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A final appeal to conservatives
Trump is a genuinely post-constitutional candidate and would, of course, be a post-constitutional president. His infamous disregard for the law and our system of justice has been a corrosive and vile aspect in a portfolio of corrosive and vile actions and beliefs he mainstreamed into American political culture.
There is no conceivable excuse at this point for anyone calling themselves a conservative, much less of the constitutional variety, to treat these egregious and repulsive statements as allowable. You are not required as a conservative to embrace the promises of autocracy. You are called to reject them wholly.
The imaginary fear of some hypothetical scourge is no longer a pretense you can hold up with any degree of credibility. There is no sweeping threat of Marxism outside of a handful of academic weirdos. There is no genuine threat to the fabric of American culture because a few people cross-dress. America’s role in the world, economic liberty, Constitutional order, and the rule of law are the enablers of freedom.
Trump is the sworn enemy of all those things.
Donald Trump isn’t the savior of conservatism. He is his executioner.
He is not simply flawed but dangerously so, and the handful of you who continue the pretense of supporting Trump for his “policies” recognize that lie at this point.
When you hear the stirrings around Trump of the people eagerly salivating to see his vision of martial law, extra-constitutional trials, arrests, and executions made manifest, how does that fit in your vision of conservatism?
Even if you believe that his rhetoric is just for show, tell me how moving the Overton window on using the power of the state to arrest political opponents and the rest of his post-Constittual madness can be wedged into Kirk and Burke and Buckley.
Trump is a genuinely post-constitutional candidate and would, of course, be a post-constitutional president. His infamous disregard for the law and our system of justice has been a corrosive and vile aspect in a portfolio of corrosive and vile actions and beliefs he mainstreamed into American political culture.
There is no conceivable excuse at this point for anyone calling themselves a conservative, much less of the constitutional variety, to treat these egregious and repulsive statements as allowable. You are not required as a conservative to embrace the promises of autocracy. You are called to reject them wholly.
The imaginary fear of some hypothetical scourge is no longer a pretense you can hold up with any degree of credibility. There is no sweeping threat of Marxism outside of a handful of academic weirdos. There is no genuine threat to the fabric of American culture because a few people cross-dress. America’s role in the world, economic liberty, Constitutional order, and the rule of law are the enablers of freedom.
Trump is the sworn enemy of all those things.
Donald Trump isn’t the savior of conservatism. He is his executioner.
He is not simply flawed but dangerously so, and the handful of you who continue the pretense of supporting Trump for his “policies” recognize that lie at this point.
When you hear the stirrings around Trump of the people eagerly salivating to see his vision of martial law, extra-constitutional trials, arrests, and executions made manifest, how does that fit in your vision of conservatism?
Even if you believe that his rhetoric is just for show, tell me how moving the Overton window on using the power of the state to arrest political opponents and the rest of his post-Constittual madness can be wedged into Kirk and Burke and Buckley.
