#NeverTrumpers: While Hillary is decimating America, they can shriek ‘Don’t blame us!”As far as the #NeverTrump crowd is concerned, Hillary’s election is apparently a done deal. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one, but they just know Donald Trump can’t possibly beat her, and they wouldn’t help him do it in any event because Trump is so icky to them.
Ask them about this, and they will offer elaborate justifications for why Hillary’s election is not their fault! Here’s Brandon Craig at the Reformed Layman going to quite the lengths to explain why a non-vote or a third-party vote by an otherwise conservative voter is not really a vote for Hillary:
A vote for Hillary is a vote for Hillary is a vote for Hillary
The first and most obvious reason is that a vote for Hillary is a vote for Hillary whereas not voting for her is one less vote than she would receive if you did vote for her. While this is painfully obvious, those who make such accusations seem to not get this. My first response is “oh so in that case you would be just as okay with me voting for Hillary as you would with me voting third party or just abstaining?”. To this they either reply with a resounding don’t vote for Hillary or they see where I am going with it and they hem haw around. No matter how you break it down, not voting for Hillary is always better than voting for Hillary. So on its face it is clearly not true that a vote for a third party or just not voting is the same exact thing as a vote for Hillary.
There’s more, but you get the idea. The #NeverTrump crowd is going into some real logical gymnastics to make sure everyone knows Hillary’s presidency will not be their fault, and most of it sounds like the paragraph above.
Let me suggest we look at this in a different way. If you’re a conservative voter and you care about this country, it seems to me - for the reasons I went into yesterday and many others - you would have the following very straightforward objective: Prevent Hillary from becoming president.
That’s an important objective for conservatives, yes?
Hillary out of the White House
All right. Let’s test it. If you say no, that’s not an important objective for you, then I’d say you’re either not really conservative or you don’t really care that much about what’s going to happen to the country. But I think I’d like to give people the benefit of the doubt so I’m going to assume that, if you’re conservative, keeping Hillary out of the White House is important to you. Great.
Now, let’s make a list of all the things that could happen that would prevent Hillary from winning:
1. Donald Trump defeats her.
2. Er, OK . . . there is no Number 2.
This is not about you being true to your vaunted “principles,” which might lead you to vote libertarian or stay home or whatever else. If you want to do those things so you can feel better about yourself, that’s your choice, but those things do not assist in the one and only outcome that can keep Hillary out of the White House. Just to remind you, that outcome again would be:
Donald Trump defeats her.
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Sleep well, #NeverTrumpers. The rest of us will be too busy trying to stop the nation’s bleeding to care about whether you’re to blame
You either do whatever you can to make that happen, or you can’t really say you were committed to her defeat. Voting for a libertarian doesn’t help defeat Hillary because a libertarian isn’t going to defeat her in the election. If anyone does, it will be Donald Trump. And you know this. You can argue you didn’t help elect Hillary, and you can offer logical contortions to justify that argument, but what you can’t possibly say is what I can say: I will do the most effective thing I can do to defeat Hillary.
By the way, the reason I am so committed to this has nothing whatsoever to do with Donald Trump. I am neither a big fan nor a horrified foe. It has everything to do with what will happen to this country if we lose the Supreme Court, spend another four years racking up debt, continue turning our backs on our allies while appeaing our enemies, continue sicking the IRS on the political opponents of Democrats, impose even more regulatory burdens on business, keeping letting the NLRB tip the scales in favor of unions, use “climate change” as an excuse to do all kinds of foolhardy things, intentionally put coal miners out of business - and worst of all, concentrate executive power in the hands of the woman who propagated the Benghazi lie, sold international influence for Clinton Foundation donations and tried to hide it all with a schlock, homebrew e-mail server kept in someone’s bathroom.
I would really like all this not to happen because it would decimate this nation. So I’m going to do the one thing I can do that offers the best chance of stopping it. I’m going to vote for Donald Trump.
If the effort of me and others committed to stopping Hillary fails, we’re going to go through a terrible time in this nation - even worse than what we’ve experienced under Barack Obama. Apparently you will be fine with all this because you protected your vain sense of principle by remaining #NeverTrump to the end. What you will not have done, however, is your best to stop this woman.
You can claim all day long it’s “not your fault,” but you can’t claim you were truly committed to stopping Hillary, because there was something you could have done that would have made a real difference - and you refused to do it. No matter how well you manage to rationalize your choice, you will never be able to get away from that fact. And the rest of us will never be able to get away from the consequences of our mission’s failure - a failure brought about, by definition, because not enough people were willing to support it.
Sleep well, #NeverTrumpers. The rest of us will be too busy trying to stop the nation’s bleeding to care about whether you’re to blame.
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