Republicans and the up-comming election - a chioce between the Party or the nation

It’s sad when you see friends and relatives abandoning their once cherished values and stubbornly sticking to opinions they know are wrong.

I really don’t know what the arguments can be that makes Donald Trump seem not just superior to any other option in the forthcoming election but even worthy of consideration.

He has failed to exhibit any of the American virtues so important to Republican voters yet they seem prepared to vote for him as if it were some form of loyalty test.

Many values have been compromised and essential institutions have been abandoned. By far the worst result is how the US is now regarded from abroad.

Instead of ‘Making America Great Again’, Donald Trump’s Presidency has reduced the influence and respect which the US once enjoyed.

Far from being the ‘deal-maker’, he has de-stabilised the world by breaking international deals, withdrawing from global organisations and jeopardising the ‘world order’ so carefully built up over decades. The US Diplomatic Service is universally seen as impotent and undermined by the President.

Whatever Donald Trump’s achievements at home, and it is hard to draw a positive conclusion here, a once great nation is despised by its allies and ignored by others.

It is hard to reconcile any patriotic feelings with the fact that the only world leader who is supportive of the Trump Presidency is Vladimir Putin with whom Donald Trump has had many private and undocumented contacts.

Republicans could do worse than reflect on the non-partisan expressions at John McCain’s funeral - https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a22877209/joe-biden-eulogy-john-mccain-memorial-full-transcript/