Another Anti-Trump Republican
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, July 2, 2016
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This time it is Mark Salter, “the former chief of staff to Sen. John McCain and […] senior adviser to the McCain for President campaign”: Why This Republican Won’t Vote for Trump. He concludes a column that is basically a long list of troubles with Trump with the following:
Whatever Hillary Clinton’s faults, she’s not ignorant or hateful or a nut. She acts like an adult, and understands the responsibilities of an American president. That might not be a ringing endorsement. But in 2016, the year of Trump’s s campaign, it’s more than enough.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I will note that anyone associated with the McCain campaign needs to realize that Palin was a Trump forerunner.
@Steven L. Taylor: Well, better late than never. Also, consider that he’s not anyone’s employee in this context.
@Steven L. Taylor: I think they do and I also think that many are saying and doing just what Mark Salter has done.
And by far exceeds the requirements set forth in Article II Section 1 USCon.
Even Citizen Trump meets this low bar.
@Mister Bluster: Back in the late 70s or early 80s, Morton Kondracke, then writing for the New Republic, noted that there were two facts which, taken together, were at least part of the secret of the success of American democracy:
1) Even Lyndon LaRouche can run for President
2) Lyndon LaRouche cannot be elected President
He noted that both facts needed to be true simultaneously in order for America to be great. I think the same test and facts apply in the case of Donald Trump also. As long at both of those things are still true at the same time, America will continue to be a great nation.
Long live the low bar, and long live the citizens’ reluctance to hop over it!
Notes of The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1776. Saturday, June 2