{"id":6443,"date":"2016-05-11T05:36:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/11\/the-nevertrump-mentality\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T05:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:36:51","slug":"the-nevertrump-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/11\/the-nevertrump-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"The NeverTrump Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonah Goldberg, 10 May 2016<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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For conservatives, party unity is another way of saying \u201csuicide pact.\u201d I will never vote for Hillary Clinton because she believes things I can never support. I will never vote for Donald Trump because he\u2019s a bullying fool who believes in nothing but himself. The conservative movement can wait out a Clinton presidency intact. But Perry was right. A Trump presidency is a ride straight to perdition, with a capital H.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The problem is wrapped in the sentence, "The conservative movement can wait out a Clinton presidency intact."  How does Mr. Goldberg know this?  George Will and other members of the 'bow-tie brigade' have said similar things recently.  It seems rather unlikely to me.  Hillarious appointments to SCOTUS will damage the country irrepararably.  I am told there might be as many as three.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose I am becoming weaker by the day and you are becoming stronger by the day.  You are my sworn enemy and I must defeat you.  Does it make sense for me to wait four years to fight you?<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldberg seems to be making two assumptions predicated on wishful thinking.  One is that in four years someone will arise in the conservative ranks who can prevail against the Dems and win the presidency.  The other is that it won't be too late by then given four more years of leftist consolidation and government takeover.  <\/span><\/p>\n

By leftist consolidation I means things like four more years of the illegal immigration of 'undocumented Democrats.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldberg, Will, and the rest of the bow-tie boys need to argue for the truth of those two assumptions.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the assumptions are worse than unargued; they are false. While Trump is admittedly awful, Hillary is worse<\/a>.  Conservatives must unite behind Trump.  He is all we got.  He alone has a chance of beating Hillary. 
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My position strikes me as the only reasonable one for a conservative to occupy.  I am assuming that one is not prepared for the Benedict Option or other forms of withdrawal.  See my Activism and Quietism<\/a> category.
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Can you budge me from my position?  You will need arguments, something that Goldberg, Boot, Kristol, Will and the boys haven't provided as far as I know.  What are those arguments?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jonah Goldberg, 10 May 2016: For conservatives, party unity is another way of saying \u201csuicide pact.\u201d I will never vote for Hillary Clinton because she believes things I can never support. I will never vote for Donald Trump because he\u2019s a bullying fool who believes in nothing but himself. The conservative movement can wait out … Continue reading “The NeverTrump Mentality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}