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The NeverTrumpers Strike Again

Some people just don't know when to give it a rest.

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Rod D. Martin
Oct 18, 2017
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by Rod D. Martin
October 18, 2017

Some people just don't know when to give it a rest. That has certainly proved true for a lot of last year's #NeverTrumpers, who appear to be clinging to the word #Never no matter how foolish it makes them look (or perhaps for some, how treasonous it exposes them as having always been).

Take George Will, fake conservative extraordinaire. On Friday, the WaPo columnist (do we really need to add more?) published a piece entitled "Sinister Figures Lurk Around Our Careless President". Does Will mean some of Trump's Democrat friends and family members like Gary Cohn or Jared Kushner? Is he concerned about H.R. McMaster, whose tenure at NSA has involved the purge of a lot of good conservatives?

No. Will singles out as "sinister" Stephen Miller, one of the brightest young conservatives in America.

Now it's not exactly shocking that George Will disdains anyone to the right of Susan Collins. But his rant is more telling than his choice of villains, filled with vague,…

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