NeverTrumper David French Whines That He's Being Harassed

by Rod D. Martin
October 21, 2016

In today's National Review, almost-third-party-Presidential-candidate and #NeverTrump icon David French whines about "the price I've paid for opposing Donald Trump."

Well boo hoo.

David French is no leftist, but he sure acts like one here. The idea that you could take strong public stands -- including a demand to split the Republican Party and ensure the election of Hillary Clinton -- without anyone speaking back to you is the sort of "safe space" snowflakism that on any other day French would rightly decry.

A few random thoughts:

1. I was for the other guy, with reason.

2. I have personally experienced more than my share of this sort of thing. I have been a public official, and I have a reasonably public profile. I have been actually been accused of dodging the draft in Vietnam (I was born at the end of 1969). I have received more death threats than I can count. There is probably no disgusting act of which I have not at some point been accused by someone. M…