Never Trumper Asserts "Trump is Willing to Sacrifice Lives to Try And Save the Economy and His Chances For Re-Election"

The latest talking point from the left is that President Trump is willing to "sacrifice" Americans lives to protect his re-election chances. The left's theory is that he has to reopen the country to prevent the economy from another depression, and hence any hope of being re elected.

So, like a virus, this nutty theory is running around, and like the sun rising in the east CNN's token Republican Matt Lewis advances it. In his column on the "Daily Beast", Lewis pushing this exact theory. It is amazing how the left daily sticks to the same page.

In the first sentence of "The Party of Life Embraces Trump's Death Cult", Lewis, who voted for pro-choice Joe Biden, asserts,

"Donald Trump is willing to sacrifice lives to try and save the economy and his chances for re-election."

The unsubstantiated charge says more about Lewis and the left. That even while millions of their fellow Americans are thrown out of work, they grow more concerned about losing an election and raise paranoid theories that Trump might benefit politically from the national emergency.

The gist of the story, Lewis sums it up:

"Unfortunately, we have skipped over that nuanced discussion and gone straight to Republicans rationalizing the idea that we can just wipe out a million or so people to fix the economy."

He claims that by reopening the economy, Trump will sacrifice "millions of lives." This is stupid for a number of reasons. First, once the economy is reopened, which the President is flexible on regarding the timing, no one has to leave the confines of their isolation. If someone feels vulnerable or sick they should stay home.

Social distancing and hand washing (and hand wringing) can continue.

Secondly, most people won't acquire the virus, after they go back to work. And the vast majority of people that do will live. Some even feeling nothing more than a minor, short flu.

The disease is serious, but it will diminish soon. It is rare in many parts of the country, and for millions of Americans if faced with a choice between a bad flu and a great depression would choose the flu. Trump represents those people. Hardworking, tough determined people.

Look at our history. When did a bad flu stop us? The settlement in Jamestown was wracked with disease; malaria, survey, dysentery, yellow fever... And the amazing thing, and as a Virginian I take great pride in the fact, people kept coming.

Lewis even implies that Trump likes the daily media coverage, which a national emergency brings, Lewis writes of Trump:

"This is a man who responded to a pandemic by thinking, “How can I be on TV more?” It’s truly depraved."

I suspect that this is a statement by someone, suffering, not from the Chinese flu, but from an equally vile, and unwanted condition - Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Arizona Man Ingests Cleaner from His Fish Tank, Lewis Tries to Blame Trump

The left wing media is all over this story from Arizona. Seems a man, based on an alleged recommendation by President Trump, ingested chloroquine phosphate, a chemical, in the hope that it would prevent him from getting the Chinese flu.

Last week President Trump expressed the hope that a drug, Hydroxy Chloroquine, can help people recover from the virus faster. He never recommended chloroquine phosphate, which apparently is found in household cleaners.

The left claims they are similar enough, since they share the word "chloroquine". Well, what if Trump extolled the virtues of alcohol, and some guy drank rubbing alcohol and dies. Would Trump be to blame?

He did say Alcohol!

Probably according to lefties on CNN. For example:

On Twitter CNN's Matt Lewis tweeted, March 23rd, the NBC story of this Trump manufactured tragedy.

Lewis, after reading and forwarding the misleading story tweeted,

"So the presidents words have consequences? Who would’ve thunk it?"

So let's get this straight, the President expressed hope in the drug Hydroxy Chloroquine, a guy in Arizona interprets that as an invitation to drink a chemical in a cleaner and dies, and the media blames Trump. Trump encouraged him to do it!

Gee, and who could possibly claim that the media is the enemy of the people?

After 3 Years of The Trump Presidency Lewis Now says We Are Screwed.

CNN's token Republican optimistically claims this time Trump is done! The spread of the Chinese flu, which is apparently Trump's fault, has finally woken people up to the malignancy of the Trump presidency.

On March 20th on the left wing site, The Daily Beast, Lewis writes: "This is the first time a lot of Americans are personally paying any sort of price for this presidency." Lewis is like the boy that cried wolf. He constantly claims Trump is finished. It is not analysis, it is leftwing fantasy talk.

Penthouse forum letters were more reality based than Lewis's analysis of Donald Trump. In effect Lewis's writings are porn for the left.

Ironically, Trump's approval is on the rise. But for Lewis the end of Trump is always near.

Lewis wrote on March 20th about the propitious timing of the Chinese virus:

"Is a perfect storm brewing? Are the chickens coming home to roost? For the first time, a lot of Americans are being forced to reckon with the seriousness of a lack of leadership. This is the first time they have had to personally pay any sort of price for this presidency."

Compare that to what he said back in November of last year, on the eve on the impeachment, an impeachment without a high crimes and misdemeanors, Lewis wrote:

"As the walls slowly close in on Donald Trump, his apologists are getting more creative..." He then went on to opine:
"Our postmodern cynicism is such that even people who tacitly concede that Trump lacks the temperament and experience to be president are still left basically saying: “That’s just Trump being Trump. What’re ya gonna do?”

"postmodern cynicism?" How does Lewis come up with this drivel?

Well, things turned out fine for Trump. Not one Republican voted to impeach him. And only one Republican in the senate, Romney, who Trump didn't make secretary of state, voted to convict on one count.

Trump's approval ratings went up during the impeachment circus.

In Addition to Being a "Centrist" Lewis Claims Biden is "Likable"

It has been three years since Donald Trump was elected President and yet never Trumper Matt Lewis is still in denial about why he won.

In a tweet from today:

"Thought: It’s hurting Bernie that his 2020 opponent (Biden) is better liked than Hillary was in 2016.

Similarly, it’s going to hurt Trump that his opponent (Biden) is more likable than Hillary was in 2016.

How much of recent history was just about Hillary being unpopular?"

Trump didn't beat Hillary because she was unlikable, he beat her primarily because she was wrong on the issues, and Trump was right on the issues.

Was Hillary unlikable? If so, it might have had something to do with the fact that she had an open bank account, the Clinton Foundation, for foreign interests to make a deposit. She was the first Secretary of State to have a pay to play scheme.

But that would be corrupt behavior, not quite the same thing as just being unlikable.

Lewis Butchers the "Buckley Rule" to Justify Voting For A Liberal Democrat

For three years now CNN has brought pundit Matt Lewis on to denounce President Trump, and all the while a rotating and interchangeable hack at CNN, usually Brooke Baldwin have dutifully called him a Republican.

Well, today he was on again with Brooke Baldwin and he broke some news. He said he voted for Joe Biden in the Democrat party. Why on earth that counts as news I don't know, but I guess it gives them an opportunity to promote the Biden candidacy and denounce Trump. Always fun at CNN.

Based on what Lewis said in the interview it seems that Lewis has not voted for a Republican Presidential candidate since at least 2012. Yet CNN continues to claim that he is a Republican!

This morning Lewis posted a piece on the left wing site the Daily Beast, where else can you expect to find the writings of conservative pundits, explaining his vote today for the liberal Democrat Biden.

The most audacious claim Lewis makes in his piece is that he is following the advice of the patron saint of the conservative movement, William F. Buckley, by following the Buckley rule.

Either Lewis does not understand the Buckley rule, which is possible, or he is twisting it. Lewis writes "that is he supporting the most conservative candidate who has a chance to win." By winning Buckley clearly meant beating a liberal in a general election.

Lewis admits that he voted for a less liberal candidate in the Democrat primary, with the purpose of defeating a conservative Republican President.

Lewis rationalizes that since Biden is "more conservative" than the socialist Sanders, well who isn't, then he is being faithful to the Buckley rule. Well, Friedrich Engels was probably to the right of Karl Marx, but I doubt Buckley would have encouraged people to vote for Engels if the opportunity arose.

The origin of the Buckley rule dates back to the 1964 Republican nomination battle. The debate was over who should conservatives back for President. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, considered more electable, or Barry Goldwater the more conservative candidate.

After a long debate, Buckley said that the “National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.” The word viable does not necessarily mean most electable. This is an important distinction. So they backed Barry Goldwater. He was conservative. Rockefeller was not.

Buckley never argued that anyone should vote for a non conservative. And since when did Joe Biden become a conservative? When he opposed Robert Bork? When he opposed Clarence Thomas?

Lewis may not like Trump, but no one can argue that Trump is not a constitutional conservative. He has cut taxes, deregulated the economy, appointed over 150 conservatives to the bench, including two SCOTUS picks. Trump has rebuilt the American military and Trump is enforcing our immigration laws.

All conservative positions. All the things Buckley would have supported and things Biden opposes.

The other problem with Lewis asserting the Buckley rule is that there is no evidence that Bill Buckley encouraged anyone to vote for Joe Biden in 1988, the first time Biden ran for President.

Buckley was writing about politics in 1988 and at least I don't recall Buckley mentioning the need for voting in the Democrat primary for Joe Biden.

Joe Biden is a pro choice Catholic. He has a 40 year liberal voting record, opposing all of Bill Buckley's beliefs. For Lewis to cite the Buckley rule as a reason to back Biden is offensive to all conservatives.

In his column Lewis admits "Still, voting for a Democrat feels utterly unnatural, and politics makes for strange bedfellows." Well, all last year Lewis was praising Nancy Pelosi. So by now he should be comfortable voting for Democrats.

Last month Lewis endorsed Amy Klobuchar. Now that she is out he is back to Biden. She should have stayed in the race. She would have gotten Lewis's vote.