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 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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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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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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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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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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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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