""But Hillary is worse…!”
Yes, I know. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t engage in some cognitive dissonance. There’s one thing to vote for Trump in a binary choice, as CR’s Mark Levin has suggested. There is quite another to begin championing his liberal policies like so many of his supporters are doing. The same way conservatives should have never acceded to McCain’s immigration plan just because he was that party’s nominee or Bush’s federalization of education, so too must refuse to acquiesce to Trump’s Bernie Sanders-style fiscal policies.
Here is a good rule of thumb: don’t champion any policy you would have vigorously opposed and ridiculed 12 months ago.
Conservatives do themselves no favors by selling out their views and cheering Trump’s liberal policies, while assuming that some of the conservative advisors around him will clean up the mess. That will destroy any leverage we have to talk him off the ledge.
There is nobody closer to Trump than his daughter. If you think some of the conservative advisors have more clout than Ivanka, you are not paying attention. She is to The Donald what Huma is to Hillary. If he was willing to adopt this plan at her behest, there is a lot more where that came from. And it’s as old and stale as Bernie Sanders."
- See more at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/09/the-triumph-of-old-school-socialism-trumps-massive-new-welfare-plan#sthash.j2OEOcp5.1x5XV6xG.dpuf
