{"id":2241716,"date":"2024-05-10T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-bizarre-absolutism-of-the-always-only-ever-anti-trumpers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:25:19","slug":"the-bizarre-absolutism-of-the-always-only-ever-anti-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-bizarre-absolutism-of-the-always-only-ever-anti-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange rigidity of those always against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-bizarre-absolutism-of-the-always-only-ever-anti-trumpers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2241716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crisis-declared-in-california-as-state-farm-announces-72000-policies-to-be-cut\/\" title=\"California in Crisis as State Farm Plans to Terminate 72,000 Policies\">text discusses<\/a> the challenges faced \u200dby critics of \u2063Donald Trump, labeled as &#8220;always-only-ever-anti-Trumpers,&#8221; who refused to vote for Trump in the\u200d 2016 and 2020 elections. Despite pointing out Trump&#8217;s\u200d positive\u200d actions, criticism persisted, leading to absurd claims that not voting for Biden\u2062 equates to supporting\u2064 Trump. The article \u200bhighlights the\u2062 complexities\u200d of political alliances and criticisms.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For four years, many of us critics of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> took flak from a certain class of former conservatives that I\u2019ll call the <em>always-only-ever-anti-Trumpers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A wide array of people on the Right refused to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/campaigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"2020\">vote<\/a> for Trump in the general elections of 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2020-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"2020\">2020<\/a> and regularly declared in public that Trump was fundamentally unfit for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us, however, also pointed out when Trump did something right \u2014 such as appointing good judges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/year-of-the-rematch-four-biggest-likely-repeat-races-in-congress-in-2024\/\" title=\"Top Congressional Rematches Expected in 2024\">cutting middle-class taxes<\/a>, stopping former President Barack Obama\u2019s war on nuns, and managing to avoid starting a war of choice in the Arab world. Also, we tried to correct Trump\u2019s critics when they were wrong or dishonest. For that, and for our criticism of Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, we were called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/republicans-fly-their-freak-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>anti-anti<\/a>\u201d-Trump or even criticized as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillKristol\/status\/1280141021465239552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the balls and strikes crowd<\/a>\u201d \u2014 as if that were a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-100-gop-lawmakers-may-vote-against-stolen-election-on-january-6th\/\" title=\"Report: 100+ GOP Lawmakers may Vote Against Stolen Election on January 6th\">bad thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next step in this particular strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been to declare that we are <em>pro-Trump <\/em>if we won\u2019t vote for Biden. I got <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPCarney\/status\/1296647568055840773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ratioed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPCarney\/status\/1319625402109825024\">twice<\/a> for that in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This year, even after 3.5 years of Biden, the <em>always-only-ever-anti-Trumpers <\/em>are clinging to the same bizarre line: If you understand Trump is unfit for the presidency, you need to vote for Biden.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I appreciate every Republican who refuses to endorse Trump. I really do. But saying you\u2019re going to write someone in is such a cop out. If Trump is dangerous and unfit for the job then you vote for the only person who can keep him out of the White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdXgNNmiOO\">pic.twitter.com\/tdXgNNmiOO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahLongwell25\/status\/1788025814774083665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It should be obvious why this makes no sense. Trump being unfit doesn\u2019t make Biden fit any more than Iraq being bad in 1980 made Iran good. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Ryan, like me, is a conservative. Biden isn\u2019t only unconservative \u2014 he is virulently anti-conservative. He hates us, makes that known, and sics the federal government on us.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has Trump adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/2623058\/voting-for-biden-isnt-a-conservative-thing-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the most extreme abortion positions<\/a> of any president in history, but his Justice Department also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/52047\/joe-biden-is-a-hard-left-culture-warrior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>launched a crusade against pro-lifers<\/a>, trying to criminalize opposition to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has declared publicly and repeatedly that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/2818367\/biden-defines-democracy-as-agreeing-with-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>anyone to the right of Charlie Baker is an extremist who is a threat to democracy<\/a>. If Biden believes what he says about all pro-lifers being MAGA extremists, it means Biden hates Ryan and thinks Ryan is a threat to democracy. Why would Sarah Longwell ask Ryan to vote for someone who considers him outside the bounds of permissible dissent?<\/p>\n<p>It makes no sense to argue as those like Longwell do, that everyone who believes Trump is unqualified must, therefore, support an overaged, intolerant extremist who causes inflation and a border crisis through pure policy stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>But this \u201cvote-for-Biden-or-you\u2019re-a-Trump-lover\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">argument<\/a> is now old and busted. There\u2019s a new, even more ridiculous argument thrown at anti-Trump conservatives: You have to <em>support every bad policy of Biden\u2019s, or you\u2019re a Trump lover<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The argument here, from the most prominent snarky left-wing pseudonymous dog account on the website formerly known as Twitter, is that the people who criticize Biden\u2019s Israel policy are, therefore, pro-Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost too stupid to argue against, except to say this: By this definition, everyone who disagrees with Biden on anything substantive is pro-Trump, which means a vast majority of the country is pro-Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a useful definition?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For four years, critics of ex-President Donald Trump faced backlash from a group dubbed the &#8220;always-only-ever-anti-Trumpers.&#8221; Various Right individuals abstained from voting for Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections, publicly denouncing his actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2774,"featured_media":2241717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-01-May-2024-11-08-AM-7169-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-01-May-2024-11-08-AM-7169-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}