The conservative movement lost one of its greatest “happy warriors” when Andrew Breitbart died suddenly in 2012. Imagine what the 2012 presidential election would have been like if he had lived to see it.
However, if you are wondering what Andrew would have to say about the 2016 presidential election, we now know. Here is an eerily prescient clip of Andrew talking to Juan Williams and Leslie Marshall about Donald Trump running for president…. from 2011.
Watch it for yourself. (The Trump remarks begin at the 5:09 mark.)
From Business Insider on April 23, 2011:
Breitbart also did not seem to be a fan of Trump either, saying “he is not a conservative.” He also had a warning for Republicans if they don’t get their act together.
“Celebrity is everything in this country. And if these guys don’t learn how to play the media the way that Barack Obama played the media last election cycle and the way that Donald Trump is playing the election cycle, we’re going to probably get a celebrity candidate.”
Notice also how, in this clip, Leslie Marshall is almost gleeful about Republicans potentially getting suckered into believing Trump’s schtick. Juan Williams points that out that Marshall thinks that a Trump candidacy “could destroy the Republican party.”
How scarily accurate that prediction is turning out to be.
Andrew Breitbart saw Donald Trump clearly for what he was – a celebrity who is in this FOR HIMSELF, who is NOT a conservative.
And if he could see it back in 2011, why is it so hard for others to see it now?
Breitbart is here, and his words live on.
Why would you insist that Trump be engraved in stone and never be allowed to change? Although Andrew didn’t hear this side of Trump, he said that a number of his beliefs in social issues have evolved over the past few years. Mine have too. He pointed out that Reagan was first a Democrat before abandoning that party for the Republicans. I don’t find that strange based on what Obama has put the country through from 2008 to 2011…if Andrew had lived he would be apoplectic over the behavior coming from the Oval Office.
It seems he’s been gone forever rather than only 4 years. What a loss.
Deanna Fisher says: So, do you believe that Trump is a conservative NOW? That is the big question.
GWB says: Juan Williams points that out that Marshall thinks that a Trump candidacy “could destroy the Republican party.”
I think Trump is way too late for that. He might put a final nail or two in the coffin, but Boehner, McConnell, and the GOP establishment have killed the party long before Trump tossed his hair in the ring for 2016.
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