Aside from Jennifer Rubin, five days ago Driftglass went after another never-Trumper, Tom Nichols:
You might remember teeveeās Tom Nichols from such previous hits as āYou fuckers will get no repentance from me, because your party had a hand in this too!ā and āI never knew the Republican Party was full of Republicans because I lived in Massachusettsā.
Well earlier this week (or maybe it was in 1987 now that linear time has left the building), olā Tom dropped in on his fellow teevee Conservative, Charlie Sykes for some good, clean, Never Trump antics. They laughed and joked and rolled their eyes and called Trump various names, which is all jolly good fun.
Then, while Charlie Sykes chuckled along, Tom Nichols began doing that thing he does where suddenly his Republican Party completely disappears and all of the sins and crimes of his party are laid at the feet of a group called āAmericansā.
Nichols: But there is a there is a serious point underneath all of this which is that all thatā¦that discussion that Americans are tired of corruption, Americans are tired of the elites, Americans are tired of the inside deals, uh, Americans are tired of what goes on in the rooms they donāt know about that turns out to be nonsense. Americans have an incredibly high tolerance for corruption.
On some level Tom Iām sure knows this is a lie: after all, Democrats twice elected the virtually scandal-and-corruption-free Barack Obama. And Olā Tomās party, the Republican, reacted with eight years of unhinged racist hysteria and then elected the King of the Birthers. Who, to no oneās surprise who bothered paying any attention to anything, also turned out to be the most openly corrupt man in history ever to occupy the White House.
But Tom blows by these inconvenient facts by by invoking one of every smarmy Both Sideristās favorite magic words: ātribesā.
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