GOP Civil War: Crazed Right Wing Conservative ‘Intellectuals’ Launch ‘Against Trump’ Movement

In Amazing Act Of Hypocrisy, Over Two Dozen Well-Known Right Wing Writers Join Conservative Publication To Expose and Defeat Trump

For decades, since its inception in 1955, The National Review has been home to some of the respectable right’s “intellectual” anti-gay bigotry and racism. In recent years, it’s been repeatedly shamed into purging some of those standard-bearers, like John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg, but many (NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher and Jay Nordlinger, who defends calling Mexicans “wetbacks,” for instance) still remain.

So its almost hysterical that late Thursday night The National Review rounded up nearly two dozen right wing “intellectuals” and, together with its own editors, launched a new coalition called Conservatives Against Trump.

Who are these conservatives battling to save the soul of the Republican Party and retrieve the mantle of conservatism?

The list includes crazed apocalyptic prognosticator and U.S. Constitution perverter Glenn Beck. Far right wing media “watchdog” empire magnate L. Brent Bozell III. Founder of right wing and Tea Party extremist website Red State, Ben Domenech. Former Red State editor-in-chief who says gay activists are like ISIS, except for the killing part, Erick Erickson. Neocon warmonger, the almost-always wrong William Kristol. Tea Party firebrand and gun extremist Dana Loesch. Slavery whitewasher Michael Medved.

These, and several others, are the “intellectuals” who are teaming up with The National Review to save conservatism and wrest the GOP nomination from Donald Trump.

The irony of a publication with a lengthy history and current-day affinity for racism, or the promotion of racism denial and a variety of other ugly stances, is stunning. It’s right-wing hypocrisy and siloism to the extreme. 

It’s almost as if The National Review and these right wing “conservative intellectuals” joined forces to say to Trump, “Hey, racism, misogyny, xenophobia – that’s our beat. How dare you try to take it from us?”

Of course, taking down Trump is a noble cause, one which we support entirely, but this group claiming to do it to save conservatism is hypocrisy and blindness to the nth degree.

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