3 favorites of mine to read in this Age of Trump:
- David Frum
- George Will
- Bill Kristol
All 3 are deepset, longtime conservatives, Republicans and all 3 rightly savage him. The best critics are from the inside. Herewith, just a few quotes from each, highlighting the horribleness. First up, David Frum.
“President Donald J. Trump did not start the pandemic of course. But at every step of the way, Trump has acted as if guided by one rule: ‘How can I make this trauma worse?’”
Next, George Will, one of Donald Trump's most scathing critics:
"I believe that what this president has done to our culture, to our civic discourse ... you cannot unring these bells and you cannot unsay what he has said, and you cannot change that he has now in a very short time made it seem normal for schoolboy taunts and obvious lies to be spun out in a constant stream. I think this will do more lasting damage than Richard Nixon's surreptitious burglaries did."
So finally, Bill Kristol:
“I'm very honestly just agnostic about what the future looks like,” he says. “I do think in the short term, I think a second term of Donald Trump is very dangerous.”
Important side note---while researching this post, I found the following, too.
George Will: Republicans Will
Forget Trump 'Fast' After 2020
I'd like to make clear here--we can never let this happen, folks. Once Donald Trump is out of the White House, we can never let the Republicans conveniently "forget" about this man and what he did and tried to do to our nation, our people, our Democracy. Heck, to Democracy itself. It's why I so frequently and repeated write "Thanks, Republicans!" on social media posts. We can never let them forget this man or what they unleashed on this nation and on the world. This will be, must always be a scourge on them and their political party. We, the nation, must never forget---so we never repeat.
Links:
David Frum Rethinks Conservatism
George Will's startling assessment of Donald Trump
Neoconservative Thinker Bill Kristol Says 2nd Term Of Trump Would Be 'Very Dangerous'
George Will calls Trump ‘sad, embarrassing wreck of a man
Conservative Icon George Will Urges November Sweep: Vote Out Trump, All GOP Enablers