…is my friend.
For as long as my enemy is a threat, but after that, maybe not so much. This is a lesson that we must hope the national Democrats will finally learn.
This is all by way of directing the attention of the reader to Driftglass’s latest post, in which he documents the history of the Never Trumpers, and makes an unfortunately obvious prediction about what we can expect if Trump doesn’t steal the upcoming election. Read the whole thing, but this is the meat of it:
A future where virtually all of the inconvenient Republican history prior to 2016 will be swiftly and efficiently bulldozed down the memory-hole. Just as all the hugely inconvenient fuckery that Republicans were up to during the Clinton Administration was bulldozed down the memory-hole the moment five Republican Supreme Court justices helped Dubya steal the 2000 election.
And all of those inconvenient Republican catastrophes that took place during the Dubya Administration were bulldozed down the memory-hole the minute the Kenyan Usurper was sworn into office.
And all of that embarrassing Republican slander and sedition that took place during the Obama Administration was bulldozed down the memory-hole the day President Stupid was sworn into office.
See the pattern? Because it’s perfectly plain to anyone with eyes.
No one gets a bigger kick out of the Lincoln Project ads than me, but we must bear in mind who these people are. We shouldn’t forget that these folks cut their teeth developing malicious and mendacious ads against Democrats. This time, their job is easier, because they don’t even have to make up any lies; they can just tell the truth using the techniques so well honed by destroying Democrats. They deserve no moral credit for what they’re doing now, as they bear a good share of responsibility for the right wing propagandizing that has created the Republican base, composed now mostly of the brain dead and/or racists. They have never, and will never, acknowledge that they had a front and center role in creating the polarized society in which we now live.
As Driftglass predicts, if Biden wins, their pasts will once again be forgotten. It is an unfortunate fact that Biden may have been the only Democratic contender who would want to burnish his credentials with such people. The only way the Democrats can hope to retain control after a Biden victory is by delivering real reforms that help real people in concrete ways that actually make an immediate difference in their lives. These guys will be in the forefront of those opposing anything of the sort, and they will use their reputations as “Never-Trumpers” as a lever to argue that their opposition is principled and reasonable. Their actual history will be forgotten by the media, unless Democrats loudly remind everyone of that history.
In a word, they are friends now, but they’ll be enemies quite soon.