WEEKLY STANDARD
Is Joe Walsh Really ‘Woke’?
by Chris Deaton
June 27, 2018
…What makes Joe Walsh a unicorn on the right is that he roasts and praises Trump with equal intensity. He says he’s “not a Trumpist,” which is indisputable, accounting for such extra evidence as his opposition to the president’s trade policy and his doubt that Trump is much of a “tough guy” after the way he handled the North Korea summit…But Walsh is sure there’s no such ideology as Trumpism, anyway: “There ain’t a core idea in his body,” he says of the president. “We got him because the Republican party…just f—ing sucks, the Democrat party f—ing sucks, our politics suck.” READ MORE