We hear a lot about “principles” from the Never Trump folks, as they seek to justify the damage they are doing to the Republican Party’s chances of winning the White House in November. You can have all the best principles in the world, but if you apply them without using common sense, disaster will surely result.
Ironically, many of these same people who say they “just can’t” support Donald Trump somehow found a way to support the more liberal Mitt Romney in 2012 and the comparably shaky John McCain in 2008. Unlike Romney, Trump has a long history of ardently supporting tax cuts and deregulation, tougher border security, and more oil drilling (see below). The tax cuts that Trump is proposing dwarf the tax cuts that Romney or McCain proposed; even if Trump were to agree to a small income tax hike for the rich to get the rest of his tax cuts passed (as he has suggested he might be willing to do), the overall tax burden would be considerably lower than it is today, and the rich would benefit greatly from reducing the capital gains tax and the corporate income tax and from ending the death tax.
The simple fact of the matter is that every centrist or conservative who does not vote for president or who votes third party is putting Hillary one vote closer to victory. There is no getting around this mathematical reality. If you are running for class president in a school with 100 students, and if there are two groups from which all class presidents have come (Group A and Group B), and if you are Group A’s choice, and if 4 students who usually vote for Group A either don’t vote or vote for the candidate of a tiny third group that has never won, and if you lose 49-47, those 4 students threw the election to your opponent—they were the difference between defeat and victory.
If you do not vote for Trump, then you are helping Hillary; you are increasing her chances of winning. It’s that simple. Either Trump or Hillary is going to win. That is just reality. That is what is going to happen. If you don’t vote for Group A’s candidate, then you might very well prove to be the margin of victory for Group B’s candidate.
And what will happen if Hillary wins: We know she will put more liberals on the Supreme Court and thus throw the court to the left for the next several decades. We know she is proposing massive new spending and has made it clear that she will seek to raise taxes. We know that she favors open borders and seems to have no interest in ending sanctuary cities. We know that she wants to end liability protection for gun makers, which will quickly shut down gun making in the U.S. We know that she opposes any changes to Dodd-Frank. And we know that she recently said she would keep Loretta Lynch as attorney general. Trump has expressed strong opposition to all of these policies. So use some common sense. Even if you have to hold your nose, vote for Trump.
Some of Donald Trump’s Conservative Credentials
Ironically, many of these same people who say they “just can’t” support Donald Trump somehow found a way to support the more liberal Mitt Romney in 2012 and the comparably shaky John McCain in 2008. Unlike Romney, Trump has a long history of ardently supporting tax cuts and deregulation, tougher border security, and more oil drilling (see below). The tax cuts that Trump is proposing dwarf the tax cuts that Romney or McCain proposed; even if Trump were to agree to a small income tax hike for the rich to get the rest of his tax cuts passed (as he has suggested he might be willing to do), the overall tax burden would be considerably lower than it is today, and the rich would benefit greatly from reducing the capital gains tax and the corporate income tax and from ending the death tax.
The simple fact of the matter is that every centrist or conservative who does not vote for president or who votes third party is putting Hillary one vote closer to victory. There is no getting around this mathematical reality. If you are running for class president in a school with 100 students, and if there are two groups from which all class presidents have come (Group A and Group B), and if you are Group A’s choice, and if 4 students who usually vote for Group A either don’t vote or vote for the candidate of a tiny third group that has never won, and if you lose 49-47, those 4 students threw the election to your opponent—they were the difference between defeat and victory.
If you do not vote for Trump, then you are helping Hillary; you are increasing her chances of winning. It’s that simple. Either Trump or Hillary is going to win. That is just reality. That is what is going to happen. If you don’t vote for Group A’s candidate, then you might very well prove to be the margin of victory for Group B’s candidate.
And what will happen if Hillary wins: We know she will put more liberals on the Supreme Court and thus throw the court to the left for the next several decades. We know she is proposing massive new spending and has made it clear that she will seek to raise taxes. We know that she favors open borders and seems to have no interest in ending sanctuary cities. We know that she wants to end liability protection for gun makers, which will quickly shut down gun making in the U.S. We know that she opposes any changes to Dodd-Frank. And we know that she recently said she would keep Loretta Lynch as attorney general. Trump has expressed strong opposition to all of these policies. So use some common sense. Even if you have to hold your nose, vote for Trump.
Some of Donald Trump’s Conservative Credentials
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