Scott Morefield has written for all the worst conservative publications—Breitbart, Daily Caller, The Blaze, WND, something called “American Greatness” which just has to be the worst, and currently, Townhall. In 2020, he was singularly obsessed with “corona fascism,” claiming that, “people in this country ... are so in love with their slave gags that they’re willing to mandate them literally forever,” and hyperventilating that “’Black Lives Matter’ wants to ‘burn down’ Western civilization and replace it with a communist/Socialist hellscape.” It was very measured, well-reasoned stuff.
(Turns out, however, that Democrats were happy to ditch mask mandates as soon as it became possible to do so, and one would think that police could refrain from murdering Black people in a market-based economy.)
On top of all that, he was really big on Donald Trump, arguing that the “lying media” and “Trump haters” were “twist[ing] his words,” that Trump supporters had the moral high ground despite the efforts of “the #NeverTrump ‘right’ and the anti-Trump left,” and blasting “the Republican governors who betrayed Trump.” He wrote about the “five ways Trump is literally saving the world,” claimed that, “God has clearly used a flawed President Trump to accomplish great things,” and lamented that investigations into Trump’s crimes was problematic because “Trump Derangement Syndrome [masked] the tragic combination of overcriminalization and political persecution.”
Morefield was such an ardent supporter of Trump, that he clapped back at critics after writing a less-than glowing piece on Trump: “Others who had quite obviously never read anything I’ve ever written called me a (gasp) ‘Never Trumper.’ If I’m completely honest, that one stung a bit, especially considering how much grief I’ve given real Never Trumpers over the years.”
Well, how times have changed!
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