Since many Trump fans have repeated the idiotic remark that Never Trump conservatives are only misleading about “bad Tweets,” a brief clarification is in order. Not all Reaganite anti-Trumpers will express the same reasons with the same emphasis, but after probably thousands of conversations on this topic over the last nine years, the following summary seems representative.

For starters, three threshold considerations make it impossible to support Trump even if all other considerations come out in his favor (which they don’t). First, most of us think Trump is a terrible bigot in many ways. This column is not the place to convince readers of that assessment, just to say if That’s someone’s assessment, and if someone feels ethically obligated to never vote for a terrible bigot, that means Trump is out.

The second and third threshold disqualifiers are two versions of the same requirement. Some of us believe the Senate should respond to both of Trump’s accusations by convicting him and removing him from office. disqualify him for life from any federal office.

If Barack Obama, while halting a legally mandated arms shipment to a foreign government, had pressured that government to pursue a criminal case against, say, a member of the Bush family, even after Obama’s own Justice Department had said there was no basis for a lawsuit — or President Joe Biden if he had done the same to, say, Ivanka Trump—almost every conservative in the country. would be happened We demand Senate conviction. Similarly, if any Democrat tried to overturn a valid election and inspired a mob to invade the Capitol to prevent the certification of the election: There is no way most conservatives in the country would do that. I wouldn’t request permanent disqualification.

Either way, there is a basic and almost undeniable logic and ethics here: If If someone believes that a public official should be found guilty of impeachable offenses that warrant lifetime suspension from office, then of course he should not support that official’s inauguration. And if this logic is valid once, it is certainly doubly valid in the case of two separate disqualifying violations. “Disqualification” means, yes, “to disqualify.”

The next aspect is a decision maker almost as brilliant as the first three. If If you believe, like many voters, that the fate of Ukraine is of paramount importance to geopolitical peace and stability, the Trump-Vance ticket is abhorrent. While Donald Trump remains skeptical at best about Ukraine’s case, vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is overwhelmingly hostile to Ukraine. Indeed, among Ukraine’s powerful supporters, Vance has become almost irredeemable. disgusting.

Beyond these four overwhelming reasons to oppose Donald Trump, some of us think poorly of many of his policies, both past and future, and of his competence—not to mention, of course, his complete ability. disreputable Personal behavior that includes but is not quite defined by “bad tweets.”

Since this is an online publication, and to avoid redundancy and overly long-windedness, I will take advantage of weblinking to provide ample commentary (previously my own) for policy and competency assessments.

It’s like this: His future economic management it could be disasterHe exhibits an extremely reckless attitude towards this issue. national debt and against entitlement reform. And his promises or threats civil liberties very close to second term scary.

Meanwhile, although there are disagreements among Reaganite conservatives on this issue, some of us believe that his first term disgusting Open almost every level. Equal About signature issues Overall, in terms of border enforcement, trade deficits, border wall, and manufacturing output, Donald Trump has failed as president. He also oversaw more spending and debt than any non-wartime president in U.S. history. And on foreign policy, he has behaved disgracefully ineptly in Syria, to the great detriment of this nation, and VenezuelanWhile he is setting his successor up for a fiasco in Afghanistan (Biden has made it worse) by committing to a firm and complete withdrawal while releasing 5,000 brutal Taliban members from prison with nothing even remotely significant in return.

Combine this with her poor support for NATO, her fawning over dictators, and her excruciatingly pathetic statement that she was “in love” with murderous North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un; This did not have a good effect, as North Korea’s nuclear ambitions were not slowed down. not at all — and Donald Trump’s presidency is proving to be a fiasco.

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Finally, some of us think Donald Trump’s reputation has been damaged. political moresThis event, about which volumes will be written for decades, will have lasting negative effects on the American square.

All of this combined makes Donald Trump intolerable and unsupportable. Now and forever.