The NY Times revisits the anti-Trump conservative’s who, left out in the cold by Donald Trump ability to sell himself enough to grab the American Right, have quietly crawled back to the man they dispised….
It’s lonely out there as a Republican conservative if you knock Donald Trump…
Last week, Mr. Erickson, a well-known conservative blogger, titled one of his pieces “I Support the President.” In three years, he had come completely around, a transformation that is a testament to President Trump’s remarkable consolidation of support inside the Republican Party. The effort to impeach the president, Mr. Erickson wrote, was a desperate move by people “who have never come to terms with him.”
“Never Trump” no more, conservatives have largely resigned themselves to a more accommodating state of mind: “Never mind Trump.” And their change in attitude helps to mute the much smaller group of conservative voices who remain highly critical of the president and have questioned his conduct.
Glenn Beck, the radio host who once called Mr. Trump “an immoral man who is absent decency or dignity,” now says that his defeat in 2020 would mark “the end of the country as we know it.” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who so bitterly feuded with the president during the 2016 primaries that Mr. Trump gave out Mr. Graham’s cellphone number on national television, declared last week that impeachment was nothing but “a political set up.”
Many of these NeverTrumpers are more businessmen than ideologues.
Their business is “being” conservatives and selling themselves and their products to those who call themselves that.
As the “conservative movement “ has been hijacked and reinvented so to speak by Trump,their options were limited to accommodating themselves to the new real or finding a new gig.
Unsurprisingly ,they chose the path of least resistance.
When Trump leaves the stage IS gonna be INTERESTING‼️