Posted on 09/19/2018 4:37:20 AM PDT by simpson96
If you’re a longtime Republican voter, you’ve likely by now heard the growing and insistent and highly concerned media refrain: Republicans who truly care about America will vote for Democrats this fall.
In RealClearPolitics last month, columnist Froma Harrop addressed the woes of Republicans in the age of Trump, offering her take on the only honorable options for this fall: “You can follow the lead of GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, conservative columnist George Will and others who have fled the party. Or you can stay in and help a Democratic sweep of Congress, with the aim of regrouping afterward. Sending good but spineless Republicans to Washington would only extend the nation’s agony.”
In the end, she argues, “The anti-Trump Republicans’ only hope at the moment is a massive repudiation of Trumpism at the polls.”
Many smart people have made this point, and will likely continue to do so as we edge closer to November. But as someone who has voted for Republicans her entire life—with the exception of our current president—I have a few questions.
First of all, what about sending good Republicans with spines to Washington? There are plenty of them on the ballot all across the country. Also, is the nation really in constant “agony,” or does that state of mind apply just to a particular swath of journalists? Further, it seems rather odd that I would vote for people who have explicitly promised me they will energetically oppose most of my policy preferences. I may not have voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but I sure as heck didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton.
But ah, the specter of “Trumpism.” It is a mysterious and powerful thing! I see endless commentary about it online, but I don’t see a lot of it in real life. I don’t know
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Sorry, but I am disinclined to acquiesce to the journalists’ claim that the sky is falling. Means no.
That’s what the author is saying in this article.
No need to read more. This author is a perfect fit for the #NeverTrump NRO.
There will be no regrouping. The demonrats will rig the system in their favor and literally murder anyone who objects.
The campaign slogan this fall for every Republican should be; “Vote for us or they’ll kill you.”
And it is really true.
This article more garbage from the Never Trump publication, National Review.
Yep.
Commit suicide and become born again??
“The campaign slogan this fall for every Republican should be; “Vote for us or they’ll kill you.”
God bless you for understanding.
L
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