What Will the GOP Do About Pro-Choice?

There’s an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal which is such a misstatement about the conservative political tradition that no wonder a charlatan like Donald Trump is still the presumptive head of the GOP. Because if anyone with the slightest degree of knowledge about American politics buy this bullshit, then we might as well go back to understanding how the world works by studying Greek myths.

The op-ed is a fanciful discussion between two individuals who previously voted for Trump — one a ‘thoughtful’ conservative, the other a member of the MAGA crowd. Obviously, it’s what the more reasonable character says, because the whole point of the ‘responsible’ alt-right media like the WSJ is to promote an alternative to Trump.

But the narrative which the anti-Trump former Trump voter promotes is nothing but a bunch of stupid cliches which aren’t all that different from what the MAGA-type has to say.

Here’s the opening salvo from Mister GOP Respectable, who claims that he put up with Trump in 2016 because “we got a political leadership that was willing to take on the entrenched interests that have steered this country in the wrong direction for decades.”

Exactly what are these ‘entrenched interests’ that responsible GOP voters need to fight against in 2024? Here’s the list: “the progressive revolution…