“What it’s like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor”

In the run-up to 2012’s presidential election, Nancy French and her husband, David, ran a website called “Evangelicals for Mitt.”

This year’s Republican campaign is a bit different, and this article is a moving account of her personal disillusionment:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/21/what-its-like-to-experience-the-2016-election-as-both-a-conservative-and-a-sex-abuse-survivor/?postshare=3011477055898417&tid=ss_tw-bottom

If you’re inclined to dismiss what we know about Donald Trump as trivial and unimportant, if you don’t believe (as so many conservatives once maintained, in the days of Bill Clinton) that “character matters” — if you’re just going to reflexively brush off as insignificant the fact that an eleventh woman came forward today with a claim that Mr. Trump made unwanted sexual advances toward her —  please read Nancy French’s article.

There are a great many people who have covered themselves with shame this election year.

I’m trying very, very hard not to be among them.

The outcome of the presidential race is, in my judgment, pretty much already settled.  For me, as regards specifically the White House, the only remaining question is whether I should throw my vote away upon an utterly unworthy candidate who will lose anyway,  or to retain my integrity.

Posted from Chicago, Illinois