This, we are being told, is going to be the fault of the splintered conservative movement who, due in large part to principle, refuses to cast their lot behind the presumptive nominee. In fact, according to many Trumpets, the "cucks" (so-called cuckservatives [more on that later]) will be the main driver if the GOP senate and house cars go crashing off of the cliff.
This is not true for many reasons. The first of which being that there's no obligation to anyone in this country to support a political party. None, nada, zilch, zero, bupkus. You are no more required to support GOP candidates than you are required to support a football team in your city, or a college team because it happens to be near where you live.
In fact, the entire idea of cuckservatism (A play on cuckold, who is a husband whose wife is cheating on him) is false on it's face. No one is forced to be married to the GOP. As a classical liberal idealist I am certainly not, and neither are you. There are political principles on which beliefs are anchored and as long as a party promotes candidates who promote and aspire to those then they have my support. Should the party abandon my principles for those of others? Bye.
There have been several writers articulate this elsewhere but this essay in Red State by Brandon Morse lays out the best case for abandoning the GOP that I've seen in a while. Here's a sample:
I didn’t want to feel like I need to defend people like Mike Huckabee, or Sarah Palin anymore. I hate that I was with a party that sometimes outright refused to embrace the culture. It annoyed me that this party only wanted to get involved with certain communities when it was time to vote. It was a party that was just as guilty of tribalism as the left, while it maintained that it was a party that respected individualism.
I was sick of its morphing definition of freedom depending on what policy it was passing. It was a party that continuously snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and thought that if it was sure it couldn’t win a fight, it just wouldn’t fight.
I was sick of being in a party that was stuck in the 1980’s
Yup, As a matter of fact, I've long bemoaned the GOP habit of requiring its standard-bearers to put on Reagan's ideological underwear and prance around for the party loyal. It revealed a backwards thinking that resulted in stale ideas and even staler candidates slogging it out over previously contested ideological ground.
So, no, I'm not a cuckservative any more than you, Trumpet, are a serious political thinker. And I don't care what type of Trumpet you turn out to be you still don't have the power to guilt me into anything.
Second, what's left of the GOP is pretty much damn near unlikable to begin with. The internal party machine has devolved into a loose collection of petty old folks who like to rage loquacious in regards to how "they" built something and "they" are not going to let it fall to the ground. It's a landscape filled with petty grudges, lost hopes and personal fiefdoms that need to be torn down, burned, and the egos that built them used to salt the ground. In the end, the GOP turned into less a political party than a loosely configured series of regional authorities with little in common, except a burning desire to keep control of their "piece".
It was never going to work long-term, fueled as it was by ego and alt-right media, I'm just surprised it took this long for a demagogue to come in and take advantage of the mayhem.
The sad thing is, and no matter whose side your on this is tragic, the GOP true-believers are actually getting what they want this election cycle. Namely, the worst Presidential candidate the Democrats could nominate in the person of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Thus proving the old adage that the GOP are the only people who could f**k up a wet dream.
So no, you can't guilt me into believing that my not voting for the Bronzed Ego is, in effect, a vote for the Anointed One. You cannot put this blame on me. You own all of it GOP by electing as your standard bearer an unscrupulous dog who is willing to roll around in the dirt with the fleas. Suddenly you find your house infested with white supremacists, luddites, Ann Coulter and a host of folks with a devotion to all things anti-intellectual and you want to throw that at our feet?
Not happening. You own Trump GOP, now good luck going to the polls with him. The rest of us will be busy trying to build whatever comes next. Hopefully we do a better job than you did since we know by your example what not to do.
