French is a "Romney Republican " who' in media and academia had possessed outsized influence inside the Party along with the likes of Max Boot , David Frum , Bill Kristol ...
The Weekly Standard National Review crowd
All big fans of Romney, McCain, McConnell ,Liz and her dad Dick
They all hated Trumps American first populism, and rather than getting behind it, jealously set out to destroy it
Trump broke them and the will all say literally anything, no matter how idiotic to harm DT politically
Including defending government run censorship of Americans or the raid of Trumps personal residence