If you think it makes little sense to vote Republican in order to “save” the Democratic Party, you ought to consider that the opposite scenario is just as indefensible. Heather Wilhelm explains at National Review Online.
If you’re a long-time Republican voter, you’ve likely by now heard the growing and insistent and highly concerned media refrain: Republicans who truly care about America will vote for Democrats this fall. …
… Many smart people have made this point, and will likely continue to do so as we edge closer to November. But as someone who has voted for Republicans her entire life — with the exception of our current president — I have a few questions. First of all, what about sending good Republicans with spines to Washington? There are plenty of them on the ballot all across the country. Also, is the nation really in constant “agony,” or does that state of mind apply just to a particular swath of journalists? Further, it seems rather odd that I would vote for people who have explicitly promised me they will energetically oppose most of my policy preferences. I may not have voted for Trump in 2016, but I sure as heck didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, either. …
… I don’t know about you, but I don’t know many people who are absolutely 100 percent all-in bananas about Donald Trump. I do know a whole lot of people who are convinced that the political Left — a movement that recently inspired former president Jimmy Carter to warn against hard-core progressive overreach — is far worse. Weirdly, instead of acting like reasonable moderates, Democrats across the board seem to be doing their best to convince people that this is so.