Republicans who hated Donald Trump in 2016 are the same Republicans who hate him now. They’re doing the same things now that they did then, which is — hate Donald Trump and try to hurt him in the election.
The Washington Post, however, is pretending that those people have found a new way to effect change with an article over the weekend headlined “The once-mocked ‘Never Trump’ movement becomes a sudden campaign force.”
“Movement,” you say? A “force,” you say?
The evidence for that sweeping declaration, according to the Washington Post, is the formation of a couple new PACs that had the ingenious idea to make some TV ads!
Why hadn’t any political group ever thought of that before?
The article itself even admits that the “movement” remains without any real influence to change the election, and its efforts so far “are aimed not at persuading disaffected Republicans but simply at needling the president.”
True, Trump’s reelection odds have plummeted in recent weeks thanks to the pandemic that his administration did not effectively manage, an economy that was kneecapped in the process, and race riots stoked by our dear national media.
Which part of that is to the credit of Never Trump people who have been irrelevant and toiling in obscurity for the past three years? Now they’re trying to elect Joe Biden. Yeah, and they also urged anyone who would listen to vote for Democrats in the 2018 midterms, so what?
Other than the occasional appearance by one of them on MSNBC or CNN, this Washington Post article was the first bit of relevance they’ve had, and even that came with the acknowledgment that Never Trump non-Republicans aren’t doing much to move the needle.
These people aren’t a “force,” and they’ll be just as effective now as they were in 2016, which is to say, not.
