Never Trumper

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1. USgovernmentA conservative, especially a Republican, who opposes Donald Trump.

   That he is a great man of history whose role is to chastise the liberal intelligentsia and the Never Trumpers and all these groups that failed to govern America, but it doesn’t mean that at the end of the day, he’s actually saving America. Sometimes it’s just a chastisement.

   2025 May 1, Ross Douthat, “The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   Trump has slammed Vindman as a “Never Trumper” who he was unfamiliar with. Voting records show Vindman was previously registered as a Democrat. “Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness. Was he on the same call that I was?” Trump tweeted. “Can’t be possible! Please ask him to read the Transcript of the call.”

   2019 November 18, Aamer Madhani, quoting Donald Trump, “NSC aide Vindman ready to speak out publicly on Trump”, in AP News

   And even if the worst predictions haven’t come to pass, you still won’t feel reassured while someone you fundamentally distrust is making life-and-death decisions on behalf of the country every day; there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.”

   2020 March 10, Kathy Gilsinan, “Confessions of an Ex–Never Trumper”, in The Atlantic

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Never Trumper.