By Rob Meyne
- April 23, 2025
- 4-min read
Formerly Republican anti-Trumpers love to act superior to members of the Party to which they were previously loyal. Nonsense. They aren’t smarter, more principled, or better than Trump voters. They are less so.
The least courageous thing a person could have done in 2024 was to abandon the principles they used to claim to have and vote for Harris or even sit on the sidelines.
GOP Anti-Trumpers used to support lower taxes, smaller government, a safer world, lower risk of nuclear war, free speech, less censorship, and more freedom. Now they throw all of that away so they can strut around and pat themselves on the back for turning on their Party and country.
Every person who is serious about politics has voted for people they didn’t like, just because they were better than the alternative. There are no perfect options. I never liked McCain but voted for him because he was better than Obama. I supported Rubio for president but when Trump got the nomination, I worked to elect him. Every election is a binary choice. Harris would have been a disaster in the White House from which we would never have recovered.
It took courage for Americans to stand with the best candidate in 2024, while running from Trump was the worst kind of hypocrisy and cowardice. Lots of anti-Trumpers think they are cool, wise, and morally superior. What a joke. Trump’s record was clearly superior to Biden/Harris. If anti-Trumpers think it is more important to have someone who doesn’t send mean Tweets than someone who is trying to prevent nuclear war, God help them.
It is laughable to see anti-Trumpers virtue-signaling. They are the types who want coveted invitations to the best parties and to eat lunch at the cool kids’ table. But it mostly shows they are unprincipled. The people who clung to their core values in 2024 are the real heroes. Fortunately, that was the majority. God bless each of you who had the guts not to run away from conservatism when it got tough. That is real courage.
It is astonishing how many formerly conservative Republicans have decided they are morally, factually, or intellectually superior to the tens of millions of people who recognized Donald Trump was a better president than would be Kamala Harris and then voted accordingly.
These anti-Trumpers are fortunately not a large group, relatively speaking, but what they lack in sheer numbers they more than make up for in condescension. I’ve spent my entire life with conservative Republicans who say they are patriots, loyal Americans, principled conservatives, and willing to sacrifice for the country. A few of those people (the formerly conservative ones) have now decided Trump is bad for the nation, as if voting for his opponent might have given us the second coming of James Madison rather than the intellectually bereft cackling cipher she was.
Anyone who thinks Harris would have been a better president is: one, a hardcore Marxist/leftist; two, uninformed; three, anti-Trump to the point of verifiable mental illness; or, four, all of the above. There simply is no way to factually and logically make the argument that the Biden-Harris presidency was more successful than Trump’s.
An acquaintance recently ranted that they are patriotic, conservative, and willing to sacrifice, but we should throw Trump overboard because of the recent stock market volatility. It brings to mind the famous comments from Patrick Henry, long a rallying cry for the right, when he said “ Give me liberty and a robust 401-K, or screw America, you’re on your own.” Well, maybe that isn’t exactly what he said.
Solving long-term challenges facing America will not be easy or quick. Our national debt is crippling and not one Democrat or old-school Republican has a solution. Fraud and waste is out of control. The border was wide open for four years and we have just learned that millions of the people who came here illegally were given social security numbers.
Our military was not meeting recruitment goals and was more concerned with the color of our soldiers than with their lethality. Record drug deaths and historic inflation have become the norm. And our young women have been told they have to learn to like showering with, and competing against, biological men. What could go wrong?
In three months, we’ve made tremendous progress. But curing the ills of the last four years will take time and courage.
If you’re whining about the value of your portfolio and, after 90 days, are determined to brand Trump a failure, please, just go ahead and join the Democrat Party. Goodbye and good riddance. There is no shortage of people who pretend to be patriotic until the road gets tough. Just leave. We will both be happier if you do.
