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Wehner: “The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with Trump”

John Fea   |  October 31, 2024

Over at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner worries about the future of conservativism if Trump wins:

The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with her opponent. Trump remains a far more fundamental threat to conservatism than Harris. Trump has, in a way no Democrat ever could, changed the GOP from within and broken with the most important tenets of conservatism. That’s no surprise, because his desire isn’t to conserve; it is to burn things to the ground. In that respect and others, Trump is temperamentally much more of a Jacobin than a Burkean. He has transformed the Republican Party in his image in ways that exceed what any other American politician has done in modern times.

Read the entire piece here.

Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: 2024 presidential election, conservatism, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Peter Wehner

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  1. Nathaniel says

    November 3, 2024 at 9:09 pm

    Thanks, John. This was helpful.