Reaching back to the distant mists of the 1980s, a lesson learned by President Ronald Reagan was how to go over the heads of the media and directly to the American people with primetime addresses. It worked. In this way, he was able to get his message past the re-messengers.
Certainly, media bias was a struggle for Republicans to overcome in the early 80s. Today, however, it is unimaginably worse, as media has morphed into openly partisan operatives for Democrats and, what is worse, the ever-growing permanent state. This makes the Reagan Principle more imperative than ever.
If Republicans in the House were to hold primetime impeachment hearings of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and then Joe Biden, they could get around this media wall. But time is running short. This all needs to happen over the next 12-15 months. It does not matter that the media will call it a political witch hunt and try to diminish it. MSNBC’s collective hair is sure to catch on fire. Yet this is exactly why these hearings must happen in primetime—to shove the dishonest information purveyors off to the side.
Millions of Americans remain uninformed about the severity of the border crisis, the destruction of the legitimacy of the Department of Justice, and the overall narrative of the Biden corruption syndicate. But as polls show, even Democrats are increasingly unhappy with the direction of the country and do not trust Biden to lead it. These Americans may be persuadable. But how will they know what is going on unless someone tells them?
People who read Human Events and other conservative media know these things. It almost seems impossible that not everyone knows. Well, they don’t. Millions, perhaps even tens of millions of people who will vote, pay no attention most of the time to what is happening outside of what is gleaned from their cursory reading of corporate media. So they are worse than uninformed. They are misinformed.
Nowadays, however, it requires more than going over the heads of the media. There is a new obstacle for Republicans to bypass: social media. Yet congressional impeachment hearings would be almost impossible for the censorious social media platforms to block and tackle on behalf of Democrats and the embedded FBI information sanitizers.
Prime time impeachments would be an escalation of the Reagan Principle that offered with a two-fold communications victory: bypassing both the corporate media and the social media censors.
The vast majority of American voters in the middle simply don’t know that more than 6 million illegal aliens have crossed into America during Biden’s presidency, swamping anything in our history. But a prime-time impeachment of Mayorkas would get that information and the lawless reasons for it to millions of middle voters.
They are clueless as to the extent of the Trump Russia collusion hoax, the role of a rogue FBI spying on the president, and the actual collusion between intelligence services and Hillary Clinton and congressional Democrats. They don’t know that the FBI has been spying on parents who are concerned about the safety and welfare of their children. They don’t know the FBI inserted agents on January 6 at the Capitol and video appears to show those agents as actual instigators. But impeaching Merrick Garland would force coverage of that information in ways the general electorate has not yet seen.
Most voters don’t know the shocking extent of the potential influence-peddling with Hunter Biden and his then vice-president father with both Ukraine and China. They are unaware of the recordings of Hunter Biden apparently trying to blackmail Chinese businessmen for payments by claiming his father, the then vice president, was sitting next to him. They don’t know that the because the FBI has been hiding this information and so much more, it required a series of whistleblowers for it to come to light.
Some Americans don’t even know about the damning Hunter Biden laptop and the FBI’s cover ups and intimidation methods. The cover-ups included colluding social media platforms, where it embedded agents, according to the Twitter Files. The intimidation included going to a Twitter Files reporter’s home on the day he was testifying before Congress.
But a prime-time impeachment of Joe Biden would push all this information past the censorious state. And unlike in the disastrous televised January 6 committee embarrassment, it wouldn’t take a Hollywood director and audio dubbing to make it riveting TV.
Of course none of these people will be found guilty and removed from office because the Senate will block that. They might not even be successfully impeached in the Republican House. But while that would be nice, the essential element is to get this information out to those who would otherwise never know it—yet still vote in November.
Rod Thomson is a former daily newspaper reporter and columnist, Salem radio host and current Founder of The Thomson Group, a Florida-based political consulting firm. He has eight children and seven grandchildren and a rapacious hunger to fight for America for them. Follow him on Twitter at @Rod_Thomson. Email him at [email protected].
