++ Michael Gerson, compassionate conservative,writes in the Washington Post about why people like him cannot simply lump it and reluctantly lend their support to Trump.
++Personally, I wish the conservative columnists had written about these things earlier in the campaign or, for that matter, during the GOP obstructionism against President Obama.
++A group of Trump partisans ,including Rush Limbaugh and Chris Christie, are not defined primarily by ideology. They tend to be white and middle-aged. They are filled with resentment.
++These people, according to Gerson,detest weakness in themselves and others. "The country, in their view, has grown soft and feeble. Their opponents are losers,lacking in energy. Rather than despising bullying,they elevate it. The strong must take power, defy political correctness,humiliate and defeat their opponents, and reverse the nation's slide toward mediocrity.
++In American history , inspiring leadership has often been informed by religion, which (at its best) universalizes our empathy.
++Hating losers and the weak is fundamentally inconsistent with christian ethics, and other sources of moral judgment,in every income quintile.
++"Those who support Trump, no matter how reluctantly, have crossed a moral boundary. They are standing with a leader who encourages prejudice and despises the weak. They are aiding the transformation of a party formed by Lincoln's blazing vision of equality into a party of white resentment. Those who find this one of the normal, everyday compromises of politics have truly lost their way."
++"Some are trying their best to act as though all this were normal . But we are seeing.in the words of C.K.Chesterton,"lunacy dancing in high places'.
++He says none of what he says requires a vote for Hillary Clinton. BUT IT FORBIDS A VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP.
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