President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in a Fourth of July picnic with military families at the White House | July 4, 2018 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
As President Trump systematically dismantles the damage the Obama regime inflicted on the country and despite that most of Trump’s policy actions have been conservative, David Horowitz reflects on what keeps NeverTrumpers from returning to their senses.
The posture of these NeverTrumpers is transparently self-serving. It preserves their intellectual credentials as “conservatives,” and simultaneously takes them out of the line of fire from an increasingly vicious Left whose goal is to destroy Trump and his presidency, and—incidentally—conservative America. Sitting on the fence affords them new career opportunities—appearances on CNN and MSNBC and columns in the New York Times. All that’s required is that they avoid taking sides in the political war that is engulfing the country. All this reminds me of a memorable Trotsky sneer about liberals, whom he accused of being reluctant to step into the stream of political conflict because they were afraid to get their moral principles wet.
One prominent NeverTrumper, in a twitter kerfuffle with Mr. Horowitz, argues against Trump’s three marriages, leading Mr. Horowitz to ask, who can see inside another person’s marriage?
I thought, moreover, that since Reagan—who had two wives—entered the White House and performed as a conservative hero, Republicans would have gotten over their puritanical prejudices. All politicians have flawed characters. It’s the nature of the job, which requires compromises, prevarications, dirty deals, and the like. In Trump’s case, what is important is not his loyalty to his wives (and none of them seem to be complaining) but his loyalty to the cause he champions and the people who support him.
Has Trump kept his promises to his supporters? Has he stayed the course he set for himself of making America great again? That loyalty is the character trait that matters most in a leader, and should matter most in any assessment of Trump. He has taken great personal risks and incurred great personal costs. His reputation for example, was pretty good before he ran against Democrats and their media, who fueled an epidemic of hate portraying him as a racist and neo-Nazi.
Read more from David Horowitz in American Greatness here.
