NeverTrump Gets a Guy
Neocons find a third party option, and no surprise, you haven't heard of him
In a last-ditch effort to keep Donald Trump from the White House, Establishment forces within the GOP have launched Evan McMullin, chief policy director for House Repbulicans, into the national spotlight as an independent candidate for president.
"Multiple sources tell me the candidate is Evan McMullin," Joe Scarborough tweeted early Monday morning. McMullin has "the backing of key $$ contributors in the Republican Party," the "Morning Joe" host added in another tweet.
McMullin is the living embodiment of everything against which the conservative GOP base and the millions of Trump supporters across the country are rebelling.
In choosing McMullin to subvert Trump's campaign efforts, Establishment globalists within the GOP prove they have learned absolutely nothing in the last year.
McMullin — who is rivaled in name recognition and international prestige only by David French — is the living embodiment of everything against which the conservative GOP base and the millions of Trump supporters across the country are rebelling.
Indeed McMullin's resume is a veritable Establishment bingo card, including "CIA alum, Goldman Sachs, Republican policy director, US House," Scarborough tweeted. This resume also belies McMullin's claims of being a real "conservative" in any legitimate sense.
With over a decade as an "active" clandestine operations officer in the CIA, McMullin has his credential as a globalist nation-builder. His Twitter feed is littered with posts advocating military intervention against Bashir al-Assad, which, in light of the threat posed by ISIS — and the fact that ISIS itself grew out of efforts by the Obama administration to undermine Assad — is madness. His record with the agency also suggests he would be an anti-Russian hawk and throw his full weight behind Western globalist efforts to destabilize Central and Eastern Europe.
"Free markets and liberal democracies don't just happen on their own; they require the support and leadership of powerful nations … It is our responsibility to be a force for good in the world," McMullin said, defending foreign adventurism. If McMullin cared about our responsibility to be a force for good in the world, he wouldn't advocate importing Western-style liberal democracy via the barrel of a gun to those incapable of practicing it.
If advocating openly for the elite neocon interventionist agenda wasn't enough, McMullin also worked for the globalist financial elite, spending three years working for Goldman Sachs.
Donald Trump found himself the unlikely mascot of a rebellion against those who would surrender American sovereignty and prosperity to the forces of globalization and empire-building.
Yet Establishment interests have now selected someone who is the very embodiment of those forces to challenge Trump, revealing the astonishing extent to which they share Hillary Clinton's interests and are out of touch with the base of their own party.
The only thing that would make McMullin a less suitable choice for anyone enamored with Trump's anti-Establishment message is a record of involvement with Muslim refugees. But wait — he has one of those, too. According to his LinkedIn profile, McMullin "vetted and processed U.N.-recognized refugees from the Middle East and Africa for resettlement to third countries."
