National Review founder William F. Buckley long argued conservatives should support the most conservative electable candidate. Unless the underdog delegate revolt at the Republican National Convention is successful, the only two electable candidates for president this year will be Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
One suspects Buckley would have found neither of these particularly attractive. Yet according to his pragmatic criterion, he would have to choose one or the other. Neither may be considered a conservative in any absolute sense, but clearly, since they do differ in many respects, one must be the more conservative of the two.
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