Like a partner who’s cheated on you, I still like Levin, but when I hear his voice, I kind of go ‘ugh’. It’s too late. I can’t un-know what I know. I’ll never forget him yelling at the top of his lungs about “THIS POPULISM CRAP”, how does one exactly forget that?
I’m good with Levin. He was misguided, he’s back on track.
Hey, I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary, and had concerns about Trump leading up to the election.
And boy was I wrong - not that Cruz isn’t a good man, but I am certain that he would not have been able to withstand what they’re throwing at Trump. I don’t know who could.
I even have a friend, a former President of our tea party, that is still wobbling on Trump. He takes it on more from a religious angle, wasn’t happy about Trump holding up the Bible in front of a church. Thought that it was somewhat sacrilegious, or something. I wrote a nice screed, he thanked me. He’s a nice guy, but too much National Review, not enough Q.
I think most all feel the same.
Speaking for myself, Levin came around initially to save his cratered bottom line. There was at least one story on the negative financial impact he suffered and loss of sponsors, over his opposition to Trump and Constitution flogging for Cruz.
He is wordy enough to adapt, to easily translate that financial reversal into a Recovery, with his emerging support of Trump.
You said it very well.. that we “can’t unknow” what we know.
“... but when I hear his [Mark Levin’s] voice, I kind of go ‘ugh’. It’s too late. I can’t un-know what I know. I’ll never forget him yelling at the top of his lungs about “THIS POPULISM CRAP”, how does one exactly forget that?”
>> how does one exactly forget that?
Good question. I believe we need to at least forgive if we can’t forget. Not everyone got on board the Trump train or the Q train at the same time.
I favored Cruz in the primaries. I’m not ashamed of that. I made the best decision I could with the information I had at the time. I was fully on board with Trump when he got the nomination (plus I gave him HUGE points during the primaries for some of the things he did and said).
The more important question, IMO, is where does a person stand today? And if they are standing on the wrong side, why? Are they merely ignorant? Or do they know they are on the wrong side? Do they refuse to look at facts? Do they knowingly lie?
I will admit to a bit of smugness for being on board with Q from near the beginning. But that was partly due to luck/circumstances. What if I hadn’t stumbled onto Q early? In all honesty, I’d probably be questioning (at least intermittently) Trump’s actions. Without knowing about Q, some of his moves can look questionable. Pre-Q, I was pretty concerned when he signed the first huge budget-breaking spending bill. I thought he was going to fix the deficit/debt and he made it worse. *NOW* I understand.
So I try to cut some slack to those who are not “in the know” like we are.
I also have considered that people like Levin were part of the Q plan. I don’t mean part of the Q team. I mean that perhaps the Q plan used people like Levin to gather in patriots with varying perspectives. Imagine what it would have been like if every conservative pundit was pro-Trump from the beginning. Wouldn’t that have looked extremely suspicious? It would have alienated all those decent conservatives who were favoring other candidates to have Trump “forced” on them.
JMO.