Peter Wehner on the closing case against Trump
Today’s must-read: If Donald Trump wins the presidency again, conservatism will be homeless, a philosophy without a party, for at least a generation.
 

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Kamala Harris becoming president “may not be the best thing that could happen to conservatism,” Peter Wehner writes. “But if she becomes president, she will have prevented the worst thing that could happen to conservatism.”

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Many Republicans would say that it is one thing, and quite an awful thing, to withhold a vote from Donald Trump—but that voting for Kamala Harris, a “San Francisco Democrat,” is nothing short of a betrayal, an act of apostasy, impossible for any true conservative to justify.

They’re wrong, though in one respect it’s understandable why they’re wrong. Harris is hardly an avatar of conservatism. She is, after all, a lifelong Democrat who, in her ill-fated campaign for president in 2019, positioned herself as a progressive champion. She embraced positions that I believe ranged from silly to harmful. But it’s a more complicated story than that.

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