Ben Sasse Is Everything Wrong With Elite Conservatism

We’ve nearly won the battle for the Republican Party, having kicked out most of the grifters, weasels, weenies, and dorks of Conservative, Inc. They spent decades dunning us for donations while conserving not very much at all, so we elected Donald Trump and remade the GOP. Now there’s no place left for them, and they’re pouting on the Lido Deck among the unsold cruise cabins, sipping Zima and muttering about how ungrateful we are. As I explain in my hilarious and obnoxious new book, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy, the sissy squad from Conservative, Inc., is going away. We’ve evolved from cliché-spewing, soft Bushie Eloi into focused and fearsome Trumpian Morlocks. -- More...