SCOTUS Strikes Down Nevertrump
The Dobbs decision was a tragic day of defeat for the Nevertrumpers
Imagine being the manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic in a red state with an abortion trigger law this morning. In one fell swoop, the Supreme Court Dobbs decision not only stripped women of the fundamental right to reproductive freedom you have spent a lifetime championing, but it literally put you out of business. It must be so depressing, but you can still hold your head high, knowing that no matter how bad the past 24 hours have been for you, it’s nothing compared to the sense of humiliating defeat Dobbs has visited upon ‘True Conservative’ Nevertrumpers.
For the Nevertrumper, there’s nowhere to hide. Everyone knows that this never would have happened without Donald Trump and there’s just no escaping the embarrassing reality that you’ve been absurdly wrong all along. A few have tried to rationalize the truth with “it doesn’t matter” pieces. The most embarrassing of which includes Kevin Williamson who wrote a piece in National Review arguing that Trump just “got lucky” with his SCOTUS picks, claiming that a “well trained monkey” could have duplicated Trump’s successful remaking of this country’s entire jurisprudence. You won’t be surprised to learn that Kevin is so butt-hurt by Dobbs that he called you a “rage monkey” if you think Trump has anything to do with any of this.
By and large however, most of the Nevertrumpers had more self respect than Kevin and decided to just keep their mouths shut rather than pitch an embarrassing fit and make an ass of themselves like Kevin. It must be so humiliating for the Nevertrumpers who are actually pro-life, and not just pretending to be like the “conservative” RINOs they’ve supported all these years. What a conundrum. On the one hand, you want to celebrate the overturning of Roe – the holy grail of the conservative movement for half a century, but on the other hand, you’d have to admit that this is an unequivocal victory for Trump and that juvenile hissy fit you’ve been throwing for seven years was all just an embarrassing pointless mistake. It must be a tough one.
In a way, Dobbs is proving the most unprincipled Nevertrumper grifters to have been the most savvy. Those who just switched sides like the lying mercenaries they’ve always been had no obligation to pretend like Dobbs was a good thing. Nevertrumper grifters like Bill Kristol, Ana Navarro, Jennifer Rubin, and the Lincoln Project pedophile clan are free to rage against Dobbs, express their pro-abortion bona-fides, and watch the griftastic clicks roll in from their latter-day audience of gullible ignorant leftists.
One of the most revealing aspects of Dobbs has been the almost perfect correlation between the level of commitment to Nevertrumperism, and the muted reaction to Dobbs. Let’s take the origin of the Nevertrumper movement for example. On January 22, 2016, National Review published it’s seminal “Against Trump” issue wherein the magazine founded by the father of the conservative movement, William F. Buckley Jr. promptly dumped Buckley’s most famous axiom of conservative political theory, the “Buckley Rule” (always support the most conservative candidate who has a chance of winning). In addition to National Review’s editors, the issue contained contributions from 22 “conservative” thinkers in a “unified” front designed to defenestrate the growing Trump candidacy. You won’t be surprised to learn that the more sanctimonious the Nevertrumper attack on Trump, the more likely the so-called “conservative” was to have little positive to say six years later about Dobbs in the 24 hours following the SCOTUS decision.
Many of the 22 “Against Trump” contributors provided principled, issues based reasons for why they opposed Trump’s nomination. Seven of them openly acknowledged that conservative frustration over the GOP establishment’s repeated failures was legitimate and could lead to a Trump election. Aside from the embarrassment of contributing to the sophomoric “Nevertrump” movement, this group was simply wrong in their assessment of Trump, and were thus able to escape the Nevertrumper sewer with at least part of their dignity intact. Many have since acknowledged that their 2016 assessment of Trump was off the mark and have expressed contrition for their youthful “Nevertrump” experimentation. You won’t be surprised that the seven who acknowledged conservative frustration with the GOP establishment have been the most vocal in celebrating Dobbs on Twitter in the 24 hours after the decision.
On the other hand, five of the 22 contributors (plus at least one of the editors) penned anti-Trump diatribes that were petty, sanctimonious attacks, which repeatedly accused Trump of being racist, sexist, creepy, authoritarian, corrupt, ignorant, dishonest, and akin to Hitler or a fascist demagogue. You won’t be surprised to learn that these five have had next to nothing positive to say about Dobbs in the 24 hours since the decision. Sanctimonious Nevertrumper David Boaz for example, provided a Twitter comment about the Hyde Amendment, but otherwise spent the day retweeting an article defending Drag Queen Story Hour. Sanctimonious Nevertrumer Mona Charen, who called Trump a boor, a creep, and a louse in 2016, tweeted nothing about the Dobbs decision, but did take the time to write an article warning that letting Trump back onto Twitter would be a big mistake, and tweeted an article defending Drag Queen Story Hour that fretted about “fake drag panic!” Sanctimonious Nevertrumper Bill Kristol penned a few tweets fear mongering about how Dobbs might dilute other human rights, but mostly spent the day tweeting about the January 6 insurrection show-trial. Sanctimonious Nevertrumper Jonah Goldberg re-tweeted one mild pro-Dobbs comment, but otherwise spent the day promoting his latest diatribe about the January 6 Insurrection show trial (he thinks you’re ‘morally repugnant’ for calling it a ‘show trial’ by the way). Sanctimonious Nevertrumpers John Podhoretz and Mark Helprin have tweeted nothing about Dobbs, though in their defense neither has any recent tweets I can find.
So consider for a moment, that the more likely a founding member of Nevertrump was to consider his Nevertrumperism a moral imperative of ‘True Conservatism’, the more likely he was six years later to not only have nothing positive to say about the most important conservative SCOTUS victory of a generation, the more likely he was to spend the day defending Drag Queen Story Hour or promoting a partisan leftist show-trial instead. And I haven’t even mentioned David French yet. This is a damning indictment of Nevertrump, and irrefutable evidence that even they know that Dobbs has been an indefatigable victory for Trump and made a laughingstock of their useless, petty seven year hissy fit. How humiliating. It must be so painful.
God bless President Trump!
God bless President Trump - and ignominy to those putative "conservatives" who undercut him.