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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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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that last bit there is why I'm not as sure as you about him not sanctioning Trmp (in some fashion)
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Last book, Hitch 22 was excellent though.
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I own that! I better get around to reading it.
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Conservatives who claim Hitchens like Frum do so in bad faith. They like that he was hated. Tankies hate him b/c Bosnia. Anti-war b/c of Iraq and Centrists like Yggies b/c of Clinton. Here he is in 2009:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/04/the-revenge-of-karl-marx/307317/ …
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Even though Hitch singled out Islam for harsh criticism (that at times bordered on islamophobia), he didn't single Islam out as uniquely threatening, which differs him from nearly all of his contemporaries.
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"Pious frauds" and evangelicals? Yep, you got that right. Hitch preferred to shoot his fish in a barrel. Calling someone a contrarian is a euphemism for calling that someone untrustworthy: https://thenobbyworks.blogspot.com/2012/01/hitchens-in-heaven-dispatch.html …
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Hitchens abandoned anti-imperialism, which is why he supported Bush and Iraq War. But I just can't imagine him turning right on other issues nor embracing or even entertaining junk race and IQ science like Sam Harris.
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Further, what differentiates Hitchens from Trumpsters is his internationalism; his anti-populism; his pro-Palestine stance; & dare I say anti-racism (he opposed the Tea Party and identified them as an expression of "white anxiety").
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right, someone who reviled Princess Di and Mother Theresa is hardly likely to have liked Trump.
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