Then again, maybe it took Trump's unique appeal to the working-class voter in order to carry Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016.Īlso, once in office, perhaps it took Trump's unique disdain for the liberal media to place three conservatives on the high court. First, would Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, or Ted Cruz have beaten Hillary? Maybe anybody with a pulse would have defeated that obviously corrupt, thoroughly unlikable, entirely opportunistic politician. One relevant question is whether a different Republican nominee would have yielded as good results, Supreme Court-wise, in 2016 through 2020 as Trump did. How is a pro-life conservative who is fully aware of Trump’s crippling vices and his lasting harms to feel today? No president did more good on abortion than Trump. No issue in politics is more important than abortion because no cause is more righteous than protecting innocent babies from slaughter. It took, of all people, Trump to give us a majority more wedded to the Constitution than to abortion. Bush, the closest thing to a religious Right president, didn’t give us two reliable votes against Roe. Pro-life voters were told endlessly to elect Republican presidents and senators in order to overturn Roe, and again and again, after Souters and O'Connors and Kennedys, this proved folly. Casey included five Republican appointees. The majority in 1992 upholding Roe in Planned Parenthood v. The majority in Roe included five Republican appointees. That is something every prior Republican decidedly couldn’t do or refused to do. Trump habituated Republicans and conservatives into conspiracy-theorizing, into lib-owning as the highest undertaking, and into defending corruption and abuse of power.
Trump didn’t simply tarnish the GOP brand in certain circles - that’s a very temporary thing, and Republicans of all stripes had done plenty to tarnish the brand on their own. Today, a RINO is a Republican who doesn’t believe Rudy Giuliani’s fever dreams about a stolen election. A "RINO," or a "Republican in name only," used to be a Republican who supported tax hikes or abortion. Trump transformed the GOP from a mostly (if imperfectly) conservative party to a cult of personality wedded to conspiracy theories.
The harms I feared from a Trump presidency almost all came to fruition, and Trump caused many harms I never imagined. During the 2016 general election, I was undecided on whether a Trump presidency would be better than a Hillary Clinton presidency - which is why I cast a protest vote. Wade, possibly the greatest accomplishment by any Republican since Abraham Lincoln.ĭuring the 2016 primaries, I was 100% certain that Trump was the worst possible Republican nominee. Former President Donald Trump has caused massive and lasting harm to the Republican Party and the conservative movement in ways not fully comprehended today.Īnd he has also caused the overturn of Roe v.
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