Matt Lewis, a conservative columnist for The Daily Beast, is not happy with Republican primary voters for once again making Donald Trump the party's presumptive presidential nominee.
In his latest piece, Lewis argued that Trump's twin triumphs in Iowa and New Hampshire show that his 2016 primary victory in a divided field was no fluke and that Trump is whom the GOP base actually wants as its champion.
"It’s time to drop the crap about reluctantly making a 'binary choice' or Trump being the 'lesser of two evils' when compared to Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden," he wrote. "Having rejected the options of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, you decided to give us Barabbas. Again."
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Lewis also found it particularly telling that Trump really pulled away in polls last year after being hit with multiple criminal indictments, which prompted him to ask, "What does it say about a political party when being indicted boosts you in the polls?"
"The Party of Lincoln has metastasized into a decadent and perverse cult of personality that calls evil good and good evil," Lewis added. "This metamorphosis is sometimes rationalized by a victimhood complex that sees America as fundamentally evil and her institutions (the justice system, the media, the FBI, the establishment, etc.) as out to get them. In many ways, it’s everything I hated about the Democratic Party of my youth."