James Antle III provides a spot-on analysis of the Republican party's future in light of its recent past.Concerning the party's failure and lost opportunities while enjoying majorities in Congress, he writes: "They lost sight of our country's founding principles, which are Republican principles, and traded the liberty of their constituents for their own job security (Emphasis added)."
Concerning what needs to be done from the grassroots level, he writes: "The most important thing is to improve the quality of Republicans in Washington."
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James Madison observed in Federalist 57:
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government. The means relied on in this form of government for preventing their degeneracy are numerous and various."The most effective, and difficult, means We the People have in preventing further "degeneracy" in government is a firm and sustained insistence on the principles of freedom, first at the party level and then, as Mr. Antle notes, after election time.
