Lozada provides no examples of how NeverTrumpers “lit the fuse” of Trumpism because he can’t. Yes, Trump’s success and the capitulation of such a wide swath of the Republican Party to him has caused Never Trumpers to do some soul-searching. I, for example, now regret some of my past excessive partisanship when I see the blind hatred of liberals and Democrats among so many conservatives. But what critics forget is how many conservatives fought off Trumpism’s cousin three decades ago when we condemned Pat Buchanan. Jack Kemp, William Bennett (sadly now in the Trump camp), William F. Buckley, and many more anathematized him.
Lozada and other critics of NeverTrumpers from the left should follow their own advice. Of Flake, Lozada writes: “Flake relies heavily on the ‘we’ pronoun, which serves to diffuse responsibility as much as assign it. ‘We all but ensured the rise of Donald Trump,’ Flake writes. Who is we?”
Who indeed? Does the left ‘scape whipping’ entirely? Who, if not the liberal news directors at major networks gave candidate Donald Trump an estimated $2 billion in free media?
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