Conservative Columnist Torches Lara Trump, GOP for ‘Not Caring’ About Winning: Party Has Been ‘Hijacked By Nepo-Kids’

National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke is all out of patience with this incarnation of the institutional Republican Party.

In a scintillating post on Wednesday, Cooke took Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump — the wife of Eric Trump and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump — and her defenders to task over her recent release of a new song as the 2024 election enters the home stretch.

“I am old enough by now to know what it looks like when people truly care about things, and this ain’t it. It’s easy to say you care. It’s even easier to berate other people for not caring as much as you say you do. The proof, though, is in the doing,” wrote Cooke . “And, frankly, I have seen nothing from the rah-rah-rah wing of the GOP in recent years that suggests that it minds one way or the other if the party wins, loses, ties, or disappears bubbling into the sea.”

Cooke went on to blast the RNC co-chair for “wasting her time releasing music videos instead of trying to prevail in the coming election.”

“Lara Trump is merely the latest symptom of the GOP’s indifference and sloth. I am repeatedly told that it is imperative that we ‘save the country,’ and yet, invariably, the people who shout this most loudly exhibit no discernible interest in doing any of the difficult things that would get them closer to their ostensible goal,” continued Cooke. “People who actually believe that they are facing ‘the most critical election of our lifetime’ don’t choose bad candidates such as Donald Trump and Kari Lake .

“They don’t allow their party’s infrastructure to be hijacked by nepo-kids; they don’t prioritize cults of personality over the electoral popularity that is necessary for victory; they don’t permit the private interests of their candidates to take precedent over the interests of the country,” he concluded.