Ken Blackwell

Panic in America by Ken Blackwell 

Panic? Absolutely not!! Rush Limbaugh had it right… At noon on Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh would have grabbed the Golden EIB Microphone, lit into everyone responsible for Tuesday night and made us laugh at the left until it hurt. Before the three hours were up, he would have sent millions of conservatives back to work believing America's best days were still ahead. We have never needed that voice more than we need it this week. 

Tuesday was a massacre. Democrats seized the House and the Senate. They flipped Senate seats in Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. James Talarico beat Ken Paxton and became the first Democrat to win statewide in Texas in more than 30 years. CNN reported that the gains Republicans built with Latino and rural voters were wiped out in a single night. Ron DeSantis called it "close to an extinction-level event." Ohio took the hardest punch. Amy Acton will be our next governor, the first Democrat to win that office in two decades. Sherrod Brown is headed back to the United States Senate. This is a state President Trump carried by 11 points two years ago. Rush knew exactly what to do the morning after a midterm wipeout. 

When Republicans lost Congress in 2006, he went on the air the next day and told his audience, "I feel liberated." He said he was done trying to "carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried." He meant the Republicans who spent like Democrats and then wondered why their own voters stayed home. He would say the same thing today, and he would be right. Every Republican in Washington who ran from conservative ideas this year owns a piece of Tuesday night. Voters cannot choose a principle nobody bothers to defend. Rush could hold the party's feet to the fire because he never lost faith in the country. He got that from Ronald Reagan, the man he called "Ronaldus Magnus." Reagan took office after a decade of gas lines, inflation and malaise. Four years later, his campaign told the nation, "It's morning again in America." That November, Reagan carried 49 states. 

Rush loved to explain why Reagan's hope worked. "His was not a phony optimism," he told his listeners in 2007. Reagan's confidence came from the Constitution, free markets, faith and the goodness of the American people. Rush built his whole show on that same foundation. Three hours a day, five days a week, he tied the news back to those first principles and dared anyone to prove him wrong. He did it best after a loss. Rush was the coach in the locker room after a beating, telling a bruised and bloodied team to get back out on the field and fight again. A month into the Obama years, with Democrats in charge of everything, Rush stood before a packed hall at CPAC in Washington. Conservatives were demoralized. He told them, "Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people." He said conservatives look at this country and see Americans. "We don't see groups. We don't see victims." He sent them home with a simple charge: "Optimism, confidence, not guilt." 

Less than two years later, Republicans took back the House in a landslide. He kept coaching until the very end. In December 2020, sick with the cancer that would take his life two months later, Rush told his audience, "It's never going to be time to panic, because we're never gonna give up." He told them the fight would go on, because "America is worth fighting for." A week later, he added, "I don't believe our darkest days are ahead of us. I never have." Rush would want us to stop sulking and start fighting. Democrats now hold both Every conservative needs to learn the principles cold and back the hosts, writers and candidates who chambers of Congress, and they will use every ounce of that power to grow government and shrink your freedom. 

They will overreach, because they always do. When they do, conservatives must be ready to explain to every neighbor, coworker and family member why our ideas work and theirs fail.make our case with confidence. We also owe our kids and grandkids the lessons Reagan and Rush both taught about this country, so the next generation grows up proud of it. The Drive-By Media will spend weeks telling you conservatism is finished. Rush spent 32 years proving them wrong, and we can keep proving them wrong without him. It will be morning in America again. 

Pray for our nation, get off the mat and get back to work.

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