Republican Voters Can rCo and Should rCo Rethink Nominating Trump

SOURCE: The National Review

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/republican-voters-can-and-should-rethink -
nominating-trump/

http://tinyurl.com/3wpweyzx

"Trump feels inevitable, but nothing is settled until Republicans actually caucus and vote. They would be well advised to opt for one of the alternatives who are far and away better on the merits, more likely to win in November, and, if elected, more likely to deliver rCo free from the wild drama of a second Trump
term rCo conservative results."

The fundamental problem -- "Because he couldnrCOt bear to admit that herCOd lost to
Joe Biden in 2020 (after trailing him in every national poll), Trump insisted herCOd won and did everything he could to overturn the result, including trying to bully his vice president into violating his oath and preventing and delaying the counting of the electoral vote. When a mob, fervently believing TrumprCOs lies, fought its way into the U.S. Capitol to try to end the count, Trump did little or nothing to try to stop it.

"These were infamous presidential acts and represented serious offenses against our constitutional order. Nothing can justify them, and itrCOs wrong to simply pretend that they didnrCOt happen. ItrCOs impossible to imagine Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, whatever their other flaws, engaging in such grotesquely selfish behavior injurious to our republic. On this basis alone, both are vastly preferable to Trump.

"One reason no one has gotten much traction against Trump, besides the
backlash against the indictments, is that the electability argument has been r\ rendered null and void by his strong polling in a hypothetical matchup with President Biden. The Democrat is so weak he could lose to Trump, but the former president is still a risky bet compared with another Republican candidate without his baggage. As Biden demonstrated in his Valley Forge speech last week, Democrats plan to make the race all about Trump if he wins the nomination, in a repeat of their winning formula from 2020 and 2022. Nominating someone else would instantly deny the Democrats their most powerful weapon in the cause of winning an otherwise unthinkable Biden second term rCo TrumprCOs radioactive persona.

"Much of the GOP has rallied to Trump and considers the fire he draws from his enemies a sign of his strength and efficacy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend is one of the most ingrained dynamics of collective life. But Republicans have better friends available to them, who havenrCOt disgraced themselves by trying to deny the results of an election, who would be quite likely to vanquish Biden, and who would be capable presidents.

"ItrCOs not too late to choose one of them, and forge a better path for the party and for the country."

This editorial was written by the senior editorial staff (not just one of them) of the National Review magazine and website. The National Review is one of the leading voices of the American conservative.

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