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We may well lose the battle. We probably will. But it’s a glorious fight.
Mitt Romney has become perhaps the most vocal and prominent leader of the anti-Trumpist movement.
I heard this CNN story today when I was buying lunch at a McDonald’s in Pocatello, Idaho. “I’ve lost a lot of respect for him,” the man standing beside me immediately remarked, indicating Romney. I responded that I’ve never been prouder of Governor Romney than over the past few days.
Mr. Romney has been mocked and vilified in many quarters for coming out so strongly against Trump, but, for me, it’s perhaps his finest hour.
I myself have been heavily, even angrily, criticized by a few for my allegedly “hysterical” opposition to Trumpism.
That’s somewhat disheartening. And I regret it.
But I see this as, in some ways, a moral cause that transcends mere politics. Even politically, though, Trumpism repudiates and threatens virtually every conservative, constitutionalist, federalist, economically libertarian political principle that I’ve believed in and advocated since I was a teenager.
I have no ethical choice, no self-respecting alternative, but to oppose it.
On a lighter note, here’s Governor Romney a week or two ago on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, reading insulting tweets about himself:
And perhaps it’s time, in the amoralist Age of Trump and Angry Trumpism, to resurrect this tongue-in-cheek 2012 list of “Top Ten Reasons to Hate Mitt Romney”:
Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho
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