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Pssst… Just a Reminder

Wednesday, 27 June 2018, 21:43 BFH Uncategorized 40

Hey, dbag.

You wanted Trump torpedoed, and now you’re *jokingly* throwing your name into the mix?

You’ve just redefined the word audacity.

Just saying.

 

Here, let me remind you of what you wrote-

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

Ever.

I will never vote for Donald Trump because I stand with certain principles. I stand with small government and free markets and religious freedom and personal responsibility. Donald Trump stands against all of these things. He stands for Planned Parenthood and trade restrictions and targeting of political enemies and an anti-morality foreign policy and government domination of religion and nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power. I stand with the Constitution of the United States, and its embedded protection of my God-given rights through governmental checks and balances. Donald Trump does not. I stand with conservatism. Donald Trump stands against it.

I stand with #NeverTrump.

The counterargument to the #NeverTrump movement comes down to two words: Hillary Clinton. Trump will supposedly close the borders (a lie); Hillary will not. Trump will appoint conservative Supreme Court justices (unlikely); Hillary will not. No matter how bad Trump is, the argument goes, conservatives have a duty to back the anti-Hillary.

I think Trump will get blown out in a general election. But let’s assume that these critics of #NeverTrump are right. Let’s assume that but for we #NeverTrump voters sitting out the election, Trump would become president, and Hillary would go down in flaming defeat. And let’s assume that Hillary Clinton will appoint terrible justices, destroy the military, and usher in the apocalypse. Why in the world would conservatives live with President Hillary Clinton on their consciences?

Because first, it’s not on our consciences. It’s on the consciences of the people who went along with this nomination. We did not select Trump. We will not vote for him.

And if we are going to save the country, it will not rest on one or two justices on the Supreme Court. It will rest on the will of the people to resist tyranny. That will start at the state and local level. It will start with the people.

It will start with conservatives willing to say “no.”

Because if we never say “no,” we will never have the opportunity to say “yes.”

We must have a conservative party. The Republican Party is not that party, and has not been for a very long time. The Obama administration has brought about a unique moment – a transformational choice for the Party. Will they abandon all conservative principle in pursuit of victory, or will they turn back to the conservatism they supposedly espouse? This entire election cycle, the answer has been the former. In fact, for virtually my entire life, the answer has been the former. Establishment Republicans abandoned Reaganism for Bushism, and then abandoned Bushism for McCainism, and then abandoned McCainism for Romneyism. Until the last five minutes, they were ready to embrace Trump himself rather getting behind Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Now they call for conservatives to swallow hard and unify behind a man who opposes all conservative principles – to save conservatism!

In every election cycle, the establishment insists that we unify behind a candidate who does not reflect conservatism because elections are always a choice between the two worst options. They blackmail conservatives into supporting candidates who undermine the message and morality of our mission. Now Trump does the same. The establishment created the Donald Trump phenomenon with their “best of two bad options” logic, and now Trump is using that logic to destroy conservatism openly. The establishment doesn’t object to Trumpism. They only object to Trump. Strip the drunken boor antics from Trump, and you’ve got John McCain who will lie transparently to pander to the populist wing.

We don’t have to be complicit. As Ben Domenech is fond of citing, Alexander Hamilton once wrote, “If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.” Let us not be our own enemies.

Now is the time to say no.

“No” is a useful tool. If conservatives don’t say “no” to Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, there is no Ronald Reagan. If conservatives don’t say “no” to Gerald Ford in 1976 and George H.W. Bush in 1980, there is no Ronald Reagan. And if we don’t say “no” to Donald Trump now, we will continue drifting ever further left, diluting conservatism into the vacillating, demagogic absurdity of Trumpism. Conservatism will become the crypto-racist, pseudo-strong, quasi-tyrannical, toxic brew leftists have always accused it of being.

And we will have been complicit in that.

I will not be complicit in that. I stand against the establishment that sowed the seeds of Trumpism. I stand against the Republican Party that insists that victory matters more than principle, because victory without principle isn’t just meaningless, it’s counterproductive to my belief system.

#NeverTrump.

 

 

40 Comments on Pssst… Just a Reminder

  7. Oy vey! Gevalt!
    The word for this progressive GOPe is chutzpah!

    He would bad as bas as Roberts; maybe (not likely) worse.

    I’d call the lefty Been putzeater; but Im a nice goy (pun).

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  10. He’s on WABC in the afternoons now, but I find I don’t listen. (Chris Plant in the AM is MUCH better). His voice is annoying and he is always in such a hurry, that he sounds to me like he is in a rushing to get to the bathroom. Maybe he could get a play at home set or something.

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  16. Is Benji talking about the same Trump I voted for ?
    Genetics are an important part of who you become Benji, ad I fear yours could turn you in’to Ginsberg in 60 years… just sayin’!

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  20. He now has a 9PM slot on local radio. Didn’t know that until this evening. Machine gun delivery, which is exhausting to listen to. Maxed out after 15 minutes.

    And he’s an arrogant %^*#. Insufferable, along the lines of David Hogg (the bad one).

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  22. Hey, President Trump, good buddy, great stuff you’re doing. lol Ben Shapiro, what a kidder, right? But who knows? Anyway, youve probably already got your short list for this one, haha, but I’m not much older than Ben and Ginsburg is not getting any younger. Something to think about (JK) ; > )

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  26. Be very, very, very skeptical of the Freeattle connection when it comes to “conservative” talk show hosts. I learned this over two decades ago w/Medved and his little butt buddy Mike Siegel, treacherous bastards are by far the most common among the lot of them.

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  29. Trump should invite the little Romney homunculus to dinner, just to jerk his chain. Maybe even offer him some little part-time lawyer job at the patent office. He’d make somebody a good assistant deputy to the interim acting deputy director of something.

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  30. BFH,
    June 28, 2018 at 12:05 am
    BFH,
    May 22, 2017 at 3:46 am
    @BFH 11:52 pm
    feedback:perfect
    “digital delay loop”
    analog rules
    everafter digifilter Been Ben Who
    >pipe:anal.log
    code >pipe out

  31. He reminds me of the many anti Trumpers here on this site that now are claiming that Trump is the best thing ever.
    At least they have come around, Ben never will.

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  35. I was never an anti trumper,but has serious reservations about him. That being said,I think Ben,has given trump,a pretty fair going. When he says or does dumb stuff Ben,calls him on it & when he does something good he praises him,in addition to mentioning frequently how pleased he is overall with his presidency. Ben can be abrasive for surebut he pretty much treats everyone the same way. No matter how much he may like someone,he’s quick to call someone out when he doesn’t like what they’ve done.

  36. What a dweeb. Not enough attention being a #NeverTrumper. Now, everybody looky! – PeeWee Herman clone is desperately trying not to be irrelevant. Too late – LOL!

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  37. “Ben, you’re always running here and there
    You feel you’re not wanted anywhere
    If you ever look behind and don’t like what you find
    There’s something you should know, you’ve got a place to go”

    …And Ben simply needs to admit he was wrong.
    And it may go a long way if he sang that simple song.
    And now is a Perfect Time for a Perfect Pitch
    And Rich Lowry in the caboose could use your company
    And do not forget. . .bring your own lunch
    And they all lived happily ever after. . .

  40. Davy – thank you so much for posting that link. I have a friend who is a nevertrumper and listens regularly to the weasel in a yarmulke.
    I printed the article and will present him with it at the next opportunity.

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