He was a rare what-the-fuck-are-we-doing critic of The Idiot, right up until he was presumably blackmailed.

I am willing to distinguish between mere right-wing assholes and full-blown cultists. The cultists certainly do. It's why Mitt Romney's out. He wasn't championing trickle-down economics just because the party said so, to-day. He believed that shit. The stupid bastard.