Republican Sen. Ben Sasse says the GOP 'wants a strongman daddy figure' and 'exists increasingly as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks'

The senator from Nebraska gave a speech on Thursday evening that included a lot of criticism of his own party and urged fellow Republicans to re-orient themselves away from the politics of grievance and towards a forward- thinking party in order to tackle global threats.

In a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Sasse said that the left and right want a benevolent bureaucracy. America, the one the founders gave us, the one kept for us by our parents and grandparents, doesn't work anymore according to the most loud of them.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute's "A Time for Choosing" speaker series has hosted a number of major GOP figures in recent months.

The Democratic Party is "increasingly drunk on elite leftism" and has "little room for honest debate", as well as President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a portion of the speech.

The Nebraska Republican had a lot to say about the Republican Party.

Are we Republicans? "We have a big decision to make." "We can either continue to drift as a party that exists increasingly as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks, or we can be a future focused party of 2030."

He said that in 2016 American voters were presented with two candidates whose "fundamental diagnosis was really the same" and that both wanted to victimize them.

"You're a victim, the country's going down the tubes, the system's rigged, you're getting screwed, you're a victim," he said. You are a victim.

The 7 Republican senators voted to convict Trump for inciting an insurrection.

The president lied that he won the election by a large margin. The Nebraska Republican said that he lied about voter fraud. The life of the vice president was at risk because of those lies. The actions are in violation of the oath of office.

The undisputed leader of the Republican Party said recently that he never should have endorsed Sasse for re-election to the Senate.

In May, Trump said that he was bad news. The day after he started hitting me, he begged for my endorsement.

In an interview with The Federalist, Trump said that he was a "loser," a "sleazebag," and a "quiet little boy."