and who persecuted political opponents under false pretense. This is not vengeance; it is restoration the restoration of equality under the law.
When power is abused and the offenders go unpunished, the republic loses legitimacy. A system that punishes the innocent and protects the corrupt doesn’t need unity, it needs justice.
Stand Now, or Lose Everything.
The political establishment often misunderstands populist anger as hysteria. It isn’t. It’s recognition. Millions of Americans understand that the institutions designed to protect them have become instruments of coercion. They see the double standards, the propaganda, and the cowardice of leaders who confuse civility with surrender.
The GOP’s choice today is the same faced by every political class that stood on the edge of tyranny, fight for principle, or vanish in disgrace. Either Republicans stand up now and confront the rot directly or they will watch as the system they refused to defend swallows them whole.
History never excuses cowardice. It remembers only those who stood when standing mattered most.
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