The Case Against Donald Trump"But with that said I do not now, nor have I for a long time felt that Trump is our best candidate.
My rule is to vote for the most conservative candidate who can win, and I worry that a distracted Trump tied up in courts next year cannot campaign effectively nor will he be most likely to win. He might win, but the odds are worse than with somebody else.
I also am not convincedbased upon the evidence of the past 7 yearsthat Trump is the best equipped to actually put a huge dent in the Deep State, which is, by far, the most important job of the next Republican president. More important than the economy, or foreign policy short of averting a war. The greatest enemy of American freedom is our government bureaucracy, and it needs to be dismantled.
Trump claimed to understand this, but when push came to shove he was bamboozled by the Deep Statewhich is why he isn't president right now. Even Trump says so every daythe election was stolen, and the FBI and the Justice Department hounded him out of office. He was betrayed. He tells us that every day.
This may be an excuse for why he lost, and for why he handed the country over to Anthony Fauci in 2020and no matter what retrospective excuses he gives, he did precisely thatbut it is not a recommendation for his ability to defeat the Deep State in his last term as a man in his 80s. It seems implausible to me that he will win the next round in the battle.
Trump has alsoagain, by his own admissiondone a terrible job of hiring people. He keeps screaming about how awful his personnel choices wereeven those that were actually quite good, like Kayleigh McEnany. If all the people who served in his administration turned out to be traitors, how good a hiring manager is Donald Trump? He keeps telling us he sucks at hiring people. Shouldn't we trust him when he makes an admission against interest?
The next Republican president has a huge mess to clean up. Perhaps the largest governmental mess since Reconstruction. Our entire federal government appears to be corrupt to the core. We need a president who can serve 8 years, has conservative principles, and who knows how to fight the bureaucracy. Donald Trump has, at best, one out of three of those covered.
Currently, Trump is vigorous. Will he be in 6 years when he would leave office if elected? How much could a lame-duck president who is despised by much of the country accomplish in these circumstances? We don't know, but Trump would be 84 in his last year. How much do you want to bet he will be vigorous then?
Are you willing to bet the country? Does that seem a solid bet?"
