Some conservatives are finally waking up to the damage of the Trump presidency and calling for a primary challenge to him in the upcoming election cycle.
Joe Walsh, former Illinois Republican Congressman and Tea Party darling writes:
"At the most basic level, Mr. Trump is unfit for office. His lies are so numerous — from his absurd claim that tariffs are “paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us,” to his prevarication about his crowd sizes, he can’t be trusted...At times, I expressed hate for my political opponents. We now see where this can lead. There’s no place in our politics for personal attacks like that, and I regret making them...I soon realized that I couldn’t support him because of the danger he poses to the country, especially the division he sows at every chance, culminating a few weeks ago in his ugly, racist attack on four minority congresswomen....he sides with Vladimir Putin over our own intelligence community. That’s dangerous. He encouraged Russian interference in the 2016 election, and he refuses to take foreign threats seriously as we enter the 2020 election....That’s un-American...We need someone who could stand up, look the president in the eye and say: “Enough, sir. We’ve had enough of your indecency."
Anthony Scaramucci, formerly briefly in the Trump White House, call for a primary challenger as well:
"my public criticism of the president has been mounting over the past two years. His response to the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville was repellent. I was appalled by the administration’s child-separation policy along the southern border. His ranting about the news media as the “enemy of the people” was dangerous and beyond the pale. But the final straw came last month when Trump said on Twitter that four congresswomen — all of them U.S. citizens, and three native-born — should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” ...like all demagogues, he is incapable of handling constructive criticism. As we lie on the bed of nails Trump has made, it’s often difficult to see how much the paradigm of acceptable conduct has shifted...I challenge my fellow Republicans to summon the nerve to speak out on the record against Trump. Defy the culture of fear he has created, and go public with the concerns you readily express in private."
Scaramucci is appealing to former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump.
"...OK, the guy's unstable, everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it, let's see if we can find a viable alternative,'"..."I predict in middle or late fall there will be a trove of people that will come together in unity to say this is what's going on. This is how the person's acting."
There has been a relentless parade of Conservative Never Trumpers, from George Will and Charles Krauthammer to Michael Gerson and Jennifer Rubin. These two are not pundits, and they are actively calling for conservatives to Replace Trump at the top of the Republican ticket in 2020.
That would make this country, and the world, a safer place.
