Is There Hope Yet For Conservatism and the GOP?...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump earlier this month, has launched a new political action committee that is designed to become a financial engine to challenge the former president’s wing of the GOP caucus and stand up against a leadership team still aligned with him.

It's about damn time! A REAL conservative and TRUE republican finally mounting a serious attack on the fake donald j. trump republicanism and his Trumpism.

Kinzinger, 42, a former star of the 2010 tea party class, said the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol served as a final breaking point for the direction of the Republican Party, providing a stark divide between those who want to continue a path toward autocracy and those who want to return to traditional conservative values.

Hallelujah!!! Somebody who ACTUALLY understands exactly what TRUE conservative values are. They are absolutely NOTHING at all what the present disgraceful anti-American GOP represents today.

In an interview Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Kinzinger formally unveiled his Country 1st PAC and a six-minute campaign-style video launching what he hopes will become a movement.

“The reality is this: This is a time to choose. . . . And my goal in launching Country1st.com . . . is just to say, ‘Look, let’s take a look at the last four years, how far we have come in a bad way, how backwards-looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division,’ ” Kinzinger said on the program. “And that’s not the party I ever signed up for. And I think most Republicans didn’t sign up for that.”

Kinzinger previewed the launch in a Saturday interview with a small group of reporters on a Zoom call, alternating between taking shots at freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose promotion of the QAnon extremist ideology has drawn great attention in recent days, and being dismissive toward what he views as the weak leadership of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

“Republicans must say enough is enough. It’s time to unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage,” Kinzinger says in the launch video.

We certainly wish Kinzinger well in what will no doubt be a Herculean effort to excise the influence of donald j. trump and his failed Trumpism from the present and future GOP. If there is a future for the now totally disgraced party of trump.

Of course what would be best for the GOP would be for it to collapse and burn. Then sane, reality based conservatives can rebuild the party into a new party molded in the image of our liberal founders and President Abraham Lincoln. With a 21st century agenda of diversity, inclusion, and equal justice for all.