Never-Trumpers Return to Join the Democrat Resistance

One may have thought that President Donald Trump’s historic victory would have put to rest the largely self-serving and intellectually challenged #NeverTrump movement. One would have been mistaken.

Despite the clear paradigm shift Trump’s win represents and the ascendence of an anti-globalist movement worldwide, some American pseudo-conservatives apparently still feel the need to campaign against Trump.

“I think Mr. Bannon and Mr. Trump’s attacks on the media are highly dangerous.”

Last week, former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin launched a nonpartisan organization called “Stand Up Republic” with former running mate Mindy Finn.

The purpose of the group is ostensibly “to help Americans stand up in defense of the fundamental principles that have made this country the true home of liberty and a source of hope for many around the world” — but it seems it will be a little more than a means for McMullin to continue to get invited onto cable news shows to bash Trump.

“I think Mr. Bannon and Mr. Trump’s attacks on the media are highly dangerous,” McMullin said in an interview Sunday on CNN. “The media, the press, plays a significant role in our democracy, and in any democracy they are highly critical,” he said.

“You can have disputes and disagreements over bias and even over points of fact; but to continually attack and try to erode the credibility of the media when it’s doing its job, and doing its job well I would say, in the past week especially, challenging Trump, I think is dangerous,” McMullin continued.

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That McMullin thinks the mainstream media is A) doing it’s job and B) doing it well is astonishing. McMullin is the most naive man in America — or he is flat out lying in order to gain more liberal, anti-Trump supporters.

But McMullin isn’t the only one who seems to reluctant to abandon the #NeverTrump cause.

On Saturday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) — who will be up for re-election in 2018 — called Trump’s entirely legal, temporary travel ban “unacceptable” and even parroted the progressive lie that the ban targets people based on their religion.

“Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims,” Flake wrote on the website Medium.com.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), another high-profile #NeverTrumper during the campaign, also took time to criticize Trump over the weekend. “While not technically a Muslim ban, this order is too broad,” Sasse said in a statement on Saturday.

“If we send a signal to the Middle East that the U.S. sees all Muslims as jihadis, the terrorist recruiters win by telling kids that America is banning Muslims and that this is America versus one religion,” Sasse added, in his best impression of President Obama.

Writing in the National Review on Monday, almost #NeverTrump presidential hopeful David French took time to signal his — and by extension the entire mainstream quasi-conservative movement’s — liberal, globalist virtue by attacking Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

“Let’s put this as plainly as possible. The hope that Trump’s best cabinet picks would have more influence than Steve Bannon just took a severe blow. His elevation to the principals committee of the National Security Council is also deeply troubling,” French asserted.

“The man who proudly announced that Breitbart was the ‘platform of the alt-right’ shouldn’t even be working at the White House, much less potentially having a greater say on key homeland security and defense issues than Mattis or Kelly,” wrote French.

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These #NeverTrumpers clearly missed the memo about the new political landscape and believe they still need to genuflect toward the Left’s golden calfs of multiculturalism and mass migration. Old habits die hard, and the #NeverTrumpers seem to be locked in a personal quest to prove their bona fides to liberal Americans who will hate them no matter what they say.

Even House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who throughout the campaign couldn’t help but take every opportunity to run to the microphones to bash Trump, seems to have woken up and smelled the right-wing populist ascension.

“Our No. 1 responsibility is to protect the homeland,” Ryan said in an official statement released last week. “We are a compassionate nation, and I support the refugee resettlement program, but it’s time to reevaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process,” he continued.

“This is why we passed bipartisan legislation in the wake of the Paris attacks to pause the intake of refugees. President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering our country,” Ryan said.