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As much as it pains me to say it, I think I’d prefer Trump over Pompeo. Trump is an idiot but Pompeo is downright evil.
That's assuming he has ever had a grip on reality which seems a stretch. >

did you ever end up remembering? >

I forget what I was supposed to remember. >

Person, woman, man, camera, tv >

The first questions are quite easy. >

The National Review, clearly seeing the problems and dangers of Trump from circa 2000 to mid 2016, and then from late 2020 until now.
They saw nothing concerning from the time he won the Republican nomination for president in 2016 to the day he lost the 2020 election, though. >

They are true assholes >

FUCK YOU, NATIONAL REVIEW- how do you think we got here in the first place. 
Eat All The Shit 
2016’s NR endorsement for Trump >

They must just be very slow. There were millions of people that knew in 2016 that he had no grip on reality at that point either. >

There were Republicans in 2016 who knew he would be AWFUL for the party and no one listened to them! 
All the shit John McCain did for the GOP, and they give him the finger and let Trump shit talk him after he dies of cancer. >

When you’ve lost the National Review, renowned bastion of journalism, you’ve truly lost it all. >

LOL breaking news for conservatives, common fucking knowledge for everyone else >

Don't worry, they'll unreservedly endorse DeSantis in 2024, who will do all of the same bullshit and more. >

So has the Republican Party. >

It's cute that the National Review thinks it just happened recently. >

Welcome to 15 years ago. >

Unfortunately his grip on \~30% of the American public is as strong as ever.  Put away the dog whistles folks, this time he's doing full-blown fascism.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire >

He never had any grip on reality.  He has always lived in his own world of make-believe.  People deluded themselves into thinking he accepted an objective reality -- even if he never publicly acknowledged it -- because it fit their self-interested narrative that he could be shaped and directed and negotiated with and treated like a "normal president with a bombastic personality".
All loyal Americans had a duty to oppose him since the moment he arrived on the political scene.  Everyone who didn't do that patriotic thing is still trying to rationalize that he "got worse".  No.  You just finally gave up on trying to kid yourself. >

The high brow republicans who care about conservatism , who made excuses for trump for five fucking years and provided a ‘rationale’ for a criminal traitor president >

That’s the point that too often gets overlooked. At one time, “ high brow Republicans” held to some basic foundational and policy ideas that was the public glue that united the party. Trump was openly contemptuous of traditional Republican domestic and foreign policy but he promised tax cuts, deregulation, and an activist right wing court and he got voters to the polls by saying out loud the things Republicans had long held to. That was enough to win over the supposed “principled conservatives” that dominated serious discussion on the right >

When you lose the National Review >

I am personally so sick of these headlines.
Trump is running wild and getting away with it. No consequences.
He clearly is in touch enough with reality to continue getting away with whatever he wants so stop with the sensational headlines. >

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