How Obama Won Over #NeverTrump Conservatives

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Obama roused Democrats on Wednesday with a progressive call to action, but his speech was also a hit with a narrow group of conservatives who have spent the last eight years opposing his agenda: The #NeverTrump movement.

For #NeverTrump Republicans — a small band of conservative writers, intellectuals, and former administration officials refusing to vote for Donald Trump — Obama's speech provoked a striking mix of admiration for its upbeat patriotic themes, as well as despair over their own party's failure to offer the same.

"Take about five paragraphs out of that Obama speech and it could have been a Reagan speech," John Podhoretz, a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, tweeted. "Trust me. I know."

This didn't happen by accident. Obama contrasted Reagan's invocation of America as John Winthrop's "shining city upon a hill" with Trump's vision of a "divided crime scene that only he can fix." His speech was filled with moist-eyed tributes to the nation's founding beliefs and the fundamental decency of its people.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-obama-won-over-supernumbernevertrump-conservatives/ar-BBuZNxZ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[tonyt53]

1. In other words, the not dumber than a mudflap Republicans.

[workinclasszero]

4. An endangered species

In the age of Trump

[Charles Bukowski]

2. Funny thing is

compared to 1984, there's more reason to feel it's "Morning In America" today.

Unemployment is lower, crime is MUCH lower, and there's no Cold War. Yes, there is turmoil in the ME, but that was the case in 1984 as well.

The fact that Trump's speech resonated with anyone besides right-wing bigots is incredible.
It truly shows the the power of propaganda.

[geek tragedy]

3. the #nevertrump Republicans are often more wingnutty than the Trump sychophants

But, I have to respect the principles. Trump is dangerously unqualified, regardless of his ideology.

[JaneyVee]

5. Um..."shining city on a hill" was Mario Cuomo's.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Trump's should be "The Shining" city on a hill. nt

Heeere's Donny!