{"id":4586,"date":"2018-04-21T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/kurt-schlichter-lays-into-never-trumpers\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:02:02","slug":"kurt-schlichter-lays-into-never-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/kurt-schlichter-lays-into-never-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Schlichter Lays into Never Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2018\/04\/19\/never-trumpers-whining-about-principles-was-just-an-act-n2472106\">Cum ira et studio<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">A&#0160;take-off on a line from Tacitus,&#0160;<em>sine ira et studio<\/em>, &quot;without anger and partiality.&quot;&#0160; There is a place for righteous anger as there is for partiality and polemic. Schlichter&#39;s rant ends thusly:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You\u2019ve talked and talked and talked about principles, but as James Comey and Robert Mueller and your gal Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit undermined every principle this country was founded on, all you did was clutch pearls about how Trump is icky. This country is in real danger&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01M0H7WQZ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B01M0H7WQZ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drhelenblog-20&amp;linkId=27586fc0e6d0f934da1bdc58fac5b78a\">of breaking apart<\/a>, of&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0714PQ7S1\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1496075379&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=indian+country+kurt&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=drhelenblog-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=f2da59150030cc1280c5861cf6d43fa6&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">actual conflict<\/a>, but all you can think of is recovering your cheesy little seat on the Beltway bench.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">No one\u2019s fooled. And no one cares. Which ought to scare the hell out of you. Because when the liberals figure out that you have zero credibility with us real conservatives, you\u2019ll stop being their useful idiot. You\u2019ll just be a plain old idiot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Still and all, I retain a soft spot in my heart for Never Trumper&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2018\/03\/mona-charen.html\">Mona Charen<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cum ira et studio. A&#0160;take-off on a line from Tacitus,&#0160;sine ira et studio, &quot;without anger and partiality.&quot;&#0160; There is a place for righteous anger as there is for partiality and polemic. Schlichter&#39;s rant ends thusly: You\u2019ve talked and talked and talked about principles, but as James Comey and Robert Mueller and your gal Felonia Milhous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/kurt-schlichter-lays-into-never-trumpers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kurt Schlichter Lays into Never Trumpers&#8221;<\/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":[245,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polemics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","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=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}