Of all of the reasons to oppose Donald Trump, David French articulates the worst.
Beautifully said, by @bariweiss. In that vein, the Southern Baptist convention is right: “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Let me try an analogy. You have a plumbing problem at your domicile that you don't know how to fix (which, in my case, would be every single conceivable plumbing problem).
So you're going to have to hire a plumber. Do you (A) talk to every single local plumber you can in order to determine whether the personal religion or morality of that plumber agrees with your own? Or (B) do you hire the best, highest-rated plumber that you possibly can regardless of whether they're Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian or Taoist?
Thought so.
The president of the United States is a great many things but when you get right down to it, the president of the United States is one thing and only one. He's not a prophet or a priest. He's not another Moses, called by God to lead this country into some kind of golden era.
He's the First Federal Employee. Full stop.
If he does an acceptable job, he'll get another four years. If he doesn't, he won't. Think of a US president as anything more than that and you risk developing a serious drinking problem when your preferred candidate loses to a reality TV show star because she never visited Wisconsin.
Besides, how seriously are conservatives supposed to take calls for the advancement of conservative values coming from institutional conservative politicians or writers who don't seem to take those values all that seriously themselves?
Exhibit A? Mitt Romney.
Mitt's probably a good guy. Way more devoted to his marriage vows than Donald Trump ever was, that's for sure. And not long before he ran for president, about as liberal as Donald Trump supposedly was, if not more so. Called himself pro-choice, participated in gay pride parades, etc.
Hey, if you want to be governor of Massachusetts, you have to do stuff like that. Maybe. But here's a thought. Kick around the idea of maybe not letting the institutional GOP repackage you as a "conservative" and run you for president.
That is, if you want anyone to take you seriously.
And whatever you do, don't seriously respond to your various attacks or call out the media on its obvious bias. Because that would be unseemly or something. Just sit back, accept your inevitable defeat and await your Strange New RespectTM down the road.
The institutional GOP would have had its "okay, we tried it your way, now shut up and leave the serious stuff to serious people" moment and Jeb Bush would have been obliterated by Hillary last time out. But Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States.
I don't think I can explain why any better than that.
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The thing that bothers me about these holier-than-thou never Trumpers is that they can't explain to me how voting for a woman who has been corrupt in public office and committed national security felonies is better than voting for a guy who cheated on his first wife (and allegedly, although not certainly, on his current one). Especially since the cad has been a much better president than any we've had in a long time.
Still true:
"He was supposed to lose the primary, but he didn’t. He was supposed to lose the general, but he didn’t. He was supposed to fall victim to the covert schemes of leftist bureaucrats and the overt obstruction of The Resistance, but he didn’t....
The elite keeps losing to the guy they tell us is dumb. The elite keeps losing to the guy they tell us is a clown. The elite keeps losing to the guy who doesn’t meet their bottom line standard to be worthy of governing – being one of the elite. So, what’s that make the elite?
He just refuses to lose. He just refuses to submit. He just refuses to give a damn about what they say or what they think. And that infuriates them. He won’t take a knee, but he will offer them a finger."
Excerpted from Kurt Schlicter, for Townhall, Dec. 28, 2017
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