Dear Never Trump: Thanks For Nothing
A fellow conservative friend and Club for Growth fan named Janet Cantor emailed recently to express her ongoing bafflement at the Never-Trump crowd. Like me, she wonders how lifelong conservatives such as former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and former Vice President Dick Cheney could turn their backs on their entire careers as Right-of-center thinkers and leaders and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, hardly a conservative Democrat, just because they are allergic to Donald J. Trump’s style, demeanor, or rhetoric.
Trump’s overwhelmingly pro-market, low tax, limited government, peace-through-strength policy accomplishments in his first term, and his equivalent proposals for his second, did not appeal to these people. And Kamala’s embrace of a polar opposite policy agenda did not repel them. The fact that Kamala Harris makes George McGovern look like Mitt Romney has had no impact on the ex-conservative Never-Trump crowd. They just plain hate Trump, no matter what.
“When the Democrat alternative is Communism, anti-Semitism, pro-terrorism, pro-high taxes, and Big Government, to despise and fear Trump is quibbling and so dangerous,” Janet told me.
She is correct.
Never Trumpers, especially this fall, needed to answer the question: “If not Trump, then Kamala?”
If Trump ran against Senator Bob (NOT John!) Kerry of Nebraska, that would be one thing. (The wounded Vietnam warrior is the one Democrat in recent memory whom I might have supported for president, especially had he run against a Brooks Bros. socialist like Daddy Bush.)
If the late Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin were on the ballot or former Senators John Breaux or Mary Landrieu (both from Louisiana), I might see the argument. I would have still voted for Trump and Republicans and conservatives who backed these centrist Democrats would have struck me as very wrong, but not as full-on lunatics.
But anyone Right of Susan Collins voting for cackling, Commie Kamala — a full-blown, equity-preaching Marxist?
Are you kidding me?
For all of his personality quirks, grandiosity, and occasional vulgarity (all of which seem dialed back lately), Trump beats these non-crazy Democrats by light years on public policy. I am no fan of tariffs, other than as a blunt instrument against China and as a bargaining chip against other international mischief makers. Aside from that area of caution, America is in store for massive tax cuts, deregulation, and DOGE’s efforts to depopulate and padlock entire agencies.
The demolition of our border is about to end. Illegal aliens — starting with robbers, rapists, and murderers — are about to be imprisoned for decades or returned to the hellholes from whence they slithered.
China, Russia, Iran, and their destabilizing friends all know that Daddy is coming home, and they soon must behave themselves. No more breaking each other’s toys in the living room!
Teenage girls no longer will be forced to stare at (or shield their faces from) penises and testes attached to “girls” in their locker rooms.
Drag Queen Story Hour in children’s libraries is on its last fishnet-stockinged legs.
Lawfare is headed into the circular file.
Adios, LatinX!
We will Make Gas Stoves Great Again. If you like your internal combustion engine, you may keep your internal combustion engine. Period. The federal bureaucrats who bark orders at law-abiding citizens, like rabid Rottweilers, are about to be muzzled, if not put down (metaphorically).
Energy dominance, lower prices, abundant opportunity, and robust economic growth are so close that we can taste them.
All of these policies and promises have brought more and more women, blacks, Hispanics, young people, blue-collar workers, and union members into the center-Right tent — for now and perhaps for decades.
For all of this, we owe Never Trump nothing.
Rather, with Thanksgiving upon us, America owes a thousand thank-yous to one man: Donald J. Trump!
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
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