Never Trumpers in Trumpian Times

Either my neighbor doesn't know that he lives in a bubble, or he doesn't know that I do not. He can easily avoid conservative news. I, on the other hand, cannot avoid his sources of news because they saturate the air I breathe. I could not avoid them even if I tried...

He says there is a difference between us in "fundamental values." He doesn't define "fundamental values," but it sounds as if he is saying he has better values than I have, or even that he is a good person, and I am not. Liberals have always said this of conservatives. For the record, I doubt my values really are different from his, and his values are, by and large, good - although there is one value he might work on: humility...

It seems impossible for him to entertain the possibility that the error is his - a good-faith error perhaps, but an error all the same...

My neighbor thinks my values have changed, but I doubt it. What I think has changed is my assessment of the current situation.

I now believe (and have believed for any number of years) that America is being attacked by an enemy regime that wants to destroy our way of life. Former President Trump is a warrior who has a constellation of assets well suited to meet our current situation. My neighbor, on the other hand, does not believe we are in a war, and he hates Trump... He looks at Trump in a vacuum; whereas I judge him, as one must, in the context of the current situation.

... Those who call themselves "Never-Trumpers" betray an ignorance about politics. As I have written any number of times, I believe Trump would have been the worst president at any other time in our history, when circumstances were very different than they are today, but he is the best president we could have hoped for in these times; indeed, we are blessed to have him...

... the current election is not about which candidate you would rather have for dinner, or even which one has the better character. It is about which one will likely save America and which one will likely destroy it. This is a contest not between representatives of different political parties within the same regime, but between representatives of different regimes. In other words, this is a war.

What makes it a war? At root, each side has a different understanding of what constitutes a just society...

Unlike the well-known totalitarianism of the twentieth century - where the state alone was the enemy - in our soft but growing totalitarianism the regime is a loose confederation of the country's major institutions.

The Right must understand that the charge of systemic racism is the Left's most powerful weapon, for it is that charge that justifies overthrowing America... Most Americans do not believe they are racist or have white privilege, but they need their leaders, Trump foremost, to confirm what they know and give them permission to say it.

Who exactly is the enemy weaponizing the law (lawfare) and depriving the citizens of their rights? It is not primarily the Democratic Party, though it plays a meaningful role. Unlike the well-known totalitarianism of the twentieth century - where the state alone was the enemy - in our soft but growing totalitarianism the regime is a loose confederation of the country's major institutions...

The destructive Left tells us morning to night that if Trump is elected, we should fear a coup. This is projection, another favorite tactic of the destructive Left. It accuses the Right of things the Left has already done or plans to do... Non-stop character assassination, bogus investigations, impeachments, disloyal intelligence agencies, crimes, fraud and lies amounted to the overthrow of a duly elected administration...