James Lomax Once Talked About Leaving America Over Trump. Now He Wants Conservatives to Forget.

As President Donald Trump recently criticized former Congressman Mo Brooks, many Alabama conservatives may have overlooked one important fact:

Brooks is running against one of Alabama’s original Never Trump Republicans.

Years before Donald Trump became the dominant force in Republican politics, James Lomax authored a column openly expressing disgust with the 2016 election and specifically targeting Trump’s rise. In the piece, Lomax wrote:

“Trump and his pithy insults mixed with Clinton and her seemingly weekly bouts with scandal makes it easy to understand why I'm scrambling the web to half-heartedly inquire rates for a one-way plane ticket to Canada.”

That was not written by a Democrat activist on MSNBC. That was written by the same James Lomax now asking Alabama conservatives to support him in a Republican primary.

At the time, grassroots Trump supporters across Alabama were mocked and ridiculed by establishment Republicans who insisted Trump could never win and would destroy the party. Many of those same political figures have since tried to quietly reinvent themselves as loyal members of the America First movement.

Voters should remember who was actually there from the beginning.

Love him or hate him, Mo Brooks stood with Trump early and publicly when doing so came with political consequences. He took criticism from the media, from party insiders, and from much of the Republican establishment.

James Lomax was writing articles about wanting to flee to Canada.

That is why authenticity still matters in Republican politics. Alabama conservatives can disagree on personalities, style, or strategy, but they know the difference between someone who fought for the movement when it was unpopular and someone trying to rewrite history now that supporting Trump is politically beneficial.