Posted on 03/12/2019 10:21:49 AM PDT by bitt
Iwrote a book, The Case for Trump, in an effort — as an outsider who has no career investment in Trump and has never met him or visited the Trump White House — to analyze how and why Donald J. Trump was elected president and why his agenda so far has been successful. One Gabriel Schoenfeld has just published a hysterical attack on that effort in the Bill Kristol–Charles Sykes new Bulwark, and it is emblematic of that venue’s promised Never Trump ad hominem assault on individual supporters of the president. A writer for The Atlantic recently interviewed Sykes, noting:
But in the coming months, he [Sykes] tells me, The Bulwark will home in on a specific class of “grifters and trolls” — those opportunistic Trump enablers who still get invited on Meet the Press and write for prestigious newspapers. To Sykes, these are the true sellouts, and he wants to ensure that their public flirtations with Trumpism leave a stench on them.
Though wishing to leave “a stench on them,” Schoenfeld instead gives us a sad exercise in self-abasement. And his review offers an illustration of the poverty of Never Trump personal venom and incoherence.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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Great article! I’ve got to get his book.
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Behind a paywall for me. And I am not subscribing to National Review. Used to, in the days Bill Buckley ran that place. Quit subscribing a year or two after he died, and am never going back.
I voted for him, in part, because of my belief he had intimated he would stop the flood of illegals. He has not/has not been allowed to do that.
I don't consider his agenda to be a success.
Obviously you are not invested in the US economy.
Trump has been thwarted by both Republicans and Democrats and the liberal courts in his border agenda. On the issues where he has control, his agenda has been HUGELY effective.
Maybe you should read the book.
Hell, just pissing off all the right people is a great success. Trump is the only one who HAS an agenda besides the usual Marxists.
NeverTrump is really never-secure-the-border, never-enforce-the-laws, never-let-the-citizens-keep-their-country.
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
Neocons still think this will all blow over and we will come crawling back to them.
Dan Bongino said they were like the sniveling rat Ellis in Die Hard.
I’ve spent too many years trying it understand and enjoy these “intellectual” arguments at the expense of my deplorable common sense.
I guess Victor Davis Hanson has no choice but to continue the battle.
Charlie Sykes is a sell out. He is so consumed with Trump hatred that he sold his formerly conservative credentials down the river and tanked his career.
$16.98 at Sam’s Club right now.
Yep. And not so very long ago we wouldn't have had a choice. They're banking not on such creatures as Mitt Romney for victory, they're banking on such creatures as Ocasio-Cortez. That's a hell of a way to pretend to lead a country.
This is Never Trumpers in a shell. They've sold out their Conservative values and teamed up with Liberals because voters ignored their punditry. They're still in the middle of a temper tantrum, flailing around so hard they don't realize they've lost. Dad has already left the room.
Sykes was once a conservative and wrote a great book, ProfScam.
Relax dude, he's scored a lot of touchdowns and it's only the start of the second quarter......
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