ANALYSIS: TRUE. Never Trump ‘Principles First’ Summit Was a Parade of Lying Charlatans Who Have No Principles. “It should be noted that these people stopped recognizing their party in 2016 because Donald Trump won an election that his GOP primary opponents almost certainly would have lost to Hillary Clinton. After eight years of His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama, the squishy middle of the Republican party was OK with losing to one of the most loathsome people in the history of American politics because of ‘principles’ and stuff.”