“If you claim to be, then you cannot support trump.”
First of all there are no committed conservatives. Not you, not anybody. So let’s dispense with that myth.
Too much nonsense has gone on for too long and involves too many people for you or anyone else to claim this with any legitimacy. You can talk about it, but it’s just talk. I’m including myself in the group of “folks who didn’t do a damn thing for 25 years”
All of a sudden, when there is a Trump, all of the inaction over the past 25 years becomes an imperative.
Here is how Trump is a net positive:
We cannot elect a “conservative” (whatever that means anymore) until the GOPe is destroyed.
Trump appears to be able to do just that.
If we elect ANYONE else - Cruz, Rubio, whomever - we preserve the GOPe, and we have the EXACT same argument in 4, 8, 12.....20 years. “Why can’t we elect a conservative”
There is at least as big a risk in NOT destroying the GOPe by electing Trump as there is in PRESERVING the GOPe.
THAT is why electing Trump makes as much sense as not electing him.
We really do need to destroy the GOPe. The Dems will destroy themselves.
It’s the least (literally) we can do - elect Trump - and improve the system. See if K-street can keep from starving to death for the next 4 years.
I have tried to stay out of the Trump/Cruz war, as both sides have devolved into grade school diatribe. The level of discourse on FR has become quite depressing, and it’s refreshing to see a modicum of adult reasoning.
Your argument is most interesting. I’ll not argue the “conservative” label or even the utility of such a sobriquet. Trump is a disciple of Robespierre, not Madison or Jefferson. I know that makes me an enemy to half the board, but such is life. I hold little hope that Trump will accomplish anything substantive, and he certainly won’t return this country to a Constitutional republic. At this point in our history, politics has no chance to save our country, but Trump offers the best hope for a departure from the status quo. If nothing else, he will reveal the GOP for the tertiary syphilitic whore that she is. Her traitorous actions are but impotent death throes.
Trump’s greatest appeal lies in the public’s honest desire for a dragon slayer, but history has proven most dragon slayers to be poor rulers. The real question is what happens afterward—rebellion or revolution? Far too many of our countrymen see no difference, but the Reign of Terror always beckons radicals and often consumes the patriot.
Well stated.