When an anti-Trump voice in the media announces he’s leaving the Republican Party but no one’s there to read about it, does it make a sound?
Max Boot — who?! — was the latest conservative writer to make the inconsequential declaration that he wants Democrats to take Congress in this year’s midterm elections.
“The current GOP still has a few resemblances to the party of old — it still cuts taxes and supports conservative judges,” Boot wrote Wednesday in the Washington Post. “But a vote for the GOP in November is also a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonization of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America’s allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators.”
The piece sent shock waves through the nation.
Just kidding; nobody outside of MSNBC noticed, and we all went along with our lives.
The media love to highlight their own people doing unremarkable things, like leaving Twitter.
Just as the vast majority of Americans don’t use Twitter or care who’s “leaving it,” most people don’t know who Max Boot is or find it interesting that he left the GOP.
In any event, more accurately the GOP left Boot behind when President Trump transformed it.
It left Boot just like it left the Washington Post’s George Will, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, and MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt.
Each of them has also attempted to make a show out of now promoting Democrats, despite having previously backed Republicans for decades.
But they didn’t quit the GOP. The GOP’s voters fired them for contributing nothing valuable to the party since at least 2010. (Though Joe Scarborough’s contribution to the national dialogue with his endless self-regard for his six years as a little-known congressman in the 1990s will not soon be forgotten.)
Boot, Scarborough, Will, and Schmidt all hated Trump during the election and he still won.
Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and now with the New York Times, predicted during the election that Hillary Clinton was certain to win and then he also announced he was leaving the GOP.
Why should it stir anyone’s emotions when they “leave” the party?
Republicans like Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona are railing against Trump on a near daily basis.
Trump’s approval among GOP voters remains at nearly 90 percent, while Corker and Flake are set to retire.
And It isn’t newsworthy when a conservative in the media hates Trump.
Hating Trump in the media comes cheap.
