On the morning after the election I explained this, saying, “I believed, and still believe, that Donald Trump’s character is such that he will drive this country further into problems we may have been able to escape and that the Republican Party will do nothing to stop him, thus destroying the credibility of conservatism as a philosophical force in American politics.”17 I have issues with Trump himself, but the issue with Trump is less about what he does and more about what other people do on his behalf or in opposition to him.
