When you bet on a grifter, you’re bound to get burned. Actual intellectuals and ideologues who bet on Trump not just to combat the horrific prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency but as an affirmative agent of paleoconservative nationalism and protectionism are finding themselves abandoned by a man who spent his life rolling through marriages and business endeavors only to ruin and abandon them. Left-wing ire over standard-issue Republicans attempting to forge a working relationship with the president always stemmed from the partisan desire to attack Republican legislators for, well, legislating, but those who thought that Trump could win on actual policy rather than cheap points in ego-fueled culture wars are simply reaping what they’ve sown…
Though Coulter’s rhetoric during the campaign contributed to Trump’s cult of personality, Coulter has been in politics long before Trump, and she’ll be there long after. Trump’s former supporters, whose paleoconservatism and protectionism predated him, won’t take his broken promises lightly. His rise didn’t inform their political positions; he was just seen as an agent of them.
In contrast, Trump sycophants and hacks have built their vitriol-laden identities around them. Don’t take my word for it — just listen to them!
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