{"id":6223,"date":"2016-09-14T04:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/professional-conservatives-worried-hillary-will-lose\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T04:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T04:22:57","slug":"professional-conservatives-worried-hillary-will-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/professional-conservatives-worried-hillary-will-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional ‘Conservatives’ Worried Hillary Will Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alt-rightists call them 'cuckservatives,' but I am no alt-rightist.  (I don't believe the cure for a Commie is a Nazi.)  So I use 'sneer' quotes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professional 'conservatives' are like a lot of professional 'philosophers':  they cherish their cushy yap-and-scribble lifestyle whether or not it brings about any personal or social improvement.  Wisdom?  What's that?  (Memo to self: write an entire entry on this.)<\/span><\/p>\n

But for now, see here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot of conservatives voicing frustration, like, \u2018How fucking hard is this, Hillary?\u2019\u201d said Ben Howe, a conservative ad-maker and an outspoken Trump detractor. \u201cThat\u2019s the only reason I\u2019m panicked these days \u2026 I\u2019m losing faith in Hillary\u2019s ability to win this easy-ass election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rick Wilson, a Florida-based GOP consultant now working on Evan McMullin\u2019s independent presidential campaign, said few of his #NeverTrump compatriots believe a case of pneumonia will sink Clinton\u2019s candidacy. But her impulse to conceal the illness \u2014 and her campaign\u2019s clumsy response once it was revealed \u2014 reinforced a core political weakness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of Republicans on the \u2018Never Trump\u2019 side that are starting to feel very nervous,\u201d Wilson said, \u201cbecause no matter how minor the next thing is there\u2019s a possibility [the Clinton campaign] is gonna screw it up by lying about something. They can\u2019t help themselves. It\u2019s genetic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Alt-rightists call them 'cuckservatives,' but I am no alt-rightist.  (I don't believe the cure for a Commie is a Nazi.)  So I use 'sneer' quotes. Professional 'conservatives' are like a lot of professional 'philosophers':  they cherish their cushy yap-and-scribble lifestyle whether or not it brings about any personal or social improvement.  Wisdom?  What's that?  (Memo … Continue reading “Professional ‘Conservatives’ Worried Hillary Will Lose”<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223","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=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}