Jonah Goldberg: The Never Trump Movement Is over, We Lost

‘I’ve been eating a lot of crow, which tastes remarkably like black swan’

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GOLDBERG: “I’ve been eating a lot of crow, which tastes remarkably like black swan. This is a remarkable thing that Donald Trump did. I thought his speech was actually very good and very smart. I think the never-Trump movement is by definition over because he won. We lost. You have to — particularly if you are a conservative, you have to give him a fresh start and give him the benefit of the doubt. If Hillary Clinton can do it, I can do it. I thought he did a very good job of sending that signal. I think there are a lot of pitfalls that he could stall fall into with all that. I do think — I don’t want to take anything away from his victory which was really impressive. It’s important to pick up on something that Mara said. This was also Hillary Clinton’s defeat. This was a really poor performance by Hillary Clinton. Very low turnout from key constituencies. You had less turnout overall than did you in 2004 for John Kerry and we’ve got something like 40 million more people on the voter rolls. The Democratic Party nominated literally the worst person they could for a change election. They rallied around it and she was a bad candidate both in theory and in practice.”

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