If don’t have convictions that Trump shouldn’t be president after January 6, you probably don’t have convictions.
As a Never Trumper, it’s my duty today to be furious at Nikki Haley. Yet I feel nothing…
How angry can one be about this, realistically?
It’s traumatic to watch a “principled conservative” roll over for a proto-fascist out of rote partisanship, but we’ve all gotten used to that particular trauma by now. The anger is spent. Numbness and fatalism are what’s left.
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Watching Haley back Trump on Wednesday, I had dark visions of what might be in store for her. In 2028: “J.D. Vance has not been perfect. I have made that clear many, many times. But Gretchen Whitmer would be a catastrophe.” Then 2032: “Tucker Carlson has not been perfect. I have made that clear many, many times. But Josh Shapiro would be a catastrophe.” Or 2036: “Nick Fuentes has not been perfect. I have made that clear many, many times. But Wes Moore would be a catastrophe.”
It’s 2016 forever. The future is delayed, but rest assured that it’s coming.