To President Donald Trump, “Never-Trumper” is the dirtiest of insults.
The shorthand for anti-Trump Republicans came to prominence as then-candidate Trump was gaining steam in the 2016 primaries, to the horror of some more traditional conservatives. Now, Never-Trumpers like Bill Kristol are frequently featured on cable news, Trump’s favorite medium, for their perspective.
So are they, then, saying that while 70% say it was wrong, a third of them believe nothing should happen to him? There’s a big gap between 51% and 70%.
I’ll gladly wear the badge of courage that is a ‘Never Trumper’ . No problem, not an insult for me. Shit I would be insulted if they didn’t call me a never Dumpter
I’m a little confused: I thought “NeverTrumper” was by definition a Republican who wouldn’t vote for Trump. Is he saying that all who are testifying are Republicans?
If so, I’m much more encouraged about Republicans that their actions heretofore would justify.
It’s all part of the authoritarian playbook, dehumanize your opponents with your supporters, and the let your supporters take care of your opponents. All these things he calls people are shorthanded in “Never Trumpers!”, and it’s actually a bit worse as they are seen as traitors because they are Republicans. He’s hoping he can get his supporters to rise up and defend him, with violence if necessary, and use that to essentially blackmail Republicans to leaving him in office. It just may work too, since Republicans now fear their base and go along with Trump to keep the base happy.
It’s all going to implode eventually, the rest of the nation just doesn’t seem to want to go along with the lawbreaking and bad behavior…when it does it’s going to be a mess, we’ll just have to wait and see how big.
Every once in a while I ponder the implausibility that Trump can be choreographing all of his inane antics all by himself .
one person cannot be this insipid and offensive - just all on their own - if Hollywood wanted to create a character like this - a team of 24 writers would have to be put together - along with a manager to oversee the rotate of additional new writers in to the team to keep things fresh.