I watch Bret Baier's Special Report on Fox News somewhat often, and have wondered why never-Trumper Steve Hayes shows up on the panel with some regularity. Hayes, you may remember, wrote for National Review and then became Editor-in-Chief of the now-defunct Weekly Standard. Both of these were anti-Trump but WS was stridently so.
Lately, Baier introduces Hayes as the editor of an online site called The Dispatch, to the content of which I have seen exactly zero links. It apparently exists to provide a fig leaf of 'employment' for never-Trump RINOs. He's normally on Bret's panel with Harold Ford, a genuinely moderate Democrat, and a real GOP partisan like Trey Gowdy.
Writing at Ace of Spades HQ, the eponymous Ace reveals that Baier and Hayes were college roommates and presumably remain good friends. I understand doing a friend favors, but the death of The Weekly Standard and the obscurity of The Dispatch are evidence aplenty that there is no market for the anti-Trump conservatism Hayes represents.
I would say of Steve Hayes what the old Grail knight famously said of the dead Julian Glover in Indy's Last Crusade, "He chose poorly."
