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David French: The Democrats Have Not Earned Your Vote
« on: November 05, 2018, 09:46:54 pm »
David French
National Review
November 5, 2018

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If you like your Republican, you should keep your Republican.

Tens of millions of Americans have mailed in their ballots already. Tomorrow, tens of millions more will go to the polls. I’m not confident how they’ll vote, but I am absolutely certain of one thing: Not one of them will see the name “Donald Trump” on the ballot.

Instead, they will see different individuals with characters very different from Trump’s. They will see Republicans and Democrats with their own policy positions and their own rhetorical styles.

Yet now voices from the left, the center, and what can only be called the “former right” are calling on Republicans and conservatives to abandon any kind of individualized determination for the sake of opposing a man who isn’t on the ballot. They’re making that demand even as leading Democrats prove time and again that they will not moderate for the benefit of Republicans who change parties, will not compromise, and — crucially — will not even behave better than Trump himself.

In other words, they are asking for your political capitulation without earning your support.

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Re: David French: The Democrats Have Not Earned Your Vote
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2018, 12:26:45 am »
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In other words, they are asking for your political capitulation without earning your support.

So are the Republicans. There's the problem.