Currently at the top of the rec list is a diary praising former G.W. Bush strategist Steve Schmidt. Schmidt has been all over the news as a never Trumper, touting his leaving the GOP and becoming a newly minted ‘independent’. But if you look at what he writes, time and time again, he has left obvious clues as to where his heart truly lies.
Don't buy it.He gives away the game you see. When he says this:
"(Trump) is antithetical to the republican party and ther conservative movement as it has been over the last 40 years"
Bullshit. Trump isn't the antithesis (a 50 cent word for opposite) of the GOP of the last 40 years, he's the perfect embodiment of the conservative movement for the last 40 years.Where was Schmidt's outrage over the assaults on LGBTQ+ folks that were winked at by the G.W. Bush admin that he worked for? Where was his outrage when his colleague Karl Rove worked on convincing conservative voters that the democrats were traitors giving aid and comfort to Al Queda? Where was his outrage when Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Huckabee and other GOP hopefuls stood on stage with a man who had called for executing gays that same night?Nowhere.Schmidt isn't mad at what Trump is saying, he's just mad that he's not saying it in the approved dog whistles.
Leftists and progressives need to be wary of never Trumpers. Just because they are saying what we desperately want to hear doesn’t make them our friends. They are not our friends. They are simply the same GOP monster makers that they’ve always been, slinking away from the rough beast they’ve created, in hopes that their image can be rehabilitated and that everyone will forget that they brought us to this moment. Don’t do their work for them, don’t praise their pithy jabs at the Trump sycophants or swoon over their supposed conversions. It’s all a scam, it’s all waiting until our backs are turned and Marco Rubio or some other ‘acceptable’ monster is nominated, then the knives will be right back out and planted firmly in the backs of progressives.
It’s fun to watch Steve Schmidt savage his colleagues on the right, but I wouldn’t invite him into the fold, because the next people he’s savaging will be you.