{"id":364,"date":"2024-12-29T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-never-trump-machine\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T13:55:55","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-never-trump-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-never-trump-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of the Never-Trump Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Tom Klingenstein's place<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kamala Harris and the Democrat establishment may have blown over a billion dollars to lose the 2024 election, but it\u2019s their Never Trump allies most likely facing oblivion after President Donald Trump\u2019s historic victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

If so, good riddance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My sentiments exactly. Circa 2016, the NT-ers were warning that Trump would destroy the Republican Party. He did destroy a party, the other one.  More:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Never Trumpers were riding high. In October, pundits speculated that Liz Cheney could end up with a senior position in the future Harris administration. At an October 21 town hall in Pennsylvania \u2014 moderated by Sarah Longwell \u2014 Cheney urged Republicans to dump Trump over the Dobbs<\/em> decision<\/a> that overturned Roe <\/em>v. Wade<\/em>. \u201cI have been troubled by the extent to which you have women who \u2014 as the vice-president said, in some cases have died \u2014 who can\u2019t get medical treatment that they need because providers are worried about criminal liability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth pointing out Cheney\u2019s cynical about-face: She launched her congressional career in 2016 on a strong anti-abortion platform<\/a> with the endorsement of the Susan B. Anthony List, which gives her an \u201cA\u201d ranking on its pro-life scorecard. Now she says state abortion bans \u201ccannot stand<\/a>,\u201d but only after<\/em> left-wing donors like Jeffrey Katzenberg spent millions of dollars trying to rescue her failing reelection campaign in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Kristol himself was once a member of the board of the Susan B. Anthony List, one of the most influential pro-life organizations in the country. Under his leadership, The Weekly Standard <\/em>was among the most reliably pro-life publications in the country. But his final advice in the 2024 election, published<\/a> in The Bulwark on November 3, was this: \u201cReproductive freedom is a crucial issue, and a winning one, and the Harris campaign would be foolish not to make it a closing one in these last couple of days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Tom Klingenstein's place: Kamala Harris and the Democrat establishment may have blown over a billion dollars to lose the 2024 election, but it\u2019s their Never Trump allies most likely facing oblivion after President Donald Trump\u2019s historic victory. If so, good riddance. My sentiments exactly. Circa 2016, the NT-ers were warning that Trump would destroy … Continue reading “The Rise and Fall of the Never-Trump Machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-defeatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}