By Julie Kelly
The past several days
have been filled with accolades and attention for NeverTrump, the wee
collection of self-proclaimed “conservatives” working against the president, in
the corporate media. The Washington Post published a
lengthy puff piece on two new nonprofits that are targeting not just
President Trump but Trump-supporting Republican senators up for
re-election. Post reporters, without evidence, referred to
NeverTrump as a “sudden campaign force” that should make Team Trump shudder
with fear.
Frank Bruni, far from
a conservative or anything close to one, swooned over NeverTrumpers in his
latest New York
Times column. “That’s why, when I look at them, I see patriotism,”
Bruni cooed. That’s funny - most people on the Right, when they look at NeverTrump,
see a sad collection of losing campaign managers, failed magazine editors, and
third-rate pundits hanging on for dear life by giving the false impression a
big chunk of Republicans oppose Donald Trump. When President Trump looks at
them, he sees “human scum.” And when Democrats see NeverTrump, they
see useful idiots.
As I write in my
new book, DISLOYAL OPPOSITION: How the
NeverTrump Right Tried - And Failed - To Take Down the President, NeverTrumpers have aided and abetted Democrats at every turn
during the Trump era. From first seeding the imaginary Russian collusion ruse
to backing impeachment, NeverTrump acts as the Democratic Party’s waterboys,
cheering from the bench and wiping down sweaty brows hoping for a few atta-boys
on MSNBC.
This bunch is up to
their old tricks as Election Day nears. Two new shell groups - the Lincoln
Project and Republican Voters Against Trump - are producing inflammatory ads
and blanketing the media, both traditional and social, with scary stories about
Donald Trump. [more...]
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