January 21, 2021
Jaw-dropping contempt for Trump and his voters from National Review star columnist Kevin Williamson
By Thomas Lifson
It is sad, but perhaps inevitable that contemptuous, raw class hatred for Trump voters would be featured so prominently in the National Review almost immediately after the swearing-in of Joe Biden yesterday. National Review, after all, produced the infamous “Against Trump†issue in January 2016, assembling conservatives from many publications in an effort to derail the nomination of the man who became our 45th president.
The chief complaints about Trump centered on style… and class. But graciousness in victory apparently is not an element of civility that appeals to Kevin Williamson, a talented wordsmith and star at what was once the flagship publication of the conservative movement. You may recall that roughly half a year before the February 15, 2016 “Against Trump†issue appeared, Williamson descended to vitriol with a June 16, 2015 column on Trump’s announcement of his candidacy in the Trump Tower lobby titled, “Witless Ape Rides Escalator,†explicitly dehumanizing him.
Yesterday, he bookended his Trump coverage by returning to an insult that, if he had applied it to Trump’s predecessor, would have gotten him deplatformed and condemned to ignominy (ask Roseanne Barr). In “Witless Ape Rides Helicopter,†Williamson broadened his contempt for Trump into an attack on the voters who dared to reject Williamson’s views and voted Trump into office, and then added millions to their ranks and voted for his re-election. They are all morons, you see, toothless, rural semi-humans that Williamson calls “Cletus,†no doubt after a character on the Simpsons, described by Fandom as “a stereotypical redneck….â€
Williamson begins his screed:
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