In this season's final episode of THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY, Paige discusses the risks to the GOP of continuing to behave as the noncommittal “party of nothingness.” She attributes some of their disappointments at the ballot box to defective strategy, including notable failures to differentiate themselves from the dysfunctional status quo and the entrenched, unpopular political establishment. 

Paige presents a series of essential policy priorities the GOP must embrace to escape special interest capture and campaign and govern as the credible champions of the American people.

SHOW NOTES

Paige Willey in the American Mind: "No Country For Bold Men"

Paige interviews former United States Congresswoman Michele Bachmann about the nation’s discontent that led to the rise of the Tea Party movement, media hostility toward disruptive outsider candidates who challenge the Washington establishment, and her path from concerned Minnesota parent to major leader of the nationwide grassroots conservative movement.

Paige interviews Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass and author of “The Once And Future Worker,” about the problems facing American workers and families, and the benefits and drawbacks of different policy solutions.

Show Notes:

• “The Once and Future Worker” by Oren Cass: https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-once-and-future-worker/

• “Where’s The Growth?” Economic Analysis by American Compass: https://americancompass.org/wheres-the-growth/

Paige interviews Matt Palumbo, author of “The Man Behind The Curtain” for a discussion of George Soros’ political activity and influence, including policies worsening crime, violence, and illegal immigration.

Paige reviews the underappreciated structural factors and predictable messaging failures that explain GOP underperformance in the midterm elections. These issues all must be addressed for Republicans to perform adequately in the future, but long-standing complacency and malpractice by the GOP party apparatus shows they do not appreciate or understand what it takes to win. 

Paige interviews Mollie Hemingway about past and continued threats to election integrity including an unscrupulous intelligence bureaucracy, electioneering disguised as “charitable giving,” the hyperpartisan role of the media and big tech, and more. 

Paige interviews Chronicles Magazine senior writer and associate editor Pedro Gonzalez about the specific developments used to put immigration policy out of reach of voter recourse for decades, despite growing costs and difficulties for taxpayers, states, and localities across the nation.

This episode reviews the critical decision points in the past half-century of immigration policies including the 1986 Immigration and Control Act, Plyler v. Doe, and California’s 1994 Prop. 187 and more.

Show Notes:

• https://www.theamericanconservative.com/overturn-plyler-v-doe/
• https://www.theamericanconservative.com/restrictionisms-last-stand/
• https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/us/migrants-false-claims-fraud-on-a-huge-scale.html
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-your-country/id1609268627?i=1000570833570
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-your-country/id1609268627?i=1000564039961