The Hill’s Top Opinions: Republican establishment to conservative and faith-based voters: ‘Drop dead’

View Online  Opinion Monday, November 28 ©  AP Good Monday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions.   Religious conservatives have always felt despised by the Republican establishment. During campaign season, establishment Republicans would always say the right things about enacting politics to outlaw abortion, protect religious liberty and secure the border to energize and activate this formidable voting bloc.   But, once reelected, writes former White House and Pentagon official DOUGLAS MACKINNON, "those establishment Republicans and their leadership would stab those constituencies in the back as they cozied up to corporate America, lobbying firms, Big Tech, the mainstream media, and any special interests who might fund their campaigns or hire them once they left Congress."   It's happened time and time again, and it's happening now in the wake of the 2022 midterm elections, in which Republicans underperformed despite polling advantages on numerous issues.   "The wish list for conservative and faith-based voters has never been long, nor complicated," writes MacKinnon. "And for decades, the Republican establishment and leadership has let these voters down. Worse than that, they have purposely gaslighted them and then cast them aside once they attained victory."   As Republicans seek to learn what went wrong in 2022, MacKinnon believes they should realize that part of the problem is that they've alienated the conservative and faith-based voters who make up the base of their party.   "They should take notice of the bright red warning light that's blinking on the dashboard of their damaged 'Victory Express,'" MacKinnon writes. "The light signifies the percentage of conservative and faith-based voters who are sick and tired of being told to 'Drop Dead' and simply sat out these midterm elections."   Looking ahead, MacKinnon has a question for the GOP establishment: "How many conservatives and faith-based voters do you think will sit out the 2024 election?"     Read MacKinnon's entire op-ed here.   Not subscribed to The Hill's Top Opinions? Sign up here. MORE TOP OPINIONS Limiting the war: What might Western intervention look like in Ukraine? By SETH CROPSY, former naval officer and deputy undersecretary of the Navy More likely than not, this war will remain limited, Russia will not prompt NATO intervention and the West will not unleash its military power. Yet sober analysis demonstrates that the West has more than enough strategic maneuvering space to manipulate the political and military factors of a direct conflict. Read the op-ed here China's uprisings present an opportunity to the West By JIANLI YANG, former political prisoner of China, and BRADLEY THAYER, director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy The world should not underestimate the determination of Xi and the communist regime to remain in power and employ all of its tools – China's police, army, surveillance state and intelligence services – to do so. The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre serves as a stark reminder of that. Still, there is much that the United States and its allies can do to assist. Read the op-ed here Congress should end the war with Ukraine by withdrawing from NATO By BRUCE FEIN, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan By withdrawing from NATO, Congress would end the existential threat that occasioned Putin's invasion of Ukraine and extinguish the executive branch's ambition for regime change or weakening Russia. The United States is NATO's locomotive and the other members collectively the caboose. Congressional withdrawal would permit Putin to save face if he ended Russia's military and political debacle in Ukraine by asserting that his war aim had been achieved.  Read the op-ed here The great American 'homewashing' is happening under our noses By CORNELIUS HURLEY, professor of financial services law at Boston University School of Law By withdrawing from NATO, Congress would end the existential threat that occasioned Putin's invasion of Ukraine and extinguish the executive branch's ambition for regime change or weakening Russia. The United States is NATO's locomotive and the other members collectively the caboose. Congressional withdrawal would permit Putin to save face if he ended Russia's military and political debacle in Ukraine by asserting that his war aim had been achieved.  Read the op-ed here QUICK TAKES No joke: This Supreme Court case could take a big bite out of the First Amendment   In Donald Trump's America, facts are fungible   A Montana 'mountain man' goes to court to protect his property rights   Putin's power paradox   Stay Engaged The Hill's Top Opinions is written by Daniel Allott, an opinion editor at The Hill and the author of "On the Road in Trump's America: A Journey Into the Heart of a Divided Nation."   Views expressed by contributors are theirs and not the opinion of The Hill.   Check out The Hill's Opinion section online for the latest. Interested in submitting an op-ed? Click here. 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