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They Are What They Say They Hate

Trump is a triggered loser who embodies every trait conservatives spent decades decrying.

by  T I M M I L L E R ( HT T P S : / /T H E B U L WA R K . C O M / A UT H O R /T I M - M I L L E R / ) · N O V E M B E R 1 7 , 2 0 2 0

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 21, 2020, as he travels to
Ohio. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

D
onald Trump is a snowflake who cares only about his feelings not
the facts.

He’s a pampered millennial child who can’t handle losing and wants a
participation trophy.

He’s a coddled, out-of-touch elite who cares more about what his media
friends say about him than theRide
struggles
or of forgotten Americans.
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He’s a fool who leads a The class

selfish ruling NO that
W is bringing America to the
Bulwark.
brink of revolution. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Fools_(book))

He is an Ivy Leaguer who requires a safe space to protect himself from painful
speech.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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6:06 AM · Nov 16, 2020

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He believes in a hierarchy of victimhood

(https://quotecatalog.com/quote/ben-shapiro-the-left-believ-aVWAnG1)
with himself at the top and his aggrieved white supporters next.

He’s a wokescold (https://apnews.com/article/biology-archive-

ec5c2355ba0f4865b08c019fb4d81a9a) who wants to silence
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1327950785959915520?s=20)
those who reject his magical thinking.

A wanna-be monarch
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/president-obama-is-
not-a-monarch-113028) having a “temper tantrum
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/president-obama-is-
not-a-monarch-113028).”

He’s callow (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/the-

callow-president-109793#.U-VBNRyf-RM) and acting in bad faith
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/the-bad-faith-
presidency-obama-rich-lowry-100414).

Those who are not standing up to him have “no conception of the national
interest larger than his immediate political interests
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/the-callow-president-
109793#.U-VBNRyf-RM).”

He is a censorious enemy
(https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/business/media/trump-libel-
laws.html) of free speech (https://thebulwark.com/the-tear-gas-hoax-
hoax/) and freedom of religion (https://www.aclu-wa.org/pages/timeline-
muslim-ban).

He is trying to bring about an “End Of Discussion” by leading an “outrage

industry that shuts down debate and manipulates voters
(https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/End_of_Discussion_How_the_Left_s_Outrage_Industry_?
id=AQAAAAARAVYBVM&hl=en_US&gl=US).”

He is “Triggered”, “driven by hate, and trying to silence the voters

(https://books.google.com/books/about/Triggered.html?id=ts-
eDwAAQBAJ).”
He is stealing America (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27401866).

He’s a whiner who specializes in phony outrage

(https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-joy-of-hate-how-to-triumph-over-
whiners-in-the-age-of-phony-outrage_greg-gutfeld/266698/). A beta-
soy-boy cuck who won’t take his setbacks like a grown man.

He wants to infuse political culture wars into every crevice of American life,
bullying (https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/12/left-won-culture-wars-
now-its-bully/) those who don’t accept his hegemony.

He sees democracy as a filthy process that can be cured only by centralized

power (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Shapiro).

He’s unvirtuous (https://www.amazon.com/Book-Virtues-William-J-

Bennett/dp/0684835770), ignorant
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1327988661418340353), anti-
American, and anti-Christian.

He’s a loser who is up to his eyeballs in bullshit

(https://images.app.goo.gl/FkFdj6hxTJvCk5m3A).

He is everything that they ever said their “evil” opponents were. And worse.

But they don’t care.

P O DC AST

Berny Belvedere on Truth in the Age of Trump

(https://podcast.thebulwark.com/berny-belvedere-on-truth-in-
the-age-of-trump)

Even in the face of Trump’s humiliating defeat at the hands of an opponent

they believe to be weak and suffering from dementia, Republicans and
conservative commentators continue to enable the human embodiment of
what they once decried.

They do it because their crusade stopped being about anything other than
causing their opponents pain a long time ago. They came to the crossroads
and struck a deal to make a human troll the president of the United States,
because he put Obama in his (birth) place and made all the right people mad.
He was their vehicle to give the finger to half of the country.

Their end of that deal paid off in spades the past four years. And as he
petulantly refuses to concede defeat they continue to get the liberal
schadenfreude (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/noah-
rothman/the-final-panic-of-the-trump-presidency/) they crave.

The only thing they had to do in order to get it, was become everything that
they had claimed to hate.

They should never be allowed to forget it.

Tim Miller
(https://thebulwark.com/author/tim-
miller/)
(https://thebulwark.com/author/tim-miller/)Tim Miller is The Bulwark’s writer-at-large. He was
previously political director for Republican Voters
Against Trump, communications director for Jeb
Bush 2016, and spokesman for the Republican
National Committee.

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