Rich Lowry Gets Stampeded Onto The Trump Train

The Federalist ^ | April 5, 2018 | Robert Tracinski

[detective]

One of the chief arguments against Donald Trump is the very fact that so many of us on the Right spend so much time arguing with each other about him.

“The Right” has always been a broad ideological coalition, and any president is going to lean toward one part of that coalition at the expense of others, leaving some people disgruntled. But in my experience, that usually led right-leaning writers to debate their differences on the issues, rather than just arguing about the man. Yet that’s what we’re doing with Trump. He has a remarkable talent for needlessly pitting former allies against one another in internecine battles.

[futnam1]

If the challenge is getting people who voted for President Trump to vote this year, then we need to start working on organizing the base now so the 60 million+ who voted in 2016 vote in November. It’s going to take some work, but it can be done. We just need a lot of people who are commenting online to shift that enthusiasm to local, state, and national races. We can’t all go door to door, but candidates need people to make phone calls. We can volunteer on the weekends. We can purchase their shirts and stickers because people often just vote for a candidate with name recognition. Campaigning doesn’t mean we have to quit our jobs, it just means we may have to stop watching television or cutting hobbies until after the election.