General Discussion

She’s also caring, which personally I think is hard to fake. Her new husband — I have no idea what his politics are or were as his reportage doesn’t announce it to me.

But back to Nicolle — my first real intro to her was the night she and Steve Schmidt (who went on to help found The Lincoln Project) were assigned to cover the Republican Convention and Trump’s nomination. I watched quite a bit of the proceedings, and definitely caught the speech I call American Carnage.

She and Steve Schmidt (who may or may not be related to her husband, Smith being a common name in several languages) sat in the darkened, deserted ballroom doing after-analysis, and they both were stunned, gut-punched, gobsmacked, poleaxed — choose your adjective. Nicolle was virtually speechless. Steve started talking about the US Constitution and how violative of it Trump promised to be — and this hardbitten GOP pol literally choked up.

As for Nicolle, she’s been a Never Trumper all along, and that’s no secret. As the years have gone by she’s gotten more and more open about how much she hates Trump and what her former party has become.

Perhaps the reasons for your hatred have worn themselves away — or perhaps you simply like holding on to what people used to be.

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