Must be hard to be a true conservative these days.  Conservative blogger Jeff Goldstein blows a gasket:

If you are a Trump supporter you learned nothing from this site, nothing from me, nothing from conservatism, nothing from Classical Liberalism, nothing from constitutionalism, nothing from the entrenched establishment dominance over our vote and our lives, nothing about federalism, nothing about a party system, and nothing about morality, ethics, or consistency. You missed every point about the necessity of retaking language and tethering meaning to its source.

Instead, you’ve embraced the most vulgar form of progressive populism and paranoid isolationism. You’ve embraced the very anti-foundationalism and Alinsky tactics that animate and enable the leftist epistemological paradigm, all in the service of a fraud. You have thrown in — whether you like it or not — with people who have repeatedly accused me of being a puppet of the establishment, a “kike,” a “cuck,” and a race traitor, despite my having worked for years to upend the GOP establishment, to fight the scourge of anti-assimilationist multiculturalism and immigration, to expose the fraud of the diversity project and academic leftism dressed up as pragmatism, to expose the political cynicism of racialism, and to detail the mechanisms behind identity politics’ infiltration into our political orthodoxies at the level of established “truths.”

I have fifteen years worth of archives to speak to my intellectual honesty and commitment to principle. I am proud of those efforts.

It doesn’t sound like he’s the victim of “Alinsky tactics” (I don’t even know what that means), but the tactics of the right — i.e., identity politics. Goldstein and his ilk have, for years, reduced political viewpoints to simplistic labeling..  Now that he finds those labels applied to him (“cuck” etc), suddenly he sees it from a different angle.

Classic case of the chickens coming home to roost.

He then goes on to explain he is being attacked by Trump supporters for being a part of the machine that is “stealing” this election from Trump.  Which, admittedly, is a bullshit accusation against him… or anybody for that matter:

Here’s the truth: Trump has received 45% of the delegates with 36% of the vote. He’s won several caucus states and didn’t complain then. I’ve heard not one of his supporters argue that winner-take-all races in Florida, or full delegate takes in South Carolina — in neither of which state did he get a majority — disenfranchised those who voted for someone other than Trump and who will have no representation on the first ballot at a contested GOP convention. The truth is, the “system” has helped him, as it does most front runners who aren’t total incompetents and phony Republicans.

Yup.

You Trump backers are dishonest shills praying at the altar of a false god. You are fine with populist authoritarianism so long as you believe it is you who will benefit from the king’s beneficence. You are, in short, Obama voters with Rs attached to your names. You are the problem.

So. Here’s my message: Get the fuck out. I don’t want you around. You are my fault, in part — and for that I apologize to thinking people and actual Constitutionalists and TEA Party conservatives everywhere and forever.

THAT is amazingly refreshing.  I don’t get or agree with this guy’s politics, but it is nice to see him acknowledge how his tactics led (in part) to Trumpism.

Anyway, he concludes:

Donald Trump is everything I’ve spent years condemning.

Fuck him, and fuck every last one of you who would even consider casting a vote for this gauche, tin-plated con man — no matter how much gold leaf he deploys to elevate his needy, narcissistic facade among cultists, morons, and the easily taken.

Go.

The end.

That’s pretty epic.

I left out some of the best parts — specifically, the part where he describes how Trump is not a conservative.  Which is undeniably true.  He’s not a progressive either.  He’s just…. Trump.  Yes, in many ways, he is unconventional — certainly in his approach to politics.  But in many ways, he has the worst features of what everybody hates about politicians –he is in it for himself and on many issues — not all, but many — he just puts his finger up in the air to see which way the prevailing wind blows.

So at the end of the day, I have to feel bad for conservative bloggers like Goldstein.  Some schadenfraude, but most sadness.  And relief that it didn’t happen on the Dem side.