The most personal thing to people is their pocketbook.
A lot of the NeverTrump is, in my opinion, based on a financial interest in illegal immigration and offshoring.
There are 20+ million illegals in this country. Many small business owners that are natural Republicans rely on illegal labor from construction to agriculture to restaurants and hotels. They use the cheap labor and let the cost of the unemployed and underemployed fall on taxpayers and the social problems fall on their neighbors. They don’t want to admit that this vested interest is why they oppose Trump, so they come up with some specious reason.
As to publications like National Review and The Weekly Standard, if we had a list of their major donors that would tell us a lot about why they support the massive trade deficits and de-industrialization of the US workforce.
“[The Never Trumpers] use the cheap labor and let the cost of the unemployed and underemployed fall on taxpayers and the social problems fall on their neighbors. They don’t want to admit that this vested interest is why they oppose Trump, so they come up with some specious reason.”
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Exactly.