Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump

Townhall ^ | May 30, 2017 | Dennis Prager

[2ndDivisionVet]

When people you know well, admire, and who share your values do something you strongly oppose, you have two options: 1) Cease admiring them or 2) try to understand them and change their minds.

In the case of my conservative friends who still snipe (or worse) at President Trump, I have rejected option one. The reason -- beside the fact that I simply like many of them -- is what I refer to as "moral bank accounts."

Every time we do good, we make a deposit into our moral bank account. And every time we do something bad, we make a withdrawal. These conservatives have made so many deposits into their moral bank accounts that, in my view, their accounts all remain firmly in the black....

[Parley Baer]

I do not call them Conservatives. A lot of them are on the cheap labor express bandwagon.

[BostonNeocon]

I was a Cruz supporter in the primaries, but by the time the general hit it was time to close ranks with the Trump administration. Bought a MAGA hat and started convincing my fellow Cruz missiles to go with Trump.

This is the Flight 93 election. ‘Nuff said. Trump had his flaws, but to sit back and let Hillary win would be tantamount to not charging the cockpit in Flight 93. I wish we had repealed the DREAMer BS by now and that the defense spending increase were much bigger, but Trump is Trump and at the end of the day he’s fighting for us. We gotta stand by him.

If Trump goes down like Nixon did, he’ll still be better than Hillary. We’ll at least have stopped the advance of the proggie agenda for 4 years.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I’m glad these cowards came out of the woodwork. Prayer should name names. We need this civil war.

[FreeperCell]

I like the trajectory we are on. I say wa go that way.

[DIRTYSECRET]

WE can deal with the elected ones but we won’t.

[advance_copy]

There’s two sides to the real conflict. One is globalism, the other is Americanism.

Conservative globalism is still just globalism. Many of those who we’ve allied with against the left over the years are just globalists. They hate Donald Trump because he is an Americanist.

I’ve got news for them. There’s no force in America like President Donald Trump, and they are going to lose.

[867V309]

And that, in my book, covers a lot of sins -- foolish tweets, included.

prager is better than the dolts hewitt, and mudhead, but he still doesn't get it.

tweets are how Trump circumvents the liar media.

[DoughtyOne]

Dennis comes very close to home here, just by addressing the issue as he has. He touches on it, but misses one very important point. So have I until recently.

Trump despite his flaws...

We have got to get over that mindset. We were wrong, and we're as guilty as NeverTrumpers when we premise our beliefs on this false narrative.

Who doesn't have flaws folks? Anyone?

Why is it that we ALWAYS address Trump's flaws?

Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush... which of these folks didn't have flaws? Every time we touche on something they did, did we preface it with "despite his flaws"? Perhaps with Clinton and Obama one could say we did, but with the Bushes, we very seldom talked about them that way. In the general course of things we praised them when it was warranted, and didn't preface it like to we have Trump.

If you look at the record, Trump has far fewer flaws than any of them. Look at what he has done since becoming president. None of them did a fraction as much as he has in the first four months of his presidency.

Folks, as Conservatives, we have to start playing like we're in this to win. Quite buying into the false narratives. Champion Trump like there's no tomorrow. Without him, there isn't one.

[Auntie Mame]

Trump is still being attacked by conservatives because there are some people more susceptible to propaganda and narcissistic abuse than others.

We are being gaslighted by the media.

Trump fights back. It’s one of the main things I like about him. One of his most important tools is Twitter. The man’s a genius. We would all do well to watch what he does, how he does it, and learn.

[loveliberty2]

Only God can see the heart and the beginning and end of a man or a nation. David, the shepherd boy comes to mind--a boy whose courage put down a giant, and a man chosen to lead a people, though he was flawed like all others.

[Hugin]

Globalists would rather have Hillary than a nationalist. They are not conservatives.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

My only concern about President Trump is that he’s a populist, instead of being a full fledged conservative. President Trump continues to fight against and win against everybody who’s against him, from both U.S. major political parties. So far, President Trump is doing very well, but I’m concerned about him, possibly, “moving towards the political center”, later in his term.

[TXBlair]

I’m with you: a Cruz supporter in the primaries, but once Trump won, that was that. He was the man and IS the man. No hard feelings; no worries. Just a common goal.

Flight 93: LET’S ROLL!!

[spokeshave]

So far, President Trump is doing very well, but I’m concerned about him, possibly, “moving towards the political center”, later in his term.

I think you will find the opposite

That is...Later in his term he will move towards the positions expressed in the primaries that got him elected in the first place.

Trump looks at the long term...

deviations from the path now are mostly caused by resistance from the GOPe and the uni-party

The recent foreign tour shows Trump changing the paradigm in foreign relations as he has done to the domestic political scene.

Enjoy history in the making.

[GOPJ]

To my amazement, no anti-Trump conservative writer sees it that way. They all thought during the election, and still think, that while it would not have been a good thing if Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn't have been a catastrophe either.

They thought Hillary would be 'just fine' because she was no threat to THEM - and to their DC LIFESTYLE. Never Trumpers don't give a damn about the country - they care about their place on the DC hierarchy. That makes them morally bankrupt - - which negates this whole piece.

[Nateman]

Under Zero the elites looted TRILLIONS. Trump is a threat to this money and power. These liars and thieves are attacking Trump like cornered animals, because they are cornered animals! They know life in jail is the outcome if they lose this battle.

[JohnyBoy]

Ah yes the holier than thou conservatives. The guys who tend to talk about muh principles or how the next guys isn’t as conservative as they but they never seem to be around when it’s time to fight the left. All they’re fire is reserved for the right and the flee the moment the media or the left attacks us.

[rmlew]

Donald Trump funded the gang of 8, was fined for using illegal aliens, uses guest workers and justifies it by speaking of “jobs that Americans won’t do.” He supports comprehensive amnesty after a wall.

[JohnyBoy]

This is an amazing article 2ed. Wow, simply outstanding. Thanks for posting.

>To my amazement, no anti-Trump conservative writer sees it that way. They all thought during the election, and still think, that while it would not have been a good thing if Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn’t have been a catastrophe either.

>That’s it, in a nutshell. Many conservatives, including me, believe that it would have been close to over for America as America if the Republican candidate, who happened to be a flawed man named Donald Trump, had not won. Moreover, I am certain that only Donald Trump would have defeated Hillary Clinton.

>In other words, I believe that Donald Trump may have saved the country. And that, in my book, covers a lot of sins — foolish tweets, included.

It’s not well known but the globalist left and Hillery Clinton plan to bring millions and millions of Muslim “refugees” from Africa. Thanks to western aid Africa is now way too over populated and the left is already working up plans to bring them over to give them a perminate voting majority and to wipe out western civilization. The left’s not joking when they blame the west for all the evils in the world and they truly believe it’s their duty to destroy us.

Trump winning was dodging that bullet. Thank God for President Trump.

>The Never-Trump conservative argument that Trump is not a conservative - one that I, too, made repeatedly during the Republican primaries - is not only no longer relevant, it is no longer true.

>Had any Never-Trump conservative been told, say in the summer of 2015, that a Republican would win the 2016 election and, within his first few months in office, appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court; begin the process of replacing Obamacare; bomb Russia’s ally, Assad, after he again used chemical weapons; appoint the most conservative cabinet in modern American history; begin undoing hysteria-based, economy-choking EPA regulations; label the Iranian regime “evil” in front of 50 Muslim heads of state; wear a yarmulke at the Western Wall; appoint a U.N. ambassador who regularly condemns the U.N. for its moral hypocrisy; restore the military budget; and work on lowering corporate tax rates, among other conservative achievements — that Never-Trump conservative would have been jumping for joy.

So called conservatives who continue to attack Trump over tone are ignoring the murderous tone of the left. I regally talk to liberals who want to see Trump, his entire family and anyone who supported him dead. So for the love of all that his holy stop bitching and start supporting Trump.