Exactly. However imperfect Trump is, you have to judge him on a curve against the available alternatives. From my perspective, Kasich is too moderate and doesn’t really have a chance anyways, and Cruz and Rubio are not eligible. Therefore my vote goes to Trump.
The Establishment GOP would tolerate a President Hillary Clinton to maintain their control of the party—even if they run the party into the dustbin of history as a result.
That would be the same Hillary Clinton, who believes the rule of law applies to everyone else but her and her husband. The same Hillary Clinton who left four Americans to die in Benghazi and then lied about a video being the cause of their demise when her own communications with her daughter, Egyptian prime minister Hisham Kandil and the Libyan president on the night of the attack indicated she knew otherwise. A women who still can’t explain at the very least how highly-classified emails “migrated” from wholly secure and self-contained government servers to her personal one. A woman with no discernible accomplishments as a Senator, and a track record of colossal failure as Secretary of State.
A woman who successfully used the sexist card to bash every Republican, until Trump came along and threw it right back in her predator-enabling face.
Make no mistake: this is not an endorsement of Donald Trump. I’m not a big fan of the Palookaville style of politics, or the mud-wrestling into which the Republican primary season has devolved. But if Trump does make it to the finish line, and Hillary is his opponent, then what? If it comes down to these two, who do you want picking the next Supreme Court Justice—or three? Who do you want formulating immigration policy? Who has a better vision for our terminally-underperforming economy? Who do you want defending America against Islamist terror, Iranian nuclear ambitions and Russian and Chinese military expansionism? Who do you want restoring American exceptionalism, someone who might believe in it, or someone who clearly doesn’t?
The electorate has long been forced to choose between the “lesser of two evils,” and there is little doubt this may very well prove to be the most pernicious choice in modern history. But it remains a choice nonetheless, maybe the most important one in a very long time. Thus it behooves every would-be voter to keep context in mind, no matter how down and dirty the 2016 presidential campaign becomes. In fact, context is all that ultimately matters.
Some people disparage the idea of voting for the lesser of evils. But you always vote for the lesser of evils.
And when its a flawed man who is one of the good guys, against the profoundly evil, it should be an easy choice.