The Price of Incompetence: Biden Is Losing the Never-Trumpers
By Matt Margolis Aug 16, 2021 12:37 PM ET
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ma...umpers-n1469890

Well, it’s happening. Joe Biden’s epically disastrous presidency has become too hard for even fervent Never-Trumpers to ignore.

As encouraging as this is to see, it is sadly too late for buyer’s remorse. These people publicly supported Joe Biden, assuming that he would restore normalcy and leadership to the presidency. While they’ll never admit it, I suspect they’re starting to realize that presidential leadership left the Oval Office on January 20, 2021. Trump may not have been a “normal” president, but he was an effective one who achieved great things in four short years. Joe Biden, however, has managed to mess it up rather quickly. While many Never-Trumpers would sooner blame Trump for what’s happening in Afghanistan, others have suddenly woken up to the sad fact that Joe Biden is a failure.

“I sure wish Biden had picked someone who I trusted to run the country if he disappears because he’s AWOL right now and at the rate this is going, he’s going to wind up getting impeached,” tweeted Republican strategist and Never-Trumper Liz Mair.
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National Review, the conservative magazine, was notoriously anti-Trump in 2016. Though some at the magazine, like Rich Lowry, started to come around to varying degrees, coverage of the Afghanistan debacle has come hand-in-hand with criticism of Biden.
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Lowry also criticized Biden in a tweet, pointing out that the so-called justifications for supporting Biden over Trump never panned out.

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And how about Bill Kristol, the co-founder of the anti-Trump site The Bulwark?[...]

Imagine that. I guess Never-Trumpers are learning the hard way that a few mean tweets are preferable to the incompetence and lack of leadership of Joe Biden. But, hey, it’s not like you weren’t warned. Biden’s history of being wrong on foreign policy decisions should have been a clue.[...]

But perhaps the most interesting criticism comes from Meghan McCain. While Trump will never be in her good graces, her endorsement of Joe Biden for his character and experience just imploded in epic fashion.

On Sunday, she called Joe Biden a coward for not having any public events on Sunday.

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Conservative Never-Trumpers are an interesting breed. They convinced themselves that Trump’s unconventional style was a reason not to support him. Perhaps they had legitimate doubts in 2016, but many of them chose Joe Biden over Trump even after he proved himself to be a conservative president. For a while, these so-called Republicans convinced themselves that Joe Biden would be competent and a uniter. Some even convinced themselves that Republicans in Congress were the problem. But it seems like the fall of Afghanistan has started to open their eyes.-- excerpt, rest at link above --