To the contrary, what many of the Democrats in the race & their cheerleaders in the commentariat are promising is that they'll take a defeat of Trump as license for permanent structural change in their favor. No thanks.
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The wrongest take on Trump is that he represents an existential threat to our system by overreaching the powers & norms of his office. The greatest existential threat is what the reaction to Trump will empower progressives to do to our system.
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The second greatest threat posed by Trump - the one that gives me most pause about supporting his re-election - is that his weakness in commanding the loyalty & obedience that the executive branch normally gives a president could prove ruinous in an international crisis.
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Contrary to the popular narrative, Trump has often not followed through on his worst instincts thanks to his staff & allies (eg, Don McGahn). That has happened because of residual conservative values: Republicans still want rule-of-law judges, for example.
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By contrast, an empowered progressive successor would face calls from his or her own side's intellectual class to do the opposite: bulldoze the existing norms & institutions conservatives value. Where Trump has swum against the tide, a Democrat will have the tide at his/her back.
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There are no good answers for conservatives right now. This Administration deserves re-election. This president does not. His opponent will be bad, & may well be bluntly hostile to the American system's continuance. Some have cast their lot with Trump, some never will. I'll wait.
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Mr. McLaughlin, the point here is that in normal times such a demand would never be made. But in these extraordinary times, the traditional binary for Goldwater voters like myself no longer is a persuasive stasis point for political calculations.
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It's the flip side to the binary choice fallacy. I don't play that game anymore.
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It may not be a binary choice (I voted for Condi in 2016), but it is a binary outcome.
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