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Spare a Thought For Those Condemned to Defend Donald Trump

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There's a perfectly logical reason why any Republican would decide that getting behind Donald Trump is the least bad option they face. If you genuinely care about conservative policy goals, the chance that you'll see the government move in your favored direction under President Hillary Clinton is approximately zero, while with President Trump you'd at worst see many of those goals come to fruition. You'd get a conservative Supreme Court, an executive branch filled with Republicans, and probably many areas where Trump, who plainly doesn't care at all about the details of policy, just tells the congressional GOP to write whatever bills it wants and he'll sign them. In short, ideology demands Trump, ironic as that may be given that he was the least ideological Republican running. And yet, the end point of that perfectly logical chain of thinking is still supporting Donald Trump. Donald Trump the ignoramus, Donald Trump the liar, Donald Trump the buffoon, Donald Trump the xenophobic...

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