CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY: Never Trump conservatives are complicit with Team Biden’s moral outrages and norm-breaking.
Never Trumpers spoke of the Trump GOP almost as if it were Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party, a dictator’s discredited political organ, badly in need of a purge. “President Donald Trump leaves office with a crimson-stained legacy,” thundered Peter Wehner, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “A similar stain attaches to those in the party who supported and sustained him.”
William Kristol, a prominent Twitter user, condemned Trump’s “enablers”: “They share the responsibility. They share the guilt. They ought to share the opprobrium.”
Many of these men and women embraced candidate Joe Biden. Biden, Wehner effused, is “an admirable human being, empathetic and generous in spirit.” Mona Charen, the syndicated moralist and former EPPC fellow, confessed she had “never been happier with a vote” than the one she cast for Biden.
That’s pretty rich considering that Charen “joined the staff of First Lady Nancy Reagan as a speechwriter. She then worked on President Ronald Reagan’s staff, in the White House Office of Public Liaison and in the Office of Communications. Charen served as Jack Kemp’s speechwriter in his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid.”
