ANDREW McCARTHY ON VOTING FOR TRUMP
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/the-stakes-of-the-election-are-high/
The stakes of the 2024 election could be very high depending on who wins. I don’t approve of either of the two candidates — I think they’ve both committed impeachable offenses and demonstrated unfitness. I’m voting for Trump. That’s not an endorsement, it’s just how I’ve resolved the choice — I don’t understand how any conservative could support Harris, but I sympathize with those who can’t vote for Trump.
Do I think Trump would appoint better people than Harris would, including a number of strong conservatives? I do indeed. Trump is not a committed conservative, but his last administration had much for conservatives to like; and even if I don’t have hopes as high for a new Trump-Vance administration, I’m convinced a Harris-Walz administration would be a disaster for the country.
But here is my main calculation: The system’s guardrails — Congress, the courts, the administrative state, the armed forces, the state governments, the media, and business leaders — are zealous in policing against executive excess when a Republican is in power. The worst thing Trump did was the soft coup attempt, and it never had a smidgeon of a chance. By contrast, the guardrails are not nearly as effective in checking executive overreach, usurpation, and other abuses of power by Democrats — in fact, many of the institutions we rely on as checks become, instead, progressive cheerleaders. As a result, I have considerably less trepidation about a Trump presidency than a Harris presidency.
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