Ozymandias

In modern popular culture there may be no more perfect metaphor for the arc of the Never Trumpers than Breaking Bad, Season 5 Episode 14: Ozymandias.

If you haven't seen it and don't want to know how it goes, leave now.  You have been warned.

The episode opens on Walter White as a happily married man, out in the desert having just cooked his first batch of meth, lying a little awkwardly to his wife about where he was and what he was doing.  I mean, other than the actual cooking of the meth, he's not really a criminal, right?  Not a "criminal" criminal.  He's just breaking somes stupid law to raise enough money so that his wife and children won't be left penniless when he dies of the cancer that is killing him.

He's doing this for his family, for god's sake!  

For the Greater Good!

And for the next five years, as the peril and violence and extortion and bloodshed and money all kept escalating, Walter keeps telling himself that this was all worth it because he was doing this for his family, for god's sake!  

For the Greater Good.

But to keep this all going, over the course of those five years, Walter found he had to partner up with, at first, some bad people.  Then some very bad people. 

Then some very, very bad people.  

And, finally, literal Nazis. 

But when you think about it, golly, none of this was really his fault was it?  This was was just the price of keeping his political party meth empire going.  After all, his intentions were good.  He was doing all of  this for the highest motives.  For tax cuts and deregulation and freedom his family.  This was just how the game of politics meth was played.  Was it his fault he was really good at it?    And besides, he had everything under control and he was getting rich in the process.  Where's the harm?

And then one day exactly what anyone who was not a Never Trumper Walter White knew would eventually happen...happened.

Having grown his meth empire political party at the expense of giving away his power to Nazis. one day the Nazis were strong enough turned the tables.   As Never Trumpers Walter looked on powerless to stop what they he had set in motion, the Nazis at last had the money and the firepower to get away with doing whatever they want to do.  

And what they wanted to do was shoot Walter's DEA brother-in-law Liberal democracy in the head.

Walter begged them not to.  Offered them anything to please just don't do this, because Walter's DEA brother-in-law was family.  Because Never Trumpers Walter still clung to the delusion that somehow all of this had been for Conservative values  for his family, for god's sake!  

For the Greater Good!

Then the Nazis calmly shot Liberal democracy in the head without a second though.

Shot it in the head, laughed about it, collected their reward, buried the bodies in the desert and drove away.

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