Scott Johnson – Four years ago, I wrote a piece about what to do if you hated both candidates. Trump was, at the time, my last choice among Republicans, and most Republicans I knew felt the same. Some felt strongly enough to go Democrat.
“I could never vote for Trump,” they all said.
At the time, I wrote this:
I hear this a lot. I’m not talking about Democrats, but Republicans, particularly of the educated, northeastern, country club variety. The sort that like Kasich. For this genus, voting for Trump is déclassé, a lowbrow act. And they would rather see Hillary Clinton be President than have their sophistication questioned at the next cocktail party. Continue reading