I am amazed by the bad instincts of some of our conservative, eh, thinkers. That and their inability to learn from their mistake after the fact. Jonah Goldberg is the classic example. He writes the best conservative book of the 2000s, Liberal Fascism, then gets it completely wrong on Trump, and then persists in his wrongness when it’s obvious that he’s wrong. The whole never-Trumper thing really drives home the notion of human fallibility.
Couldn’t agree with you more about Jonah.
Some of these Never Trumpers are just showing themselves to be the hacks they always were underneath their fine words.
But I read Liberal Fascism twice and it still has a place on my bookshelf.
Jonah had the right stuff. Now he’s joined the hacks. Who got to him?
Or is he so impressed by this own intellect that he can’t understand that the new Great Communicator talks with a Queens accent?
“The whole never-Trumper thing really drives home the notion of human fallibility.”
i think what’s really at play is that all of these self-proclaimed “true” conservatives can make a living only by attacking something, particularly the left. They opposed Trump because they don’t actually want anyone to neuter the left, their favorite target, and once Trump won, they kept on attacking him because Trump has made it essentially pointless to attack the left, but it’s all backfired for them.
It’s really only about the money for pretty much ALL pundits, and Trump’s victory and subsequent implementation of much of the conservative agenda that these fake conservatives have pretend-promoted for decades took the wind out of their sails and emptied their rice bowl ...
Trump exposed them for what they really are: nothing more than a pack of mercenary fake conservative jackals ...
I had already tired of his writing somewhat as his column (or weekly email? both?) had too many stupid pop culture jokes and he wouldn't stop talking about his sofa or couch, it seemed. Then he became a never-Trumper and I don't read him at all now.
How are these supposedly smart people not understanding the simple fact that a Hillary victory would have been the end of our country. It would have been irretrievably lost as millions of illegals would be made into citizens who can vote for Democrats who would never lose any more national elections. And the left would have had a Supreme Court majority.