The people who let us down are the hardest to forgive. I observe that people hate the Never Trumpers more than they do Hillary’s supporters because we expect the wolves to attack us. But the people who are revealed as Judas goats — animals that lead the sheep to slaughter — commit a betrayal that becomes almost unforgiveable.
When National Review posted an Against Trump edition in January 2016, I knew instantly the magazine was done. I wrote, “National Review Hoists White Flag, Defiantly Rows To Outcast Island.” A magazine that prided itself in standing athwart history, yelling Stop finally met the freight train. Conservatives should not stop history; we must make history, as Reagan did in dispatching the Soviet Union to the dustbin of history.
My argument was National Review-approved conservatives let the voters down time and again. I wrote, “Trump has not always been pro-life and pro-guns, but he is now and that is what counts. He also is unapologetically politically incorrect, to the point of being rude, but being polite has not gotten conservatives a damned thing. Trump is bringing Democrats, independents and unregistered people into the party. Losing just to meet some conservative purity test is a luxury Republicans no longer can afford.”
Seven years later, a new group of Never Trumpers emerges. The argument is the same. Trump is impolite and cannot win the general election. The only thing different — the only thing new — is these Jonah Goldbergs are not whale sized.
Scott Moorefield at Townhall calls himself and the rest of his claque Team Reality. He defines this as journos both left and extremely left who questioned the covid response. Other than that, he said he shares little in common with them. Sure.
He wrote, “Interestingly, one thing we all agree on, almost to a person as far as I know, is that Donald Trump DOES NOT deserve another bite at the apple as POTUS. We saw what happened in 2020 and how that laid the foundation for all that was to come. We covered it. We fought against it. We were censored and banned from social media. We lost friends, family members, jobs, and even churches because of our ‘controversial’ stands on these issues. We lived and breathed it every day for years and, in the end, we were proven right.”
Agreeing with a lefty is the first sign of political atrophy.
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When National Review posted an Against Trump edition in January 2016, I knew instantly the magazine was done. I wrote, “National Review Hoists White Flag, Defiantly Rows To Outcast Island.” A magazine that prided itself in standing athwart history, yelling Stop finally met the freight train. Conservatives should not stop history; we must make history, as Reagan did in dispatching the Soviet Union to the dustbin of history.
My argument was National Review-approved conservatives let the voters down time and again. I wrote, “Trump has not always been pro-life and pro-guns, but he is now and that is what counts. He also is unapologetically politically incorrect, to the point of being rude, but being polite has not gotten conservatives a damned thing. Trump is bringing Democrats, independents and unregistered people into the party. Losing just to meet some conservative purity test is a luxury Republicans no longer can afford.”
Seven years later, a new group of Never Trumpers emerges. The argument is the same. Trump is impolite and cannot win the general election. The only thing different — the only thing new — is these Jonah Goldbergs are not whale sized.
Scott Moorefield at Townhall calls himself and the rest of his claque Team Reality. He defines this as journos both left and extremely left who questioned the covid response. Other than that, he said he shares little in common with them. Sure.
He wrote, “Interestingly, one thing we all agree on, almost to a person as far as I know, is that Donald Trump DOES NOT deserve another bite at the apple as POTUS. We saw what happened in 2020 and how that laid the foundation for all that was to come. We covered it. We fought against it. We were censored and banned from social media. We lost friends, family members, jobs, and even churches because of our ‘controversial’ stands on these issues. We lived and breathed it every day for years and, in the end, we were proven right.”
Agreeing with a lefty is the first sign of political atrophy.
The new Never Trumpers
I’m with Catturd. Johnny Cash’s last hit was a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt. He did such a good job that AP reporting on a concert said Nine Inch Nails did a cover of his song. Things are not as they seem when you don’t know all the facts. The key lines in the song are:
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