Some conservatives reject Trump and Trumpism for their own good reasons. I can think of many principled reasons why a conservative would reject Trump without compromising their principles.
I have my own mixed feelings about Trump, and my support for him is based on a calculation that he is the right man at the right time to fix some fundamental problems the country is facing right now. My support is not based on emotions, special loyalty to the man, and unlike many I don’t hold a grudge against anybody who preferred somebody else to be the nominee.
But it’s no secret that the vast majority of the NeverTrumpers who have dedicated their lives to opposing Trump as a special threat to democracy are just grifters. There are conservative intellectuals who have sacrificed greatly to explain and promote their view that Trump is wrong or even dangerous, but the NeverTrumpers you know and hate have just switched sides to mine a rich vein of Democrat gold.
Never Trump Lincoln Project paid $7M in 2024 to companies tied to its leaders, records show
“If you blindly looked at their public communications, you’d think they were Black Lives Matter,” said @WadeMiller_USMC of @amrenewctr https://t.co/u5RSWWfId7
— Gabe Kaminsky (@gekaminsky) December 10, 2024
Chief among the scammers making bank opposing Trump are the fine, fine people at The Lincoln Project. As with most con artists, they package their grift in attractive marketing materials–in this case, harkening back to the great Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president–solely in order to lighten the wallets of their mark.
Unlike, say, Bill Kristol or David Frum, whose financial prospects were unaffected by their rejection of Trump, or the conservative influencers who actually sacrificed their audiences and their financial prospects to make their objections heard, the Lincoln Project folks saw an opportunity and took it. By now it’s clear that ideological differences with Trump were irrelevant when it came down to business–literally. […]
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