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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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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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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there never-Trmpers who are even remotely serious and sincere? I have not seen one.
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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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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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The most notable neocon-to-Trump transition is David Horowitz, right? Am I forgetting someone else?
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Horowitz is the only one that comes to mind.
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