OWNED: ‘The Federalist’ Employees Slam Never Trump Hack David Frum for Insinuation of Conservative Gender Bias

Shane Trejo |

Oct 29, 2020

Disgraced former Bush speechwriter David Frum, who abandoned the GOP to become a Never Trumper and Democrat operative, made a complete idiot of himself on social media on Thursday.

Frum posted a bizarre conspiracy theory, naming people such as left-wing journalists Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, podcast host Joe Rogan, the writers at The Federalist, and Donald Trump Jr. as part of a new milieu centered around a mutual disdain for U.S. power, or something.

“Wanted: smart, non-polemical assessment of emergence of Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, Donald Trump Jr., Matt Taibbi, the Federalist group of writers etc. as a coherent and cohesive faction in American politics. They share more than just the same dislikes,” Frum wrote in a tweet.

He started a Twitter thread to justify selling out his party and his country while hurling accusations at various political enemies who he arbitrarily grouped together.

“Trump put racism, misogyny, cruelty, corruption, authoritarianism on a giant billboard and forced us all to look. Could we accept? Those who said No found themselves in tandem with others who said No,” Frum wrote.

“Trump pushed Never Trump Republicans into partnership with moderate Democrats – and prodded even formerly conservative minded people – to see power in ideas like Me Too and Black Lives Matter,” he added.

“And that’s what we’re seeing in this fusion of the pro-Trump right with factions of the far left. Both are mistrustful of US power as a force for good. Both recoil from “centrism.” And both have heard quite enough from women and minorities, thank you very much,” Frum concluded.

While Frum’s rant is obviously meritless drivel, he really stepped into it when he made a drive-by comment to virtue signal to his left-wing, anti-male “Resistance” followers.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this group includes no women. https://t.co/bAnVzHCE6w

— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 29, 2020

Writers for The Federalist, the conservative media outlet that employs many female reporters, and other like-minded conservatives have spent the entire day dunking on Frum for his idiotic and humiliating comment.

https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1321897842181550080

I and the majority of our staff are women, my dude. https://t.co/jOXmegrtWk

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 29, 2020

There are more women @FDRLST than there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. https://t.co/jOXmegrtWk

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 29, 2020

"Do you hear that noise? What is that? Is that a mouse?" – David whenever a woman speaks https://t.co/iP7Ndq0DsX

— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) October 29, 2020

We have more women writers and editorial representation than any other major publication, period. And I have more babies than every other woman editor in the entire world. ???? https://t.co/lKeIs3vvCV

— Joy Pullmann (@JoyPullmann) October 29, 2020

I imagine @MZHemingway, @emilyjashinsky, @InezFeltscher, @JoyPullmann, @madelineorr, et al. would object to your attempted (misogynist?) erasure of their significant body of work at @FDRLST. https://t.co/k4vZi5boKy

— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) October 29, 2020

Two things are true at @FDRLST:

1. We believe men and women are different.

2. We employ a majority of the latter. https://t.co/tMFjS4VOy3

— Kylee Zempel (@kyleezempel) October 29, 2020

I'm not "no women." And neither are @MZHemingway @JoyPullmann @kyleezempel @emilyjashinsky @madelineorr or any of our other incredible women contributors and interns. https://t.co/qBTT0hjbHM

— Jordan Davidson (@jordangdavidson) October 29, 2020

Big League Politics has been hammering Frum for years as he has emerged as perhaps the most dishonest charlatan among the “Never Trump” defectors:

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, a face of the NeverTrump “Republican” establishment, lost the Munk debate in Toronto to Steve Bannon, populist-nationalist CEO of the President Trump 2016 campaign and original Trump White House chief strategist.

Frum is one of the few media-friendly so-called conservatives still clinging to newsprint in the age of Trump by throwing spitballs at the wildly successful Commander in Chief. (He also wrote a book on W. Bush entitled “The Right Man,” lest we forget).

Bannon fans were looking forward to the confrontation…

Frum set the scene in his post-debate lamentation in The Atlantic: “Bannon is not a marginal figure. He is a central personality in the history of our times, who helped to elect a president of the United States and is now advising competitive political parties across Europe. If you think his—and their—influence is pernicious, well, that influence does not become any less pernicious if you refuse to argue why it is wrong. The debate in Toronto focused on a prediction: whether the future belonged to populist politics (the polite term for the politics of Donald Trump and the many Little Trumps in power or competing for power across our Earth) or to liberal politics, in the broadest sense of the word liberal.”

Frum found Bannon to be more impressive in front of a crowd than Frum imagined, writing, “As a debater, Bannon proved engaging and entertaining. When one of his lines gained lonely applause from a single audience member, Bannon quipped, ‘Thanks, Mom.’ That lit up the room.”

Frum notes that at the beginning of the debate, the audience supported the Frum position 72-28, but at the end of the debate Bannon won with the crowd, 57-43.

Perhaps during term two, President Donald Trump could have Frum arrested for his role in devising and selling the public on the Iraq War.

OWNED: ‘The Federalist’ Employees Slam Never Trump Hack David Frum for Insinuation of Conservative Gender Bias

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