Posted on 10/09/2018 3:09:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some Never Trumpers are now on board for 2020. Others are leaving the Republican Party for good. One way or the other, it’s all about you know who.
Resistance is futile. Long on life-support, the Never Trump “resistance” movement within the Republican Party was finished off by the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight.
Consider the dichotomy that has emerged in the last week: We saw people like Erick Erickson, who once wrote a piece headlined “I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump. Ever,” suggesting they will vote for Trump in 2020, and people like Tom Nichols, formerly of The Federalist, saying Kavanaugh’s confirmation was the final straw (he quit the GOP).
Nichols and Erickson reacted to the exact same news in exactly opposite ways.
The Kavanaugh hearing essentially radicalized Never Trumpers. Some—as part of the GOP base’s backlash against the left’s attacks—are coming home and supporting Trump. Others—perhaps because their hatred of Trump has only intensified—were pushed completely from the fold. This process has been going on for a long time, but one gets the sense that the fight over Kavanaugh was the end of the road.
Where you stand on this probably depends on where you sit. Personally, I see the group who submitted to their Trumpy fate as making an understandable submission to the inexorable forces of tribalism and partisanship. Consider Erickson’s plight. If you are a conservative, you, too, might well be repelled by the left’s behavior last week.
As Erickson writes, “Trump is neither an ambassador for my values nor the articulate champion of my principles I would prefer. But he is a safe harbor in a progressive storm that seeks to both destroy my values and upend our constitutional republic.”(continued)
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I still can’t stand that pompos Erickson. I am glad he might vote and support Trump in 2020, but I can only tolerate a few minutes of him on the drive home. Thank heavens for FM106.7, 640am, and the sports talk stations.
920am is worse in the Erickson slot with Michael Medved. yuck.
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Erick Erickson and Matt Lewis can kiss my dimpled white butt.
I dont believe it. Good try.
To me the deadline for supporting Donald Trump was the convention. After that you were aiding and abetting the pantsuit. Coming aboard 2 years after is awkward and lame in the extreme. Welcome I guess. Let’s hope you latecomers can be useful at least
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Why does any sane person care what Erik Erickson thinks?
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