could not resist the chance to attack. (French also said Trump’s comments after the riot “hurt the nation he leads.”)
Bill Kristol called Trump’s post-Charlottesville statement “depressing” and said that it made him sick. (Kristol made no known public statement about the near-murder of Representative Scalise.)
“The president’s refusal to name the evil in our midst is the behavior of a man whose moral sense is stunted—if he has a moral sense at all,” sneered John Podhoretz in the New York Post. “This is what I feared would be the case when he became president. Perhaps those who say I have an obligation as a conservative to support Trump should wonder what their moral obligations require.”46
NeverTrump also would continue to repeat the Left’s inaccurate trope that Trump commended neo-Nazis when he said there were “good people on both sides.” Stephen Hayes fumed that Trump wouldn’t criticize white supremacists; therefore, Hayes wrote in the Weekly Standard, “white supremacists are convinced that President Trump is more than just open to them.”47 Absurd.
Just as the Left twists any Trump taunt or criticism into an example of his bigotry, so too does NeverTrump. Trump’s criticism of the “Squad”—which includes Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who screamed “we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker” the night she was sworn in—is another example of Trump’s racism and sexism, according to Mona Charen. “Every Republican who is reflexively defensive of Trump’s blatant nativism and racism should put him or herself in the shoes of immigrants and minorities. How can they not feel frightened when he is willing to stoke such ugly flames?”48
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