Longer answer: Of course not. It’s too much work. And he never intended to get this far, anyway.
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about how I formed my own NeverTrump stand and my decision to vote for Hillary Clinton as a way to keep Trump out of the White House. Three key pieces formed the base of the pyramid, as it were:
First, a family member said that if Trump were to be nominated that he would vote for Hillary, that he had voted for third-party candidates in the past as protest votes but that this time the risk was too great. Woa! I thought. Saying that takes some nerve in our circles. This was right at the end of March.
Then a friend of ours forwarded an article to my husband and he forwarded it on to me. This was the now-infamous open letter from Stephanie Cegielski, the former director of a Trump SuperPAC that closed down and left her out of a job, saying that Trump’s campaign had never been meant as serious but that his ego wouldn’t let him admit it. There was some real questioning about the authenticity of this piece, and the Trump campaign disowned it and her. I never posted it, mainly because of the rather raunchy, radical website that carried it. The website itself, and probably not Cegielski, had written a headline that said she was a “top Trump campaign strategist,” which she never claimed to be in the article. But both Jim and I really respected the guy who forwarded it, and the article made a lot of sense. As the campaign went on it just seemed to many of us looking at this whole disaster with a critical eye that indeed it had to be a joke. Remember Trump’s statement to Sean Hannity that he was going to pivot and be more presidential, that Hannity would say, “Oh, stop, Donald! It’s too much!”
Then George Will left the Republican Party. Double woa! Since then he has been one of the many conservative blasts aimed at the Trump candidacy. That was it for me.
Here’s yet another article that makes the case for the Trump candidacy not being serious, from just a couple of weeks ago. I doubt that at this late date I’m going to change any minds, but after Nov. 8 maybe a few rays of common sense will make their way through the fog. We’re going to need all the grownups we can get!
“How Much Does Trump Really Want to be President?”