Courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
Friends, I’m three days removed from proclaiming Elon Musk the second biggest MAGA threat in America and two days removed from declaring that the Supreme Court annihilated the Constitution by unanimously declaring that you can’t kick a guy off the ballot when he hasn’t been convicted of a crime.
It leaves me with an astounding question: can you believe people actually used to take me seriously??
It really boggles the mind. I’m out on a street corner right now dressed as the Statue of Liberty, screaming that Ketanji Brown Jackson has gone MAGA — and there was a time when I was considered a legitimate intellectual voice in the conservative movement. Me!
I’m about a month away from moving into Keith Olbermann’s basement, the only man in America who agrees with me about the Trump ruling. I am right on par with the guy who claims to be firing urine out his eyes while screaming that every Supreme Court justice is a “Trump whore.” This is my level of political discourse, people, and yet — some folks actually used to take my opinions seriously.
It’s pure insanity. I’m out here writing articles in the New York Times, openly mocking the faith of Christians who believe in Biblical marriage. I’m questioning the faith of Christians who declined the COVID vaccine. I hate Trump so viciously that I’m even screaming at my fellow liberals who are unwilling to break the law to destroy Trump. Yet somehow, people used to think of me as a defender of religious freedom. I still get called a “conservative commentator” from time to time. It’s absurd.
Some mysteries, I suppose, are best left unsolved.
Go here to read the rest. As I have said before the historical function of Trump is as The Great Revealer. He reveals that institutions in which most Americans trusted, like the FBI, are rotten to the core and, for conservatives, how many of their supposed leaders were mere grifters and con artists. It has been a painful process, but truth is always better than a pleasing lie.
“I am right on par with the guy who claims to be firing urine out his eyes.”
This is referencing a botched attempt by Keith Olbermann at a witty comeback to a critic/troll who tweeted ‘Cry more…9-0’ at him. Olbermann, who used to be funny many decades ago, replied, ‘Those aren’t tears, Fascist. They’re urine.’ Things only got worse for him.
IMO, the grifters and con artists were largely insiders like Glitch McConnell and the Lincoln Project crew. See also Robert Stacy McCain’s discussion of Charles Sykes. Then there’s Jennifer Rubin. And the Cheney and Bush families.
French is one of a corps of rather puzzling figures in the evangelical world who give one the impression that they took employment with evangelical nonprofits in order to disrupt their operations. French’s personal biography is quite peculiar and you have to ask if he was working for someone else all along.
As for the others (Wm. Kristol et al, various figures at National Review, Mona Charen, Max Boot, John Podhoretz, Kevin Williamson, George Will), what Trump did was induce them to reveal what really mattered to them, and it wasn’t what you thought mattered to them. There’s a certain amount of grifting going on with these people too. (Have a gander at the IRS 990 forms for National Review and Commentary). David Frum has characteristics in common with these people, but he had an antagonistic disposition a half-dozen years ‘ere Trump hit the town.
David French is the Keith Olbermann or Jonah Goldbergs.
I remember in 2016 the Nevertrumpers hyped up for weeks that they had a secret candidate who was a true conservative and who would easily be more popular than Trump.
Then it ended up being David French. I laughed for over a minute straight when I heard that announcement on the radio.