If the Democratic National Committee continues to broadcast their convention on television, I might just vote for Trump. I never “hated” Donald J. Trump, I hate the idea of a President Trump, especially as a Republican.
I don’t like that Trump fuses populist, center-left positions with the Republican Party: a federal minimum wage hike, initiating force on companies who want to move their businesses off shore, one-time support of taxpayer-funded universal health care, and the silly notion that illegal immigrants can be hunted down and deported. These are the kinds of positions I would expect to hear from Lyndon Johnson rather than a Republican Presidential nominee. I fear that Trump will destroy any influence the conservative movement has on Republican policy.
But I am an American first and I fear Hillary Clinton like no other candidate in my life time.
Jimmy Carter was wrong for his time. He let his anti-Israel bias cloud his thinking and gave Islamofascism a foothold there. Walter Mondale was such an amiable liberal that it was hard to believe he would be capable of tyranny. Same for Michael Dukakis. Bill Clinton came from nowhere, worried the former Reagan coalition, but appeased everyone by proving he could work with it. Al Gore was scary, with his totalitarian tendencies to rig the economy but I rarely worried about him blowing up the world. John Kerry seemed less interested in power than ideology so, while he is wrong on most every issue, he didn’t scare me. Even Barack Obama, as damaging as he has been for this country, is nothing more than a thin-skinned, ideological marxist with the inability to stand up against the minimum of opposition.
Hillary Clinton is an ammoral, corrupt, power hungry tyrant who is willing to lie, cheat, and steal her way to office. She has been accused of slut-shaming her husband’s paramours, hiding material evidence, compromising national security, insider trading, and in extreme theories, murder.
Donald Trump as President of these United States is a crazy, far-fetched fantasy that could only happen in the oddest of circumstances. The moon and stars would have to align just perfectly, an airborne drug would have to be released to lull the electorate into a stupor, and the media would have to be on his side…OR…..
Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee facing him in November.
She is. God help us.