Why the Remaining NeverTrumpers Should Apologize Now
by Roger L. Simon at pjmedia:
“Public apologies are difficult for most people, but particularly for political pundits whose livelihoods and reputations depend on their being right at least some of the time (Paul Krugman excepted).
Such statements can be emotionally wounding, even humiliating. But it isn’t my purpose to humiliate or, worse, to gloat — which is a repellent trait and almost always counterproductive. No spiking the football here.
Nevertheless, it is time for the remaining NeverTrumpers to apologize for a reason far more important than self-castigation or merely to make things “right.” Donald Trump — whose initial victory was a shock, even, ironically, to those of us who predicted it — has compounded that shock by being astoundingly successful in his first year, especially at the conclusion. (He’s a quick study, evidently.) More conservative goals have been achieved or put in motion in eleven months than in any time in recent, or even distant, memory. It’s an astonishing reversal for our country accompanied by the beginnings of an economic boom.
But that same success is causing, it’s becoming increasingly clear, an equally determined, even virulent, reaction from the left. At first they too thought Trump was an ineffectual blowhard who would shoot himself in the foot, ultimately redounding to their advantage. Now that they have found that not to be the case, they are in a state of panic, fearing a defeat for their ideals that would set them back years, even decades. They cannot let this stand and are marshaling all their forces from the media to Hollywood to the academy, not to mention at least some of the investigative units of the FBI.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/remaining-nevertrumpers-apologize-now/
Comment: I have subscribed to the Weekly Standard for more than a decade. It was/is not an American conservative publication. It was a snotty, arrogant, Easterner Bill Kristol publication who pontificated as a conservative rather than tolerating being one….at least one for America.
I confess I did suffer a Kristolosis dislike of Donald Trump until August 6, 2015, the evening of the first debate at the Fox empire when Kristol’s GOP was still plotting to rid the New Yorker from its offerings as its Presidential candidate in 2016.
After a round of softy questions and winks to the candidates, Megyn Kelly approached Candidate Trump with a GOP dagger to his heart with the question; “You seem to have some troubles with women”, or something of that nature…..”You’ve called them fat pigs….”….and whatever at the same time FOX NEWS HAS ITS CAMERA FOCUSED DIRECTLY ON DONALD JOHN TRUMP’S PROFILE expecting to display a wilt in this “witness” to the 50,000,000 plus tv viewers.
“Is that the way you feel about all women?” Megyn pursued for the kill…….
With the large Fox audience in total silence, nearly all of them GOPers against anything and everything Donald J. Trump, awaited a dying candidate’s response, and they got:
“No! Only Rosie O’Donnell.”
The overwhelming anti-Trump Republican audience exploded with laughter, almost as much as I!
(Oh, the reality of his answer referring to Crooked Hillary’s kin “sister”.
I was aware of the Donald for thirty years of reading front page articles about his successes and failures in New York’s big business world, that he adored his parents, had lost a brother to suicide from a drinking problem, that Our Donald was outstanding in nearly anything he touched including baseball, and had become a television success with something to do with “You’re fired!”
I was aware of his first wife, Ivana’s divorce rages in the newspapers against Our Donald who was charged with succumbed to certain pleasures from other female sources. I did know they were exceptionally close in family and in business, and had three children.
She was asking fifty million dollars for ‘damages’……and got it, if I remember correctly.
Our Donald would be interviewed on national television fairly often over a twenty or more year period. Although I was an outdoor guy, owner of a local landscape company then, I used to teach Russian and Modern Problems to high schoolers for years. I remember being attracted by his intelligence, focus, and his command of speech when responding to news reporters. My God, he was quick and smooth explaining matter! This guy loved is world of work as much as I did!
In my computer hunt for more info on Donald, I came across a letter to-the-editor in a July, 2015 Washington Post issue written by his ex-wife, Ivana. The leftist Post apparently had already started smearing him in countless ways as a candidate.
Ex-wife, Invana, was challenging the Post’s editor’s vicious attack on him using words she had said during divorce proceedings years ago. She had good things to say about her Donald husband and confessed some of her accusations were ‘trumped’ up by pain caused by the divorce. She wrote Donald was a wonderful father to their three children, among other warm comments.
Later in the month I caught a television interview with Our Donald, most likely by folks who already were serious about a Donald run for the White House.
PS….Months after Our Donald’s election, already in the White House, Dennis Prager had invited David Horowitz to his radio show to discuss his feelings about this new American President. Dennis admitted he was a strong anti-Trumper until he was the only candidate left to defeat “CrookedHillary”…although may not have used that exact description. Dennis mentioned he was aware David was an early supporter, and an enthusiastic one, of Our Donald, and asked him what won him over.
David Horowitz, a person I have followed closely in the American political arena since the 1960s, long before his wonderful conversion to American conservatism, answered something like, “It was at the first Fox Television debate, when he referred to Rosie O’Donnell, displaying the guts, the devotion, the determination and honesty Our Donald possessed beyond his opponents.”
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