NYT columnist throws in towel on 'Never Trump' label: We 'never quite got the point' of the MAGA movement
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New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is retiring his Never Trump membership while making stunning admissions about the failed movement following President-elect Trump's victory.
"Could his second term be as bad as his most fervent critics fear? Yes. Is it time to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doomsaying that typified so much of the Never Trump movement — and that rendered it politically impotent and frequently obtuse? Yes, please," he conceded. Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
Stephens acknowledged that Trump's "sulfurous contempt" for the political elite, his "refusal to be shaped by their norms" and his "willingness to call out their hypocrisy" makes him a "hero" to his supporters, something of which he and other Never Trumpers "never quite got the point."