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.
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Who threw the border open?
The bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’Ts did!!!!
Always remember that.
Answer:
A mental midget.
it’s ok it is just a little cruel. I post things I disagree with sometimes
I could name a few Freepers here who are Anti-Trump, but I won’t.
They are ALL ate up with TDS.
There's nothing conservative about Trump. He spent like a drunk Democrat. He banned guns. He's philosophically pro-choice.
Trump is a nationalist/populist. He's not a conservative, has never been a conservative, and doesn't pretend to be a conservative.
He’s more conservative than what else is out there.
He didn’t spend the money. He signed the bills of the House that spent the money. Presidents have very limited ability to spend money. If you took civics, you should know this.
He had to sign the bills to spend for covid. Only a conservative extremist, who would rather split the split the vote and enable Democrats to have permanent rule so they can end America as a Constitutional Republic, rather than stop being the perfect conservative, would not understand that.
A true conservative may hate abortion, but he would mind his business about how other people live and not use government to achieve the desire of forcing Americans to as he does.
Trump is a nationalist. A person who loves their country would be a nationalist.
If you want to criticize, criticize the Republicans that hog-tied Trump’s hands and ran interference to his agenda. He would have had that wall built if it weren’t for the Republicans.
He's more conservative than Biden, I'll give him that. But not much.
When you can find that conservatives that can unite the vote enough to get elected, let us know. We’d love to hear your perfect choice.
“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.”
There. Saved you the trouble of reading this garbage.
Or, would the first one cancel out the second one?
Don’t feed the trolls.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
a mathematical equation
You’re right.
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