OPINION: Party on — Gem State heist
Brent Regan
Last week I wrote about the need for political parties because they bring stability to our Republican form of government and how that stability is under threat from the Uniparty.
A little over four years ago Democrat operatives rented an entire floor in a downtown Boise office building and staffed it with a rumored $8M budget. Their mission, turn Idaho blue. Their plans were largely blocked by grassroots Republicans working at the county central committee level to promote strong conservative Republicans. So what are they doing since their plans aren’t working? They’re changing their plans.
The other group that sees the grassroots conservatives as the opposition is the Old Guard Republicans whose roots reach back to the Democrat controlled history of Idaho. At the 2022 State Convention, the Old Guard lost control of the Republican Party in a landslide. These very same people who, hours before, were lecturing on the need for unity and cooperation immediately turned their backs on the party and walked out of the convention in an effort to break the quorum and crash the convention. They failed, but have been punching right ever since.
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