Iconic columnist George Will has now sounded the latest admonition of DOOM! for conservatism if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination. “If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party,” reads the headline. And the piece is no less ominous. After ticking off Trump’s myriad personal and political flaws, Will comes to his true point: better for the Republicans to lose the presidency than win with Trump. He writes:
Certainly conservatives consider it crucial to deny the Democratic Party a third consecutive term controlling the executive branch. Extending from eight to 12 years its use of unbridled executive power would further emancipate the administrative state from control by either a withering legislative branch or a supine judiciary. But first things first. Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in this, the GOP’s third epochal intraparty struggle in 104 years.
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