In case you missed it, yesterday, former President Donald Trump issued a statement claiming that when said that the fact that he lost the 2020 election meant that the U.S. Constitution could be gutted in order to reinstate him as president, he didn’t actually say that thing he said:
Trump on Saturday: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."
Trump today: pic.twitter.com/6ytnBWGzYf
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 5, 2022
He’s completely full of it, of course.
When you're explaining, you're losing.
And he wouldn't have to backtrack like this if he'd stop being so stupid in the first place. https://t.co/K92oMsezSg
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 5, 2022
By now, hopefully you, too, are tired of Donald Trump being stupid. No matter how awful and loathsome you find President Joe Biden, Donald Trump is awful and loathsome, too, and his comments about suspending the Constitution should be the last of all the final straws that broke the camel’s back.
National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke effectively made that argument in a post he wrote yesterday:
Aren’t you tired of this crap? https://t.co/LWxIsyKnD9
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) December 5, 2022
Here’s how Cooke’s post concludes:
Why does this happen? Beats me. At this stage, literally nothing is being achieved by it — except, of course, to drive independents and mainstream Republicans from the coalition. No laws are changed. No judges are appointed. No arguments are won. No thorny topics are broached. America doesn’t improve. Conservatism doesn’t improve. The GOP doesn’t improve. Everything just gets dumber and more cultish. As there should be, there is a limited supply of political energy in this country, and for some reason, the American Right has decided to spend an inordinate amount of it defending a man who is now serving nothing except for his own boredom and his own ego. At some point, conservative-leaning voters are going to notice that all Trump cares about now is the pretense that he won the election of 2020, and that, in order to push that idea, he will happily destroy anything and everything that gets in his way. Until then, I must ask: Are you not tired of this crap?
In case it’s not abundantly clear, Charles C.W. Cooke is tired of this crap. He’s been tired of Donald Trump’s crap for years. But he also hasn’t let the fact that he’s been tired of Donald Trump’s crap for years prevent him from acknowledging positive things that happened while Trump was president or from acknowledging when liberals and Resistance conservatives’ criticisms of Trump were baseless or unreasonable.
And that, in eyes of The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes, makes Cooke unclean, and unworthy of respect:
Why, yes, we were. Seven years ago. And every fuqqing day since. You? https://t.co/43bsE4Ag2O
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) December 6, 2022
Charlie Sykes is here to administer the purity tests, everybody. Amazing how he still has time to do that in between doing Bulwark things and being an MSNBC contributor. He is supported, of course, by his Bulwark colleague Bill Kristol, who is apparently very fond of this line from Sykes’ “Morning Shots” newsletter:
"This was too much even for the 'Trump: Maybe' guy over at National Review, who was moved to ask: 'Aren’t You All Tired of This Crap?'
Why, yes, we were. Seven years ago. And every day since. You?"https://t.co/0giuXjkAno
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 6, 2022
Anyway, we know exactly where Cooke was. We know where Sykes was, too: he was claiming to be a Principled Conservative™ who opposed Trump in the name of Principled Conservatism™.
Charles Cooke: notorious for being insufficiently anti-Trump pic.twitter.com/Dv2Bmhky8y
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) December 6, 2022
Cooke hasn’t wavered in his convictions; Sykes et al. have demonstrated that they have no convictions.
Uh yes! Charles Cooke has been against Trump since day one, you just can’t stand that he’s still a conservative
— P. J. Clarke’s Enjoyer (@SisterSoyjak) December 6, 2022
That’s it in a nutshell.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 6, 2022
Did Noam Blum have the Principled Conservatives™ pegged or what?
I really have zero patience for anti-Trump gatekeeping from someone who goes on Joy Reid's show to nod and agree like a baseball bobblehead.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 16, 2022
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