{"id":11722,"date":"2019-03-17T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2019-03-17T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:01:32","slug":"the-nevertrump-bitter-enders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-nevertrump-bitter-enders\/","title":{"rendered":"The NeverTrump Bitter Enders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bruce Thornton \/\/ Front Page Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Trump enters his third year of office, some Republican NeverTrumpers have gotten control of the symptoms of Trumpophobia, and have settled for the occasional snarky asides to maintain their anti-Trump bona fides while they write about serious issues rather than Trump\u2019s alleged crypto-fascist assault on \u201cdemocratic norms.\u201d Others, however, have become bitter-enders, still clinging to the hope that Trump will be impeached or weakened enough to lose in 2020, thus sanctifying their irrational hatred of the best and most effective champion that conservatism is likely to find these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But make no mistake, no matter how seemingly marginalized or absurd, the bitter-enders are still functioning as a fifth column for the progressive \u201cresistance,\u201d providing a \u201cconservative\u201d and \u201cbipartisan\u201d cover for the Democrats\u2019 rush to move America farther to the left in order to change our Constitutional Republic into a socialist technocracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these bitter-enders have retreated into a left-wing financed<\/a>, online redoubt they call The Bulwark<\/em>, the motto of which is \u201cconserving conservatism.\u201d But that sentiment is hard to square with the editors\u2019 decision to send evangelical pro-choice blogger Molly Jong-Fast to CPAC shortly after the Democrats in New York gleefully legalized infanticide. As Jim Treacher reported<\/a>, Jong-Fast in her CPAC twitter commentary mocked millennial conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, who put her in a \u201crage\u201d for speaking obvious truths like Trump had \u201crevealed\u201d the left\u2019s true nature. She also targeted Glen Beck, \u201cwho thinks socialism is very bad.\u201d But she really got miffed at the \u201cscary\u201d pro-life panel and a host who is \u201cvery very very very anti-choice,\u201d and she bragged, \u201cPeople are mad at me for wanting to control my own uterus.\u201d Treacher economically sums up the problem with The Bulwark<\/em>: \u201cThey\u2019re conserving conservatism by behaving just like the people they think have ruined conservatism.\u201d
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Bruce Thornton \/\/ Front Page Magazine As Trump enters his third year of office, some Republican NeverTrumpers have gotten control of the symptoms of Trumpophobia, and have settled for the occasional snarky asides to maintain their anti-Trump bona fides while they write about serious issues rather than Trump\u2019s alleged crypto-fascist assault on \u201cdemocratic norms.\u201d Others, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-334","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11768,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/all-the-progressive-plotters\/","url_meta":{"origin":11722,"position":0},"title":"All the Progressive Plotters","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein\u2014cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders\u2014sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the Electoral College. 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