Dreher: Douthat's Choice

This is ok:

   If Douthat is right (and I think he is), conservative voters can either:

   1. Vote for Trump, and keep the Democrats out of the White House for four more years, but watch the GOP and organized conservatism turn into a zombie freakshow of impotent crankery; or

   2. Vote for Biden (or withhold your vote from Trump), and watch the Democrats fill the federal government with wokesters, but clear Trump out of the way of those up-and-comers in the GOP who have the desire and the skills to build a real alternative to the Democrats in time for 2022 and 2024.

2a is right. 2b seems to me to be nothing but wishful thinking or NeverTrumpery. It's never smart to give up four years of the presidency on the basis of a speculative two-or-three bank shot. Whatever "clearing of the way" that might happen won't come close to equaling two SCOTUS appointments--not to even mention everything else. Including forestalling four years of unhinged progressive-left occupation of the executive. I maintain some hope that the Dems might some day move back toward centrism and liberalism. Not a lot of hope anymore. But some. Perhaps there'll be some movement back during four more years in the executive wilderness. I dunno.

   We have no good option. Trump--temperamentally--has no business in the White House. Though he's only about 1/2-1/3 as bad as the media portrays him. He is not, for example, a racist. (Don't forget: the left accuses all its opponents of racism. Of course it will accuse its flagship opponent of it.) Still, he's characterologically unfit for office. But his policies are solid, and that matters more. He's probably the only guy willing to stand up against PC, and to hold back the flood of illegal aliens a bit. Conservative, Inc. isn't going to do the latter, as we know. And progressives are open-borderists. And Dems are now progressives. Biden won't enthusiastically throw the borders open. Certainly Obama didn't do that. But we all know which direction Biden's being pulled in. We'll take another step or three back toward open borders.

   Anyway. Again: don't blame anyone for saying: we face a terrible choice. My view is that Biden will be less terrible for the country. So, God help us, I'm supporting him. I get that right up until the plumping bit. It's a terrible choice. Trump is a huge gamble. Especially as tensions with China escalate. 

   But, God help us, I think Trump is the less-dangerous option. 

   Needless to say: I could be wrong and I could change my mind before November. But right now it's either a Democratic party that's been taken over by a radical progressive left that operates a mssive, antiliberal propaganda machine that is brainwashing the country to reengineer itself on the basis of a massive web of lies, that is in bed with bands of roaming Blackshirts, and that has made it clear that it intends to undermine the Bill Of Rights...or Donald freakin' Trump.