The term "sellout" can be used to describe someone who is willing to trade his or her deep personal convictions in exchange for some momentary fame or short-lived gain.
It is also a word that can aptly apply to the "never-Trumpers" of today's politically fractured society; i.e., those who steadfastly maintain a hate-filled mindset and who indulge in retaliatory thoughts and behavior.
Over the course of his first term in office, President Donald Trump laid down a clear track record of conservatism in the face of untold liberal pressure.
Unmatched in his efforts to rectify years of "progressive" wrongs, he succeeded in transforming the judiciary, de-regulating the economy, reforming national trade policies and reducing tax burdens on working class folks.
He did all this in the midst of a cadre of so-called conservative Republicans, which grew to become nothing short of a heavily greased and well-funded political machine.
One recent ad campaign is as instructive as it is disturbing.
The advertisement video features the former editor of the now-defunct Weekly Standard magazine Bill Kristol as well as the Hollywood actor and celebrity comic Billy Crystal.
The attempted gag has the two individuals of differing backgrounds and similar names uniting in an effort to persuade Jewish voters to throw their support behind the current Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Directed by Rob Reiner and written by Phil Rosenthal, the ad was produced for a group called the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) in partnership with a super PAC called Jews Defending American Values.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" was the select venue for its debut airing.
It turns out that the JDCA is a left-leaning front group, which was launched in August 2017 as part of the "resistance" movement that was working against the administration of President Trump.
The group's launch event was attended by an interesting line-up of prominent Democrat officeholders, which included future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
More than 20 elected Democrat politicians chose to take to the podium to speak at the event.
Following a previous ad campaign, which was initiated by the JDCA and included Nazi imagery, criticism poured in from several Jewish organizations such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League.
Kristol, who in the new ad self-identifies as a "Republican" and a "conservative," is the quintessential never-Trumper. He has worked non-stop with Democrats to attack and undermine President Trump.
Fox News' Tucker Carlson notes that for quite a long time Kristol and his never-Trumper buddies have been "advocating for open borders and nation-building in countries whose populations hate us …"
In addition, Carlson points out that the never-Trumpers have pushed "trade deals that eliminated jobs while enriching their donors, all while implicitly mocking the base for its worries about abortion and gay marriage and the pace of demographic change."
In my estimation, never-Trumpers are merely your average everyday garden-variety leftists.
What is not your average everyday nugget of info, though, is the fact that never-Trumpers receive their money from uber-wealthy leftists.
The name Pierre Omidyar may not ring a bell, but he is the founder of eBay. He became a billionaire at the young age of 31, with the company's initial public offering in 1998.
Omidyar has given more than $200 million to left-wing groups, including the Open Society Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Responsive Politics.
During the Democratic Party presidential primaries in 2008, Omidyar donated to the campaigns of both then-Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Over the course of several years, Omidyar and his wife also donated $200,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $150,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
As Julie Kelly reported in the Cincinnati Enquirer, another group, Republican Voters Against Trump, is "tied to a nonprofit that has received millions in contributions over the past few years from Pierre Omidyar."
And Kelly also noted that in 2016 Omidyar donated $100,000 to an entity called the NeverTrump PAC.
Kelly additionally revealed that the Lincoln Project, a prominent never-Trumper organization, received financing from billionaire Democratic donor and leftist Hollywood producer David Geffen, who is a longtime Democratic Party cash source.
During the 2018 mid-terms, never-Trumpers and their ally organizations helped elect far-left radical Democrats to Congress, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., which helped facilitate Pelosi's rise to House Speaker.
Anyone who does a cursory review of the Biden/Harris candidacy realizes that never-Trumpers have not just sold out their principles, they have sold out the country.
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A., in media psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, media analyst and law professor. Visit Newsmax TV Hollywood. Read James Hirsen's Reports — More Here.
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