He should host a dinner for Trump and announce the endorsement then. Trump needs Ohio.
I hope he gets over his vote-purity snit. This is vote-prudence.
But I wouldn’t tell Kasich to feel so bad about having fallen into that vote-purity snit. There have been loads of such snits right on FR. They are oh, so well intended.
We cut the Gordian knot by clarifying what a political vote is. It is not a set of heartfelt, sworn wishes to God about where our government ought to be. It is a prudential act intended to bring our government as close as possible under our circumstances to where it would ideally be.
The effectual time for third party challenges, given a contender this powerful and flexible, came and went with the primaries. Now the plane has been programmed for a destination, it is being boarded, and the main question is whether it will get there with more electoral passengers than the next most boarded plane will, with the second most important question being how lopsidedly.
In counting up his tokens about how “evil” a Trump presidency must be, Kasich has forgotten to count how “good” it could be. Trump is not acting like a stick in the mud, errors though he may make. Kasich should not, either.