The complete audio of my long conversation w/ @maxboot is now posted: hughhewitt.com/max-boot-on-ne… The transcript will take a few hours to post. Important conversation w/ a very smart #NeverTrump public intellectual whom I just don’t think sees the whole picture of @realDonaldTrump.
BTW: @realdonaldtrump testimony on the U.N. remodel —delivered in 2005 and available for watching here: — was my first awareness that he had communication skills sets that are formidable. (I’ve never watched a minute of #TheApprentice.) My biggest argument
w/ @MaxBoot and other #NeverTrumpers is that @realDonaldTrump is in any way a fascist. He just isn’t. Inflating deep disagreements with his policies into a threat to the Republic isn’t responsible nor persuasive. @maxboot book is a great memoir of how he got there, but also a
cautionary tale re disconnect between Manhattan-Beltway elites and the rest of the country. Even rank and file Democrats Who will vote D do not loathe @realDonaldTrump the way many #NeverTump folks do. Too great a focus on him distorts not just politics but individuals’ lives.
