I took @mattyglesias tweet to be trolling but, yes, it's true that it's very hard to imagine Christopher Hitchens becoming pro-Trump. More likely he'd be where Andrew Sullivan is right now (anti-Trump & anti-contemporary left).https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/982703079018647552 …
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Hitchens late life worldview also defined by militant atheism, which made him oppose GOP in 2008 election and would've made him hostile to man that made Mike Pence vice-president: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/982705861775777792 …
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It's true that Hitchens supported Bush. But the errors that led him to that position (a misapplied internationalism & fantasy about transformative power of military adventures) aren't the errors that are typical of Trump supporters.
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To put it another way, there is a well-trod pathway from Trotskyism to neo-conservatism (or, in Hitchens case, being a neo-con fellow traveller): you replace Moscow with Washington as military lodestar of world revolutionary potential
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But if there is a path between Trots & neo-cons, there's no real path from Trots to Trump or even (witness Never Trump movement) much of a path from neo-cons to Trump.
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Anyways, the whole exercise is kind of silly (for reasons Hitchens pointed out in an essay on Podhoretz's "if Orwell were alive today he'd be a neo-con" essay:https://harpers.org/archive/1983/02/an-exchange-on-orwell/ …
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So instead of asking "what would Hitchens be saying today" more valuable to go back & read what he did write, particularly in his best period (which was before 1998 or so).
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Speaking of Hitchens -- his last sad decade often had me thinking of Browning's great poem of disappointment in Wordsworth, "The Lost Leader." (Although Hithens wasn't, unlike Wordworth, a sell-out).pic.twitter.com/EyA4eYeRhS
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But being unpleasant to his natural allies was always high on his to-do list. The occupancy of Sullivan and Frum etc. in that weird, small ideological space would have prevented him from forthrightly adopting that position.
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what do you think he would have thought of Bernie?
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Probably thought him a pandering old dolt.
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