#NeverTrump Not So Fast

President Bush (41 and 43) and Mitt Romney claim they won’t endorse Donald Trump or attend the upcoming GOP convention.

What a teachable moment! Almost all of the folks pushing the #NeverTrump movement share a set of policy positions that libertarians (and constitutional conservatives) should be very familiar with. They’re true blue neoconservatives and/or part of the elite establishment largely responsible for our current state of affairs. And rather than joining them, now is the time to discredit these worms and show them the exit. (And I’m actually fond of worms.)

Exhibit A. Writing in the National Review, David French illuminates our subject:

We know what we’ll get from Clinton when it comes to foreign policy. She’s an internationalist interventionist with more muscular instincts than Barack Obama and less resolve than George W. Bush. She voted for the Iraq invasion but then went wobbly as the war dragged on. She backed the surge in Afghanistan, advocated intervention in Libya, and was famously more skeptical of the Arab Spring than Obama. Her “reset” with Russia was a disaster, but she’ll broadly back American allies, maintain our stewardship of NATO, and keep our other international commitments.

Get that? Our good neocon buddies are warming up to Hillary Clinton because she’s an “internationalist interventionist with more muscular instincts than Barack Obama.” They certainly have no ability to connect the dots with the Iraq War (destabilization of the Middle East) and the toppling of Libya being responsible for the rise of ISIS.

Exhibit B.

Ron Paul as secretary of state #thingstoworryabout

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) May 4, 2016

Okay, yeah, I get it! Trump isn’t exactly a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. But when did that ever stop the GOP machine from supporting a candidate?  Let’s remember the words of our previous GOP nominee, Mitt Romney.  “I’m a moderate and my positions are progressive.”

Trump is the medicine and the monster of the GOP machine’s own doing. As Nietzsche said, “That which is falling, deserves to be pushed.”

I’m tempted to end there. So what do we do? I’m really not sure, but I’m pretty sure joining in a new party promoted by Jennifer Rubin, Lindsey Graham and Bill Kristol ain’t it.