Yeats’s prophetic lament that “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity” is borne out daily in our national politics. In the rush to best our ideological adversaries, standards of consistency and decency have not just been forgotten, but consciously discarded. And despite breathless claims to the contrary, this behavior is apparent on both sides of the aisle.
President Donald J. Trump is manifestly unfit for office. For a staunch conservative like myself, voting for him in 2016 would have required betraying my principles. The same holds true in this election cycle. He will not get my support. (Then again, neither will Joe Biden.)
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