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To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris
The New York Times ^
| Aug. 11, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
| David French
Posted on 08/11/2024 10:50:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I believe life begins at conception. If I lived in Florida, I would support the state’s heartbeat bill and vote against the referendum seeking to liberalize Florida’s abortion laws. I supported the Dobbs decision and I support well-drafted abortion restrictions at the state and federal levels. I was a pro-life lawyer who worked for pro-life legal organizations. While I want prospective parents to be able to use I.V.F. to build their families, I do not believe that unused embryos should simply be discarded — thrown away as no longer useful.
But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism.
Since the day Donald Trump came down
that escalator in 2015, the MAGA movement has been engaged in a long-running, slow-rolling ideological and characterological transformation of the Republican Party. At each step, it has pushed Republicans further and further away from Reaganite conservatism. It has divorced Republican voters from any major consideration of character in leadership and all the while it has labeled people who resisted the change as “traitors.”
What allegiance do you owe a party, a movement or a politician when it or they fundamentally change their ideology and ethos?
Let’s take an assertion that should be uncontroversial, especially to a party that often envisions itself as a home for people of faith: Lying is wrong. I’m not naïve; I know that politicians have had poor reputations for honesty since Athens. But I have never seen a human being lie with the
intensity and sheer volume of Donald Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: boohoo; davidfrench; fakenews; newyorkslimes; seeya
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To: Steve_Seattle
I don’t have a NYT account. Does he give any examples of what he’s talking about? I’m not aware of Trump endorsing violence or threatening violence. He probably gives none or inserts a link to something that takes something he said out of context.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:03:33 AM PDT
by
lasereye
To: E. Pluribus Unum
More crazy people from the The New York Times a lemming fest in action.
Daily cliff diving starts a sun rise.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:03:34 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: Disambiguator
It’s not the same, the NYT IS A JOKE !!!
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:03:46 AM PDT
by
Pearfect
(Ou can't beat the competition loc)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’m a conservative but…
I’m an ee-vangelical but…
I’m from the Bible Belt but…
Propagandists trot these out year after year.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:04:36 AM PDT
by
marron
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Once again, David French comes to an utterly preposterous conclusion.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:04:54 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism.”
Great idea. As for myself, I’m planning on voting for Jack the Ripper so we can lower the crime rate.
To: for-q-clinton
I’m also voting for Trump to,save the country from democrats and COMMUNISTS.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:05:21 AM PDT
by
Pearfect
(Ou can't beat the competition loc)
To: ClearCase_guy
The courage of this Republican is so impressive.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:05:25 AM PDT
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris"
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:05:28 AM PDT
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ah. Don’t you just love those WASP males? So stalwart in their conservatism.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:05:37 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is probably safe to say, that there are no circumstances under which David French could ‘in good conscience’ vote for the Republican candidate, unless the Republican candidate was a Democrat.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:05:44 AM PDT
by
Who is John Galt?
("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
To: Pearfect
Remember when people would believe these plants in the RNC.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:06:46 AM PDT
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
To: Steve_Seattle
It was Scalia and ten other Republicans... You mean Steve Scalise?
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:07:00 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Disambiguator
The New York Times….. Low budget, Chinese knockoff copy of the Babylon Bee.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:08:48 AM PDT
by
sjmjax
To: E. Pluribus Unum
or the BLM riots....or a Sanders supporter shooting up GOP softball practice....or democrat imported illegals beating up police in NYC...
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:08:54 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: All
To avoid greed, I am robbing banks.
To avoid violent urges, I am attacking strangers.
To avoid masturbation, I am renting a hooker.
But those are poor analogies, it would be more accurate to say
Despite having no desire for material gain, I am robbing banks (etc).
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:09:27 AM PDT
by
Peter ODonnell
(A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Save socialism from itself - vote Trump!
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:09:52 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This guy was never a Republican or a conservative. 🙄
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:10:06 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
French blames Trump for an increase in murders, drug overdoses, abortions, a decrease in marriages and births, a fraying of the social fabric.
There is much I dislike about Trump, but he was a better President than I expected, and the problems French blames on Trump resulted from COVID and the lock downs, George Floyd’s death and de-policing. Social fabric doesn’t survive lies by Democrats and dishonest officials, amplified by hysterical, incurious lackey journalists. The drop in abortions from GWB to Obama is most likely due to an aging population and an increase in IUD use, and possibly, reporting changes.
French has written a profoundly dishonest piece.
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:10:15 AM PDT
by
heartwood
(If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
David French- “The Conservative Case for Sending Dissidents to Re-Education Camps.”
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posted on
08/11/2024 11:11:11 AM PDT
by
MuttTheHoople
( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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