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2017-07-07 Home Front: Politix
‘Never Trumper’ Bret Stephens: POTUS Supporters ‘Idiots’ & Bigots, Should ‘Admire’ Elites
[BREITBART] On the Fourth of July of all days, “Never Trump” New York Times columnist Bret Stephens said President Donald Trump’s supporters are “idiots” who need to “admire” elites.

The Times’ and MSNBC’s insufferably smug and out-of-touch useful idiot said Warren Buffett has a wonderful line: “First come the innovators, then come the imitators, and then come the idiots.”

“I think the conservative movement has traced a similar trajectory,” he said on MSNBC, adding that “the party of Donald Trump” is associated with “exclusion, fear, and bigotry.”

Stephens whined that conservatives “demonize” and do not “admire” elites who are “educated” and care about things like “culture” and the “cultivation of the human soul.”
He's a perfect fit for the New York Times.
Stephens was recently mocked as an elitist poseur when he actually wrote a column about permanently signing off Twitter only to reveal that his assistant would be monitoring his Twitter feed. “Never Trumpers” like Stephens write for their fellow media elitists (their core base), so of course Stephens is not really signing off since he would risk giving up some of the spotlight that is put on him whenever he bashes Trump and his supporters.

“This is the column in which I formally forswear Twitter for good. I’ll keep my Twitter handle, and hopefully my followers, but an editorial assistant will manage the account from now on,” he wrote without any sense of self-awareness. “I’ll intercede only to say nice things about the writing I admire, the people I like and the music I love.”

On MSNBC, Stephens also whined that George Will, who was on the wrong side of the Reagan Revolution and is now an MSNBC contributor, is no longer viewed as the “godfather” of conservative punditry. Stephens then continued to embrace policies his former employer, the Wall Street Journal, blindly supported like unfettered “free trade” and open borders.

Posted by Fred 2017-07-07 00:25|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Thank you, God for the incompetence of our enemies.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2017-07-07 00:46||   2017-07-07 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 I can't wait to meet one of these pricks.
Posted by Raj 2017-07-07 02:09||   2017-07-07 02:09|| Front Page Top

#3 “the party of Donald Trump” is associated with “exclusion, fear, and bigotry.”

Every single person who voted for Obama and Clinton voted for someone who publicly stated that Christians, gun owners, and people who believe in limited government, free enterprise, and intact national borders are untermensch.

Who is really the bigot, Mr. Stephens?
Posted by no mo uro 2017-07-07 05:22||   2017-07-07 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 “the party of Donald Trump” is associated with “exclusion, fear, and bigotry.”

What party - the Republicans hate him more than Democrats do?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-07 05:29||   2017-07-07 05:29|| Front Page Top

#5 "You can't do this to me. Don't you know who I am????"
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-07-07 06:48||   2017-07-07 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Bret Stephens,...goat shagger of ill-repute! You aren't an elite you worthless bootlicker
Posted by Silentbrick 2017-07-07 06:53||   2017-07-07 06:53|| Front Page Top

#7 You want more Trump? 'cuz this is how you get more Trump.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-07-07 09:28||   2017-07-07 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 "I'm smart! Not dumb! Not like people say...and I want respect!"

Bret "Fredo" Stephens
Posted by Frank G 2017-07-07 09:59||   2017-07-07 09:59|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd write something snarky about this asshat but he does all my best work for me.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-07-07 10:07||   2017-07-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

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