Republican Values by Nancy OhanianBret Stephens is one of the New York Times' neoconservative #NeverTrump on-staff Republicans. Yesterday's column, Trump and the Annihilation of Shame, is another public yearn for the good ole days.
Last week David Atkins, writing for the Washington Monthly pushed back on some of the lame ideas ritually asserted by the Republican wing of the Democratic Party upon which they claim their right to dominate a party they are so obviously out of touch with.
by NoahRemember the so-called Never Trumpers? They were a small handful of Republicans who feigned dissatisfaction and embarrassment about Trump back in 2016. Of course that looked like utter bullshit then and is now proven to be so. The Republican Party makes no bones about it. They are the Always Trump Party. Throwing it in our faces, they boldly and arrogantly showed it on national television at the Cohen hearings.
Yesterday, Dave Weigel tweeted "One fallacy you’ll never see me fall for is that an election between Trump and 'someone on the left like Warren' would leave a huge path in the middle. If you’re saying that, find me the polls and point to the unpopular idea the left is running on.
Posted in a MAGA/GOP corner of Reddit yesterdayDon't bet on anything more coming out of this beyond what came out of the no-follow-through-kvetching we got from Flake, Sasse and Corker but on New Year's Day the Washington Post published an OpEd by Senator-elect Mitt Romney (R-UT) reminding readers that "Trump was not my choice for the Republican presidential nomination" and that "on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this
As Jonathan Bernstein made clear in an OpEd yesterday for Bloomberg News, Americans have become inured to deceit and manipulation from our political class. And he wasn't even speaking about Trump. His piece was on Paul Ryan's farewell speech. Unlike many inside the Beltway, Bernstein has long recognized Ryan as a faker and a fraud.
Beating Trump in 2020, as I've written before, is urgent-- if not existential-- but making sure we think long and hard about what we replace him with is just as important. The conservative establishment is not stupid.
You know what’s become second nature to Americans now-- Trump’s lying. It’s no longer news when he lies. Just 16% of his public statement, according to PolitiFact, are either true or mostly true. He just lies all the time. And we didn’t need Robert Mueller’s Putin-Gate investigation--nor even the NY Times to tell us that.
