{"id":79225,"date":"2021-08-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79225"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:12:33","slug":"this-is-nevertrump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79225","title":{"rendered":"This Is #NeverTrump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been frank about my long-term ambivalence (at best) about Donald Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, if the universe were a purely binary construct, I could say with a straight face that the only think I like less than Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;is &#8220;#NeverTrump&#8221;, the reaction to Trump among Republicans that became ever-more knee-jerk over time, to the point of having &#8220;Republicans&#8221; endorsing Biden over Trump last year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the worst &#8211; and by &#8220;worst&#8221;, I mean &#8220;Most Perennially Dim&#8221; &#8211; offenders is Tom Nichols. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on a weekend where the Administration lived down to something far below our worst expectations, Tom Nichols exceeded even them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let history record that in the middle of an international humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands of American allies facing certain death, they were shamefully abandoned by the governor of South Dakota and her horse <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P476Cp1KA0\">pic.twitter.com\/P476Cp1KA0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowahawkblog\/status\/1427233449228840962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally, there are Democrats who, given their dubious critical-thinking skills, accept this notion &#8211; that Kristi Noem abrogated her foreign policy and national defense duties <em>attendant to being governor of South Dakota<\/em>, and being seen in public on a day when the person Tom Nichols endorsed <em>was not<\/em>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been frank about my long-term ambivalence (at best) about Donald Trump. In fact, if the universe were a purely binary construct, I could say with a straight face that the only think I like less than Trump&#8230; &#8230;is &#8220;#NeverTrump&#8221;, the reaction to Trump among Republicans that became ever-more knee-jerk over time, to the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79226,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79225\/revisions\/79226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}