In perhaps the least surprising thing to most observers, aggressive Trump defender (and attempted distancer from Jeffrey Epstein despite serving as his lawyer) Alan Dershowitz registered as a Republican. He attempted to justify his decision to do so in an April 23 Newsmax column:
I have not changed.
But the world around me has changed dramatically, requiring me to switch from being a Democrat critical of the Democrats to becoming a Republican.
Even as recently as 10 years ago I couldn’t have imagine myself uttering the words “I am a Republican.”
But recent events have pushed me away from the Democratic party and toward what I regard as the lesser of two evils – the deeply flawed but far better Republican Party
I still support much of the Democratic platform, especially with regard to domestic and social issues, such as abortion, immigration, separation of church from state and fair taxation.
But I cannot abide the dramatic shift of the Democratic leadership and much of its base away from its support for Israel and other critical foreign policy issues.
So if I could put an asterisk next to my registration form for the Republican party, it would say “foreign policy Republican.”
[…]I will lose even more friends than I did for defending President Trump’s constitutional rights.
Already I am getting emails, texts and calls from people urging me to reconsider my affiliation with a party that advocates many positions with which I disagree.
But I have made a choice – a difficult but necessary one.
Until the Democrat’s gain their sanity, I will do everything in my power to try to prevent the current Democratic party from taking control of the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
And I will choose to join the Republican Party because today it stands strong on some of the gravest issues facing America and the world.
He sounds more like he’s trying to convince himself — and Trump — of his decision than anyone else. Sad, really.
As if to hammer home his new official affiliation, A May 11 article detailed a Newsmax TV appearance in which Dershowitz declared that “he believed the tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump were legal on constitutional grounds.”