And that needs to be corrected. Sure, the Democratic Party and the corporate media (but I repeat myself) have descended into fits of caterwauling, and screaming at the sky. The Schadenfreude, a dish best served cold, has been wonderful.
But the Democrats are not the only group reeling from the results of the recent election. From The Other McCain we get a tasty bit of #NeverTrump hand wringing. The Agony of #NeverTrump: His Comeback Has Destroyed Their Prestige
If you want to see something funny — that is, assuming you have a sadistic sense of humor — you should go watch YouTube highlights of The Bulwark’s Election Night podcast, featuring Bill Kristol, Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, Jonathan V. Last and company in a slow downhill slide from hope to despair. Perhaps never in human history has disappointment been more well deserved. You have to remember how and why the #NeverTrump Grift started to truly appreciate its squalid denouement. If you go back to early 2015, the “smart” money among conservative pundits was on either Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz as the likely Republican nominee.
The linked video of #NeverTrump election coverage is an hour long. It is condensed from many hours of election-night coverage. I have not watched all of it. The cope is real, however.
The fact that Trump didn't just win, but won big in the electoral college and won the popular vote really cut the legs out from under these folks. They are mad. They are sad. They are plotting their revenge. They hate Americans who didn't do what they were told to do. At the end of the day, they hate democracy, and our democratic republic.
Most people can’t comprehend the selfish careerism of the Professional Conservative Pundit crowd, for whom prestige and influence are their real stock-in-trade. They climbed aboard the #NeverTrump bandwagon because it seemed like the “smart” thing to do.
After all, if Trump could not possibly beat Hillary (which was what the pundits kept telling us), then even if he did win the GOP nomination, the #NeverTrump crowd would be vindicated in November 2016, and step forward ready to assert their rightful place as the divinely ordained Intellectual Leaders of the Conservative Movement™.
There is more. Read the whole thing.
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