As he now campaigns for statewide office, his mailer portrays the scope and scale of this incredible willingness to gaslight, as he purports to have “stood with Trump when it mattered most.” While, in fact, this politician was in very public opposition to Trump when it mattered most: as the Biden Justice Department and the radical left sought to bankrupt Trump and put him in jail, establishment Republicans recruited Ron DeSantis to stage the coup that would move the party past Trump. This legislator? Well, he became the highest-ranking Oklahoma legislator to sign on with the effort, in a public endorsement of DeSantis. Today, he rewrites that history with seemingly no sense of shame.
Brian Hill had a problem. As a newly announced candidate for lieutenant governor, the Mustang House member had set out on the obligatory “Gaslight the Grassroots” road tour to convince Oklahoma’s burgeoning Republican grassroots crowd that he, Hill, was really a “conservative.”
As Hill concluded his presentations to what is perhaps Oklahoma’s most dynamic grassroots group, the Logan County 2nd Amendment Association and Logan County GOP, his gaslighting endeavors were almost immediately exposed with one question: “Can you explain your 43 score on the 2023 Conservative Index?”
As Hill stumbled through his answer, attempting to excuse his poor performance on the gold standard—since 1979—of exposing the dark art by which Oklahoma legislators pretend to be conservative at election time but govern as liberals, he had become the latest victim of a grassroots savvy that has exposed the duplicity of so many special-interests-co-opted legislators turned statewide candidates.
These are politicians who believed they were skillful enough to pull the wool over the eyes of the patriotic grassroots—voters who, desperate to save their nation, the greatest in the history of the world, are eager for heroes and are wanting to trust those who claim to understand American principle and thought.
Time and again, these ambitious legislators, now seeking higher office but handicapped by the fact that they have governed as institutionalists, who have long been funded by and done the bidding of those who are using the power of government to cash out to their personal benefit, have been exposed by the grassroots gauntlet.
Put simply, the grassroots are becoming ever more sophisticated, and with the advent of a free and open X following Elon Musk’s purchase, and any number of tools such as The Conservative Index, have had the power to expose just about all of them, starting with gubernatorial hopeful Charles McCall, whose support has fallen back as wise Republican voters have become aware of his legislative record.
There has been, in fact, just one very noticeable exception: a termed-out legislator whose liberalism was repeatedly and frequently documented by The Conservative Index, who averaged a 57 score, firmly in official RINO territory, in his last nine years of officeholding.
It’s a cautionary tale, as this lawmaker held one of the best scores, a 90, in his first three years; but, unfortunately, this is what made him so dangerous: he never lost the ability to talk conservative and to make conservatives believe he shared their values. But after those first three years, his scores tell a very different story. By 2017, his first year in leadership, as he advocated for tax increase after tax increase, his score plummeted to a 10—an all-time low that, until then, would have been inconceivable for a Republican legislator.
In fact, his scores are lower than Hill’s—the fellow establishment lawmaker whose low score was highlighted at the Logan County meeting.
During the last nine years of the legislator’s tenure, I would challenge anyone to point to a time when the House Republicans did what they did best—betraying the conservative, free-market principles of Bastiat’s The Law, or the special law principle in Crockett’s Not Yours to Give—and when this legislator could be found on the right side of the vote.
Put simply, the system had changed him, and he’s very different than when he was a new House member, as so often happens to most of those who play the game. But, because he never lost the talent for talking the talk, his ability to make all of those betrayals go away—well, that’s all pure politician skill, a clear inability to feel shame, like almost no one in the modern history of the state has possessed; it’s an amazing study.
It’s the same statewide candidate who has filled his campaign coffers with the generous donations of the whos who of the lobbyist scene, and the liberal scions who led the transformation of the House to its modern-day configuration of institutionalist domination, to include liberal former legislators Carol Bush, Marcus McEntire, and the great purger of legislative conservatives himself, who some may say is Oklahoma’s modern-day answer to Gene Stipe, Chris Kannady, while still expecting, and worse, receiving, the very public support of far too many grassroots conservatives.
And it’s the legislator who didn’t just, time and time again, vote for both the tax increases and the biggest corporate welfare giveaways in the history of the state, in the era of Corporate Welfare on Steroids, but who, as majority floor leader, ran the floor, facilitating the process by which all of this happened in the least transparent of ways, moving from concept introduction to final approval in the tightest of windows of public purview—an abuse that Tom Coburn took to the State Capitol to rightly express his dismay at and liken to the corruption of Washington, D.C.
As he now campaigns for statewide office, his mailer portrays the scope and scale of this incredible willingness to gaslight, as he purports to have “stood with Trump when it mattered most.” While, in fact, this politician was in very public opposition to Trump when it mattered most: as the Biden Justice Department and the radical left sought to bankrupt Trump and put him in jail, establishment Republicans recruited Ron DeSantis to stage the coup that would move the party past Trump. This legislator? Well, he became the highest-ranking Oklahoma legislator to sign on with the effort, in a public endorsement of DeSantis. Today, he rewrites that history with seemingly no sense of shame.
And, as the era of social justice peaked, this liberal legislator was there for it, voting time and again to diminish our values, including the notorious HB 1835—perhaps the Democrats’ greatest wishlist item of choice—aligning counseling standards with woke national groups, an unconstitutional restriction on free speech that would have allowed the state to take away the licenses of Christian counselors who sought to save the lives and souls of innocent children whose corruption is the obsession of the woke left, something one would expect in the atheistic Soviet Union, but never in the United States—and HB 3088, another Democrat initiative, the implicit bias training mandate, designed to force Oklahoma’s health professionals to be trained on their “implicit bias.”
And in 2020, as the Democrat establishment conspired on making a joke of the election system, it was this legislator who voted for the Democrat effort to more than double the notary cap on mail-in ballots, HB 3317, that analysts have rightly attributed to be the Democrats’ foremost tool for election fraud.
From the proposal that appeared set to enable FedCoin, to the proposal to allow legislators to stay in office for 20 years instead of the current limit of 12, to the $3.8 million waste of taxpayer dollars to study turning every Oklahoma road into a toll road—tracking and taxing Oklahomans for every mile they drive—to his repeated authoritative performance on KWTV, where, as a guest panelist throughout the COVID era, he repeatedly instructed viewers to “wear their mask,” an authoritarian order that this writer gleefully refused, with extreme prejudice, now, as I review what I affectionately call the “insane votes” document, I have found this legislator to be not only on the wrong side of history, having only scratched the surface of the betrayals in this article, but to have demonstrated a judgment so bad as to disqualify him for the future support of any thoughtful conservative who has the intellectual honesty to care about principle and to put that principle above personal relations—because, at the end of the day, that’s the only skill which will allow one to withstand the advances of this incredibly savvy politician.
For to fail in this task—well, it’s to become the victim of that previously mentioned verb, and to find oneself in a state of having been “echoled.”
If you’ve been “echoled,” don’t feel bad. You are far from the only victim of Oklahoma’s most savvy politician. But now, you know the truth. The question is, do you have the courage to recognize it?
Because if not, one can certainly make the case that no consistent moral standard remains by which future legislators can even begin to be held responsible.
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