S.E. Cupp Torches Coulter, Tomi Lahren-esque GOPers: They Could Make Conservatism and Nationalism ‘Indistinguishable’

Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp is going in on Republicans she deems to be way outside the mainstream.

In a piece for Vanity Fair, Cupp — the host of S.E. Cupp: Unfiltered on CNN — absolutely torched conservatives such as Rep. Steve King (R-IA), Ann Coulter, and Tomi Lahren for views which do not reflect the Republican party she came up with. Cupp reflected on the funeral of Senator John McCain, and noted that she considered the memorial service symbolic.

“It seemed as though we were laying to rest not just ​this man, but a kind of man; not just ​this​ Republican, but a kind of Republican,” Cupp wrote. “For a half a century or so, everyone had known what it meant to be a conservative, and McCain felt like the embodiment of this collective understanding.”

Cupp went on to argue that a King, Coulter, Lahren-led party could make conservatism and nationalism virtually indistinguishable.

Imagine if Max Boot, Ben Shapiro, George Will, [Sen.] Jeff Flake (R-AZ), [Rep.] Paul Ryan (R-WI), Arthur Brooks and Alan Dershowitz had an intellectual baby: conservatism wouldn’t moderate, per se, but it might rediscover its basic humanity, its sharp eye for hypocrisy, and its affinity for free enterprise. On the other hand, the intellectual offspring of Steve King, Ann Coulter and Tomi Lahren would make conservatism and nationalism virtually indistinguishable. Right now, so much depends on which conservative genes become dominant and which become recessive.

The complete feature can be read at Vanity Fair.

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