I agree with this piece. I despise the whole idea of blacklisting Trump supporters. Amanda Carpenter should know better and it’s a damn shame she apparently doesn’t.
Like the writer, I don’t trust Trump and am deeply skeptical of his intentions. But that’s a long ways from hate.
It seems to me there’s going to be different backlash consequences on all sides. There will be those who vote for Trump just to spite the GOP and the Amanda Carpenters. But there will also be all the primary voters who didn’t vote for Trump and still don’t want him. What can he do to persuade them? He’s going to need those voters in November, yet he keeps up the “lyin Ted” day in and day out. This isn’t the way to bring disparate groups together.
Trump doesn’t want to be president. He wants his good friend Hillary to be president. If Cruz would win the nomination, he would probably donate to Hillary’s campaign, as he’s done in the past.
Lots of projection going on in this campaign—many who accuse Trump of all manner of things then go right out and engage in conduct of exactly the sort they decry.
“Trump isn’t conservative enough” (so I’ll start a blacklist to punish political enemies for thought crimes). “Trump isn’t the adult in the room, and is SO vulgar” (so I’ll publish naked photos of his wife). “Trump isn’t serious, he will run a third party campaign just to spite the GOP” (so I, Bill Cristol, will throw a fit and start a third party). “Trump has no respect for the party or the rules” (so we will do our best Al Gore imitation and try to manipulate the convention rules to game him out of the nomination).
And worst of all: “Trump cannot win the general election” (so I will make that come true and vote for Hillary Clinton, who stands against every single plank in the last 20 republican platforms). On and on and on.