Arguments that Evan McMullin’s independent campaign for president of the United States is pointless have only succeeded in making me feel better about the McMullinmentum I’m already feeling sweep the nation.
Even hostile commentators admit he could throw an otherwise Trump-winnable election to Clinton and even has a plausible path to send the election to the House of Representatives, which would have to choose between the three.
- If Clinton wins becasue of McMullin, the lesson the GOP learns is that it can’t win without conservatives. This is very, very good for conservatives! (The fact that this has to be said is a sad commentary on the commentariat, who seem to think it’s bad to be blamed when your enemies lose.)
- Yes, if the election goes to the House becasue McMullin took Utah, it’s overwhelmingly likely that the House will pick Trump. But before it does so, it will have the opportunity to extract big concessions from Trump – he will go back on all the ones he can, but he won’t be able to go back on them all, and the ones he does go back on he won’t be able to totally go back on. And that would be an important new constraint on America’s Mussolini, of which we need all we can get.
The biggest attraction of McMullinmentum, of course, is to have an honest alterantive to vote for. Every single vote for McMullin – every individual vote – increases the number of Americans who go on record in history as refusing the decline into barabrism. Every vote for McMullin decreases the high cost of civilizational renewal.
It’s going to get darker for a few more years. The question is whether we have enough vision to see what will bring the light back sooner.
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It IS getting darker. But really … “an honest alternative?” You suggest that we once again vote for the idolatrous, messianic foreign policy that dismantled the Reagan coalition, destroyed the American economy, drove the Republican party off the cliff, destabilized the entire Middle East, and ushered in this darkness? Thanks for the suggestion, but a great big NO WAY!!! Like most Americans, Republican voters have gradually gotten sick and tired of warmongering foreign policy, not to mention elitist domestic policy. I’m by no means happy with Trump, but his ascendancy is simply a matter of the chickens finally coming home to roost (or should I say, the chickenhawks finally losing their roost?).