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Trump’s America First agenda, rejecting the globalist model that had exported American industries and jobs in a wholesale fashion. Traditionally democratic “working class” voters migrated over to the Republican Party in support of Mr.

The election of President Trump in 2016 represents another wave-realignment in the American political landscape. It was with that in mind that Andy proudly joined the House Freedom Caucus in 2015. To remain a stable, prosperous, Constitutional Republic, the light of liberty must continue to guide the way. Andy and I, and many like us, having had first hand experience of the world without liberty, understand the existential threat that these movements pose. We both understand, and are forever vigilant about the fact that liberty, and liberty alone, stands in opposition to all that - Frederick Hayek, the Nobel prize winning economist, and an indefatigable defender of liberty, put it rather succinctly: “Liberty is the ground of all things”. Andy, the son of refugees from the former Eastern Europe, had no difficulty in connecting with my reality of having grown up under the horrors of communism. When a mutual friend introduced us back in 2010, at that Tea Party event in Easton, we bonded at a rate of knots over our shared abhorrence of all things socialist, totalitarian, authoritarian, dictatorial, call it what you may, the outcome is always much the same. And we, his constituents, are the better for it. Andy Harris extends this “First Do No Harm” oath to his practice of politics. Political philosophy, and political psychology tell us a lot of what happens with “dependent classes”: they become democratic constituencies and remain forever mired in that dependent relationship, but that is a story for another time.Īndy Harris, who is a medical doctor by profession, and continues his practice here on the Eastern shore to this day, took the Hippocratic Oath: “First Do No Harm” - this is the shorthand version of the oath we are all familiar with. Obamacare had shifted that line by creating new entitlements and new dependencies.

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It is to be an arbiter and provide the scaffolding, the structural background, for the free market and civil society to flourish. To conservatives government is not, a provider of consumer goods and services. It represented a fundamental shift in Americans’ self-understanding and their relationship to their government. All the while we were shedding jobs, entire industries, manufacturing base, and individual and corporate tax base along with them, in the name of “globalization”.Īndy Harris points out that Obamacare was not just about “medical coverage”. That’s a hell of a lot of “quantitative easing”. This second, the Tea Party wave, was markedly a middle class movement concerned about the fiscal health of the nation - the national debt under Obama eventually doubled during his two terms in office, from $10 trillion in January of 2009 when he took office, to $19 trillion by the end of his second term.

The first was in 1980 with Ronald Reagan when millions of working class Americans, the “Blue Democrats” as they became known, joined his movement. The Tea Party movement represented the second wave of political realignment favoring the Republican Party. He has one of the highest district-wide approval ratings in Congress. Andy has not failed us and we have stuck with him ever since. By electing Andy Harris back in 2010, Eastern shore had spoken and allied itself with the forces of freedom, American traditionalism, and fiscal conservatism. He defeated the popular incumbent, Queen Anne County Judge Kratovil - who had voted for Obamacare - in a landslide. Who could afford an $8K annual deductible on their medical policy? It was against this backdrop that Andy Harris won his first election for the Maryland Congressional District One. The latter effectively nationalized 6% of the GDP and permanently embedded the federal bureaucracy in the sacred doctor-patient relationship.Ĭontrary to President Obama’s assurances, millions of Americans lost their insurance coverage only to be replaced by inferior policies with deductibles so high that for all intents and purposes made policy holders “uninsured”. Much maligned and smeared in the subsequent portrayals, the Tea Party was nothing more than a grassroots movement organized around two focal issues: escalating national debt and the passage of Obamacare. I first met Andy Harris in Easton, Maryland in 2010 at an event organized by the then burgeoning “Tea Party” movement.

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