Posted on 06/29/2018 9:23:05 AM PDT by pgkdan
They'll Always Have Twitter and MSNBC
For some, it must have been in March when Bill Kristol, longtime editor of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, showed up in New Hampshire telling people he would run against President Trump in 2020. Or in April when the conservative website RedState was taken over and purged of writers who were “insufficiently supportive” of the president. Some go back to October 2017 when a Twitter spat broke out between Stephen Hayes and Brit Hume of Fox News over the Weekly Standard’s anti-Trump editorials. With the death last week of Charles Krauthammer, the revered neocon commentator and prominent Trump skeptic, the eclipse of the neocon intellectuals is complete.
One thing’s for sure: it wasn’t really a war so much as a rout. The Never Trump intellectual crowd has no momentum and no popular following these days. Consider the trajectory of their would-be leader Kristol, who appears to be indulging in a personal fantasy by putting himself forward as a candidate, as his rapport with GOP voters includes trying to run Evan McMullin in Utah to throw the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton. When that stunt failed, Kristol personally insulted the pro-Trump writer Michael Anton for his influential essay “The Flight 93 election.” Then Kristol’s commentator gig with Fox was not renewed, and he was soon accusing Tucker Carlson of “ethno-nationalism” and “racism.” Overshadowing all of these breaks was Kristol’s personal history of being the conservative’s answer to Bob Shrum, a political “pro” who was always very wrong about politics.
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Even Mitt Romney is being forced to speak semi-well of Trump.
Everyone likes being on a winning team...
“Bill Kristol, longtime editor of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard,”
And Daffy Duck is actually superman in civies.
The never Trumpers were in High Dungeon when Fred Thompson had his hat in the ring.
That’s when I woke to who they were.
Fox All Star Panel with Hume and then Bret, what a joke that was.
There are so few of them left and those that are are marginalized to where they look like fools for opening their mouths.
Kristol
Will
Barnes
gone.
The Washington Generals have found out that we would rather win ugly than lose all the time.
You can still see Fred Barnes occasionally on the Lou Dobbs show. It’s fun to watch Lou slap him around.
Agree, now if the idiot Q-bots would do the same FR could get back to normal.
Karl Rove, he's another one that became a total never-Trumper buffoon and is now 100% wrong on everything all of the time.
Um, Fred Thompson had his hat in the ring back in 2008, and he died in 2015, long before Trump announced.
You're right, of course. But the corollary is also true (Truer?). They hate being losers, which they had proven to be. They owe many apologies which they will never offer. And, the moment something goes wrong, being losers, they will turn, abandon ship, and rejoin the sharks.
Never-Trumpers = Never-Trustworthy.
False, Pink State failed because they purged anyone who did want to hear their infantile ignorant Hate Trump garbage day in and day out. Eventually their little professional bubble world shrank so small it suffocated them.
The never Trumper “conservatives” have collapsed because voters have finally awakened to the fact that they have achieved absolutely nothing conservative in legislation.
They are mostly Chamber of Commerce protege’s who push for cheap immigrant workers. It is not enough to be a social conservative if your agenda does not work for the economic well being of the vast hard working middle class.
Mouth Breathing lil Billie is a puke but I love watching him suffer.
Never Trumpers are the NeoCons of 2008 only then they were Never Thompsoners.
I found them out in 2008 before they became the predictable never Trumpers they are today.
“He [George Will] would take his tea and his bow-tie elsewhere. The headmaster of the stuffy wimps would not take part in the victory of the counter-punchers. At last, like so many of his fellow Never Trumpers, he was a pundit without a party and, ultimately, without an audience.”
Don’t forget George Will and his recent ‘This November, vote against GOP’ article...
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