{"id":5477,"date":"2017-05-30T05:35:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T05:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/30\/why-are-the-never-trumpers-still-anti-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T05:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T05:35:58","slug":"why-are-the-never-trumpers-still-anti-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/30\/why-are-the-never-trumpers-still-anti-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the Never-Trumpers Still Anti-Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager answers the question to my satisfaction. Here is the main part of his answer:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first and, by far, the greatest reason is this: They do not believe that America is engaged in a civil war, with the survival of America as we know it at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n

While they strongly differ with the left, they do not regard the left-right battle as an existential battle for preserving our nation. On the other hand, I, and other conservative Trump supporters, do.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why, after vigorously opposing Trump's candidacy during the Republican primaries, I vigorously supported him once he won the nomination. I believed then, as I do now, that America was doomed if a Democrat had been elected president. With the Supreme Court and hundreds of additional federal judgeships in the balance; with the Democrats' relentless push toward European-style socialism — completely undoing the unique American value of limited government; the misuse of the government to suppress conservative speech; the continuing degradation of our universities and high schools; the weakening of the American military; and so much more, America, as envisioned by the Founders, would have been lost, perhaps irreversibly. The "fundamental transformation" that candidate Barack Obama promised in 2008 would have been completed by Hillary Clinton in 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n

To my amazement, no anti-Trump conservative writer sees it that way. They all thought during the election, and still think, that while it would not have been a good thing if Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn't have been a catastrophe either.<\/span><\/p>\n

That's it, in a nutshell. Many conservatives, including me, believe that it would have been close to over for America as America if the Republican candidate, who happened to be a flawed man named Donald Trump<\/span>, had not won. Moreover, I am certain that only Donald Trump would have defeated Hillary Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, I believe that Donald Trump may have saved the country. And that, in my book, covers a lot of sins — foolish tweets, included.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

I too vigorously opposed Trump's nomination. But when he got the nod, I had the good sense to support him. It boggled my mind that supposed conservatives at least as intelligent as me would support Hillary either by voting for her or by refusing to vote for Trump. What were they thinking? Prager's analysis is the best I have seen so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

And 'surely' Prager is right that no one else could have defeated Hillary.  A Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio would have been a re-play of Romney against Obama: too many conservatives would have stayed home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Counterfactual conditionals are fascinating. I wish I understood them. But there is much that your humble correspondent does not understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

'Had Cruz been the Republication nominee in 2016, then Hillary would have won the presidential election.'<\/span><\/p>\n

How do I  know that that is true? Logically prior question: what makes it true if it is true? And logicaly prior to that: do all or some truths need truthmakers?<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet I am confident that the counterfactual in question is not only true, but more reasonably believed than its negation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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