Watching Miranda Devine and former Senator Scott Brown on Fox this week felt like a breath of fresh air for anyone sick of Washington theater and hungry for real problem-solving. Devine tore into the left’s endless obsession with Donald Trump, arguing that Democrats and much of the media have prioritized vendettas over voters’ real needs. That blunt diagnosis landed on a network discussion where conservatives pushed back against the same predictable, performative outrage we’ve seen for years.
Devine didn’t mince words: the political establishment cared more about hating Trump than doing the hard work of governing, and that hatred has warped priorities in Washington. Her point echoes a larger, undeniable pattern — when you spend all your energy chasing headlines and investigations, you ignore schools, families, and the economy. Ordinary Americans pay the price when politicians prefer cable-news clips to concrete results.
Scott Brown, who has returned to New Hampshire politics with a platform grounded in border security, energy common sense, and fiscal restraint, made the practical contrast plain. Brown’s campaign is built on solving problems for working families, not staging endless political revenge tours, and he’s making that pitch to voters who have been left behind by the status quo. If Republicans want to win and govern, they need more candidates who talk like Brown and less like the inner-city political class.
The panel hammered home real grievances that matter to the average family: rising gas bills, runaway inflation, and an energy policy that treats coastal elites’ virtue-signaling as more important than keeping heat in the homes of seniors and single moms. Brown and Devine rightly mocked the left’s electric-car fantasies while mortgage and heating costs skyrocket — a reminder that ideology without common sense is cruelty dressed up as policy. Voters remember who forced pain on them in the name of pet projects.
Conservatives should also be unapologetic about exposing corruption and holding elites to account, which is exactly what journalists like Devine have done with stubborn reporting on the Biden family and other scandals. That scrutiny is not vengeance; it’s accountability, and it matters because Americans deserve leaders who won’t trade transparency for partisan cover-ups. The left’s insistence on expanding investigations into everything but the kitchen-table issues proves who their true constituency is — activists and donors, not the mainstream.
If Republicans want to retake the narrative, they must offer solutions and stay focused on everyday Americans — secure borders, affordable energy, lower prices, and safer streets — instead of getting sucked into the Democrats’ petty games. Scott Brown’s return to New Hampshire is exactly the kind of pragmatic conservatism that can reclaim trust from voters tired of Washington’s performative politics. It’s time for GOP leaders to stop playing defense and start delivering results.
Hardworking Americans deserve a party that treats them with respect and puts their problems first, not one that treats politics like sport. The choice is simple: demand competence over circus, results over rancor, and dignity over division. For the sake of our families and our future, conservatives must unite around common-sense policies and reject the distraction of permanent outrage.