Posted on 04/25/2019 3:47:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
While it was immensely satisfying to watch the utter humiliation of the TRUMP TREASON COLLUSION RUSSIANS! liberals, that joy paled in comparison to the schadenfreude that came from watching the crestfallen Never Trump bitter-enders as they saw all their dreams die.
Donald Trump is not going to be impeached; heck, it looks like he’s going to be reelected. And the Fredocon losers who went all in on opposing him because “Oh well I never!” are flat busted.
Now, it’s not really fair to imply that the Never Trumpers hate Trump solely because he’s vulgar and crude – or, as normal people see it, unwilling to meekly take the guff the Never Trumpers’ country club class pals dish out like a proper gentleman should. They do find him aesthetically displeasing, but it also gnaws at them because every time he stands up to the garbage Democrats, the garbage press, or the garbage jerks and pervs of Hollywood, his refusal to knuckle-under reminds Team Fail that they don’t have the stones to do the same. He shames their cowardly weakness.
It’s clear, in retrospect, that George W. Bush’s supine acceptance of the abuse the elite heaped upon him was not because he was too classy and too decent to respond in kind. Since Obama left office and he rediscovered his vocal cords, Bush has had zero problem trashing Trump and Trump supporters who, like many of us, stood by Bush in the '00s while Bush was treading water in a sea of mediocrity. No, it’s clear that W was afraid to fight back against fellow members of the ruling class. He cared about being part of the club. Not The Donald. Trump, by fighting, demonstrates that the establishment GOPers are weak. And it eats at them.
But besides providing a manly contrast to their own gimp-like submission to the leftist establishment, Trump infuriates the Never Trumpers for another reason. He’s kicked them out of their comfy sinecures. One of Trump’s magical powers is to make his enemies reveal their own grift complicity, and boy, have they ever. As a result, while once the mandarins of Conservative, Inc., traded on their insider influence and privilege, under Trump they are outsiders. Copies of the Weekly Standard used to be all over the Bush White House. Now, if its inept crew had not slammed it into an iceberg, you would be lucky to find a few pages at the bottom of Barron’s pet iguana’s cage.
Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and all the rest are nobodies, relegated to occasionally joining CNN panels and fighting with Ana Navarro over the doughnuts in the green room. Where’s Bob Corker now? Jeff Flake hasn’t even got an MSNBC gig; I think last week he was the dude who offered to supersize my order.
They are reduced to occasionally popping up on Twitter to inspire a session of Weakheart Whack-A-Mole from actual conservatives. Just look at Senator for Some Reason Mitt Romney. The guy I am sorry I voted for in 2012 is always eager to say something prissy about the president to try to please the same people who, back in 2012, accused him of being a racist and giving a lady cancer. For his obedience, he gets a tasty treat and a pat on the head, like the good doggie he is. But everyone knows that if the elite ever thought that the Distinguished Gentleman From Whatever State He Thinks He Can Get Elected In Next might actually pose a threat to the status quo, he’d be figuratively caged up and driven to Canada on the roof.
So, what is the future of the Never Trump brand of failure-phile cons, since they do not have one in our party – at least not in the short-term? Except for the loudest and dumbest among them, they will lie low and bide their time. Being Never Trump means never giving up the notion that someday the unwashed masses of the conservative base will someday come to their senses, grow tired of winning, and beg the same coterie of feckless failures, whose dismal inability to conserve anything led to the base selecting Donald Trump in the first place, to return to power.
On Capitol Hill and in the agencies and think tanks, there are secret Never Trumpers hoping to wait out this madness, counting the days until some squishy Jeb!-ish nominee named something like Marco will usher in a bright and beautiful new era of efficiently managed decline. Because that’s what they do – slow down the inevitable victory of the progressives while maximizing their own power and privilege. Trump’s refusal to be satisfied with merely losing slower infuriates them. They not only get tired of all the winning – they actively hate all the winning.
So, we must remain vigilant. We must strike ruthlessly when we detect these weak and defeatist tendencies in our conservative leaders, both inside politics and in the conservative media. Never Trump is really Never Win. To the extent that “Trumpism” means fighting for victory, being woke to the fact that the establishment is garbage, and not giving a damn what our much-worse betters think, we must be Always Trump.
Leonard Pitts called for Trump’s impeachment based on the damning Mueller report.
They are not going to give up.
The first time I heard of that concept was on Rush Limbaugh's show about ten years ago.
I wrote the RNC and told them they wouldn’t get one more dime from me until the border was secure. I never heard from them again.
As usual, Kurt nails it. Aside from being a genuine conservative American patriot, the best thing about Trump is he’s a fighter. He hits back when you take a poke at him.
This drives the Leftists and their mouthpieces the MSM - and the Fredocons completely insane. They thought they could dish it out forever but never have to take it in return. Finding out otherwise has led to a delicious 2 year long meltdown - and counting.
“say something prissy about the president”
So great!! Ha!!
he is a man ahead of his time
You think there will be an impeachment?
100%
Cut off their balls and wait for the mother ship.
Been around since 1998. wow.
Have read a number of your posts and they are sharp.
I thought the dems would be afraid of backlash.
i guess the backlash from the base would be worse if they didn’t.
There are a number of issues that make impeachment a certainty.
First, the Dems live in a bubble. They think Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley still tell most people what to think.
Mre important, though, is the encouragement they are getting from Senate Republicans. Sotto vocce, yes, but it’s very real.
Third is, as you point out, their base.
And, yes, I’ve been here since 1998. I was all-out for Clinton’s impeachment. Events have proven me wrong, though - it helped him, and it hurt us long term.
Hopefully what they are about to do will have the same effect - except that in 1998, there were huge majorities in the Senate with girlfriends of their own who thought it was a joke, now, at least 60% of them want Trump gone.
Interesting times.
What balls? Never Trumpers have none, IMO.
In fact, Liberals have even less; no balls, no brains, no love for our country aka Enemies Within.
Well, if you want to get technical... ;-)
That is scary.
I think action must be taken if he is kicked out.
Perhaps more than the usual actions.
Or all is lost.
My beef with Trump is he is moving way too slow. Arrests should have been right away. We would have avoided the investigation of him.
Now as to those that do not want him in office at all because they want the corruption to continue they will always find something to complain about.
They do what they always do - double down on losing and howl louder and sound even more insane.
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