Why is David French a Liberal?

A reader probes French's psychology.

A long-time reader by the name of, “O,” left a long and insightful comment on my recent piece David French, Mike Pence, and the Judas Iscariot Wing of Conservative Inc. O speculates that French isn’t a traitor for the money but for deeper psycho-sexual reasons. Compelling!

The whole comment was thoughtful and worth sharing here in its entirety.

Excellent analysis as always.

Anyone arguing from the right, who is against Trump, at least deserves to tell us what their program is, what their agenda would be that would face less opposition than Trump. Many good people seem to be seduced by Pied Pipers like French who, on some level, are just cowards. They think they can use semantics and good arguments to turn a shitlib into a constitutionalist.

But that has never worked. It's never happened that way. As you point out, Conservative Inc. has 40+ years of trying this program, and it has failed across the board. Conservative Inc. is the little pasture that the left, running every other institution in America, allows us to sandbox our ideas and fight amongst ourselves.

Meanwhile we're losing everything by every metric, as you note. One recent fact I learned, which was startling, was 94% of hires from 2020-2021 to the S&P 100 are POC's: https://www.resourcefulfinancepro.com/news/dei-hiring-gone-awry/ - no doubt the remaining 6% were gay.

I suspect that if the stakes weren't so high, and the public didn't realize they were so amazingly high, that this David French routine of countersignalling and preening and posturing might work. But when you can see the illegals destroy your town, when you can see the trannies spread mental poison in your life, when you can watch your dollar devalue and grocery prices double every year, the cultural, economic and social rot in America is very tangible and tactile.

And to that French's editorial in the NYT says, to the extent he even identifies his actual objections to Trump, he says it's 1) Trump's lukewarm support for Ukraine, 2) Support for NATO, 3) Biden's great economy, and 4) Rising crime rates in inner cities, 5) The abortion rate rose under Trump, 6) Trump's success downballot was weak in the mid-terms.

I don't need to go through each of these because they are so transparently dishonest.

But French then makes it personal, and says, "only one party is nominating a man who’s been impeached twice, indicted in four criminal cases, found liable for systemic financial fraud, and found liable for sexual abuse and for defaming his victim. He is a man who inspired and gave at least tacit support to a violent assault on the Capitol in an effort to overturn an American election."

The slow-motion collapse of the GOP establishment and RINOs has led to all these odd moments.

So French's personal reasons against Trump are: 1) Impeachment, 2) Criminal prosecutions, 3) The New York fraud claims, 4) The Jean Carroll case, 5) January 6th.

These personal arguments are the exact same ones as the left presents. David French isn't a subversive trying to covertly advance a left-wing agenda, he's a left-wing person in a left-wing outlet, making overtly left-wing arguments but saying that's what good conservatives should do because reasons.

This is all a long way of saying that French's arguments are bad. There is no serious NeverTrump policy they prefer. There is no cogent policy they prefer over Trump's policies that is actually better for real people. There is no 'there' there.

Judas did it for the shekels. Judas wanted to get paid. Judas did it because he was serving the powerful on Earth forgetting about the power of God.

Why is David French doing this? I don't think he's doing it for the shekels. I don't think he's doing it for the grift. He's clearly not doing it for the sake of the policies. There's likely some deeper psycho-sexual thing where he likes to be abused and humiliated, but there are many others like French. Are they all degenerates?

I can understand Judas. The French constant betrayal and constant humiliation train is truly obscene.

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