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.
Thanks, FRiend!
Bush League Republicans are fully committed to the fundamental transformation of the USA into North Mexico.
It is THE existential threat to our existence.
There are plenty on FR too, pretending to care.
A majority of Assistant Democrats is what torpedoed the first term.
I live in Maryland and don’t care about this state.
It’s ONE of the existential threats to our existence. There isn’t just one. If that were the case, our situation wouldn’t be as dire as it is.
BOTH parties already have us more than 35 million people down the road to being North Mexico.
It’s been going on for 30 years.
Sure, but there are fewer of them now than there were before, and there will be fewer still in 2022, and in 2024. It’s just not realistic to think that we can get rid of them all at once and also get the majority back, I think.
Re-electing Amnesty Senators is counter-productive.
Yes, and? You’re preaching to the choir here about that issue I think.
Okay, sure. Letting the Democrats keep the majority is also counterproductive though. I’d rather avoid both of those situations, but if we can’t avoid both, then I’d prefer keeping some of the RINO trash while primarying the ones we can safely primary, and then worrying about the rest once the majority is in our hands.
Or we can just let the GOP die, let the left have absolute power for a few more years, and hope we have a country left to take back in a decade or so.
North Dakota is not going to elect a Democrat.
Primary Hoeven, he voted for amnesty and Porkulus II.
I love this article. Do you SE Wisconsin FReepers remember Charlie Sykes?
But dead and gone, buried at sea and dumped overboard, can’t be soon enough.
Mostly Blue Hairs.
Blue Hairs and Baldies !!
She looks……happy, Fine, clever, Yeah, can’t find the right words.
He is his own worst enemy. He yielded to evil deceivers. He needs to lead us in making sure the election(s) are not stolen again. If we can do that our nation is gone.
The other columnist I miss from decades ago is PJ O’Rourke.
What happened to PJ O’Rourke? He had a sense of humor.
I don’t know.
I probably have one or two of his books around.
“Stormy Weather,” dealing with post-hurricane Andrew in south Florida is as much a tongue-in-cheek documentary of shady politicians and building contractors as it is humor.
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