Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "NYC Mayor Eric Adams Raided by the FBI" video.

  1. Rep. John Randolph, of Roanoke, warned of what would come in the US years ago. He was credited with exposing “crossing the floor of the lobby” in Congress, where the stock traders and companies would try to collar the politicians to collude with them, thus, lobbying was invented. He was probably the most honest politician that was ever in Congress. “In the decade following the War of 1812, Randolph was a marginal figure in Congress who opposed virtually every initiative to expand the size and scope of the federal government. His opposition was based on a strict reading of the Constitution, defense of state sovereignty, and an adherence to precedent. His political creed was that of a latter-day Antifederalist. 'Love of peace, hatred of offensive war, jealously of the state governments toward the general government; a dread of standing armies; a loathing of public debt, taxes, and excises; tenderness for the liberty of the citizen; jealously, Argus-eyed jealously, of the patronage of the President.”'”
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  2.  @JoeNeutrino  What Randolph exposed was that when they exited the chamber, for the lobby, the stock traders and corporate shills were waiting to harangue them on the way out. I don't think he invested the term, lobbyist, but he exposed it, and the word, lobbyist, was invented from it, thus, he was given credit for it. Randolph was the leader of the Old Republicans, the real Republicans of Jefferson. Randolph actually dueled Henry Clay, who led the Whigs (the old Federalists) that stole the word, Republican, and used it with Lincoln. After Teddy Roosevelt, a progressive, the GOP did try to take the party back to that ideology, which was led by Robert Taft, especially after WWI, with their anti-war stance. That was the "Old Guard" GOP that Goldwater once supported, and that 45 stated he wished to bring back.
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  3.  @nativevirginian8344  Yes, and Randolph led the Old Republicans of Jefferson in Congress, and he backed Ol' Hickory for president. This is what 45 said he supported, and why his detractors and haters called him a Jacksonian. Really, this old republican ideology was what the GOP finally did support after WWI, especially after Teddy Roosevelt brought the “p-word” into the GOP, which the majority of republicans denounced that led to the Ps being booted out. It's the anti-war and anti-big government ideology favored by Robert A Taft between WWI and WWII, where the GOP became known as the Old Guard during that time. The problem was, the “Ps” infiltrated the party during and after WWII, and ruined it again.
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