Midterms force conservative Trump critics to choose: check or enable? Given Congress’ performance, voting R = enable, and even just not voting D = don’t check. But being confronted with this choice seems to really bother some NeverTrump conservatives. They’d rather duck it.
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While they don’t like Trump, what they *really* don’t like are Democrats. But that means they’re not NeverTrump. They’d just prefer he do some things better (and do some, mostly rhetoric-related, things less). So they’d like to criticize, but not if it requires them to sacrifice.
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Not a coincidence many of the people arguing conservatives should vote Dem to check Trump come from the foreign policy and law enforcement communities. Both value something above partisan policy disagreements (and admittedly get a little annoyed when others don’t). (END)
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If all issues before Congress were referenda upon Trump with no actual policy implications, this would be true.
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They're not, obviously. But Boot and others like him believe those policy implications are less important. As with all voting decisions, it's a question of priorities.
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Sure, but why give simpleton tribalists like
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What makes him a tribalist?
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As you say, he is putting identification with Trump over policy concerns. Assuming he actually has any of the latter, that is.
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He's a conservative military historian--I assign some of his work in one of my classes--who believes Trump is actively damaging American foreign policy/national security. I can understand why you'd disagree with his position, but you're not assessing him accurately.
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Screaming "Why won't Republicans stop being Republicans?!" isn't going to do anything to stop Trump. Maybe one day that lesson will be learned.
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Resistance types do that, but Boot didn’t. That’s why I’m disagreeing with your claim that one cannot be NeverTrump without being a liberal, or that voting D to check Trump requires supporting all Dem policies. It’s just prioritizing a check on the president.
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What's the functional difference if you're saying vote for Democrats? How does that advance the Republican agenda?
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It doesn’t. At least not when conceiving of the Republican agenda as whatever the Republican Party currently wants. But if you care about principles more that partisanship, and Trump’s violating those principles, then standing up for them is more important.
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I may be underestimating my partisanship, but I'm 99% sure I'd vote for a generic R if the D had terrifying personality flaws like Trump. How would that support the D agenda? It wouldn't. Sometimes choices are hard and we don't get everything we want.
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How do I know Dems will be able to check Trump effectively, and will it be worth whatever policies they instatiate (deals they make with Trump) that I disagree with? I think this is a valid question for conservatives.
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2024 “I voted in 2018 to check Trump. Now the guys I voted for banned private health insurance, brought back Carter era tax brackets & disbanded ICE. I didn’t vote for that!”
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