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For those who recognize that Trump is a danger to conservatism as we know it, most of the talk revolving around the effort to stop him has been about finding the right third-party candidate. While that is a good start, more needs to be done.
Trump has been feeding the process story beast about his choice for the vice presidential nomination. It is interesting to hear what he has to say about who his running mate ought to be, but there’s an important detail that keeps getting overlooked: he doesn’t get to choose his running mate.
While delegates may be required to vote for Trump on the first ballot, making him the nominee, that is the extent to which they are bound to him. They are under no obligation to vote for his chosen running mate. The months of work Ted Cruz (and to a lesser extent, John Kasich) put into the ground in securing people who have a fealty to the conservative movement for those slots, while not denying Trump the nomination, could pay off, albeit not in the way they anticipated.
These activist delegates should nominate a real conservative for the VP slot on the GOP ticket. But this running mate shouldn’t be someone who tries to make Trump’s agenda palatable for conservatives. Instead, he ought to spend his time undermining Trump—especially when Trump advocates policy positions that have no place in the Republican Party.
Not allowing Trump’s non-conservative ideas to take hold during a campaign is an essential part of being able to preserve the conservative character of the party. A hostile running mate could combat that. Just imagine the running mate’s acceptance speech. Combat them the delegates must, even if it means resorting to such unprecedented tactics as saddling him with a running mate who is openly sabotaging his election.
>>75831339
Conservatives Should Define Trumpism
That being the case, it is important not to cede the party (and by extension the movement) to Trump, even if it means four years of Hillary Clinton in the White House. Four years of President Hillary will be terrible, of course, but it’s nothing compared to the dissolution of the conservative movement at the time the country needs it most, to be replaced with a purely populist movement at the time the country needs it least.
Populism won’t instruct itself, it won’t reanimate its beliefs on its own.
In that respect, George Will is absolutely right when he says that the responsibility of conservatives is to work to protect Congress and help Trump lose 50 states, “condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life.” But Will is wrong if he thinks this alone would be enough to elect someone to combat the populist storm Trump would leave in his wake and keep Hillary to only one term in office.
Populism won’t instruct itself, it won’t reanimate its beliefs on its own. It won’t purify its mores, and it won’t stop relying on blind instincts and suddenly realize its true interests. Defeating Trump is important, for sure, but there’s also the need to make sure that populism gets steered in the right direction, and that the people caught up in it realize what really is in their best interests.
>>75831339
>MUH TRUE CONSERVATISM
When are these fags gonna realize their shit ideology failed? It faield to win elections, it failed to defend the country's culture, and it failed to give them economic prosperity. "Conservatism" can fuck right off.
Also
>Steinberg
>Steinberg
>>75831733
how are they defining conservatism ? mass immigration and mideast wars ? fuck them
>>75831641
EVERY TIME !
>>75831841
>http://archive.is/N1fwF
Running a third-party candidate goes a long way toward undermining Trump, and the right candidate can win a few “red states” outright and command enough vote share in others to assure Trump’s loss in November. But Trump losing the election isn’t enough; people need to understand why he needed to lose. That brings us back to the convention, and Donald Trump’s running mate.
Trump losing the election isn’t enough; people need to understand why he needed to lose.
To make Will’s goal of a 50-state loss closer to a reality, conservatives need someone who can get media attention while repudiating Trump, fracturing his base of support by insisting he doesn’t speak for conservatism, and explaining to the masses why his policies aren’t in the interests of the populists who voted for him.
It would be a great service to the conservative movement if someone like a Tom Coburn—an erudite spokesman of real conservatism who is capable enough to explain why Trumpism is not just morally and ideologically wrong, but practically wrong as well—would agree to serve in that role. With that, conservatives can begin the necessary and neglected work of remaking the populists into our conservative image.
Many conservatives are mourning “the death of the Republican Party.” They see this hostile takeover as their cue to abandon ship, ceding the party to the populists. But there is no reason to do so. The Republican Party is a great party, and whatever it would be replaced with won’t be any better. It is sick and weak, but with the right care, it can be restored to its former glory. Only if conservatives surrender it to the Trumpists will it really die. Conservatives need to stand up and fight for their party, because the Grand Old Party belongs to conservatives, not to the naked populists.
>>75831339
>Steinpergers
LMFAO what a filthy jew
>>75831641
I refuse to believe this is real, only because of the picture
>>75831733
Jews are not even conservative, 80% of them vote for the most leftist party, the other 30% infiltrate and undermine the conservative party. Pic related.
>>75832199
Oh it's real
>Eli Steinberg lives in New Jersey with his wife and their four children. He is pursuing his rabbinical ordination and is a seminar head in a rabbinic college. In addition to writing a column for a local publication, Eli is a weekly columnist for Hamodia, a national Orthodox Jewish newspaper. You can follow him on Twitter at @DraftRyan2016 – a handle he's had since November 7th, 2012.
>>75832199
It's real. Expect a surge in Jews changing their names.
>>75831641
>>75833269
Theres no way that a name change could hide that jew.
>>75831339
>stienberg
>>75832281
>80% of them vote for the most leftist party, the other 30% infiltrate and undermine the conservative party
>80% and 30%
Mexican intellectuals, everybody.
>>75831339
>Instead, he ought to spend his time undermining Trump—especially when Trump advocates policy positions that have no place in the Republican Party.
I don't know how much more of this bullshit this country can take.
