The cool kids' waterboys are the anti-Trump Republicans.
Ineffective and alienated politicians like Sen. Mitt Romney are treated as brave heroes and media stars for buying into Democratic hysteria and hurting their Republican colleagues.
Steve Schmidt is given ample TV time above a chyron calling him a "Republican political consultant," despite no longer consulting for Republicans, in exchange for mocking Republican voters and insulting their leaders.
"The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News," read a Atlantic article on their new venture, The Dispatch, colored with magical little quips about how all conservatives are terrible.
Still further down, well past where any busy person might read, the profile's author holds up The Dispatch's "Fact-based stories" in contrast with The Daily Caller, a news outlet with millions of monthly viewers that is not anti-Trump enough for The Atlantic's tastes.
"Outside of the Beltway, Republicans and conservatives steadfastly opposed to Trump are a small minority - more than 90 percent of Republicans approve of the president," Mark Hemingway writes at Real Clear Politics.
There's a sad reality to this media club we can all recognize from childhood: While their waterboys and hangers-on work day and night for acceptance, the club chortles and laughs.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/17/the-cruel-reality-of-life-as-one-of-the-medias-never-trump-waterboys/
Ineffective and alienated politicians like Sen. Mitt Romney are treated as brave heroes and media stars for buying into Democratic hysteria and hurting their Republican colleagues.
Steve Schmidt is given ample TV time above a chyron calling him a "Republican political consultant," despite no longer consulting for Republicans, in exchange for mocking Republican voters and insulting their leaders.
"The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News," read a Atlantic article on their new venture, The Dispatch, colored with magical little quips about how all conservatives are terrible.
Still further down, well past where any busy person might read, the profile's author holds up The Dispatch's "Fact-based stories" in contrast with The Daily Caller, a news outlet with millions of monthly viewers that is not anti-Trump enough for The Atlantic's tastes.
"Outside of the Beltway, Republicans and conservatives steadfastly opposed to Trump are a small minority - more than 90 percent of Republicans approve of the president," Mark Hemingway writes at Real Clear Politics.
There's a sad reality to this media club we can all recognize from childhood: While their waterboys and hangers-on work day and night for acceptance, the club chortles and laughs.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/17/the-cruel-reality-of-life-as-one-of-the-medias-never-trump-waterboys/
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