Why the Persistent "Never Trumpers"? Is there some hidden force that energizes and funds it?

Outwardly, Trump is brash and over the top. That's what was needed to win. The old boy, GOP, Country Club, "low energy" Republicans, who refused to dirty their hands, weren't cutting it.
But their seems to be some deep insidious force that has latched onto the prominent GOP political class. It is always anti-Trump. The old boy Republican Congressmen are, for the most part, suppressing it for the time being. Their need is to be re-elected, but the beltway punditry are another, inexplicable story. What gives with their persistence in wanting to continue down their, well worn, losing path. m/r

An Apology to David Horowitz: He Was Right about Bill Kristol

By David P. Goldman February 16, 2017

The odious Bill Kristol tweeted today, "Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state." For those who are not aware of the term "deep state," it refers to the secret services in a dictatorship who overthrow governments, manipulate the press, and otherwise eliminate opponents. I first heard the term in reference to Turkey, whose military and intelligence services overthrew governments they didn't like with depressing regularity during the postwar period. To speak of a "deep state" in an American context is to say that the United States is turning into a banana republic.

This is no joking matter. I am confident that President Trump and the tough guys in his cabinet will root out the saboteurs, leakers, manipulators, and liars who infest the intelligence services and who conspire with the liberal media to invent fake-news charges against a duly elected administration. But the danger is real, and the fact that the intelligence community is playing games with domestic politics is a danger to our liberties. ...

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