Hillary Acts to Shore up Trump’s GOP Support

Maybe Hillary Clinton really doesn’t want to become President. 

Consider this.  Many otherwise stalwart Republican voters, The Sensible Conservative included, have been distressed by Donald Trump’s evident ignorance of foreign affairs and his peculiar fascination with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.  That has caused some on the Right to wonder if the Democratic nominee, even with all the deserved hostility she generates, might actually be the lesser of two evils for America.

The number of conservatives entertaining such thoughts, thanks to Hillary, has been sharply reduced in recent days.

[But last week’s announcement that eighty-eight retired generals and admirals support Trump does reassure some skeptics that maybe the New York businessman won’t be so dangerous for the U.S. after all.]

First, she declared that no additional U.S. troops would be used to fight ISIS, America’s mortal enemy.  That sounded like Barack Obama’s promise to remove all American soldiers from Iraq regardless of the consequences for our national interest.

Second, and even more damaging, she characterized half of Trump’s supporters [who are primarily Republicans, of course] as being a “basket of deplorables” because, in her view, they are afflicted with a variety of phobias (against homosexuals, Muslims, etc.).

Why else would this intelligent, calculating person say such foolish and insulting things? 

The effect could hardly have been unexpected.  Hillary’s words are driving people to Trump’s standard.  Maybe he – not she – is the lesser of two evils.

On a broader note, her comments illuminate a fact long noted by conservative commentators.  The Left does not respect disagreement with its political views.  If you think your stance on any issue is indisputable for any well-meaning, good and intelligent person, then for someone else to oppose it, that means that person lacks those positive traits.  In short, that individual is bad and/or stupid.

 

The appeal of such a world view must be terribly appealing.  Who doesn’t like to feel superior to others?  That attitude certainly underlies the arrogance and intellectual intolerance so often displayed by the Left.  The “Hillary Clintons” of the world are so enlightened that it can be impossible for them, apparently, to conceal their contempt for the multitude of Americans who are not.