The Wolves Are Always At The Door
A former GOP County Chair's message to GOP County Committees across the 6500 counties in America.
RedState has an article critical of Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
Let me state for the record that Spencer Cox is a disaster for Utah and America... and I can say that with authority because he is my governor.
Cox is the product of a primary system that allowed party "switching", so the Democrats in Utah were enough to sway the primaries away from the only real conservative in the race, Greg Hughes, the former Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, and set up a tight race between Cox and Jon Huntsman. Cox narrowly defeated Huntsman 36% to 35%.
At a 2016 vigil for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, which was quickly proven to have nothing to do with hate of LGBTQ people, Cox, then Gary Herbert's Lt. Governor, offered a "tearful speech apologizing to the LGBTQ community for treating them poorly in his early life, and expressing gratitude to them for helping him realize the error of his ways."
So began Cox's campaign for governor in 2020.
Romney is who he has always been. He's a left wing Republican, a Nelson Rockefeller east coast elite who saw an opportunity to take advantage of massive support from the Mormon Church and Orrin Hatch's retirement to carpetbag his way back to Washington.
Our Third District Congressman (after redistricting, I'm now in this District), is "Republican" John Curtis - a man, who until 2017 was the Democrat mayor of Provo and the former Chair and Vice-Chair of the Utah County Democrat Party.
Our First District Congressman, Blake Moore, a freshman elected to replace the retiring Rob Bishop, is another "Republican", hosting fundraisers in DC for Lynn Cheney. Moore is John Curtis Lite.
Utah is in danger of turning purple at least and blue at worst - and the people who say "it can't happen here" are willfully ignorant of the fact Utah is following exactly the same patterns that turned Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada blue and turned the home state of Barry Goldwater into a purple state.
As the former Chairman of the Summit County GOP (I resigned in December due to a family move out of Summit County), I have had a front row seat to the creeping liberalism alive and well inside the Utah GOP.
The Republican County committees in Salt Lake, Utah and Washington County are already leaning left. At our State Central Committee last year, Salt Lake County delegates spoke out and voted against a resolution prohibiting the teaching of CRT in Utah schools, claiming "we don't understand what CRT really is".
The votes from Salt Lake and Utah county delegates at the state organizing convention helped defeat the resolution (by 87 votes out of 1509 cast) to censure Mitt Romney for his vote to impeach President Trump.
The Salt Lake County GOP is a major component in the pipeline of Utah politics, but Salt Lake City and its suburbs are a Democrat stronghold. That same transition is being seen in St. George and Washington County in the south.
Why?
In-migration from California, Portland and Seattle. Democrats are fleeing the states and cities they ruined but are packing their politics when they come to Utah for the snow in the north and the sun in the south.
Unbelievably, Utah is at risk of a political sea change in a time when conservativism is resurgent elsewhere.
I will return to the political fray after the elections this year, becoming active within the Salt Lake County GOP - but my message to County GOP leadership across the 6500 counties in the United States is this:
The wolves are always at the door, act accordingly. If your county leadership isn't solidly conservative, your party WILL turn left. Remember historian Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics (especially #2):
Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.