Posted on 01/26/2022 7:00:30 AM PST by MNDude
Dear Never Trumpers: The Cruise Is Over How a generation of "conservative" intellectuals finally turned into Democrats
A lot has happened since my well known essay "The Collapse of the Never Trumpers" appeared in 2018 — and none of it has been good for that tribe of pundits or their garden gnome leader, Bill Kristol. In fact, most of them have seen their careers collapse so spectacularly that only Michael Avenatti could really understand. George Will has semi-retired to a life of boring students to death as a commencement speaker at small colleges. Jonah Goldberg and Steven Hayes used to appear on Fox News regularly but now they pretend to fax a newsletter every morning to their remaining friends and family and David French.
What happened? My prediction of their end seemed to initiate their end. It was like watching a series of abandoned buildings get detonated in sequence. I had a front row seat, of course, and I wore a hard hat and watched it all come down. There's a lot of dust and debris left on the cable shows even now. We're looking at you, S. E. Cupp.
The list of dumb stunts and terrible tricks that the Never Trumpers tried during the Trump Administration is larger than Brian Stelter’s waistline and more barren than Max Boot’s scalp. It’s hard to catalog all the disasters. First, the "anonymous resistance" New York Times Op-Ed stunt backfired horribly with the public in 2018, while the Never Trumpers applauded
Not all of them grasped the irony of course. Bill Kristol, in particular, disgraced himself permanently with his quip about preferring the unelected "deep state" to the duly elected Trump administration. He had also mocked the American working classes from the podium of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and called for them to be replaced by foreigners.
... You can almost feel the cruise-ship conservative intellectuals drowning in a sea of failed predictions. It doesn’t matter if they sink or swim now—they’re in the middle of the North Atlantic and it’s too many miles to land in either direction.
The cruise is over.
She reamed them, and I’m sure this will cause them some busy as they ream back.
Now THAT's writing.
A picayune point. I would not call these "conservative intellectuals" either conservative or intellectuals.
I've subscribed to her "substack." She is a very good writer. She has a few positions that I think at least border on kooky, but as you note her style is fun and she makes her points clearly.
No mention of Lynn, come on, man!
Emerald is going to have her own show on Mike Lindel’s network Franks Speech, should be starting up real soon!! I really like Emerald she has articles on substack regularly!!
Emerald Robinson hits ‘em where they live.
The only, tiniest, inconsequential complaint I have about the article..
“...celebrated husbands like Joe Scarborough...”
I’m pretty sure Scarborough identifies as the wife in the family. Mika demands it.
😀
“That task is made doubly difficult when Trump keeps endorsing them.
I’m not a Republican but if they follow this kind of thinking they will be a minority party forever. There are only so many firebrands in every party, not enough win elections.
Ha! LOVE this!!
Emerald is the best. Thanks for posting.
aka “JarJar Fatberg”, the court jester of the NeverTrump CONservagrifters.
Love Emerald! Glad to hear she’ll be on Lindell’s show.
Great piece by Emerald. 🙂
“there’ll still be plenty on FR...”
Preaching their same worthless and worn out Never Trump BS!
She’s also damn beautiful. Quite a combination.
True, but the political class is different from the intellectual class. The politicians are generally whores who will serve whoever keeps them in office and keeps the pork flowing. They’re not committed to any position or ideology to the degree that the intellectual class is.
I agree, but it’s just common political sense that you focus first on taking the majority back, and then you have more “breathing room” to start picking squishy people to primary in the next election. There’s no sense in risking seats when we need every one we can get desperately right now. That is not to say that the risk won’t be worth it and even essential once we have the majority back.
I’ll have to check into that. Thanks!
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