Trump’s Primary Threats Against Conservatives Proves His Campaign Was A Farce

Source: RedState | March 31, 2017 | Jay Caruso

The Trumpkins got duped. It’s easy to rattle off a list of conservatives such as those here at RedState and those at National Review and elsewhere who warned time and time again that Donald Trump was a fraud. I’ve come back to Trump’s lack of an ideological core several times because it requires repeating.  Trump lacks convictions because he has no convictions. He’s a lifetime Democrat who decided to pretend to be a Republican when it became politically expedient to do so.

All throughout the campaign, Trump sycophants such as Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Ann Coulter, and Laura Ingraham spent an inordinate amount of time lecturing people like me who said we wouldn’t support Trump’s bid for the White House. The alt-right nitwits and their white nationalist superhero Richard Spencer declared themselves to be the “real” conservatives by asking idiotic rhetorical questions such as, “What have conservatives, conserved?” Politically illiterate buffoons such as Mike Cernovich (“OOG! OOG! GORILLA MINDSET, BRO!”) and Alex Jones flunky Paul Joseph Watson spent most of their time engaging in doltish conspiracy theories that Donald The Dummy would eventually repeat at his rallies in between chants of “Lock her up!”

Now that Donald Trump is President, what is he doing? Attacking conservatives and threatening to primary them and the reason? The sin of keeping their promises. By attacking House Freedom Caucus members like Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and Raul Labrador, Trump provides clear evidence his entire campaign was a farce. A reality show wrapped up at times with conservative jargon.

People will say, “But Jay, wait. What about Neil Gorsuch and his executive orders on coal and the Keystone Pipeline?” Great. I’m glad he did those things but does anybody believe for a moment he did because he cares? Donald Trump doesn’t care about the Supreme Court. Gorsuch was a fig leaf to conservatives. As for his executive orders, Trump’s interests are not what’s best for the country but what’s best for him. He cares more about the praise he gets from the people surrounding him after he shows off his signed executive orders than anything having to do with the policies themselves.

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Chances are, President Trump is bluffing. He’s a blowhard and a bully. The problem for Trump is he forgets Sanford, Meadows, Labrador and Jordan are not his lackeys. They’re not going to respond to threats. In fact, they think so little of his empty threats, some of the are going right back at him. Look at this from Thomas Massie:

Trump supporters reacted with glee when he won, dancing around saying, “You were wrong!” to those of us who said he’d lose to Hillary Clinton.

They’re right. We were wrong.

But we also said he’s a fraud, doesn’t care about conservatism and would make the GOP into a laughingstock.

We were right. 

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