Consummate Never Trump Grifter Becomes Never DeSantis Right on Cue – Opinion

No politician has ever drawn the ire of a certain sect of “Republicans” more than Donald Trump. He has been their sun for six years. Everything has revolved around Trump’s every utterance. Going all the way back to 2016, these Never Trumpers have worked to nuke electoral victories all out of some misguided notion of “principle.”

It didn’t matter that the other side was offering abortion until birth, a wrecked economy, and the destruction of America’s governing institutions (the filibuster, Supreme Court, etc.). They saw themselves to be the moral center in the universe.

Despite that, Trump was not the issue. This is becoming more apparent as 2022 nears. The people who claimed it was all about Trump are making the argument to keep Democrats in the House and Senate. And they’re becoming Never DeSantis.

Faux GOPer Alyssa Farah Griffin accuses FL Gov. Ron DeSantis allegedly scams his donors of donations. It’s so unfair. It’s a gift. She says it is horrible.
Who are these people who give money to people like these? Sunny Hostin exclaims that “people are losing homes.” pic.twitter.com/9hHv0gfPsc

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 15, 2022

This is it. DeSantis is collecting money from his supporters. Isn’t that what every single politician does as they build their campaign war chests? In the case of DeSantis, he’s clearly raising money for a 2024 run as well. Is that really a fraud?

But the details don’t matter here because this is what Never Trump does. They aren’t actually principled, and they don’t actually care about advancing conservativism. Rather, it’s all grifting all the time. For example, Alyssa Farah has changed from being someone who believed the 2020 election had been stolen to one who is a strong critic of Trump, and now she’s a huge fan of the Jan 6th committee. That’s not a coincidence.

In Feb 2021, Farah said we needed “to move on” from Jan 6, and “I don’t think we benefit from re-litigating…what happened that day.”

8 months later, she said: “I feel like we’re just glossing over January 6 and moving on, and we absolutely shouldn’t.”https://t.co/jkd0bQDvQ8

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) July 14, 2022

She describes herself as a Republican who has “consistently said that we lost.”

But she herself repeatedly raised concerns about election fraud, and even alluded to a “rigged election”—well *after* she resigned from the admin. pic.twitter.com/cJHvvu9KBN

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) July 14, 2022

I’d encourage you to click on Nate Hochman’s thread because he lists well over a dozen examples to show how Farah’s political opinions tracked perfectly with who is cutting her checks. The moment she got a chance to be the new “conservative” on The View, everything changed for her. Now she’s a media darling who claims to be an even-keeled critic of the right. In reality, she’s just shifting with the winds to make sure the dollars keep rolling in.

That’s the only logical explanation for why she would attack DeSantis like this for simply raising money. Have she ever attacked Stacey Abrams to raise money? Joe Biden. Of course, she hasn’t. But DeSantis represents a threat to her gravy train, which is being a “right-wing” critic of Donald Trump. If Trump isn’t the nominee in 2024, she becomes irrelevant, and she knows it. Thus, DeSantis is the enemy, and if he does take the nomination two years from now, Farah will try to get whatever Democrat is running (it isn’t going to be Biden) elected. It’s all about the money and always has been. That’s what the swamp is all about.