Frontline Conservatives Blame Failing Republican Campaigns on Party Leaders

In the wake of continued unrest over the actions of the Republican National Committee (RNC), some frontline conservatives say that GOP leaders have become too elitist to listen to ordinary voters. “They think they know better than us,” Freddy Burgos, a Fairfax County, Virginia Republican told The Epoch Times, “so they ignore our wishes.” The home improvement contractor said that many in GOP leadership are now elitist “country club Republicans.” “They have become more like dictators than representatives,” he added. “We basically have a Republican leadership with a Democratic mentality.” Mr. Burgos was recently part of a movement to censure local Republican Party leaders for promoting candidates for school board seats that were not “true Republicans.” They included one candidate who was openly a Democrat and even hosted a Democratic fundraiser just before switching parties, he said....