Some say conservatism is in crisis, despite President Trump’s election.
Contrary to his promises, they aren’t “winning,” they’re losing. They concede the progressive premises on every issue from health care to immigration. And even when Republicans have complete control of the federal government, they never seem to get anything done. Most importantly, it seems like unelected federal judges have unlimited power to simply impose leftist policies on the entire country, their argument goes.
Daniel Horowitz, senior editor at Conservative Review and author of “Stolen Sovereignty,” says it is time for a more “radical, yet realistic approach” to challenge the status quo in Washington, D.C.
Horowitz argues the Republican Party is “irredeemably broken” and conservatives need a new party. But until that happens, Horowitz argues certain key people need to seek and obtain public office.
At the top of that list is Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Horowitz is such a fan of Moore he wrote in the judge’s name for president of the United States. In a recent interview at Conservative Review with Horowitz, Moore made his case to be the the next senator from Alabama.
“I don’t think they want the way I think up there,” Moore said of the GOP leadership. “I’m not apologetic for the way I think. I just want to abide by the Constitution and acknowledge God as the basis for our Constitution, which He is. They don’t like that and I guess they don’t like that I stand for what I believe. But I’m not going to change doing that.”
As Horowitz outlines in his book “Stolen Sovereignty,” one of the main problems facing conservatives is the refusal of Congress to reclaim authority to make policy from the federal court system. Moore agreed with Horowitz judicial supremacism must be directly confronted if conservatives are to have any hope of victory.
“What we’ve seen is the Supreme Court will let these federal courts do what they shouldn’t do for as long as it takes to get the mindset of the people to believe that federal courts rule our land,” Moore observed. “And then they cave. The Supreme Court takes the liberty of creating a new right that never existed in our history, as with same sex marriage.”
Moore termed the imposition of nationwide homosexual marriage a “judicial putsch” which “everybody bowed down to” simply because it was the Supreme Court that imposed it.
But even the Supreme Court, argued Moore, lacked the authority to do what it did.
“Courts don’t make law,” said Moore. “That opinion, if it applied at all, which it wouldn’t because it violates the Constitution, but if it applied it all, it would only apply to the parties under that circuit [court].”
Instead, as Moore observed, the country has grown used to the Supreme Court creating policies which are then imposed upon the entire nation.
Horowitz said Republicans could simply strip the courts of jurisdiction over certain issues such as same-sex marriage. But instead, Horowitz complained, “they simply let themselves get run over.” Horowitz ripped Republicans for making a similar surrender on immigration issues.
Moore has a simple plan for countering these defeatist tactics if he makes it to the upper chamber.
“I think as long as you speak the truth, there are going to be those on the other side that will perhaps listen when you say there is nothing in the Constitution about these issues,” Moore said. “We’re sworn to the Constitution of the United States.”
Moore called for the people’s representatives to take back sovereignty from the courts.
“We’re crippled as a nation,” he said. “We can’t function. We’ve got federal district justices who are not elected running the system, and the system is based on representation.”
He also said America needs to return to the understanding of government the country was founded upon.
“I believe in God,” he said plainly. “I believe that the Constitution was founded on belief in God because the Declaration of Independence which is part of the organic law of our country says that is the purpose of government – to secure the rights God gave us.”
Moore additionally lambasted the “spirit of party” which is dividing the nation, adding that when Republicans are in office, they don’t act much different from Democrats.
“It’s a pretended thing, when the Republicans say they oppose something and then when they get in there they don’t stand for it,” he said. “It’s just to get the votes to get there. I think we should stand for what we say. We should repeal Obamacare, not replace it.”
Horowitz said the mood among conservatives is revolutionary, as they are tired of repeated betrayals. He suggested they are looking “not just for a vote but a voice” in the Senate, someone who can use the huge platform granted by the office to stand for true conservative principles. Horowitz said it is especially important to get conservative champions elected from conservative states such as Alabama.
Instead, Horowitz said, many of these senators, such as Jeff Sessions’ temporary replacement Luther Strange, seem like they “are in the Witness Protection Program” and remain utterly silent about the unwillingness of the Republican majority to fulfill its campaign promises.
“We don’t hear the voice!” Horowitz said.
If he can make it to the Senate, Moore said that would no longer be a problem.
“All I have is the truth,” Moore told Horowitz. “If you don’t stand for the truth, you’ll fall for anything.”
And he said the Beltway elite has another thing coming if they try to choke off his candidacy.
“Washington is trying to control the people of Alabama with money,” he said wryly. “I don’t think they’ll be successful.”
