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And Bill got elected TWICE to the office. Character matters - but, when your in a fox hole and artillery is landing all around you, your not concerned about whether the guy next to you is a pious saint ... Your thoughts are along the line of are we gonna get out of this hole alive?

Remember this: there are no atheists in a fox hole, but neither are their any saints - there are only live heroes, or dead ones ... And it is not all “a matter of luck” ... It comes down many times to who is the better soldier. Cruz is a frigging private, bucking for promotion to general ... Trump IS a five-star general - an SOB for sure, but he’s an SOB that knows how to fight the damned enemy ... And THAT is all that matters when your in a fox hole and the enemy is getting ready to overrun your position.

Your analogy falls short in that you compare a physical battle to a spiritual one where the war is for the values and principles that made America great to begin with. If you are killed by "friendly fire" you are as dead as if you had been killed by your worst enemy. The difference that made America greater than other nations was the moral foundation. What good is a wall if the people on the inside become no different than the people on the out side? That has been slowly happening for over 100 years. A nationalistic pragmatist will not save the nation or make America great again. One of the great examples of pragmatism without morality was Benito Mussolini. Putin is also a pragmatist as are all despots. Pragmatism is merely a means, and it is a servant. Without a strong dedication to moral values and principles, the pragmatist will cater to you only as long it serves his interest. When those interest shift, he will toss you aside to "sleep" with another with total disregard for those who he has used and the other victims. "If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller," - Donald Trump: The Art Of The Deal If you trust a man who exploited women and still holds financial investments in strip clubs, with no qualms about it, you deserve what you get when he dumps you to climb in bed with others. A pure pragmatist should not be chose as the leader. Even if they win power the nation will loose. It is one thing to win, another to survive. It is the pragmatists that need to yield, not the conservatives. Otherwise, even if you win you will still go down. Righteousness exalts a nation; pure pragmatism will destroy it, even if the trains do run on time. Mussolini found that out.