Bret Stephens has a long career as a conservative opinion writer, formerly at the Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem Post (as editor-in-chief) and currently at the NY Times. He's also a crackpot Zionist, a racist, a neo-con, a Climate Change denier, a Pulitzer winner and a prominent #NeverTrump Republicano.
There's never been another president-- at least not in our lifetimes-- as antithetical to Americanism as Trump. And I've never seen as negative a reaction to him than to anyone else-- not Reagan, not Nixon... Maybe John Tyler, a vice president who became president when William Harrison died a month after being sworn in (1841). Tyler was the most racist president until Trump and one of the country's staunchest defenders of slavery. Like Trump, he was also a traitor to the country, backing secession and becoming a member of the Confederate Congress.
Annie Karni reported at the NY Times today that another bunch of #NeverTrump Republicans-- this one led by Bill Kristof, Sarah Longwell and former Jeb Bush top aide Tim Miller-- has started a well-funded campaign against Trump, pushing a perspective on Republicans that basically tells them to hold their noses and vote for Biden. The campaign is being run under the ad hoc Republican Voters Against Trump committee.
