Posted on 01/28/2024 2:46:04 AM PST by RandFan
I almost feel sorry for the anti-Trump-but-more-anti-anti-Trump conservatives.
I know—you had to read that sentence twice. I’ll explain.
These are right-wingers who oppose Donald Trump—because of his efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, or his often-incoherent policies, or his utter lack of decency, or his destructive influence on the right, or all of the above—but who devote more energy to decrying liberals for overreacting to and for persecuting Trump. I’m not referring here to Never Trumpers like neocon Bill Kristol or the gang at the Lincoln Project—those onetime Republicans who have readily joined forces with Democrats and progressives to oppose Trump. This is a different group of conservatives who strike a rather complicated stance. They see Trump as bad for the republic, but they cannot yield that age-old position (or reflex?) that the greatest threat to the nation is from the left. This can tie an anti-Trump-but-more-anti-anti-Trumper into knots. As I witnessed just the other day.
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I was invited to appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss the New Hampshire election results. The other guest was Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of the National Review, which was once the flagship publication of the conservative movement. I like Rich. Years ago, we used to tour college campuses debating each other on policy and politics
Earlier this month—days before the Iowa caucuses—the editors of the National Review urged Republican voters to pick either Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley over Trump. They reminded their readers that Trump lied about the 2020 election results, attempted to bully his vice president “into violating his oath,” and then did little or nothing when his brownshirts attacked the Capitol. “These were infamous presidential acts and represented serious offenses against our constitutional order,” the magazine observed.
(Excerpt) Read more at link.motherjones.com ...
Yes that era is long gone the party (GOP) has changed I sense.
I’m, hopeful Trump turns rhetoric into action. It will be fun to see what happens.
“Who knew their favorite “type” of “conservative” would be a raging Bushie, pro-War neocon fanatic like Lowry”*
*Polite progspeak for “useful idiot” - a person kept around to be kind of a a pet chihuahua until, “out of friendship”, is put up against the wall last-
A useful idiot is too stupid to realize progs hate them and use them for their purposes
Trump seems to be imperfectly controlled opposition. But a vote for him is therefore at least a bit of a wildcard that also shows the powers that be how strong the nationalist opposition is, which probably leads to a slowing of their agenda, at least.
aka democrat.
Useful idiot! Good one!
Notice it’s never the other way around, though? Seems a one-way street especially in DC.
It is subversive for the writer to claim this falsehood. He should have his writer's credentials revoked and jailed in the cell near any J6 patriot who he helped convict! Even though the writer is the scum of the earth, he probably still has at least one family member who can still stomach him!!!!!!!!
I reality an anti-anti-Trump conservative would be a Trump supporter.
An oxymoron. Accent is on "moron".
All of the Illinois GOP Leadership Are anti Trump including my county Sangamon County.
A conservative with a damnable neocon bloodlust.
David Corn is a liar and an activist.
On top of that, he likes Rich Lowry. /double massive eyeroll.
We share the same sentiment.
Let’s hope so.
“What’s an anti-Trump ‘conservative’?”
One that is a RHINO and Uni-Party member. One that makes decisions base on his so-called conscience which is usually wrong.
A gang of liberal plantation black guys in “white face” playing the “Founding Fathers”?
A Deep Stater.
It’s amazing to find someone like Corn who deals with politics all the time, and is yet so clueless about so much.
Mother Jones is a magazine for the most hysterically kooky Left. The fact that his article appears there tells you all you need to know.
Anti Trump “conservatives” are like the Lia Thomases of swimmers...
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