Politico: 'The Worst Possible Scenario': Never Trumpers Wonder What to Do About Bernie [View all]
We see a lot of concern on this Board about Bernie supporters repeatedly threatening to vote for Trump of for the Green Party. We see polls of Bernie supporters who say they would choose Trump over Biden. Of course, that does not really make any sense, unless you accept the idea that Trump and Bernie have a lot of similarities, but that has been covered elsewhere.
However, there is not much discussion of the folks who are often quoted attacking Trump such as George Will or Ana Navaro, who criticize Trump, even though they are Republicans. What we lose in BS supporters who hate the Democratic party voting for Trump we gain in people who are seeking a sane President who abides by the law even though they may not agree with the Democratic party platform.
It is pretty clear that BS will try to sabotage Democratic chances to win the Presidency and Congress like he did 2016. That being said, we should also now understand that there is nothing to be gained by capitulating to BS. Are we really going to agree to have Cornell West on the DNC platform committee so that he can then have a bigger platform to once again campaign for Jill Stein.
We need to campaign for the good of the 99 percent, rather than 1 man's bruised ego. I think a majority of Americans want rule of law and competent government first and foremost, rather than some who claims that they alone can fix everything.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/03/never-trump-maybe-bernie-118981
First, after failing to beat Donald Trump in the primaries and the convention, they cast about for a third-party candidate to represent their tribe, backing the longshot bid of independent Evan McMullin—or writing in a candidate like Mitt Romney or, for some, actually voting for Hillary Clinton. Then, once President Trump assumed office, they pinned their hopes on the moderating, mainstreaming effect of the Republican Senate. They rooted for the administration’s “adults in the room.” When all that failed, some began to come to grips with the idea that they’d just have to vote for whomever the Democratic Party nominated for president in 2020. Surely that person couldn’t be worse for America than Trump, right?
Now, with the Democrats quite possibly heading toward nominating an avowed socialist for president, horrified Never Trumpers are facing yet another crisis beyond their imaginings. This past weekend, they faced it together, assembling Saturday at the National Press Club for the first-ever “Summit on Principled Conservatism.” The forum’s speakers included Never Trump figures Bill Kristol, Mona Charen, Rick Wilson, Mindy Finn, Amanda Carpenter, Tara Setmayer, Tim Miller, David Frum and Tom Nichols. Not long ago, this group would have met at the weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a gathering of thousands of fervent Republicans that ended Saturday in nearby National Harbor, Maryland. These days, however, CPAC has become a showcase for the Trumpist wing of the party—as Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway put it a few years back, CPAC has become TPAC.
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Now their iceberg seems to be melting down. Heading into Super Tuesday, the delegate leader in the 2020 Democratic field—and, depending on what happens in California and elsewhere, the potential runaway frontrunner—is Bernie Sanders, the most left-wing major-party candidate in modern American history. The prospect of choosing between Sanders and Trump is, for this group of influencers who were once regarded as major players in the Republican Party, a looming civic crisis. “It’s sort of like choosing between death by hanging versus death by gunshot,” Sykes told me.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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