Article by Christian Adams in "PJMedia":
Like Donald Trump, I attended my first March for Life this year. I didn’t march. Instead, I was there to record the faces and screams of the angry ugly left as I often do at these sorts of events.
Stunningly,
the angry ugly left didn’t show up. That's understandable because
whenever the momentum is against the left, they ignore their opposition.
I see this firsthand all the time when it comes to voter fraud and
especially when racial discrimination is done by the traditional victims of discrimination.
What
did become clear was that Never Trump Republicans looked even more
ridiculous at the end of the March for Life than they did that morning.
Trump was embraced by the largest gathering of pro-life Americans and Trump embraced them. Trump at the March for Life:
Sadly, the far-left is actively working to erase our God-given rights, shut down faith-based charities, ban religious believers from the public square, and silence Americans who believe in the sanctity of life. They are coming after me because I am fighting for you and we are fighting for those who have no voice.
Never Trump Republicans can’t imagine a man like Trump attending the March for Life.
Never Trumpism is built on a foundation of sanctimony.
These sanctimonious few don’t
like how Trump speaks. They don’t like his bombast. They don’t like his
past. He’s not George Bush.
Get over it. He’s winning.
That he is not George Bush
might be Trump’s greatest transgression to Never Trumpers. Much of the
hatred is mercenary, as so many have suffered financially from the end
of their consultancy gravy train.
But
Trump actually attended the March for Life. If you don’t think that
matters to the 100,000+ who marched, then you can’t judge prevailing
winds.
Bush preferred to
appear at the March for Life by satellite uplink. Two excuses are
offered for his absence. First, if Bush actually appeared it might offend independent suburban soccer moms. That’s what Steelers coach Mike Tomlin calls "living
in your fears," and the Bush White House elevated it to a PR strategy.
Second, handlers didn’t want Bush to be seen in a picture with someone
who might be a kooky abortion protester, or worse.
That says a lot about what some thought about the movement.
Let’s
get this straight. I’m a fan of George Bush. America has been blessed
with presidents who were the right men for their time, like Bush. But
the excuses don’t ring true with the people who march, especially after
Trump appeared. The slavish worship of the independent soccer mom has
been rendered forever obsolete by the successful base-driven politics of Obama and now Trump.
The middle is gone, and that also rattles the Never Trumpers.
What’s
also striking about the Never Trumpers is how their hatred resembles a
pathology, like some deep raw childhood memory. Trump is their aunt’s
cat who used to viciously scratch them each visit. Trump is the
playground bully who threw the football at their face. Trump is the
twisted cousin who made you look at his dead animals in jars hidden in
the back shed. He’s the bogeyman of their nightmares.
It all wells up in them, decades later, in outbursts, fears, and rage. It’s unhinged.
Among the worst Never Trumpers
are the sanctimonious pinhead academics. They’ll always have a reason in
the corner of some treatise or textbook they wrote to prove Trump is
Mussolini. They are at once laughable but also pathetic because their
audience is mostly confined to captive students and fellow professors.
They form pop-up outrage websites with sanctimonious names: Checks and Balances. The Lincoln Project. The Bulwark.
The
media, also full of hatred for Trump, portray them as genuine
conservatives even though many of us know better and know of their
sabotage of conservative initiatives during the Bush administration.
We
remember their aggressive efforts to dilute opposition to race-based
preferences, their insistence on excessive restraint in reversing or
even curtailing new environmental regulations, and their obsession with
subordinating conservative principles to racial diversity in judicial
appointments. So many of today's most outspoken Never Trumpers are
afraid of not being invited to the coolest cocktail hours or not being
embraced by the federal establishment that is so integral to the swamp.
Yet
it seems Never Trumpers don’t get out much in the real world. When you
drive through parts of post-industrial America, you see Trump flags
flying in suburban neighborhoods. You see the word “Trump” painted on
the side of buildings and barns. It’s shocking, frankly, and I’ve never
seen anything like it in my lifetime. This happens in places like
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Maybe the Never Trumpers don’t like to associate with so many folks who didn’t graduate from Yale.
But the March for Life was a watershed moment — not only for Trump but any Republican foes remaining.
The
Never Trumpers first told us in 2016 that Trump was a Manhattan
liberal. Then they told us he really wouldn’t pick good judges. Then
they told us he really wouldn’t deregulate the economy. They told us he
really wouldn’t be on the right side of race, voting, and culture. They
told us he would start World War Three. They told us Trump really
wouldn’t enact pro-life policies.
Then Trump gave the pro-life movement the heft of the presidency on a cold January afternoon.
Never
Trumpers have been crying wolf since the 2016 GOP primaries. They are a
modern Millerite doomsday cult. It’s time nobody takes them seriously.