NY Times 'Never Trumper' Stephens: Let's Stop It
A New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed "Never Trumper" conservative says it's time for President-elect Donald Trump's "perennial" critics "to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying" concerning the next chief executive. [Full Story]
By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 23 December 2024 09:06 AM EST
A New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed "Never Trumper" conservative says it's time for President-elect Donald Trump's "perennial" critics "to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying" concerning the next chief executive and his incoming administration.
Bret Stephens, in a recent column, wrote that after nine years, he no longer considers himself a Never Trumper. He says that he and others like him never truly understood what made Trump popular and effective.
"Who, and what, is Trump?" Stephens asked. "He's a man and the symbol of a movement. The man is crass but charismatic, ignorant but intuitive, dishonest but authentic. The movement is patriotic — and angry."
Some of that anger, Stephens added, is "correctly directed at a self-satisfied elite that thinks it knows better but often doesn't."
Also, Stephens said, Trump understood during the 2024 campaign that "ordinary people" cared greatly about the high cost of living and the migrant crisis at the southern border.
The columnist basically said he and other Never Trumpers were hypocritical and ignorant when it came to Trump.
"How come so many who denounce Trump as a sexual predator were, 20 years earlier, Bill Clinton's steadfast defenders?" the columnist wrote on Dec. 17. "Why were the same people who demanded investigations into every corner of the Trump family's business dealings so incurious about the Biden family's dealings, like the curiously high prices for Hunter's paintings?"
In creating fear by insisting Trump could lead the U.S. into World War III, was too friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and would ruin the Republican Party, Never Trumpers overstated the possibilities, according to Stephens.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ny-times-bret-stephens-opinion/2024/12/23/id/1192625/
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