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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted David Frum

      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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      Of the people most intellectually intimate with Hitch- his wife Carol, his children, agents, editors, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, @sullydish, @Ibishblog @michaeldweiss , @mcmoynihan , @jkirchick etc ... not one pro-Trump. But anyone can draw a mustache on a dead man's image
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      To be more precise, I think both Yglesias and Kirchick are wrong. Hitchens' aggressive anti-PC sensibility would have made him even more popular now than when alive & he wouldn't have been pro-Trump.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      I'll add that although I disagreed with most of what Hitchens wrote post-1998 or so, I do miss his voice, particularly when pious frauds like Billy Graham die.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      Another thing I would've loved Hitchens to have lived to write about is the evangelical embrace of Trump. That would've been such a juicy target. Hard to imagine he'd have resisted it.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      But, as a people have pointed out, Hitchens really hated the Clintons beyond reason. So, again, the safe spot for CH would've been somewhere between Sullivan & the Never Trump people who are still also very anti-left.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

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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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

          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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        1. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 7 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I do wish I could have read the Hitch column “there is a god and he’s a bastard—the proof is he’s constructed a set of circumstances under which I am forced to vote to make Hillary Clinton president” because, contra Matt, he would have done so and hated her even more for it.

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        1. Autistic Asexual‏ @Autistic_Ace 7 Apr 2018
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          there never-Trmpers who are even remotely serious and sincere? I have not seen one.

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        1. Dan Davies‏ @dsquareddigest 7 Apr 2018
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          Dan Davies Retweeted Alex Harrowell

          Hitchens was not just a neoconservative by the end. Here he is having a go at Katrina survivors.https://twitter.com/yorksranter/status/982698674257039360?s=19 …

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          Here's that Hitchens video I was talking about https://twitter.com/epiplexis_/status/982683852115066880 …
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        1. Greg Abbott (MN)‏ @gaa244 7 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          A fine point but it assumes one needs some logical pathway to become a Trump supporter. To the extent they are self-conscious of their motives, Trump supporters are knowingly trading principles for access to power.

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        2. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 7 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          The most notable neocon-to-Trump transition is David Horowitz, right? Am I forgetting someone else?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018
          Replying to @notjessewalker

          Horowitz is the only one that comes to mind.

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