I believe it was almost exactly nine years ago that Rush Limbaugh caught grief for saying that he hoped Barack Obama failed in his goals.
He was broadly denounced as anti-American by progressives (which is always funny since they despise their country most of the time), but Limbaugh was on solid ground.
Obama's stated goals would cripple the country. His actual policies did cripple it.
A few months ago I pointed out that Obama managed to drive the economy into an eight-year recession. The growth he claimed was paid for by doubling the national debt. The stock market rose only because the Federal Reserve was juicing it up.
(Speaking of which, maybe those corrections were the Fed unwinding its stake? Food for thought.)
The Quisling Never Trumpers claim to be in the same position as Limbaugh in opposing Donald Trump's policies. They argue that their stand is a principled one, based on what's good for America.
The problem with this argument is that their own words directly contradict it.
Jen Rubin, for example, has reversed herself on every single policy she held simply to oppose Trump. Bret Stephens has done the same.
It is one thing to rethink a long-held belief. This often requires years of thoughtful reflection as well as considerable debate. The Never Trump traitors haven't done that. They simply flip-flopped as soon as Trump acted.
In the process, they have also revealed that they don't really care about America's success. Their own emotional state and social status is what it truly important to them.
For example, they warn that raising tariffs will cause a trade war and a global recession. This is nonsense on stilts. "Free trade" has crippled the middle class, destroyed the working class and made us increasingly dependent on global rivals for strategic materials.
Throughout history nations have protected key industries from foreign competition without causing commercial havoc. It was only in the last three decades that "free trade" became an article of faith for the neocons and their progressive allies.
Similarly, restricting immigration used to be a core conservative principle. Open borders is a radical departure from American policy and without precedent in human history. No nation, no state or realm ever threw open its doors to anyone who wanted to come in - and then blessed them with full citizenship. It's a recipe for national suicide.
Yet now the Benedict Arnold Right loves it and denounces actual border enforcement as racist.
The theme running through all their policies is fear and hatred. Fear of losing status and hatred of the working classes that elected a blowhard from Queens to the White House.
Yet that blowhard is more competent than any of his Ivy League predecessors. The economy is booming with more gains on the way. American military might is being slowly restored. Our enemies are alarmed and our people are more optimistic than they have been in 20 years.
This gets us to the real reason why the Never Trumpers are so angry: America might actually become stronger.
And it will have happened without them.
Consider last week's opening with North Korea. If this pans out, it would be a game-changer, a milestone is improving global security. The US has made a single concession: long-overdue face-to-face talks with North Korea.
In return the Norks have pledged to cease nuclear tests and missile launches and claims they will allow military exercises with South Korea to proceed without incident.
The US holds all the cards in this deal. If the Norks violate their pledges, they lose and the US military will resume its Doomsday Countdown on Little Rocket Man. But if they do hold true, it will be the first time they ever kept their word. That's pretty significant.
And yet the Never Trumpers are up in arms, supposedly because (it's hard not to laugh as I type this) it's an affront to democracy for a US president to sit down with a tin-pot dictator.
Yeah, I know. Where do they get this stuff?
The real fear, though, is that Trump might actually solve the problem, just as they fear his tariff will work and his border enforcement will work.
That is their ultimate nightmare, their greatest fear: that Orange Julius, whom they claim is ignorant, has a ten-second attention span, a witless baboon descending an escalator, that this guy will have exposed them as clueless idiots whose policies produced nothing but disaster.
It's one thing to be proven wrong, but it's another to be proven wrong by...Donald Trump!
That is why they are screaming their damn fool heads off over everything he does.
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