John Sullivan sent a link to this interesting essay. It's unfathomable to me that a conservative would prefer Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. So what explains the NeverTrump movement? It has to be puritanism. Some conservatives (e.g., William Kristol, George Will, Stephen Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake) have a narrow conception of conservatism and cannot support anyone who deviates from it to the slightest degree. They put their own moral purity (virtue signaling) above the very things they profess to believe in. Would Hillary Clinton have nominated Neil Gorsuch? Is that not reason enough to have supported, and to support, Trump?
Politics, Part 2
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