The Republican Party has a pest problem — and no, I’m not talking about the usual RINOs grazing in the Senate cafeteria. I’m talking about actual Democrats putting on elephant costumes and trying to waltz into GOP primaries like they belong there.
The U.S. Supreme Court just slammed the door on one such impostor, and the story behind it reads like a bad spy movie where the spy forgot to change out of his old uniform.
Meet Samuel Ronan: Democrat by Day, “Republican” by Ballot
Samuel Ronan — and I want you to really soak this in — ran for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017. Not precinct captain. Not county dog catcher on the Democrat ticket. Chair of the entire DNC. That’s about as Democrat as a human being can get without legally changing their name to Pelosi.
And yet, somehow, this guy thought he could slide onto the Republican primary ballot in Ohio’s deep-red 15th Congressional District to challenge incumbent Rep. Mike Carey. He figured nobody would notice. He figured wrong.
Franklin County GOP Central Committee member Marc Schare filed a protest against Ronan’s candidacy, pointing to his past statements while running for DNC chair and a recent Facebook comment that made his loyalties pretty clear. The Franklin County Board of Elections voted to boot him — the two Republican members voted him out, and in a twist that surprises absolutely no one, the two Democrat members voted to keep him in.
Funny how that works.
The Courts Weren’t Buying It Either
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose broke the 2-2 tie and sided with his fellow Republicans. Ronan ran to federal court. U.S. District Judge Sarah D. Morrison initially issued a temporary restraining order letting him stay on the ballot — but then reversed course and ruled that the Board of Elections acted within its authority in kicking him to the curb.
Judge Morrison ruled that Ronan allegedly lied about being a Republican. Not misrepresented. Not “stretched the truth.” Lied.
Ronan appealed to the Sixth Circuit. They sided with Judge Morrison. So he appealed to the Supreme Court, because apparently this guy has the self-awareness of a cat burglar who leaves his driver’s license at the scene.
SCOTUS wasn’t interested. According to MS NOW:
“None of the justices noted any dissent from the denial and… the court did not provide any explanation.”
Translation: unanimous “get out of here.” Not even a courtesy dissent. The highest court in the land looked at this case, looked at each other, and presumably shrugged.
LaRose Calls It What It Is
Secretary LaRose came out swinging after the ruling, and his statement deserves to be read in full:
“This is political transgenderism, and it’s a longstanding problem with Ohio’s primary process. We had to go all the way to the nation’s highest court to fight a blatant attempt by a self-declared Democrat to hijack a Republican primary contest.
“This individual took advantage of an open primary process that’s far too vulnerable to trickery and fraud and used it to advance his dishonest campaign to ‘run Democrats as Republicans.’ We stopped it this time, but it’s time to adopt a closed primary process and partisan voter registration before this happens again.”
He’s right. And here’s where it gets bigger than one clown in Ohio.
This Isn’t an Isolated Incident — It’s a Strategy
Ronan himself said the quiet part loud. He told The Columbus Dispatch he should be allowed to “present his progressive ideology as a Republican and let the GOP voters decide.” Read that again. A progressive Democrat openly admitted his plan was to run his leftist platform under the Republican brand.
That’s not democracy. That’s a Trojan horse with a donkey inside.
Open primaries are the unlocked back door, and the Democrats know it. Why beat Republicans in a general election when you can just become one on paper, win a primary in a safe red district, and deliver a vote for the left from the inside? It’s infiltration dressed up as participation.
Trump has been warning about this kind of swamp trickery for years. The establishment doesn’t just fight conservatives head-on — they burrow in, blend in, and rot the party from within. Ronan got caught. The question every Republican voter should be asking is: how many others haven’t been?
Ohio needs closed primaries yesterday. And every red state watching should take notes — because the termites don’t announce themselves before they start chewing.