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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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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He also opposed to a cane because of Palin. There’s no way he’d support someone even dumber than her.
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You suppose his growing fear of Islam would have somehow ended at when he died, rather than continue along the same trendline that Dawkins and Harris for example, have followed. Add in the interventionist tendencies + Obama's red line issue & his 2016 support is a way dif issue
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Dawkins and Harris aren't Trump supporters.
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Really? These are people who think sending the National Guard to the border will solve the “problem” of illegal immigration & that we should just “take the oil” in the Middle East.
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Plenty of people supported Trump during the election on the basis of nothing more substantial than hatred of the left.
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