My question is what you think your criticism of Trump is accomplishing?
How about the fact it helps Hillary?
You people suck.
That's actually a fair question, which I've thought about quite a bit. For a lot of us, I bet, this is a political year like no other. I've been voting for forty years, and I've never before faced a situation where the candidate of my party is simply unacceptable. I understand the need for solidarity - political change is never accomplished without it. Solidarity is a virtue, and I take no joy in refusing to support the GOP nominee. I certainly understand why folks like wolfcreek think folks like me suck.
It helps to rationalize that Trump is the nominee as the result of an insurrection, one I believe is profoundly illegitimate. But I know wolfcreek disagrees, and thinks I ought to unite with him against a common foe. And I've always urged the same. Why do I feel differently now?
Trumps lacks the qualifications to be President. And I'm not talking about political experience, or ideological bona fides. I'm talking about Trump's basic temperament and personality pathologies that may allow him to ruthlessly build a business empire, but could cause a ruinous calamity in the job of President. He is self-centered, megalomaniacal, doesn't take advice, lacks any sort of filter, is cynical and ruthless, acts impulsively, has a vindictive streak, runs his mouth like a sewer, consorts with mobsters, makes a mockery of the office itself, and makes us a laughingstock before the world.
Partisanship is fine, solidarity is fine, but Trump is existentially dangerous. Dangerous in a way that Hillary Clinton, as cynical and corrupt and brain-dead leftist as she is, doesn't approach. I don't need Trump's SCOTUS picks, not if he's going to shove us all down the rathole of a racialist and dystopian future.
I must vote my conscience and my faith in the America I was brought up to love. Sorry, wolfcreek, and it hurts me just as much as it hurts you.