Neocons Run Third Party Candidate: He Thinks US White Working Class Should Die

People well informed about the current US presidential election should know that the neoconservatives – America’s all-star team of warmongering foreign policy GOP elite – have had a massive falling out with Donald Trump (e.g., see here). That assault on the neocon and GOP elite is summed up by this amusing cartoon here.

The result of all this has been that now one neocon faction prefers to vote for Hillary, and the other faction led by neocon-in-chief William Kristol is supporting an alternative candidate to run against Trump.

Ol’ Bill has been doing the rounds of US talk shows for weeks now assuring the #NeverTrump party faithful that they will have a splendid candidate to vote for – even while driving pro-Trump conservatives insane with rage, as illustrated in this video:



People’s interest was piqued a few days ago by this tweet by Kristol.

Well, Kristol apparently has made his pick: some neocon hack and nobody called David A. French (ughh, change your profile photo, dude), who is yet to make a decision.

But it gets better than this. As we know, many GOP establishment conservatives and the neocons have been foaming at the mouth over Trump’s stunning victories and also enraged that his support seems to come from angry white working class voters who have been savaged by decades of their free trade neoliberalism.

A while ago the leading US conservative journal National Review published this atrocity of an article here, in which Kevin Williamson vents his spleen at America’s poor white working class and proclaimed his belief that the “truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die” (see more here).

Well, guess what? Old David French – possible neocon candidate for president – is in wholehearted agreement with Williamson’s view of the white working class, and said so in this stunning defence here.

Good luck with that run for president, David!!

Is this American neoconservatism in 2016? Really? Infected with a genocidal hatred of their own people?

Neocons declare War on… Trump!

Details here. People on the left: take careful note of this. Many neoconservatives may even desert the GOP for Hillary Clinton.

Trump also caused hysterical outrage by the mere suggestion that maybe – just maybe – when running for US president he should display “neutrality” on the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And now the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) – an organisation of neoconservatives and US evangelical Christians who think their ticket to heaven depends on Israel inciting a Third World war in the Middle east – are running this ad against Trump below.

I mean: just look at this ad.



Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi are long dead. Putin isn’t the new Hitler, and it is perfectly clear that as bad as Bashar al-Assad is (and he is brutal and bad) any likely alternative to him such as a rebel government in Syria would probably result in a genocide in that country.

I’ll just add: it doesn’t even matter to the neocons that, if and when Trump gets into office, I imagine he will be as militantly pro-Israel as any of the current Republican front runners, and maybe even more so.

Update
An amusing video on this very issue from Democracy Now, with an interview with Zaid Jilani, who points to the important difference between (1) old-fashioned Republican realists (e.g., like James Baker) and (2) the war-crazed neocons.



I also notice that Trump seems to attract some of the more crazed Alex-Jones style conspiracy theorists on the US right, because over at the Alex Jones YouTube Channel they seem to love Trump.

Update 2: Michael Hayden on Trump
In the video below. Very interesting. Michael Hayden was director of the CIA from 2006 to 2009. People forget there are real limits even to the power of US president.