4. Key to understanding conservative media like Hewitt, much of National Review & Federalist is that they are anti-anti-Trump.
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5. Anti-anti-Trump is way for conservatives to still appeal to a right-wing audience while avoiding taint of Trump's more indefensible acts
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6. In practice anti-anti-Trump means persnickety media criticism (among the bushes not in the bushes!) & tu quoque (Robert Byrd lives!)
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7. Tangentially, the prototype for this stance was Sartre's anti-anti-communism, which was problematic but far more honest.
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8. Sartre's anti-anti-communism, although it shaded into fellow traveling, at least opened a political space for anti-imperialism.
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9. As against Sartre trying to move beyond constricting Cold War binaries, anti-anti-Trump is just thin partisan gruel.
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On the other hand, you know, Stalinism might have been a little worse than Donald Trump.
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Sartre's anti-anti-communism was designed to create an anti-Stalinist counter politics to the French CP.
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The Sartrean equivalent of the anti-anti-Trump argument was to refuse to talk much about the gulag lest it help the anti-communist cause.
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His dispute with Camus does indeed track the anti-anti-Trump tendency. But what he didn't want to talk about was genocide, not firing Comey.
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Well, if we're going this route, then Camus's position on Algeria was comparable to Never Trump's warmongering in middle east.
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