WAKE UP
Dear Trump Voters: You’re a Bunch of Idiots
Face it. It’s a train wreck top to bottom. For America, and for conservatism. The sooner we pull the plug on this charlatan, the better.
Matt Lewis
08.18.17 1:00 AM ET
Dear Trump Voter: I told you so.
For years, conservatives including yours truly warned you against Donald Trump. Writing at The Daily Caller in August 2015, I warned about Trump’s dangerous worldview.
On CNN in 2015, I said: “If Hillary Clinton paid somebody to try to destroy the Republican brand, they would do exactly what Donald Trump has done.” In May 2016, I warned: “Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama cannot destroy the conservative brand. Donald Trump can. Donald Trump can redefine what it means to be a Republican and what it means to be in a conservative. In a way, Trump is more dangerous to conservatism than Obama and Hillary because he is posing as a conservative.”
Heck, I even wrote a book about it.
Not only did you not heed our warnings (I wasn’t alone; see Jonah Goldberg, Erick Erickson, Dana Loesch, Ben Shapiro, et al.), you called us cucks and cuckservatives and RINOs… all for speaking out against a billionaire casino magnate who donated to Nancy Pelosi and invited Hillary Clinton to his (third) wedding. You then helped elevate the alt-right in stature (Richard Spencer), and the alt-right adjacent into the White House (Steve Bannon, Seb Gorka, and Steve Miller).
Despite opposing Trump in the GOP primary and refusing to vote for the GOP standard-bearer in the general election, I approached his administration with the kind of open mind that an opinion journalist should. On the rare occasion Trump did good things (in my view, this included nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and acting decisively after Syria used chemical weapons) I said so.
Although I always saw the likelihood of a pivot toward maturation as the triumph of hope over experience, for the sake of my own sanity, I held out a glimmer of hope.
Hope has been abandoned. Trump has had six months to learn the job, improve, and advance a conservative agenda. He’s 0-for-3. What is more, if even his new chief of staff Gen. John Kelly cannot fix this mess—and it is now incredibly clear that even he cannot perform miracles!—it won’t be fixed. At some point, it’s time to pull the plug. That time is now.
What exactly do I mean by “pull the plug”? These three things:
more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-trump-voters-youre-a-bunch-of-idiots?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
DO SOMETHING!
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