{"id":11715,"date":"2019-03-12T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:16:10","slug":"never-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/never-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Never What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote a book,\u00a0The Case for Trump<\/em><\/a>, in an effort \u2014 as an outsider who has no career investment in Trump and has never met him or visited the Trump White House \u2014 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\u00a0attack<\/a>\u00a0on that effort in the Bill Kristol\u2013Charles Sykes new\u00a0Bulwark<\/em>, and it is emblematic of that venue\u2019s promised Never Trump ad hominem assault on individual supporters of the president. A writer for\u00a0The Atlantic <\/em>recently interviewed Sykes<\/a>, noting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the coming months, he [Sykes] tells me, The Bulwark<\/em> will home in on a specific class of \u201cgrifters and trolls\u201d \u2014 those opportunistic Trump enablers who still get invited on Meet the Press<\/em> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Though wishing to leave \u201ca stench on them,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review I wrote a book,\u00a0The Case for Trump, in an effort \u2014 as an outsider who has no career investment in Trump and has never met him or visited the Trump White House \u2014 to analyze how and why Donald J. 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