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More serious answer to the people who call me and other Never Trumpers ideological traitors: I have pretty much suspended most of my arguments with people on the left (and some on the right) until I think we’re past this crisis.
Think of it as an emergency measure. /1
Think of it as an emergency measure. /1
That is, I haven’t changed my views on taxes, abortion, limited govt, defense; but right now, the Constitution and the rule of law are in danger. People who agree with me on that are allies. People who think we’re doing fine are wrong, and I oppose them on that central fact.
I can fight over all that over stuff - and I will - if our constitutional framework survives. Right now, only one party is consistently undermining that framework and its associated norms, because it has become an authoritarian extension of a cult of personality. /3
That party must therefore be deprived of support at every level. The fact that it accidentally supports some issues I care about does not excuse the reality that it is attacking - with foreign help - the *main* thing I care about that makes all other politics possible. /4
This is how I plan to approach politics through the 2020 election and afterward if need be. I will not trade the Constitution for judges or tax cuts or lib-triggering or anything else. It’s been my position since this shitstorm began. /5
The only position I have changed is that I finally quit the GOP. I came to it later than some of my colleagues, but I now accept that the party is, in its current condition, unreformable and unsalvageable. /6
The conservatives had the world in their hands going into 2016, and they blew it. The peaceful transfer of power to the opposition party is a normal part of democracy. If Republicans don’t like it, they need to exit their cult and compete like a normal party. /7x
