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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized to CNN, went on The View, blamed Trump for supposed death threats, was hailed by the Washington Post and welcomed to join the Democrats by Rep. Jamie Raskin, many in MAGA compared her to Rep. Liz Cheney.
The original Never Trump is long since dead, its leading lights indistinguishable from Democrats, hammered home by Bill Kristol’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, but a new Never Trump 2.0 has formed, once again made up of Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie who claim that their rejection of President Trump is grounded in their ‘principles’ only to then turn around and ally with Democrats and smear Trump to the media.
Their shameful press conference, complete with leftists brandishing signs smearing President Trump as a sex predator, showed that the Epstein files have become the new Access Hollywood tape, an opportunity for RINOs to justify their break with Trump because of their ‘principles’ only to demonstrate that they have no principles. Never Trump 2.0 had been hoping that the Epstein files would do what the Access Hollywood tape didn’t, instead, like their leftist allies, they were shocked when the files blew up in their faces, exonerated Trump and instead indicted Dems.
Never Trump 2.0 never cared about what was in the Epstein files. Their performative outrage was as fake as the pearl clutching over the Access Hollywood tape. Instead, Greene and Massie joined with Democrats to manufacture a narrative of a fallen Trump after the election losses in Virginia and New Jersey. The Epstein files release rollout was preceded by woke right accounts (some of them in Pakistan) claiming that MAGA was dead and would be replaced by ‘America First’ with a blue and white cap that matches Democrat ‘Blue MAGA’ iconography.
The new ‘America First’ or ‘Never Trump 2.0’ agenda with its promises of student loan cancellation and fighting billionaires to appeal to Gen Z would be a painfully obvious reboot of RINO politics under the guise of populism even if it didn’t involve praising Mamdani, allying with Rep. Ro Khanna and urging that Republicans adopt socialism to stave off Marxism.
Like Never Trump, Never Trump 2.0 has an outsized obsession with foreign policy, this time from the libertarian flank, and while they claim that they are fundamentally different from the neo-cons, their foreign policy views are so indistinguishable from leftists that their leading publication, Responsible Statecraft, is financed by radical billionaire George Soros.
Both Never Trump and Never Trump 2.0 adopted the foreign policy programs of two different factions of the Democratic Party, liberal interventionists and leftist anti-imperialists, and denounced President Trump for not hewing to their adopted leftist party line.
Never Trump 1.0’s foreign policy was so indistinguishable from liberals that its key figures comfortably migrated to the New York Times and the Washington Post while Never Trump 2.0’s foreign policy is so indistinguishable from leftists that Tucker Carlson’s favorite political analysts are Jeffrey Sachs, a Soros funded UN official, and Glenn Greenwald, a Brazilian socialist.
They’re incapable of understanding Trump’s actual ‘America First’ foreign policy because they’re too busy taking their cues from leftists who, like Sachs, hate Trump and blame America first.
Like Never Trump, Never Trump 2.0 claims that it’s actually to the right of Trump, but the evidence for that is scant. Mostly Never Trump 2.0 vibes as if it’s edgier than Trump, led by a handful of politician-influencers and political influencers who don’t actually believe anything.
Whenever Never Trump 2.0 sounds as if it’s going further to the right, wait and it goes left.
After years of tough talk on illegal aliens, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued on a podcast during her recent reinvention that the labor force is “built on illegal labor” and that “as a conservative and as a business owner in the construction industry and as a realist, I can say we have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them just like that, right?”
Most of Never Trump 2.0 has principles and if you don’t like them, they have other ones.
Never Trump 2.0 tries to sound tough and edgy while pushing Marxist economic policies and a foreign policy, and then tries to convince MAGA their movement is dead and they have something better. Since Twitter isn’t real life and they have no actual accomplishments, their impact on Republican voters has been minimal, but they have tied up and sidetracked Trump’s congressional agenda. And then complained that Trump isn’t keeping his promises.
Their infighting has drained energy out of a movement that should be moving forward, but is instead busy dealing with their sabotage, their conspiracy theories and their undermining.
Never Trump 2.0 may be as fake as Never Trump, but it’s certainly not harmless.
Trump has been prematurely declared dead before. It didn’t work in 2016, 2020 and it didn’t work in 2025. But Never Trump 2.0 isn’t giving up after faceplanting with the Epstein files. Instead it’s wishcasting Dem midterm victories while blackpilling the economy, accusing Trump of betraying the base, and tearing down everyone from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. If the Dems win in 2026, they’ll declare that MAGA is dead and their trojan horse replacement is the future.
Never Trump 2.0 wants to be in control of the post-Trump future. It can’t wait for the moment when it can finally declare Trump’s political legacy dead and get to choose his replacement. But Never Trump 2.0 is no better at that than Never Trump was. It doesn’t understand what made Trump popular, it has no clue about how to replace him and it’s confusing its online echo chamber with the larger preferences of Republicans and the conservative movement.
Both Never Trump movements were never conservative, they were leftist insurgencies that wrapped themselves in fake principles so thin you could see through them, in outrage and then finally in victimhood, brandishing a handful of name brand personalities and a leftist agenda in the hopes of controlling the future. They were wrong then and they were wrong now.
Their latest attempt to take down President Trump with the Epstein Files has failed but, like the original Never Trumpers, they won’t stop until conservatives stop listening to them. And then they can all get jobs writing columns at the New York Times and the Washington Post too.
More brilliant commentary. Thank you.
thank you
And don’t forget, most of them are anti Israel and Anti Semitic.
Excellent analysis
The “Epstein files” were accumulated over the years 2005-2019 and were in the custody of the Obama, Trump(1) , Biden, and Trump(2) DoJs .. Knowing what we now know about DoJ dirty tricks WHY IN THE WORLD would anyone (on either side) believe the “Present Day” files bear ANY similarity to the originals???
I agree. The FBI is yet to be restored to being an institution with any credibility. Hopefully, Patel can scour out the sludge, but a track record of integrity must precede renewed confidence in them.
Arresting and trying Comey and Wray and a few others would help clean up this mess. But I don’t
think our Republican Congress and Senate are up to it. They subpoenaed the Clintons and Bill and
Hillary ignored it! Crickets since!
Led by wackos lacking intellectual rigor.
Blackpill pushers can shut up and get lost.
MTG and Massie standing next to Gloria Allred told me everything I need to know. The women said they need the Epstein files released so they know what happened to them and who did what to them. I assumed that since they were there they would already know. Their argument amounted to “When we were young we did things for money that we regret, now we want more money.” Funny how most women could see right through this but most men could not.
Nail…meet hammer!
Very well said.
I have yet to read the article, but it’s obvious you haven’t. Why don’t you read the article, and who knows you might you might have some insight.
Yes… I read the article…
I also know what “America 1st” stands for… and the smear campaigns that have followed ever since Kirk’s assassination… which includes those that haven’t taken AIPAC donations…
Trump said not long ago… He remembered the days when anyone who would say anything about Israel would end up with their careers ruined… and basically… wondered what happened to those days…
What happened to those days? Ignorant people like you were born and hardly raised. Why don’t you hang out with your Antifa friends.
Look, I don’t have to read the article to know what’s in it! I see the names and the media splash and that’s all I need to know.
This is the argument the demoncRATs used about Obama care. Obomination care. “Just pass the bill and then see what’s in it”
You think those performing and social media platform posting burnouts in CONgrASS are any better than us burnt out on too much information?
Hells bells, there was a time before radio when people read newspapers and were just as misinformed as people today. Now we have non stop media bullshit and we don’t know which way to think.
MTG is in NO way Never Trump.
Never was.
Moronic statement.
Trump is ruining it for MAGA… and lately has said some very cruel things about one of his most loyal, devout supporters… MTG…
DC:
And you know that, how? The onus is on you to back up your assertion with provable facts. I doubt if you have any indisputable facts to support your assertion.
You would be more honest and credible if you just openly admit that you hate Trump and everything he stands for.
Please tell us what she’s doing if you don’t think she’s Never Trump 2.0. She sure looks like it to me.
About all I can say is that she has joined George W., W.’s father, Jonah Goldberg, Karl Rove, etc. in the Fooled Me Once But It Won’t Happen Again Club.
She’s accusing Trump of trying to get her killed. Liz Cheney territory.
That’s not completely true at all…
The vicious things that Trump has called her… even “traitor” has caused death threats to MTG’s family…
Trump’s attitude to MTG has been over the release of the Epstein Files… to support the victims… and over keeping America first…
Considering what side of the aisle Charlie’s killer came from, this should make her safer…by your logic? The shooters hate trump..they should love a Trump “hater”.
These anti Semites, who wrap themselves in the American flag need to be booted out of the Republican party. These phoney America Firsters should form there own party, they can wear black uniforms and armbands.
The “Republican Party” as you remember it will soon get kicked out of the new form of nationalism taking place while Trump has other things to think about . Antisemitism is converging between Left and Right, and as usual, Daniel Greenfield has been a horrible prophet for that inevitability: FPM has variously praised Candace Owens, Kanye, and of course, Tucker Carlson in the past. Look what happened. Don’t ask this guy for investment advice is alls I’m sayin’
Okay oracle of all knowledge, and wisdom you’re my go to guy.
Now that I have read the article I’ll try to understand your deep dive into the difference between Never Trump, and Never Trump2, and your brilliant defense of Never Trump2. Your Keen mind has opened my eyes, and I now see that your Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes are this generations ‘Voices crying I the wilderness.’
Please tell us what she’s doing if you don’t think she’s Never Trump 2.0. She sure looks like it to me.
About all I can say is that she has joined George W., W.’s father, Jonah Goldberg, Karl Rove, etc. in the Fooled Me Once But It Won’t Happen Again Club.
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” – Harry S. Truman
Great piece Daniel.
Money and power have always been the primary drugs of choice for many politicians. Nihilistic but true. A pox on all of their houses.
Trump has brought a lot of this on to himself. Calling her a lunatic and traitor over the Epstein issue is totally out of bounds. He is forcing Israel into an unsustainable “peace” with violent Islam and embracing other Muslim countries who support Jihad. Total contradictions and confusion. He is trying to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin. All this so his ego can be assuaged by being the big peacemaker. That appears to be is primary goal, not the security of the country.
With that said, it is beyond me how we have a faction of the true conservative right not being able to understand the threats of Islam and the evil communist dictatorships are to what is left of western civilization and freedom. They are embracing aspects of the 1930s German National Socialist Workers Party. Israel and Ukraine are spearheads in the epoch struggles against Islam and totalitarian communism. MTG needs to be challenged and voted out in the primary given her ridiculous comments on removing illegals. There is no other reason for her to remain in office.
Once the 3rd world dominated Democratic Party Stalinists retake power, they will end the American experiment. I don’t see much hope for recovery. America is divided and weak and our adversaries smell blood.
“Trump has brought a lot of this on to himself. ” Amen. He gives the opposition so much ammo. For example, to assert “all prices are down,” would be funny if it weren’t so indicative of hostility to facts. Biden gave us the highest inflation ever? No. Anyone alive during the late 1970’s and very early 1980’s realize inflation was higher.
Trump said he’d balance the budget but it might take two terms. Even with the unemployment at an absurdly low 3.5% during his first term–and his policies deserve credit for that low rate– he made zero progress against the deficit. Here’s the progress Trump has made addressing the “huuuuuge” unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare–> <–
He "blue it" the first term, leaving Sleepy Joe Biden with a Dem-dominated Congress. How'd that work out for us?
VP Vance is reduced to asking Americans to be patient about the economy, They aren't "fake polls" that indicate Americans' dissatisfaction with the economic situation. Trump trying to buy votes with a $2,000 handout when the deficit is at a percent of GDP that is a recipe for a debt spiral is an ugly summary of the state of American politics.
"'Tariff' is one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary?" Holy #$%@. Smoot and Hawley are laughing in their graves.
Qatar is paying for and building an air facility on the US air force base in Idaho, and discussions go back to the Trump admin in 2017. Islam and Oct 7 funders! Nothing but absurd excuses from Team Trump.
If one digs in. One will find Never Trump 2.0 members have one thing in common. They all distain American relationship with Israel. All started with bombing of Iran. Under the guise of America first/isolationism.
I consider myself to be a neoconservative and I voted for DJT in 16, 20 and 24 and I would vote for him again if I had the opportunity. My couple of disagreements with Trump are that he should allow Israel to completely destroy hamas and stand up to Putin and treat him as the depraved bloodthirsty dictator that he is. Another disagreement that I’ve had with Trump over the years is that he has listened to and taken advise from anti-Semitic libertarians such as Tucker Carlson. The Epstein files I consider a minor news story built up and promoted by anti-Trumpists along with many others that range from those with kernels of truth to wholly fabricated lies. A person (such as myself) can identify with the principles of neoconservatism and still be strong advocate for Trump.
Never Trump is a form of Mental illness brought on by way too much M.S. Media and Watching CNN and reading the NYT’s
The deep dive into MTG is warranted. How bizarre it is to watch someone get compromised before our very eyes.
MTG sould her will to the devil like those other demoncRats and RINOs. We can only sell our will, our souls belong to HE who created us – YHVH.
MTG, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, all revealed the satanic machinations that dwelled within them.
Who cares about podcasters, it’s those in CONgrASS protentional to make or break our lives in the USA that matter.
MTG went from going to the lockups where J6 political prisoners were being held, tortured, abused, denied medicines they need and railroaded to being a railroader herself.
Crazy eyes MTG. Maybe she was seduced by that one deep state lesbian who is blackmailing here because they even took phone pics of each other. And for gradually merging to the satanic deep state deadheading to the antichrist, MTG is going to get very wealthy and will keep her Congressional seat and be elevated to the positions of power and MTG may be the future Nutsy Nasty Nazzi PeeLousy and be Speaker of the House. A total satanic stained comprimsied deep state vile satanic honiac pekkerhead POS, like Tucker and Candace and all the RINOs and demoncraps, except for Senator John Fetterman.
We just need a new country with no democraps
As I’ve commented on other websites, Marjorie Taylor Greene is the female version of John Bolton. Both Greene and Bolton meet the definition of having a narcissistic personality disorder (I suggest readers lookup the symptoms of NPD). Both Greene and Bolton thought that Donald Trump was going to be easily malleable, where they thought that they could mold Trump into becoming a believer of their world’s viewpoint. The problem was neither of them was prepared to handle a Trump who was his own man, a person that would reject their political agendas and present his own political plans for America.
The problem comes when a person with NPD is rejected by others whom they deem as intellectually inferior. Such a narcissist is incapable of handling this type of rejection, so he/she needs to further belittle the person that has outright rejected them. But for someone with NPD, this belittlement turns into an all-out rage mixed with a personal vendetta to demonize this rejector of their magnificent brilliance. However, Greene went one level further, where she had a John Bolton type of emotional meltdown, acting out with an equivalent of a terrible twos tantrum.
The bottom-line is that it’s with reason for anyone to reject your opinions, however for a person with NPD – this is something their mind cannot accept. So if you reject a person with NPD, you’d better be prepared to leave the scene because the only response such a person can muster is fireworks and hostility aimed at you.
Good points – I see NPD in everyday life with those that I interact with – except my response is that I want to fight back, not leave the scene.
I knew that the MAGA movement wouldn’t last and at some point would unravel and be derailed. I just didn’t think it would happen so quickly.
The old order establishment GOP and the dems would like nothing better than to see the MAGA movement crash and burn sooner rather than later. Looks like they’re gonna get their wish.
Oh well. SH*t happens. It had to end at some point. R.I.P. MAGA
Marjorie Traitor Greene is leaving office many millions of dollars richer than when she entered. That’s all you need to know about that money-hungry ugly Munchkin.