I dunno what it's going to take to keep our side from continually snatching defeat from the jaws of victory but we have three years, tops, to figure it out...
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/1997323089437225151
Nothing prepares you for the whiplash of becoming a Republican…
...and immediately watching Republicans try to destroy Republicans
I’m new to the conservative movement.
I’m not a pundit.
I’m not important AT ALL.
I’m just a guy who got red-pilled after Hurricane Helene.
And I was and STILL AM genuinely excited to be a Republican.
But it was painful as hell.
I lost a lot of friends from doing so, but EVEN IN THAT, it still felt like relief.
Because that's what discovering truth feels like... relief.
I finally saw how much of what I believed had been curated.
How the media could run cover for positions that roped my empathy into supporting things that were clearly making life worse for the very people I felt empathy for.
I finally woke up.
And THAT is why what’s happening on the Right is so painful to watch.
It’s like the Right is addicted to a circular firing squad.
Every disagreement turns into disloyalty test.
The Right cannibalizes its own for sport, then pretend it's are shocked when the broader public looks at the conservative movement and sees total and complete chaos instead of entire movement focused on WINNING ELECTIONS AND BRINGING POSITIVE CHANGE.
Don't you get it?
If the Left regains power, these fights WILL NOT MOTTER, because the rules won’t be the same.
The Left is literally built upon a culture that is comfortable with and WANTS censorship, deplatforming, and if they truly had their way, you KNOW they would put us all in prison for the stuff we say on X.
You know that.
So guess what?
You CANNOT beat that by spending your energy humiliating your own side for likes and money.
I’m NOT saying disagreement is bad.
Debate is healthy and accountability matters...
...BUT!!!!
There’s a difference between sharpening each other and sabotaging each other.
There’s a difference between a building movement and a conjuring a fucking mob.
And I know that I’m brand new here and that I’m still learning.
I still get things wrong ALL THE TIME.
I’m painfully aware that I’m not entitled to waltz in 5 seconds ago and tell veterans of the Right how to act.
So if you read this and think, “Who the hell does this guy think he is?”
That's totally fair.
But that’s also why I’m saying it.
Because I’m exactly the kind of person this movement should be able to bring in and inspire...
...and I’m telling you honestly:
The constant infighting is draining the life out of what made me excited in the first place.
Please stop eating your own.
We will lose the elections.
And then we will lose the country.