I don't want either!!! On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > http://www.dailywire.com/news/2126/george-will-stopping-trump-more-important-stopping-ben-shapiro > George Will: Stopping Trump More Important Than Stopping Hillary > > [image: George Will] > > Iconic columnist George Will has now *sounded the latest admonition* > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-conservative-party-jeopardized-by-trump/2015/12/23/3335339c-a8e2-11e5-8058-480b572b4aae_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory> > of DOOM! for conservatism if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination. > “If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative > party,” reads the headline. And the piece is no less ominous. After ticking > off Trump’s myriad personal and political flaws, Will comes to his true > point: better for the Republicans to lose the presidency than win with > Trump. He writes: > > *Certainly conservatives consider it crucial to deny the Democratic Party > a third consecutive term controlling the executive branch. Extending from > eight to 12 years its use of unbridled executive power would further > emancipate the administrative state from control by either a withering > legislative branch or a supine judiciary. But first things first. > Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning > the Republican nomination in this, the GOP’s third epochal intraparty > struggle in 104 years.* > > How odd. Just days ago, Bret Stephens of *The Wall Street Journal* was *busy > writing* > <http://www.dailywire.com/news/2070/wsjs-stephens-trump-cruz-supporters-want-hillary-ben-shapiro> > that clearly the only thing that mattered to backers of Donald Trump and > Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was losing to Hillary Clinton. Now, Will openly > says he’d prefer to lose if it means stopping Trump. The panic is palpable > amongst the establishment pundits. > > Will rightly points out that Trump represents a strain of thinking foreign > to conservatism. He’s more along the lines of Teddy Roosevelt’s > progressivism or the supposed “pragmatism” of Rockefeller Republicans than > Ronald Reagan. All that is true. But then Will concludes: > > *[T]his avatar of unfettered government and executive authoritarianism has > mesmerized a large portion of Republicans for six months. The larger > portion should understand this: One hundred and four years of history is in > the balance. If Trump is the Republican nominee in 2016, there might not be > a conservative party in 2020 either.* > > This is wildly overstated. The fact is that the Republican Party has > shifted the definition of conservatism to meet non-conservative > presidential candidates over and over again. As I wrote about *Mitt > Romney in early 2012* > <http://m.cnsnews.com/blog/ben-shapiro/great-conservative-sell-out>: > > *Yes, defeating horrible politicians like Barack Obama is the top goal — > but that doesn’t justify redefining conservatism entirely…. When we > deliberately broaden conservatism to encompass government-forced purchase > of health insurance or raising taxes or appointing liberal judges or > enforcing same-sex marriage or using taxpayer money to bail out business or > pushing trade barriers, we destroy conservatism from within. If we do that, > why would our politicians even bother to pay lip service to the standard?* > > > > I have great sympathy for the argument that Trumpism harms conservatism. > But so did McCainism and Romneyism and Bushism and Doleism. None of the > current Trump critics seemed to have a problem with any of that. The > Republican Party stumbles ever forward, pushing such candidates. 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