Being a Conservative or Republican Has Always Been Cringey

But you can’t get away from it just by joining the other side.

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Former president Donald Trump at a rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, June 26, 2021.

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The writer formerly known as Allahpundit, Nick Catoggio, takes to the Dispatch to ask “Aren’t You Embarrassed?”

He means, by the Trump-era GOP, by the fact of belonging in some way to a political party or movement that associated with Trump, who last week associated himself with Kanye West — the obviously needful-of-mental-health-treatment rapper mogul who has turned antisemitic in recent weeks — and Nick Fuentes, a far-right, antisemitic sh**-stirrer.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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