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Hunter: Dear Common Sense on using your voice without becoming part of the chaos

“Dear Common Sense” is a no-nonsense advice column for those who still believe truth matters, leadership is earned, and common sense isn’t so common anymore.

Each issue tackles real questions from real people, offering grounded wisdom for speaking up, leading well, and living with integrity in a noisy world.

No shouting. No spin. Just clarity with character.

Let’s lean into our first entry. Shall we?

Garbo: Fear Is Not a Strategy And It’s Killing the Republican Party

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, State, Top Stories / May 28, 2025 / Conservative Movement, Fear In Politics, GOP Future, Leadership, Political Strategy, Republican Party

There’s a growing tone in parts of the Republican Party – loud, bitter, and angry. It presents itself as strength, as boldness, as “fighting back.” But listen closely, and you’ll hear something else beneath it: fear.

You see it in the endless purity tests.

In the public shaming of fellow Republicans.

In the weaponized use of the word “RINO.”

In the obsession with rooting people out instead of bringing people in.

This isn’t what strength looks like. It’s what fear looks like when it’s dressed in patriotism and broadcast through a megaphone.

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