NeverTrumps and the End of America as We Know It
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/09/nevertrumps_and_the_end_of_america_as_we_know_it.html
Jared E. Peterson
September 6, 2016
The election of Hillary Clinton would mean final defeat for American conservativism -- for at least a generation and almost certainly for much longer than that. The demographic changes certain to flow from eight more years of open borders, general amnesty, and distribution of the newly arrived statist voters to electorally vulnerable states would make the Left’s presidential victory this fall, for all practical purposes, permanent.
And that’s without considering the effect on the electorate of the increasingly intolerant and repressive educational and political environment, an environment that for eight more years would continue driving substantial segments of the populace, especially the vulnerable young, into the ever more mandatory belief systems of the Left.
But don’t worry: After Clinton’s election the elegant and witty columns of George Will, William Kristol and Jonah Goldberg, aided by the surpassing political skills of the Bush and Romney families, will save us all from both these calamities, and from all the other unnamed ones that Hillary and the Left will bring.
Uh, maybe not.
If Clinton prevails there will be no conservative (or Republican) president during the lifetime of any adult member of the feckless Republican royal families, or of Mr. Goldberg or the children of George Will or William Kristol. Their prediction that the presidency will be recovered in short order is a pipe dream. Over the medium term, twenty to twenty-five years, that recovery would approach demographic impossibility.
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What a fetid steaming load of hysteria and lies! And worse: it is offered in the service of an intellectually vacuous, emotionally unstable, arrogant, angry, loudmouthed New York liberal Clinton Foundation donor whose only redeeming quality in this race is that he
isn't Hillary Clinton.
The presumption that this election or any election is some sort of "zero-sum" game is a preposterous one.
Not voting is a choice, as is voting for a third or fourth party. To do so does not help or validate those one chooses
not to vote for. A person who chooses not to vote for Hillary is not helping Donald Trump any more than someone not voting for Trump would be helping Clinton.
If 100% of Republicans who turn out on Election Day voted for Trump, they would be doing so in denial of his waffling and uncertain stances on issues that the author of this piece treats as though there were absolutely no doubt about where he stands, in spite of mountainous evidence to the contrary.
But more to the point:
he would still lose. There aren't enough GOP'ers left to overcome the huge Democrat advantages in enrollment and loyalty, and certainly not enough to overcome the now-dominant Independent vote, which this year is likely to account for more than 35% of turnout.
GOP leaders are hardly blameless in their party's decline. They have all too often frozen out conservatives and played footsie with the Democrats who no-so-secretly seek to crush them, and have done so in exchange for hollow, temporary and ultimately meaningless legislative victories.
But in terms of attracting political support in a national election, the conservative news media and the #NeverTrumpers are
not the problem.
The problem with Trump.... is Trump.
