NYT conservative columnist: I'm still 'never Trump' after first year

[DonViejo]

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 12/30/17 11:50 AM EST

New York Times conservative columnist Bret Stephens revealed he still sees himself as a "Never Trumper" on Saturday after a year of President Trump's term in the White House, despite agreeing with many of Trump's policy moves.

In an op-ed in the newspaper Saturday, Stephens wrote, "I still wish Hillary Clinton were president."

"[C]haracter does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump’s shortcomings prove it daily," Stephens writes. "This is the fatal mistake of conservatives who’ve decided the best way to deal with Trump’s personality — the lying, narcissism, bullying, bigotry, crassness, name calling, ignorance, paranoia, incompetence and pettiness — is to pretend it doesn’t matter."

“Character Doesn’t Count” has become a de facto G.O.P. motto," Stephens adds. “'Virtue Doesn’t Matter' might be another."

Stephens joined The New York Times in April 2017, leaving The Wall Street Journal to join the more liberal ranks of the Times, and at the time was a vocal member of the #NeverTrump movement of conservatives that had sought to stop Trump from winning the GOP nomination the year before.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. We had a president with character and virtue, and the GOP treated him very badly.

So now they are going to whine about the lack of it in the WH.