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Trump-haters don’t hate Trump for who he is... they hate us, and they are attacking Trump for engaging in the thankless task of trying to defend us.

I understand this perspective and realize it engenders a lot of loyalty but I see politics differently.

I try not to put too much trust in any politician and I assume their willingness to fight for me lasts exactly as long as it's in their self interest.

That's why I have this anachronistic attachment to principle and the rule of law.

I also realize that hypocrisy is the default setting for all politicians and most commentators but I had to comment on Trump making a speech supporting peaceful protest while at the same instant using federal law enforcement to physically remove peaceful protesters from public spaces.

[I understand this perspective and realize it engenders a lot of loyalty but I see politics differently.

I try not to put too much trust in any politician and I assume their willingness to fight for me lasts exactly as long as it’s in their self interest.]

I am loyal to Trump for as long as he fights for us. The moment he doesn’t, that’s done.

[That’s why I have this anachronistic attachment to principle and the rule of law.

It isn’t even anachronistic - it’s never existed among the vast majority of people in practice, although plenty of people have paid it lip service. The idea that virtue is its own reward is literally true - the people who subscribe to it are probably extinct. Principled conservatives in a sea of bloodthirsty Democrats are in the position of pacifist Jews in the middle of Germany’s WWII empire - they can hold fast to their principles and be killed like sheep, or they can stand up and fight.